Free Web NovelChapter 390: UP TO SOMETHING
"Hey, wake up!" Someone shook Juliet as they tried to wake her up.
Out of annoyance, Juliet opened her eyes and attempted to bounce on the person but when she saw that it was Madam Laura, she quickly composed herself.
"Good, I thought you already forgot the mark I left behind in our last talk," she mocked.
"What do you want?" Juliet asked, while her eyes darted around, in search of her mother but she couldn’t see her around. She couldn’t see any inmate in her cell room except Madam Laura and herself. The others were gone.
Alert, Juliet quickly sprang up from the bed and ran towards the wall even though there was nowhere else to run to but as long as she was far away from Madam Laura, she was good.
"You were sleeping for so long I thought you might have died. Don’t mind me at all, go sweep my room," she demanded without giving Juliet a chance to react.
Juliet raised her eyebrows in confusion, wanting to understand what the old hag had just instructed her to do.
"What do you mean by sweeping your room?" Juliet asked, making sure to move about in case the old hag intended to strike her with an attack.
Since she got her face scarred by the old woman, she had just realized that Madam Laura was still packed with muscles. She had tried to back away from her when she was scaring her face but she didn’t move at all. freewebnovёl.ƈom
"What don’t you understand?" Madam Laura questioned back, annoyed. "Did I mistakenly scar your brain as well?"
Juliet released a sigh before she objected. "I’m not sweeping your cell room. Felicia is the one that does that, not me."
"And who do you think you are to tell me what to do and what not to do?" Madam Laura asked. "I told you to mind the way you talk to me and now I’ve realized that you haven’t learnt your lesson yet. Maybe I should just bring in a knife and scar down to your neck, hmm? What do you think about that?" She suggested before walking over to a table and sipping water from an old cup which Juliet hadn’t noticed until now.
Juliet very much knew whom she was dealing with and she had prayed that in her next life, she wouldn’t come across someone like Madam Laura and Felicia ever again. And now, the old hag was commanding her to go clean her cell room.
Juliet was only hesitant since Felicia had framed her when she wasn’t even near the cell room. Who knows what she’s going to plant in there or what will probably go missing and frame her again especially now that she has been given official permission to go clean her room.
"Do you need a wake-up slap so that you can start moving already?" Madam Laura questioned when she saw that Juliet was lost in her thoughts.
Sighing, Juliet started walking out of her cell room while Madam Laura’s eyes followed behind her.
Reaching the cell room, Juliet saw that the cleaning materials were already set for her to use to clean the cell room.
"If I may ask, where’s Felicia?" Juliet asked in case Felicia had entered the room before they arrived. "Does she know that you want me to clean your cell room?" She added.
Madam Laura didn’t respond immediately. She sipped from her old cup and sighed before she replied.
"I didn’t see her walk in here and besides, my lackeys have been keeping an eye on her."
Juliet frowned slightly when she heard this.
"Why are you watching her?" Her tone this time was filled with curiosity this time and not as demanding as before.
"Because I wanted to. That girl has been testing my patients lately. She’s up to something if I’m not mistaken and if I’m correct, she will be making a move sooner than expected."
Juliet got even more curious after hearing her reply and simply forgot to start cleaning as she voiced out her next question carefully, so that Madam Laura wouldn’t hesitate to reply.
"What kind of move do you think she wants to make?"
"What other move if it ain’t the one that’s gonna get her out of this hell hole?" Madam Laura questioned back. "That bitch wants to escape from here. I’m not completely sure about it." frёeωebɳovel.com
Juliet could only stare at Madam Laura without being able to talk for a second as she tried to think things through.
Felicia has been able to escape the prison once and she will be able to do that again if the right inmate assists her since escaping from there requires teamwork.
"What kinds of signs did she give that made you think she wanted to escape from the prison?"
"She’s always walking about, snooping around places like a rat looking for cheese it would eat for lunch," madam Laura responded. When she realized that she might have spoken too much while Juliet simply stood and listened without doing what she’d brought her to do, she quickly added.
"Get cleaning now. The other inmates are outside clearing the bushes. Once you have cleaned up this place, come join us. I’m only giving you 10 minutes so hurry up. And also, don’t try stealing anything." The change of tone of her voice in the last sentence, clearly showed she was serious even though Juliet didn’t plan on stealing a single thing in her cell room.
’Nothing in here is valuable anyway,’ Juliet thought to herself and she glared at the yellow walls with splashes of different colors of stains on them. When her eyes fell on the red stains, she didn’t know if they were blood or just pain but she decided to go with the latter so that she won’t throw up.
After giving her instructions, Madam Laura left the cell room to go back outside to join the others in clearing the bushes, leaving Juliet to do her work with a warning.
