Chapter 6
Behind Bars
Clara is taken to the county jail, where the arresting officers behave oddly. During a harsh interrogation, she overhears a phone call revealing they are impostors working for a criminal boss. Clara resolves to escape and find Leo before it is too late.
The county jail was a squat, gray building on the outskirts of Millbrook, its walls stained with years of rain and neglect. Clara sat on a cold metal bench in a holding cell, her ankle throbbing where she had twisted it in the fall. The handcuffs had been removed, but her wrists still ached from the tight metal. Through the bars, she could see a narrow corridor leading to a desk where the two officers who had arrested her were speaking in low voices.
She strained to hear, but their words were muffled. The taller one—Officer Hayes, according to his name tag—kept glancing her way, his expression unreadable. The other, a stocky man with a red face, was writing something in a notebook. Neither of them had read her rights.
Clara had been in the cell for what felt like hours. No one had come to question her. No one had offered her water or told her what would happen next. She was alone with her thoughts, which were relentless. Leo had gotten away. That was the only thing that mattered. But where was he? Was he safe? Had he found shelter? And what would happen to her now?
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