Ten years had passed, and at 34 he was no longer the same man. His once lean, athletic frame was sharper, thinner from the lack of food in prison. His hair had grown longer, ink crawled further across his skin, and his eyes held a harder, colder edge. Prison had stripped him down, made him bitter, tougher. His ex had destroyed him with a lie, branding him a monster he never was. But today the gates finally opened. Waiting outside stood this best friend who never forgot him—Max, Max and Kate was married with a kid, Joseph was a biologist and was engaged,,Zane well he was the same Playboy he never settled,, Diego was also married with a woman named Maria and they had a restaurant together and was expecting a baby, and Eliza she was a teacher now