As soon as the officer left, a faint smile appeared on Luna’s lips. She’s intelligent and smart as much as she’s beautiful. This woman is a combination of beauty and brains. She decoded her sudden outburst and played along.
When she returned to join Ava, the both of them hugged each other “Thank you Luna. I initially didn’t understand what your sudden ranting was all about until I saw the officer. Thanks so much”
“You’re an intelligent woman,” Luna said and brought Ava to a corner. “That’s the only way I communicate with my loved ones. I hope one day I might have a chance to get out of here. I’ve been here for so long that I’m almost forgetting what it means to be a free citizen again” Luna said in a pathetic tone.
Ava sighed softly “Were you also framed like me?” She was framed, otherwise how can she end up being imprisoned because she tried to save grandfather?
Luna Wesley nodded. She was framed and her years of training as a medical doctor was wasted. Her practising licence was revoked and her baby was born and immediately taken away from her to the orphanage.
“I’m sorry that we’re both innocent but found ourselves here. Only now do I agree to the fact that not all prisoners have really committed an offence. Many found themselves here despite being innocent” Ava said.
“You’re right Ava. Justice is perverted and for twenty years, I haven’t been able to get justice. The only thing my lawyer was able to help me get was staying alive. I would long have been dead, but I was kept alive, thanks to him” Luna explained.
For a long time, a lot of thoughts cross Ava’s mind. Will she also spend many years in jail like Luna? Will her baby be born in the prison and also taken away from her?
Why is her story similar to Luna’s? What will happen to her now? Her parents are poor and more than being poor, her Papa is no more. Her momma cannot help hire a strong attorney for her.
The Lester family are too powerful to be toiled with. Adrian is a devil incarnate and his mother is a wisp with a venom at its tail. Except grandfather wakes up, no one can help her out.
What if grandfather dies? What will happen to her? She was still thinking in her heart when Luna held her hands “If ever you find yourself out, please don’t forget me, Ava. For the sake of my son, don’t forget me” she pleaded with tear filled eyes.
Ava let her tears trickle down her cheeks. She nodded. Who told her she would leave there soon? How can it be when that devil surnamed Lester was involved?
“Promise me, Ava, please promise me” Luna pleaded. Many have come and gone, but she’s still remaining there. She’d seen some dead, but she’s still alive.
Many promised her but they forgot her as soon as they regained their freedom. Will Ava also forget her when she gets out there, someday?
That night, Adrian arrived home and asked his mother if she could give him an answer to a question. Anna nodded, of course she would, if she knew the answer.
“Did Sam Leon and his wife ever do us any favours?” He asked. As much as he tries to forget about everything, Sam’s words kept ringing in his ears.
He pleaded with him and did the same to his mother. He said they should remember the past. Such words were uttered with deep rooted emotions and he has lost his peace from that moment.
“Those poor things? What favour can they do us? We hired Sam Leon and paid him well but yet, he wasn’t content until he pushed his evil daughter to bask in the euphoria of our wealth.
And what did we get in exchange, she attempted to kill grandfather. Can you imagine what these lowlives can do? They do anything to get wealth, even if it means murdering someone like your grandfather,”Anna replied.
Adrian was impatient. He massaged the bridge between his eyes. He hates it when he’s asking a question about a certain thing and he is being given an explanation of something else entirely.
“What I asked you is, do you know if that family ever does us any favours? Just a word, yes or no” he thundered. He has completely forgotten that he was before his mother.
“None that I know of ” Anna answered and eyed him. What does he mean, that she’s going off track right?
“Okay” he answered and went upstairs. He was no longer happy. Ava Leon in prison. Sam Leon died. Grandfather in the hospital and his only friend Patricia Connor has also broken up with him.
He got into his room, took a warm bath. Still his heart was heavy and he was unhappy. Is it because Sam Leon is dead or is it because of the misunderstanding between himself and Patrick?
He soon finished bathing and put on his robe. He strolled downstairs to have dinner but while he passed by the corridor to grandfather’s room, he decided to step in.
The scene that he saw when grandfather was on the floor, in his own blood flashed through his memory. His body felt sore. Then Ava, standing with the dagger.
But for the first time since that incident with grandfather, he glanced at the direction where his grandfather pointed that day and squinted. He took a few steps closer and something baffled him.
He stared at the blood stained palm print on the wall and the window was opened by carefully removing a side of the glass. For the first time after the incident, Adrian paused and thought.
He was going to think of other possibilities when his phone chirped, and the hospital was calling him. Quickly he answered the phone “Sir, your grandfather just opened his eyes…”
Adrian walked out briskly. With excitement, he got into his room, slipped into jeans and put a shirt over it, and he stepped out.
Meanwhile, Richard received an anonymous email on his phone and checked it. It’s only a sentence that was written “Your father is dying and Ava is in jail”
Richard immediately called his wife and Anna said “grandfather is in the hospital and we didn’t want to disturb you…” she hadn’t finished her words when Richard hung up.
It then means the content of the anonymous email was true. His father was hospitalised and definitely Ava Leon might be in jail as well. What happened? Why hadn’t anyone said anything to him about what was happening at home?
He booked a flight that night and was returning to New Jersey. And fortunately enough, he wasn’t the only one coming to New Jersey, Two other people were also coming over in a private jet: