“I regret meeting you.” the young lady looked so grieved. “Both of you.”
June couldn’t understand the meaning of her words. “What are you talking about?”
“You and your sister. I cursed the day I met April Rivera. I shouldn’t have taken that job.” She cried. “I shouldn’t have taken this job.”
“You know my sister?” June asked with her eyes wide.
“Don’t act like you don’t know.” She snapped. “I tried to kill you. I was the nurse who your sister contracted to finish the job. I was the same nurse who killed Lucy’s father.”
June stepped back, suddenly wary.
“You are supposed to be in prison.” She stated. “We put you behind bars.”
“That’s the problem.” The young lady said. “I am supposed to be paying for my crimes. I should be in prison, and paying for every bad thing I have done in the name of a job.”
“But why does my innocent sister have to pay the price instead?” Her words shook June.
“Did you just say s-sister?”
“My poor sister who never did anything wrong in her entire life now pays for a crime she knows nothing about.”
“All because of April Rivera.”
June felt her world decimate as the young lady continued. “I was paid to kill you.” She said. “Miss April said I just needed to finish the job she started.”
“She gave me everything I needed to pass off as a nurse in the South City hospital. She told me everything and what I needed to do.”
“Unfortunately, I messed up and you didn’t die.” She let out a wry laugh. “I got on the run and Miss April found my sister. She kidnapped my twin sister and used her as bait to make me work for her again.”
“She promised to let her go only if I did her dirty jobs and for the meantime it was okay.”
“I did the jobs and she paid me handsomely. I was able to cater for myself and couldn’t wait for the day I’d find my twin sister and leave South City.”
A frown marred her face. “Miss April wouldn’t let me. She made me do all sorts of things and after I killed Lucy’s father, I had enough.”
“I asked her to release my sister or I will expose her and she said if I did that, my sister would die.”
“I didn’t doubt it. Miss April was capable of anything. She was too powerful.” The young lady looked like she was reliving a miserable past.
“I found Arnold at one of the clubs.” She recounted. “I was mad and searching for a way to recover my twin sister who was in the hands of Miss April.”
“I also wanted to escape South City. I soon figured he was a member of the underground and I took my chances.” A wry smile. “what better way to escape a demon than the devil himself?”
“Arnold promised to get my sister back after hearing my story. Under the condition that I work for him for three months.”
“Everything blew up when you sued Miss April in court.” A searing pain cut through her heart. “you can imagine my shock when I saw my twin sister admit to the numerous crimes and was sentenced to prison.”
June felt her body shake in anger at her sister and the woman before her. How could she let her sister suffer for her crimes?
“The stakes were higher with my sister convicted as a murderer and I couldn’t say a word.” Salty tears dripped from her eyes. “Miss April told me that I would end up in trouble if I showed my face around her or the authorities.”
“She had evidence of my crimes and could send me to prison too. I couldn’t go to prison. Not when my sister was already convicted.”
“I needed to save her and I needed my freedom to do that.” She stated, shaking in tears.
June did not buy her excuses. “And how had that gone for you?” She snapped at the young lady who suddenly couldn’t speak.
“It’s been over a year. You left your sister to rot in jail while you played devil’s advocate and expect me to buy your bullshit story?”
“It was supposed to be my last run.” She said. “Arnold promised to break her out of prison if I succeeded in my task that night.”
June felt her blood boil. “Well look at that. You failed in yet another task to kill someone, Arnold is nowhere to be found and you are still here. Your sister is still in prison and nothing’s changed.”
“If you cared about your sister a little bit as you claimed, you should have been there that day,” June growled, “You should have come out and saved her life. You shouldn’t have let her go to prison. You choose the coward’s way out and let her suffer for something she knows nothing about.”
“You can blame April all you want, but all I see is a self-centred woman who let her sister take the fall while hiding behind silly excuses.”
The lady stared June in the eye. “I will do anything to recover all the damages I’ve caused my sister.”
“I can’t do anything if I remain locked up here with no way to return to South City.”
June raised an eyebrow. “Is that what this is about? Do you want me to help you do the right thing? You want me to let you go so you can admit to your crimes in South City?”
The woman nodded. “I can’t leave here unless you speak to him. I can’t die now. That would doom my sister to being a prisoner forever.”
“How stupid do you think I am?” June asked, royally pissed. “You should be ashamed of yourself. You tried to kill me. How do I ascertain you are not lying to me?”
“I don’t care how low you think of me, miss. I’m only trying to right my wrongs. My sister does not deserve to spend the rest of her life in prison.”
“I should pay for my crimes.” She gritted, breathing heavily. “Please help me.”
June stared at the woman with a frown. “Am I supposed to trust you because you admitted your wrongdoings? What am I supposed to do with that?”
The woman pursed her lips. “I don’t expect you to trust me.” She said after a while. “I don’t have a large pool of choice now.”
“My life is doomed. I have done terrible things and might be a terrible human, but you must know one thing.”
“My sister is not. She’s the sweetest woman I’ve had the privilege of sharing a womb with and I can’t let her rot in there. I will set her free even if it’s the last thing I do. I have to do right by her.”
June left the prison with a lot of things on her mind. That night, she called Lucy and asked her to run a background check on the young lady who was convicted as an accomplice to her father’s murder.
June was shocked to find she was indeed a twin. According to the findings, they were left in front of an orphanage as young children. The young girls were split around homes and eventually ended up on the streets catering for themselves.
As she went through the documents sent to her mail, she felt conflicted and wondered about the next step moving forward.