Chapter 32

Grace had not been expecting to come across Lily again so quickly.

Lily looked the same as when Grace had met her for the first time all those years ago.

She was tall and thin in the way only actresses could be. Her skin had a perfect glow. Meticulously applied makeup, haute couture clothes, expensive designer handbag…

She looked every bit the actress and fiancee to one of the richest men in the city.

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If not for either of those things, she was still the only daughter of the Atkinson family and a socialite in her own right.

Even then, when Lily permitted others to rip out her nails, she was still dressed exquisitely. Her expensive and branded clothes stood out in the dark prison.

She looked so radiant and glamorous, then. And now.

tortured and abused. There

been close to Jennifer.

hating Grace at every turn,

unrepentant. But that wasn’t the case. She deeply regretted the

who this is. Isn’t she the perpetrator who killed Jennifer? This sure is karma. I can’t believe she’s now here working as a sanitation worker.”

She lowered her head and continued to sweep up the rubbish that had fallen

thick-skinned,” Annabelle said. “If it were me who had killed someone’s sister, I’m afraid I would cry bitterly as I knelt down and begged for forgiveness. I can’t believe that some people

the price.” She held the broom in front of her, a physical barrier to encourage these two women to keep their distance.

were surveillance cameras all around the building— it was a government building-bul government officials could be bought, as she’d learned in

years over an unwarranted accusation and

hardships in jail and could only be a sanitation

“You have a shit job. Big deal. You’re alive, aren’t

was only three years in prison and you think that’s the price?” Lily asked

retorted calmly. “I’m already living the worst life possible. I have no family. No friendships. Everything I’ve worked for was taken from me. Did you come here to gloat? I can now say that I have nothing to

at her, making a sweep from the top of Grace’s messy head to the bottom cuffs of her neon orange sanitation worker uniform.

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