THE LAST MINUTE GROOM : CHAPTERS 1 – 20
BY SIR ZACH
CHAPTERS 7 & 8
Soon, the inmates were seen in a large open space, queuing for food. Jeslyn joined the queue when she got there.
The line was well arranged and traffic-free until it got to her turn.
Just when she stretched her plate to get her weird-looking share of the good, a complete rouge, looking like a wild man with her uniform tied to her waist and hair left to look like that of a porcupine. Plus almost all of her face and body had tattoos drawn on them with different colors, and face and ear piercings that would disgust any onlooker, pushed her plate away then stood in front of her to queue for food.
It was obvious the person was a troublemaker, so Jeslyn took a step back for all her followers to get in front of her, unbeknownst to her that she just made a huge mistake.
Well, not her fault though. What could she have done?
After the five troublemakers had taken their share, Jeslyn was about to walk forward when she was unceremoniously pulled from the back and shoved out of the line.
“Nuisance,”
“Slow”
“Dimwit”
“Stupid”
“Pretty idiot”
Those abusive words came out from the lips of a few people in the queue as they glared at her.
Jeslyn stood dumbfounded. She didn’t understand why she was getting hated on for staying out of trouble until she heard, It
“No more food. You came too late. Come back early next time.”
“Huh?” Jeslyn widened her eyes in horror. What do they mean by ‘no more food?’ In this large and beautiful prison?
Well, not very beautiful, but better than those she had seen with toilets and water in the same space where prisoners sleep.
Jeslyn glanced around the place and saw that there were only five people, plus herself that hadn’t gotten any food.
Those prisoners who got nothing to eat glared at Jeslyn with fire brewing in their eyes.
Jeslyn felt her head growing numb from all the glares she was receiving from all sides and just wanted someone to save her from this situation.
“Hey, little bunny, come here.”
‘God, thank you!’
Jeslyn hurried off to her friends who were waving for her to come over.
She sat beside the two while looking at the disgusting food they were eating. It looked like beans, but the water was enough to drown a fish.
The bread or whatever they call it was burnt on both sides. She subconsciously frowned.
‘Why would the cook even bother to burn bread? Does it add to the number they produce?’ All she could come up with was that whoever made those bread was plainly wicked!
“You just got into the black book. Stick with us from now on, or else you’ll be getting your a*s whopped.” The pink said while her eyes were focused on her food.
“But I haven’t done anything wrong,” She said.
“Listen, little bunny. In here, you don’t need to do anything wrong before you get killed, so obey her when she tells you anything,” Yellow advised.
“Ok, I’m Sorry.”
“Don’t be apologetic when you are sure you did nothing wrong. However, that only applies to when you aren’t weak like you are right now,” Pink lectured.
“Ok, I understand, I’ll remember that, thank you.”
“Giving thanks should also come when the person you are thanking deserves it.” Pink orate again.
Jeslyn blinked. But she deserved the appreciation, right?
“So, older sister, do you mind telling me what I did wrong?” She asked with pleading eyes.
“Stop acting coquettish with me. I might rape you right here,” Yellow frowned.
Jeslyn bit her lip and lowered her head. What was she supposed to do as the humble girl she was?
“You are doing it again. Keep doing that and the queen might think you are calling her attention by seducing her. Get into anyone’s bad book, but never, I mean, never, allow the queen to notice you. If she does, even though you get freedom from here, she will get out of jail just to look for you,” Pink warned.
“Let me tell you a secret,” Yellow smiled.
Jeslyn looked towards yellow and nodded.
“The queen is not simple. She goes in and out of jail the way she likes and nobody can stop her. Just now, she and her babies took two portions of food, which included yours and those four other girls and that’s why they want to eat you whole. But don’t worry, you are safe with us. No fly can hurt you when you are with us, well, except the queen and her babies, so watch out for that group of five.”
Jeslyn nodded.
“Why are you so nice to me?” She asked after a while of silence.
She knew that it was rare for anyone to be this nice, especially in a place like this.
The two ladies ignored her and continued eating their food.
Jeslyn also stopped feeling curious. She just sat there with her palm placed under her jaw and with her elbow on the table as she watched them eat. She wasn’t hungry as the food wasn’t appealing.
In fact, putting that thing in her mouth would cause her to puke her guts out.
After they were done eating, the prisoners were taken to the open field to work on planting grains.
Jeslyn, who had no idea of how farming works stood by those two colored hair ladies while watching as they planted some grains, corn to be precise.
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After a while, she learned that one had to make a little hole in the soft soil with a stick and put in two seeds before closing the hole.
She saw it as fun while others saw it as hard labor.
Yes, they have been doing this for the past one month and they still haven’t covered half of the field that the eyes cannot even see where it ended.
Some places they planted on had grown, some were just sprouting, and others were still bare.
She admires the field whenever she decides to take a rest.
During the day, Jeslyn tries to act like everyone else, like she had nothing eating her up, but at night, she cries herself to sleep.
It’s been three days since she was brought here and she hasn’t eaten anything.
Those prisoners were taking revenge on her and she was sure of it.
Whenever she gets in the queue, they push her out.
At first, she didn’t feel anything, but after not eating for two days straight, her body started to protest, and today being the third day of starving, her stomach was no longer giving her face as it had started to contend with her, making growling sounds.
“Little bunny, what’s that sound? It’s f*cking my ears, shut it!” Pink grumbled in annoyance as the grumbling of Jeslyn’s stomach disturbed her peaceful sleep.
“I can’t control it,” she said in a small embarrassing tone.
“Don’t tell me you are hungry?”
“Hehehe…” Jeslyn laughed awkwardly.
“So, little bunny is a mortal? I thought you were immune to food. Serves you right. This will teach you to stop letting others bully you into giving them what is rightfully yours. If you can’t sleep, start doing exercise, it will tire you out and probably put you to sleep in no time.” Pink suggested.
“Or, I can bang you and you’ll fall asleep very quickly after a few orgasms, what do you say?” Yellow chimed in with a tease in her voice.
“Shut that damn hole of yours. Little bunny shouldn’t be corrupted. Use your f”*cking fingers on your freaking pot!” Pink yelled.
“F*ck you, pink! I don’t get satisfaction from my punny fingers. I want a tongue and a large pecker down there. I’ve missed those modafackers, like damn! When are they coming?”
“Just use the girls, gush!” Pink felt irritated. She didn’t know when Yellow started to crave girls and she freaking wants to give her a black eye.
“Don’t take my word for it, I don’t do girls. You talk like you don’t know me.”
“Nah, I don’t know you anymore. You keep saying girls these days and I just want to spank you for being bad.”
Yellow sighed. “I saw the queen the other day and her girls doing bad things. She didn’t even bother to keep her business clean. Anyways, I was just playing around and as for that nerdy wardress, you know me. I hate being woken from sleep with that banging on the bar like I’m some criminal.”
“Aren’t you? You are in the unit for hardcore criminals, first-degree murderers so, what makes you innocent?” Pink teased.
“Yeah, we all know the law is blind and unjust. Thank you for reminding me.” A flicker of emotion other than sarcasm and a playful tone could be heard in her voice for a moment before it switched back to her usual playful tone.
Their words got Jeslyn thinking if they were unjustly sentenced like her and she found it to be likely. Although it’s obvious that they are bad, not all bad people are killers, right?
So naive!
All she hopes for is that a kind-hearted person to remember her one day and save her from this mess. She mustn’t let those people go, she must seek her vengeance as only a shell of the once carefree. Jeslyn was left to wander in this prison cell along with dead-hearted inmates.
All that her family and friends served her, she must return with interest.
As she made that declaration, unbeknownst to her, her loving husband whom she had forgotten she married was looking at the headlines his brother was reading aloud in another country.
“I can’t believe this. She really killed her grandfather and was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole? Her lawyers must have been the most useless set of humans to live on earth. Even me, an idiot of law, could have handled her case better. Even though I couldn’t prove her innocence, I could have appealed for a lesser punishment and labeled her crime as a mistake or self-defense. What type of a–”
“Call Smith,” an emotionless voice sounded in Rex’s ear.
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CHAPTER 8
“I can’t believe this. She really killed her grandfather and was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole? Her lawyers must have been the most useless set of humans to live on earth. Even me, an idiot of law, could have handled her case better. Even though I couldn’t prove her innocence, I could have appealed for a lesser punishment and labeled her crime as a mistake or self-defense. What type of a–”
“Call Smith,” an emotionless voice sounded in Rex’s ear.
“Eh, brother, did you say something?”
“Smith, call.” He repeated in a more cold voice.
From his voice, Rex understood that he was angry and someone must be punished for his anger to subside and he wasn’t going to be that idiot, so he hurriedly called Smith.
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Fifteen minutes later, a man wearing a black suit, holding a black leather briefcase strode into the large sitting room that was lavishly decorated to give a cold and dull vibe.
“Mr. Maverick, young master Rex.” The lawyer bowed to the two young men sitting on different brown couches.
“Hey, barrister Smith, it’s been a long time we–”
“When did you return from Country A?” His cold and unfriendly voice cut Rex’s words short.
Smith and Rex both turned to look at the man who had one long leg over the other with arms folded on his chest and emotionless eyes fixed on Smith.
“I– I couldn’t make it on time and I was just about to board a plane to country A,” He answered.
“Where did you go?” He asked.
“I was handling a complicated case in city F.”
“So you are in the country.” He nodded, then asked again. “Whose lawyer are you?”
“Your lawyer, Mr. Maverick.”
“Do I pay you less?”
“No, Mr. Maverick.”
“Did the case you ignored me for, paid you more than I pay?”
“No, boss, I’ll bring Miss Jeslyn out of prison immediately, please give me one more week,” he begged.
By now lawyer Smith was already starting to sweat. He knew he shouldn’t have done that, but greed didn’t let him abandon the case he was fighting.
He didn’t even do research on the young lady he was told to rescue. After the call, he placed the phone down, hoping to tell his assistant to work on Miss Jeslyn’s case, but it slipped his mind.
He actually thought Miss Jeslyn’s case was long, so he was hoping to immediately handle it after he was done with the case he was on.
He just came back from city F and was making his findings on Miss Jeslyn’s case when he discovered that the case was rushed and she had been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Inside his briefcase lay documents that he intended to file for an appeal to the supreme court of country A with, but now, with Mr. Maverick looking like this, Smith feared that his future was dim.
Seeing his older brother looking this way, Rex lit a candle in his heart for lawyer Smith.
Although he didn’t know what was going on, he was sure that Smith had done something unforgivable.
“Rex, call inspector Fin. Hand him the criminal record we have on lawyer Smith.”
“Roger that.” Rex didn’t bother to ask anything or feel anything. He knew that whoever offended his brother wouldn’t be going scot-free, but wait!
He slowly turned to look at his brother, like something just struck him.
“Brother, how d—did you know Jeslyn Lee?”
Maverick turned to glare at him and Rex immediately shut his mouth and pulled out his phone to make the call that would destroy lawyer Smith’s life while his heart swelled with ecstasy to fish out more gossip from his brother.
The lawyer fell on his knees and begged. “Master Maverick, please I beg you, forgive me, I’m sorry, I promise to bring her out, please forgive me.” He begged fervently, but Maverick wasn’t paying him mind but was rather chatting with someone on his phone.
Lawyer Smith knew that asking for forgiveness from this devil in front of him was no use. He had never heard where a devil forgave someone before but only wanted to try his luck.
He turned to the smiling angel who was about to make the call that would ruin him and begged. “Young master Rex, please save me.”
“Hehehe… you have handled some minor cases for my brother and you were privileged enough to know a few things he’s capable of, yet you took him for granted because of greed. Handing you to the cops is because of his benevolence, so you should thank him. Hehehe…hello.”
Lawyer Smith felt his knees had lost their strength and slowly fell back on his butts, looking dazed.
What did he say? Benevolence? His criminal case is numerous and he knows that the only outcome for him is a life imprisonment sentence.
However what these two brothers didn’t know, or they know is that he had sent a whole lot of bad guys, including good guys to prison, so what will become of him if he meets them in jail? And Rex is telling him to be thankful? Isn’t dying once better than getting tortured daily in jail?
Of course, Maverick knows and that’s the exact reason he is sending Smith to prison. One was to experience how life in prison is for making Jeslyn, his wife, stay there, and the second is to punish him for disobeying him and putting others before himself.
Meeting those bad and good guys he sent to prison with his wicked mouth would be the best punishment for him.
Smith is one of the second-class criminal lawyers in Country M and has a lot of bad records that no one could find because he was under Maverick’s protection, but now, he was doomed to condemnation.
“Brother, inspector Fin is glad and will be here with his men in a while.”
Inspector Fin has been on lawyer Smith’s case for a long time and he kept hitting a dead end, so getting such good news was certainly going to make him overjoyed.
“I don’t want to see him, send him the record,” Maverick said and stood up to head towards the stairs.
Rex sighed. “When are you two going to make up?… Ah, Smith, your end makes me laugh. But before your end comes, tell me the spicy news you have heard so far. What’s going on with the….”
Maverick shook his head when he heard his brother forcing a dying man to tell him the latest gossip.
He dialed a number on his phone and waited for the person to answer before he said, “I have a case for you.”
…
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At the prison, Jeslyn was sitting with her friends when a wardeness called her.
“Prisoner Lee…69, you have a visitor.”
Jeslyn was surprised. It’s been a week already and nobody had come to pay her a visit, so who just remembered her?
“Little bunny, I hope that isn’t your shitty family?” Yellow asked with a yawn.
“I doubt that.” She got up from the grass she was sitting on in an open field where they were brought out to have fun and headed towards the wardeness.
Getting to the visitor’s room, Jeslyn paused in her step when she saw the people waiting for her.
She turned around to leave, but the wardeness pushed her back in and locked the door from the outside.
Jeslyn chuckled. That’s right. The Lee family, Zhou family, and Chen family are three rich families that have the power to bend the law in Rose City.
The Lee family is the richest in Rose City and the Chen is the fourth richest with the Zhou family being the seventh, of course, they can make the prison officers turn their eyes and outrightly destroy the rules governing visitation to inmates.
“Where are you going, sister?”
Jeslyn took a deep breath to calm down. This is her first confrontation with her family over the events that had happened. She isn’t sure if she could remain firm but she has to do it. Nobody is on her side, so she should no longer care about who is hurting because of her.
She turned around and walked to sit on the empty chair in the dimmed room.
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“Christine finally had the time to come see me today, I’m so honored.” She said with sarcasm.
“You should be honored, sister. After what you have done, you should be honored that the family came to see you,” Christine replied.
“When you mean family, you mean…?” Jeslyn slowly glanced over at the husband and wife sitting beside Christine and shook her head.
“Insolence!” Yelled the woman.
“I’d appreciate it if you don’t yell my ears off. It’s already difficult living in prison. Making me deaf would make it worse than it already is and I don’t welcome that.”
“Jeslyn! You are becoming more impertinent and I’m glad you are here. You can learn manners the hard way since your slutty mother forgot to teach you well–”
“Bang!”
“I dare you to say that again!” She slapped the table hard and stood up while giving Mr. Wales a death glare.
“It’s not like it’s not true though. Your mother was a promisc–”
Jeslyn cut the woman off and attacked her before she could say another bad word about her sweet mother.
“Only a ho* like you would know who a slut is. You should be hiding your ugly face behind coal rubbed on your face. Getting into a happy family with your flat butts and loose twat should make you a supreme b!tch–”
“Paah!”
The slap forced her face to turn. She touched the inside of her right cheek with her tongue. That heavy slap from her father was a tough one.
Her eyes stung with tears, but she had made a vow in court to never let these low-life people see her tears ever again.
So she stood brave and smiled at the man with blood trickling down the corner of her lower lips.
“Your slaps cannot silence me, nor will they silence the people. Everyone knows that your sweetheart is a wh*re!”
She said it! Jeslyn said it again in full this time.
Mr. Wales raised his hand to slap her again but he heard Christine say.
“Father, let it be. You and mother should excuse us for a while, I need to talk to sister.”
Jeslyn rolled her eyes. Why did she not know that this hypocrite would make up with their father and his mistress?
Of course, she needs a mountain to rely on since none of the properties were given to her.
Jeslyn suddenly felt joy bubbling in her heart. Her mother and grandfather were good Judges of character. It was only a shame she didn’t learn that from them.
Mr. Wales glared at Jeslyn before he pulled his angry wife and left.
Now, with Jeslyn and Christine alone in the room, Christine stared at Jeslyn for a long time before she sighed.
“Sister, how did you suddenly become so brave and could even say such vulgar words without batting an eyelid? You used to shy away from using such explicit words. Has a week in prison turned you ugly?”
“Thanks to you, dear sister, using explicit words has become a norm. But I tell you, that’s not the only thing you should be worried about. Pray, I don’t get out of here, or else, I will make every one of you pay for ruining my life.
You might have been convinced or confused but you are old and sensible enough to know that testifying against your only sister would ruin her forever.”
“You are right, sister. Because I’m worried about you getting out of here somehow, that’s why I made them freeze your account, and also, how wouldn’t I know that testifying against you in court would ruin you? I’m 23, sister, so of course, I know that, but then, who again did you say told you that you were my only sister? Is your selective amnesia clouding that fact too?”
Jeslyn stared at her sister in disbelief. Yes, they have an older sister, born from their father and his mistress before he married Ms. Alice, but what shocked Jeslyn was that Christine had a hand in freezing her account!
Seeing how shocked Jeslyn looked, Christine laughed. “That’s not the only thing that should make you shocked, dear Jeslyn. That’s just the tip of the iceberg.”
Christine stood up and started to slowly walk around the room while telling a story.
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