I'm Guilty

Liam's POV

The echo of the visiting room door slamming shut echoed through my chest like a funeral bell. I stood there for what felt like hours, staring at the metal door through which Diane had disappeared with our children,still unable to fully process that those beautiful babies were mine.

"Move it, Ashton!" The guard's voice cut through my stupor. "Visitation's over."

I shuffled back to my cell block, my legs moving mechanically while my mind remained trapped in that moment when Diane's face had crumpled with rage and betrayal. The look in her eyes when I'd confessed about Sophie... it wasn't anger. It was something worse. It was the death of whatever tiny shred of respect or pity she might have still harbored for me.

"I hope you rot in this prison."