Chapter 386: SILENT PRAYER
Felicia held her cheeks, completely surprised at the speed at which the slap landed on her cheek. A second ago, she was talking and now, her left cheek was numb.
"Where did you keep my phone?" Madam Laura questioned, her eyes boring holes into Felicia’s with so much anger that if she didn’t control herself, she might have killed Felicia at that moment and the latter knew that, judging by the woman’s expression.
"What are you talking about? Your phone is missing again?" She asked as if the inmate from earlier didn’t just inform her about it. When she didn’t get a reply from Madam Laura, Felicia continued, "How would I know where it is? I didn’t take your phone! I just came back from the visiting area."
Again, another slap landed on her cheek, her right cheek and now, she was holding her two cheeks in her hands.
Slightly losing her temper, Madam Laura attacked Felicia by pulling her hair while the latter yelled for help.
Sighting a female warden close by, Madam Laura’s followers quickly came in between and tried to pull her away from Felicia.
"You’d better tell me where you kept my phone else, I will kill you!" Madam Laura threatened.
"I promise I didn’t take your phone, why would I even do that?" Felicia tried to defend herself. She looked around and found the inmates glaring at her until hers caught Mary’s and Juliet’s. "Have you searched every cell room in here and didn’t find it? Maybe someone stole it," she added, her eyes still on Mary and Juliet who were also glaring at her just like the other inmates.
"You have stolen my phone before and you are the last person who cleaned my cell room and suddenly, I can’t find it? Give me back my phone now Felicia, if you know what’s good for you." Madam Laura demanded through gritted teeth.
"Maybe all you need to do is search everyone’s cell room and you will find your phone," said Felicia.
Mary and Juliet glanced at each other, as they tried to understand what Felicia meant especially when she made that statement while her eyes were focused on them.
Madam noticed where Felicia’s eyes were and turned to find Mary and Juliet before she looked back at Felicia who shrugged at her.
"I’m just saying. I’ve learned my lesson not to steal your phone again after what you did to me the first time and I wouldn’t want that to happen again especially now that I have this face," she continued. "And it’s only someone who doesn’t know how ruthless you can be when you can’t find your phone would only dare to take them in the first place. I’ve learned my lesson, Madam Laura." Her eyes went back to stare at both Mary and Juliet.
Both the mother and daughter duo glanced at each other, their eyes filled with slight worry as they were beginning to understand what Felicia meant bit by bit.
"Search every cell room. And as for the one you’ve already searched, search them once again," Madam Laura ordered out of the blue. "And you," she pointed at Felicia. "If I find my phone in any of your belongings, I promise you, you won’t only get a scarred phone from me like the last time. I will make sure that you lose your life," she promised and for once, Felicia was shaken by the threat.
Suddenly, she remembered Erika’s last words before she left. Adrain was killed by his fellow inmate and the same thing might happen to her.
Unknowingly, she gulped down her saliva in fear.
Madam Laura’s followers immediately did as they were told. They started rummaging through everyone’s belongings, scattering the ones that had already been arranged which annoyed the weak inmates but they couldn’t protest unless they wanted to be beaten up so they simply shut up.
"Have you searched their cell rooms?" Madam Laura asked, pointing towards the mother and daughter duo.
One of Madam Laura’s followers came forward and shook her head. "No boss, I will search for it now." She said and walked towards their cell rooms.
Mary and Felicia quickly followed behind her while Madam Laura and Felicia followed behind them while a sly smirk danced on Felicia’s lips.
’They have always watched me get embarrassed and humiliated, now I’m going to watch them get humiliated.’ Felicia thought to herself, her smirk growing even wilder on her lips.
When she noticed how stretched it was, she quickly faltered and wore a worried expression so that no one would suspect her anymore.
Madam Laura’s disciple entered the mother and daughter’s duo cell room, saw their arranged clothing, and quickly started scattering it. Making sure not a single properly folded clothing looked organized.
"What the hell are you doing? Is this how you’ve been searching for the phone all this while? If you continue like this, we will never find it. And that’s probably why we haven’t found it now," Madam Laura spat in frustration. "Leave! I will do it myself," she pushed the disciple away and started searching by herself.
Juliet, whose hand was starting to shiver, turned to her mother and whispered in a low tone that it was only the both of them could hear what they were saying.
"What if..."
"What if Felicia planted the phone in our clothes?" Mary completed the sentence before Juliet could. "That woman has gone far this time around. She’s trying to make us look like bad people in front of that old woman."
"If she finds the phone in our cell room, what’s the worst? She can’t possibly kill either of us here, the wardens would punish her. She’s just bluffing," said Juliet.
Mary looked at her daughter, silently praying that the phone wouldn’t be found in either of their clothes because she had witnessed what Madam Laura had done to Felicia when she stole her phone years ago. She could only wish they didn’t find it there and Felicia was only trying to scare them.
