Chapter 374: PRISON RULES
Without warning, Madam Laura grabbed Juliet by the chin, hard and painful as she glared into her eyes. "Your mother and that woman caused me trouble and I’m sure that if you ask them what they did to me, they will be able to explain it to you, and believe me, girl, you wouldn’t want me to do the same thing to you," madam Laura threatened.
Juliet didn’t retaliate, she only stood and let Madam Laura do as she wanted until the old woman let go of her and she stumbled backwards.
"Now that you’ve intervened, you are going to do everything instead while your mother will be the one to resume cooling me down with the hand fan." Madam Laura instructed and Juliet couldn’t help but slightly open her mouth wide in shock. How was she going to wash the clothes of everyone in the cell room? They were close to a hundred.
"I’m not doing that," Juliet objected. "You can send the others on an errand however you like but I’m not your servant. You met us here so you should be the one to respect and fear us, you old hag!!"
At the mention of that insult, Mary quickly held Juliet’s arm to try to pacify her anger since she had bitten more than she could chew.
"What did you say?!" Madam Laura demanded. The inmate that had been massaging her shoulder had stopped already since no one had dared to insult Madam Laura in such a way if not Felicia.
Felicia walked inside the cell room with the bucket of water she’d gone to fetch earlier while she laid curses on everyone in her mind and sighted everyone standing up, glaring at Mary and her daughter.
Felicia scoffed, knowing perfectly well that they’d caused trouble for themselves but Felicia didn’t dare intervene instead, she walked towards Madam Laura’s cell room and started cleaning up while she laid curse after curse on all of them.
"This won’t be the end of it Felicia, just endure." She told herself as she continued to clean. Taking out the fabric Madam Laura used to cover herself up at night, Felicia flipped it until she noticed something fall off from it. It was a cellphone.
Felicia sighed, not surprised at all since she’d already predicted that Madam Laura still had a phone in the cell room.
Picking up the phone from the ground, she wondered,
"What am I going to do with this phone, hmm?" She slaked herself. "I don’t know anyone out there that I could call to help me out and even if I did, they won’t help me out," she mumbled under her breath.
Gently, she turned behind her to see that Madam Laura had already given Juliet a hot slap on the cheeks and she smiled, satisfied.
"How about I take this phone and put one of them in trouble?" She asked herself as a smirk played on her lips and she placed the phone inside her shirt and continued cleaning up the room.
"How dare you slap me, you old hag?!" Juliet questioned Madam Laura after the old woman had successfully landed a slap that made her cheeks turn numb.
"If you dare disrespect me again, I promise you this, you are going to be receiving it daily," Madam Laura threatened with a glare which Juliet fired back without holding back. "Now, if you know you don’t want to get beaten by my people here, you better do as you’ve been told to do," she added.
Mary, who had been quiet all this time, could only wish that Juliet didn’t end up on Madam Laura’s enemy list she already was. Her life in the prison cell would only become difficult for her.
After hearing what Madam Laura had just said, the other inmates who stood with Madam Laura smiled as they cracked their knuckles, getting them ready to beat the hell out of Juliet.
"Juliet, just do as she had told you. That’s the only way this matter will get resolved and you won’t get beaten up," Mary tried to convince Juliet but the latter seemed to not want to do as she’d been ordered to do.
After waiting for a while, Juliet finally nodded her head but her eyes were still sending daggers toward Madam Laura and her fellow criminals.
"What was that?" Madam Laura asked with a smirk on her lips.
"I will wash the clothes," Juliet replied, forcing the words out of her mouth.
’I only need to endure these treatments for a few more days and then I will be acquitted,’ she told herself. It was only the bright side of all of these and she decided to hold on to it because, at the end of the day, she would be getting released soon while they would spend the rest of their lives there.
She suddenly smiled which only got madam Laura confused.
"What are you thinking about?" She questioned Juliet.
"None of your business," Felicia replied and walked away to go do as she’d been told to do.
The inmates that stood by Madam Laura’s side were about to follow Juliet and make her pay for disrespecting their boss like that but the old woman held them back.
"Leave her, for now," she said and they paused.
Turning to face Mary whose head was lowered, she tossed the hand fan towards her which fell on the ground since Mary wasn’t paying any attention to her, and ordered,
"Start cooling me off and do it fast, I’m sweating buckets here."
Immediately, Mary took the hand fan and started fanning madam Laura.
Walking towards her cell room, she ordered Felicia who was still cleaning her cell room, and warned.
"You had better not steal anything like the last time and if you do, believe me, you won’t see your punishment coming."
Felicia’s back was facing Madam Laura’s so the old woman didn’t see Felicia’s expression but she was sure that Felicia was cursing her and she only got a nod from her.
