Distress

CHARLES

It feels like I’m in a particularly terrifying dream from which there will be no waking up. Sebastian has hired a lawyer for me, but I’ve been going through the whole process in a numb, barely-there way, hardly able to believe that this is happening to me.

I’ve been denied bail and kept in jail far longer than I would have liked, but I’m not worried about that. I’m confident that very soon, the police will find out from their investigations that I’m innocent. What I’m more worried about is what Jessica must be thinking of me and my cursed family.

That’s probably a weird thing to be worried about considering the circumstances and considering the fact that I don’t know yet if Charlotte’s plan was to destroy my life by framing me for this murder. If that is the case, then she would no doubt have taken precautions to frame me so tightly that there would be no exonerating me from Samantha’s murder, which I didn’t commit.

So what if Jessica decides that she wants our child to be a