Prologue
Dimitri Belikov was once the happiest man alive; he was engaged to the love of his life, his best friend Rosemarie Hathaway. He had known her for years, she had moved in with him, but no one really cared because the whole town they lived in thought they were just friends, no one suspected that they were more than that so no one suspected they were engaged. Rose was the most beautiful women he's ever met and he was oh so proud to call her his fiancé. There was one other person who knew of their relationship, his best guy friend Mason Ashford. He had met both Mason and Rose on the same day six years ago; he had left his mother land, Russia to come to the United States of America, to Missoula Montana. He was hired by a family friend Ibrahim Mazur to come work at The MazurHathaway Ranch and to watch Mr. Mazur's wild and disrespectful daughter Rosemarie, Rosemarie was getting into lots of trouble and she needed discipline and since Dimitri had three sisters Ibrahim -or Abe as he liked to be called- thought he was the best man for the job, so he took it, he took it not realizing that he would fall in love with his bosses daughter.
When he first met Rose he was taken aback by her beauty, she had the most luscious brunette locks, he wanted to run his hands through them but he fought the urge to, Rose was standing by a red headed teenager that looked to be the same age as Rosemarie, the boy looked up at Dimitri as he preceded to go over to them, he had blue eyes and a splatter of freckles on his face, he smiled and introduced himself as Mason Ashford. That was six years ago. Dimitri closed his eyes leaning his head against the wall that he sat against, so much had happened in those six years, so much that he was proud of, but than that fateful day happened, that day that ruined his life and took him away from his loved ones. He was arrested, arrested for a crime he never committed. A young girl that lived not far from him was murdered and raped and there was an eye witness that saw everything, so here Dimitri sat against the wall in his jail cell, hoping against all odds that the truth would be uncovered and it be known that he never raped or murdered anyone at all, when he was arrested he told the cops he didn't do it but they said an eye witness puts him at the scene of the crime. No one believed him when he said he didn't do it, only Mason and Rose believed that he was innocent and they were both trying to do whatever they could to prove his innocence. For he is The Innocent Man and this is his story.
Hope everyone enjoyed the prologue of The Innocent Man.