UNDERVALUED SUPREMACY: INFLICTING MY OWN KARMA

CHAPTER 03.BETRAYED

It's been exactly a month and three weeks since Harry was arrested for the murder he didn't commit. No contact with any outsider, and he had almost lost his sanity. But what kept him going was his love for Daine. For the first two weeks, he thought Diane would help him. But after a month, he lost hope and prepared for whatever would happen to him in prison. He knew he was in hell, and the torture was getting too much daily. But he refused to grant them the statement they requested from him.

Since Mr. Damon didn't keep to his side of the deal, Harry refused to give them any statement nor make the video confessions he was asked to. Sitting on the worn-out chair in his cell room, he sighed disappointedly as he carelessly leaned his back angrily against the wall.

'Shit!' he groaned in pain as his back hit the wall. His back was filled with bruises from the whips and torture he had gone through.

The next minute, the door to his cell creaked open, and the warder and two hefty officers stood in front of him like statues. His heartbeat doubled as he began to sweat at the thought of what was about to happen.

"Drag him out!" The cold and harsh voice of the warder came on, piercing Harry's skin like it was a knife.

As they dragged him out,instead of the regular dungeon where he was always whipped he was taken to the counter.On reaching there Harry eyes met Mrs Freya's own and he a sigh of relief escaped his lips reflexly thinking she was coming to do the needful—Take him out of this place.

"Ma,ma Good…" Harry trailed off,his intense gaze fixed on Mrs Freya as he saw the document on the table.

"And what's good about it? Let's cut the chase Harry,". She started slowly opening the documents.

"This is your divorce papers! Sign it and let my daughter go for God's sake!" She bellowed, pushing the documents to Harry's side and throwing a pen at him.

"No,No! " Harry protested silently, refusing to believe Diane wants to divorce him, Divorcing him now of all times?

"Ma,What do you mean?" Harry finally asked, refusing to believe Diane wants to divorce him now.

"What's more to explain? Sign those papers and let my daughter go.You have caged her for five years! She's done.Sign it and get out of her life.You are not good enough for her,You can never be! Sign those papers and save me the stress." she hollered angrily.

Harry shot her a glare forcing Mrs Freya to draw back from her close distance to him,she really hasn't seen him this furious since the five years she had known him.

"And she doesn't have the courtesy to come and give me the papers herself?" Harry spat,his fiery eyes fixed on his mother-in-law.

"Courtesy?" The wardener chimed in mockingly.

"Imagine?" Mrs Freya supported,she couldn't help but roll her eyes.

"You low life,sign those papers this minute and let my daughter live her life,You've wasted five good years for her," Mrs Freya added,her tone laced with frustration,she clearly was tired of Harry wasting time on signing the documents.

'Five years? Wasted?' Harry thought.Knowing within these five years were just humiliation,cheating and disrespect.

"I won't sign those papers until Daine comes here to do the closure herself," Harry proposed, knowing he At Least deserved a good closure if she really wanted to divorce him.

"There's no need for that.She 's out of town with her new man so I wonder why you want her to see you? An official closure you say? I'm here myself so it's enough officiality for a low life for you!" Mrs Freya snapped, spanking the table angrily.

Harry sat staring blankly at the papers,Mrs Freya words clouded his mind about Diane with her new man,Did she move on that quick? He swallowed his saliva trying not to show how much pain he was feeling.

He dragged his chair backwards,picked up the pen and signed the documents.Once he did a satisfied smirk formed across Mrs Freya lips as she couldn't hide her excitement.

Harry stood up to move back to his cell but the warder's voice snapped at him," where to? Let's go for some exercise in the dungeon,"

Harry's shoulder Slumped,a sign of exhaustion. Fatigue settled over him like a heavy wet blanket knowing what kind of an exercise they were about to do.

"Please!" Harry begged, hoping he would give him listening ears, but the man didn't even spare him a glance. "I swear to God I didn't do anything. It was all a setup by Mr. Archer. I didn't commit murder!"

"Shut it!" The warder scowled. "Enough of Mr. Archer. You killed an innocent girl. Everyone confirmed it,The camera covered you but you still retort to lying?. Give it up and confess so you get your sentence."

"Sentence?" Harry furrowed his brows, unsure which sentence they meant. He kept getting whipped but didn't cry. Instead, he groaned silently.

"I don't know what you intend to prove, but listen up, you're on your own, The earlier the better, and you'll be set free to serve your jail term. You can't escape this, The Archer's Law firm is on your case," The warder added frustration evident in his voice.He clearly was tired of whipping Harry everyday and still not getting any statement out of him.

"I'm innocent! Hear me out. I've nothing to do with it; ask Diane or my mother-in-law," Harry said in defiance but the officers and the warden all had an uproar of laughter.

Harry managed to raise his head a bit as he looked around, eager to know what amused them, but he saw nothing.

"Your mother-in-law?" The warden scoffed.

"Clear delusions!"

"You think the Archers would associate themselves with a murderer like you? The beautiful sissy, Miss I'm sure she would be getting married soon to someone up to her par, so murderer, you've no mother-in-law," The warder mocked.

"Continue!" he shouted at the officers who had slowed down whipping Harry.

"What were you thinking, keeping Miss Daine all to yourself? You were never her par so stop day dreaming of having her back" he added but Harry just kept mute and seethe silently taking the pains of the whippings.

As they continued whipping him, he just stayed still without making a sound. The wounds and pains the whips inflicted on him were the least of his worries now as he tried to digest what the warden had just said about being sure of Diane getting married soon.The pain in his heart was worse than the physical one. Daine was getting married? He refused to believe, but what more evidence did he want?

He closed his eyes, swallowing his saliva as he clenched his fists. The Archers had betrayed him. Not only did they betray him, but they also framed him for a crime he didn't commit. To add to it, Daine is getting married! Even Diane had betrayed him.

Harry watched as a shadow kept approaching the dungeon, unsure who it was. He believed it would be another officer who had come to interchange the ones who were getting exhausted from flogging him.

"Stop that this minute!" An authoritative voice demanded. It seemed to be the approaching shadow, but who was it that would go against Mr. Damon's order? At this point Harry didn't care anymore,he decided it was only right he fainted at this moment.