Chapter 125: APPEAL
It was the visiting hours and Felicia’s lawyer had come to inform her of how her case was going.
"Please tell me you have good news for me. I can’t stand it in this please, everyone here is under drugs or something", she ranted as soon she sat down, not giving the lawyer a chance to speak. "Well start talking", she urged when the lawyer was still silent.
Clearing his throat, the lawyer began,
"Well, I have gone through your case and the person who charged you with attempted rape is quite a powerful person so you getting acquitted is going to be a harder process".
"What do you mean? I am going to stay here forever, is that it? I’m pregnant you know", she said to him, her face etched with annoyance and the urge to kill.
The lawyer became frightened but pretended to be calm, "I have some solutions that can lead to you getting acquitted faster", he offered.
"Then talk and stop wasting so much time", she demanded.
"You could wait till you have already given birth, I will go back to the appeal court to take pardon on you given the fact that you just gave birth and needed rest and....."
"Are you saying that I have to be here for the next 6 months? That’s way too long, don’t you have any more ideas?" She scratched her hair frustratingly, not liking the idea the lawyer had come up with. "I need to get out of here fast, there is someone out there whom I need to teach a lesson, someone whom I have to make their life a living hell".
The lawyer was not quite surprised by her words as she had always repeated it several times whenever he came over, updating her on her case. Now he wondered who might have offended her so badly, could it be the person who sent her to jail, he thought to himself but since it was none of his business, he decided to not ask at all.
"I’m sorry Mrs. Hart but there is no other option I can think of now unless you plan to escape which I would advise you not to do since it would only make your appeal take much longer or you can never get acquitted when you are caught", he tried to reason out with her but her mind was already made up. In order not to make herself suspicious, she agreed.
"Alright, I won’t try to escape but you had better continue the appeal. I don’t want to rot in here", she said and stood up from her chair to walk back inside.
"So what did the lawyer say? Are you going to get acquitted of your crime?" Mary asked her as soon as she arrived in their shared prison cell.
Felicia shook her head, "No! He said I might have to stay here a little while longer until I give birth, then there might be a chance that my appeal would be accepted", she explained and Mary nodded in understanding.
Mary had been charged with the murder of two people, even though Adrain and Adam were not around to make her suffer more than she already was, the court had already sentenced her to life imprisonment so there was no lawyer to try to acquit her since there was evidence of her confessing to her crimes which was why she needed to escape as well so that she could teach Erika a lesson for putting her in jail.
"But you are not going to wait that long right?" Mary asked before she looked around to see if there were any inmates around, "We are going to escape from here before that time", she whispered.
"I hope so, I can’t wait here for the next six months, that’s way too long", she said.
In the middle of their discussion, one of the inmates brought a pile of clothes along with her and dropped it in front of both of them and said, "The boss wants you both to wash all of these clothes", and intended to leave but Mary stopped her.
"Excuse me?"
"Don’t you understand English? I said the boss wants you to wash the clothes", the inmate left after repeating her words.
Both Felicia and Mary gave each other a look before Felicia abruptly stood up and left the cell with the clothes.
"Where are you going?" Mary asked as she followed behind her.
"Who does that woman think she is? Just because they call her the boss doesn’t mean that she’s the boss", Felicia spat out of anger as she strode towards the boss’s cell with the clothes.
After sighting the boss who was relaxed on her bed while the inmate from earlier massaged her legs, Felicia banged the iron bars with full force, making the woman open her closed eyes.
Felicia walked towards her and dropped the pile of dirty clothes on the floor and the other inmates who had surrounded her immediately stood up, ready to attack but the boss raised her hand to stop them.
"Madam Laura, she had just disrespected you and that is unacceptable", said one of the inmates as she glared at Felicia who glared back at her.
"I know that but she’s pregnant, remember? Let’s not be too physical", madam Laura, the boss replied as if forgetting that she had slapped Felicia the previous day, making them all turn their necks to look at her. "Sit back down all of you", she commanded and they immediately obeyed.
"So tell me, girl, is there a problem?" Madam Laura asked Felicia whose blood was boiling with anger.
"Yes, I have a problem. Why would you send this little fly to me with your clothes that needed to be washed, can’t you do it yourself?" Felicia spoke and the inmates again attempted to get up and beat her up but Madam Laura stopped them again.
Madam Laura laughed before saying,
"I would advise you to learn some respect while you are still in this place, you never know what you might need from me, and only I could give it to you".
