The Lost Heiress 14

When the Flame of Love Fades

Chapter 14 The Past

They had planned to go straight to the warden, but he wasn’t there.

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Bradley called Cameron for more details, then arranged for a prison guard to meet them.

The guard had been bribed before, and just by looking at the Xander brothers‘ clothes, he knew they weren’t ordinary visitors. Even if he didn’t follow celebrity news, he recognized Sean.

“We want to know how Sierra spent her three years here,” Bradley said.

“Sierra?” The guard shook his head. “We go by inmate numbers here. Do you know hers?”

The Xander brothers‘ expressions darkened.

For the first time, they had to face the reality of what prison actually meant.

Sierra had been gone for three years, but they had treated it like she was on some extended break, assuming she would just come back one day as if nothing had happened.

“Yes, we know,” Bradley muttered.

As her legal guardian, he had access to her records. Cameron had looked it up earlier. He recited the number, “00061.”

“00061?” The guard’s eyes widened slightly, his expression turning a little odd. He cleared his throat. “What’s your relationship with her?”

“We’re her brothers,” Evan answered. “We just want to know how she lived here.”

The guard hesitated, then gave a vague response.

“Same as everyone else. Wake up, eat, exercise, work, lunch break, work again, dinner, watch the news, free time, lights out.”

His eyes darted away as he spoke, his smile forced.

“Liar,” Evan said flatly.

He wasn’t a fool.

“She was hospitalized multiple times, and each incident was worse than the last. Don’t tell us those were just accidents.”

The guard pressed his lips together, silent for a moment, then sighed. “It’s over now. What’s the point of digging it up?”

“What the hell does that mean?” Sean snapped. “We’re her family. Of course we should ask!”

The guard scoffed.

“Family? In three years, not a single person came to visit her.”

“Even death row inmates have visitors. She had no one. During the holidays, she was the only one without gifts or food from her family.”

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“So tell me, what kind of brothers are you, showing up now?”

Each word was like a knife to the gut.

Bradley, Evan, and Sean felt the weight of their silence.

Their guilt.

Bradley took a deep breath and pulled out a card, slipping it into the guard’s hand.

to cause trouble. We just want

his thumb

Bradley pressed on.

one

That was enough.

exhaled and finally

inmates always get bullied. Her cellmates were two of

one ever visited her, everyone assumed she was an

how she got

on his

in his

They dared?

dared to

was his sister.

had treated

He wanted to explode.

guard’s words echoed in

It was their fault.

They had disowned her.

she could die and it wouldn’t

hadn’t visited her

over

his cigarette and exhaled

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names,” he

wanted every single person who had

guard hesitated. “What’s the point?

the

The guard’s face tensed.

sensing the tension, smoothly placed another card into

pause, the

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beginning. They used to lock her in the bathroom. That fire you mentioned? She was locked in her cell when it happened–she almost didn’t make it

was permanently

The humiliation, the

he spoke, the darker the

we tried to intervene when we could,” the guard added

men’s and women’s wings are separate. Most

a notorious inmate, he wouldn’t

about the snakes and insects?”

face instantly

His expression went stiff.

he shoved the card back into Bradley’s

what you’re talking about,” he said

even

any of them could stop him, he turned and

“He’s lying,” Evan muttered.

Bradley clenched his jaw.

Something wasn’t right.

talking just fine–until Evan mentioned

Then, he had panicked.

Why?

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to this,” Bradley said. “We’ll dig into it later. Right now, I want every

his phone and

ended,

Bradley admitted. “But she’s still our sister. No one outside the family is allowed

and Sean both

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