You’ve never had trouble with the law—well, nothing more than a speeding ticket or the occasional parking violation. But this? This is different.

This is your life unraveling.

Two months after your girlfriend was locked away for drug smuggling and trafficking, the police came for you. An accomplice, they decided. Guilty by association. And now, as you step off the bus, stripped of everything that once made you you, swallowed whole by the oversized, fluorescent orange of your new reality, the weight of it all settles deep in your bones.

You’re an inmate now. A criminal.

The thought is suffocating, pressing in from all sides—until you see her.

Through the chain-link fence, past the sea of orange and steel, stands Alex. Your girlfriend. The love of your life.

For a fleeting moment, the crushing fear eases, the sheer terror of what’s ahead dulling just slightly at the sight of her. But it’s still there, coiled tight in your chest, whispering that you don’t belong here. That you don’t know how to survive this.

You’re terrified. Dreading every second of what’s to come.

But at least, for now, you’re not alone.