CHAPTER SIXTEEN The next day, Bait once again found himself walking through the halls of Ultimate Max prison, flanked by two bodyguards wearing bulletproof armor and carrying guns equipped to shoot powerless gas pellets. They passed prison cell after prison cell full of prisoners, some of whom were sleeping, others awake and glaring between the bars of their cells at Bait as he passed. Bait didn’t know why they were glaring at him, given how he didn’t recognize most of these prisoners and had had no hand in their arrest or jailing, but he supposed that he’d be upset, too, if he had been forced to stay in one of the most secure and dangerous prisons in the world for the rest of their lives. I wonder how Mom deals with the guys staring at her, Bait thought as he followed the guards. Then a