CHAPTER 80: FALSE HOPE

Meredith’s POV

I used to read books about people who would be sentenced to life imprisonment. I see how they are treated like animals and tortured for days without any food or water. I always felt bad for them, despite knowing their crime.

I never believed that a human being should be deprived of such basic necessities of life. But it is different when you read all of this in a book and actually experience it.

All those days I spent growing up cuddling on my favorite sofa and wrapped around my favorite blanket I would always sit beside the furnace with a hot cup of cocoa during the winter. There would always be a book in my hand, and I remember vividly that between the ages of twelve and fifteen, I was obsessed with crime documentaries.

Any book I would find based on true events and how they punished their criminals like they were demons from another race. I felt pity for them, even sympathy. But never empathy.

I don’t think anyone can feel empathy for someone going through somet