CHAPTER 2: THE SECRET THAT FROZE THE ENTIRE PRISON
The yard became silent.
Marcus waited for Emma to react.
Instead, she took one small step forward.
Nothing more.
The giant prisoner smirked.
Then everything happened so fast that most inmates didn't understand what they were seeing.
Marcus suddenly screamed.
A loud, shocked scream.
His body twisted violently.
One second he was standing.
The next he was face-down in the dirt.
The entire yard froze.
"What the hell?!"
Nobody understood.
Emma had moved so quickly that most people missed it.
She had grabbed Marcus's wrist, shifted her body, and used his own momentum against him.
The giant hit the ground with enough force to knock the air from his lungs.
Before he could recover, Emma locked his arm behind his back.
Marcus roared and tried to stand.
He couldn't.
Pain shot through his shoulder.
The strongest inmate in the prison was completely immobilized.
By a woman half his size.
The prisoners stared in disbelief.
One of the younger guards whispered:
"Not again..."
Because this wasn't the first time.
Years earlier, Emma Richards had been one of the most respected tactical instructors in federal corrections.
Before becoming a prison officer, she had trained elite law enforcement units.
She held black belts in multiple martial arts.
She specialized in control techniques designed specifically for larger opponents.
And her height?
It had become her greatest advantage.
People underestimated her.
Every.
Single.
Time.
Marcus finally stopped struggling.
Emma calmly placed handcuffs on him.
The entire yard remained silent.
She leaned close enough for him alone to hear.
"You thought size was power."
Marcus looked up.
For the first time since entering prison, fear appeared in his eyes.
Emma continued.
"Real power is self-control."
Then she stood and escorted him toward solitary confinement.
Not a single inmate laughed.
Not one.
That evening, the entire prison buzzed with rumors.
Some claimed Emma had military special-forces training.
Others believed she had worked undercover.
A few inmates insisted she wasn't human.
The stories grew wilder by the hour.
But the truth was even more surprising.
The prison warden called an emergency staff meeting.
There he revealed something shocking.
Emma had been personally requested by the Department of Corrections.
Not to protect the prison from inmates.
But to clean out corruption inside the prison itself.
Several officers suddenly became uncomfortable.
Emma wasn't there by accident.
She was investigating something.
And someone inside Blackstone Prison had a lot to lose.
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Very soon, the inmates would discover that Marcus Kane wasn't the most dangerous person in the prison.
Not even close.
