Chapter 127

Carmela chuckles, switching on the torchlight she’s holding and pointing it at Leila. Leila doesn’t move an inch, nor does she say a word.

She stares straight into the blinding light defiantly, her heart pumping with rage, her stomach boiling with anger.

Carmela has taken the most precious thing in her life away from her, her child, the one source of joy she had in the midst of all the other sorrows Carmela has put her in.

The guard accompanying Carmela places a chair for her to sit and he gives Carmela the keys to the cell before he departs.

“You look pathetic,” Carmela says, scrunching her nose from the bad odour hanging in the air. “But then, it is what suits you.”

She snickers, taking her seat and leaning forward.

“What did you think you were going to do Leila? What did you think was going to happen? That you were somehow going to stay married to Tatum with me on the side?” Carmela asks with a sneer on her face.

Leila stands up like a lifeless woman and walks to the corner of the