GAMMA ADONAI

Chapter 20

BALQIS'S POV

"Alright, enough with the chatter light out now"

I didn't sleep; I was still in the bloody dress, reminiscing about how my life had come to this.

From being a stripper — to being cheated — sleeping with my ex's best friend — his death — and everything until now, I thought having Riot is enough.

Now, I have to share a cell with these disgusting she-wolves that stink so much

"Riot..." I whimper aloud, as I thought of how my son would be doing right now without mommy by his side.

Tears flowed from my eyes, and I couldn't keep them in when the cellmates yelled. "Keep your tone down, b***h. You shouldn't have killed an innocent girl"

"I didn't kill her..." I sobbed still in the darkness.

Since my arrest, nothing was normal; everyone eyed me like I was a dangerous animal that should be killed, and even the police officers didn't want to listen to my explanation.

Before I was thrown into the cell, I'd heard the female police woman received a call from a certain Mrs Clinton, who I know to be none other than Nirvana, since Clinton was the Alpha family surname.

After that call, I was brought into this brutal cell with hardened criminals, and since I entered, the women have been making fun of me, hating on me, and cursing me.

I don't know what time it is, but I was sure that time had gone really far due to the snoring from my cellmates.

I guess I have to relax and accept my fate now... Life hates me, and that's the fact. Fate despise me— that's the truth.

I stopped whimpering, lay my back to the hard cement floor, perhaps a little sleep would prepare me against tomorrow, but that stinging pain activated again.

"Hun!!!" The burn of it travels deeper into my blood vessels just like I felt at the party before this nightmare.

I need no one to tell me, he must be around again, but obviously not coming to save me.

"Hey, murderer," one of the cell inmates' voices jerked me out of my comfort zone, and I jerked up.

The woman had sat up, perhaps sleepwalking then stopped before me at the corner where I was. "Are you deaf?"

"Ye...Yes ma'am?"

She yawned, I could see her still sleepy face due to the dim lights, then she bent down. "Hun... there you are?"

"y..yes?" I was confused about her attitude. Is she blind or still sleepwalking?

"He never left you" she suddenly said and yawned again.

I was taken aback. What sort of woman is this on a bad day like this?

"What are you talking about?"

She kicked the wall angrily. "b***h don't you get me! He never abandoned you, and he feels more sad than you're feeling right now"

"Yes...But who?"

She spat to my side. "I like you"

Like me? Out of nowhere? "Ma... Ma'am? Did you need help?"

"Stop blaming him and get sleep!" she snapped, finally, and stumbled away to the stinking toilet.

The sight of her spit made me feel nauseated, but she'd already gone into the toilet, so I stood up from the ground to move to another corner.

"She's right" Another woman said as I passed her side. "Gwendolyn has psychic abilities. Don't take her words for granted"

My heart thumped. A psychic wolf?. I've only heard about those rare types of wolves once and I never expected to find one here.

Silently, without replying to the woman, I curled up in another corner, and my heavy eyelids were almost closing before Gwendolyn came back and sank into her steel bed.

What a life. Perhaps I'll ask the meaning of he visions tomorrow.

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"Talk to me, Balqis!" The female police officer yelled for the umpteenth time. "Why did you kill that small girl?"

I just sat there, not reacting to anything because I knew they wouldn't believe me, no matter how much I yelled.

The woman became increasingly frustrated by my silence and stomped out madly, only to come back with a lanky police officer.

The lanky one growled at me. "Did you want your beautiful face ruined?"

"Only if I were the killer," I told them again, my heart bleeding madly.

I hate this kind of situation. I'd prefer being poor and broke to being involved in a criminal case.

But here I am charged with no simple criminal case but Murder.

My phone was brought and I was forced to unlock it.

The woman clicked on the screen furiously, then looked at me.

"I told you" I scoffed sadly. "Why would I kill an innocent girl when I had a son of my own?"

She faced me and slapped me sharply. "f**k you and your lies!"

"What!!" I cried in frustration. "Did you want me to admit what I didn't do?"

"What is this!!!" she slammed to the table before me, and I looked down painfully to see the image of the girl — Lara, like it was taken by a paparazzi.

My eyes churned with tears, shards of defeat and helplessness marring my soul.

No doubts — Nirvana and Keiran and whoever has a hand in this has completely gone nuts!!

"You've been tailing the innocent girl for a while!"

"I didn't..."

"Take her to a solitary cell," The lanky one commanded. "Hardened criminals like her deserve hard punishment"

The woman pulled me up. "Come with me"

" I didn't do it..." I cried, refusing to move but I was dragged out anyway towards a darker cell past the one I slept last night.

I was dumped in there unceremoniously, breaking a bone or two in the process.

Tears, Laughter, and Goosebumps filled my eyes. I felt lost and alone in this world of deceit.

I hate life. I hate my parents for bringing me here.

I hate everything!!

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I recognized the sound of that heel. 'Click-clack'

The footstep stood before my cell, and I heard a bag open before an arrogant and sophisticated voice... "Buy yourself a cup of coffee, officer"

Then the rough sound of paper followed.

That was Nirvana!

My heart seized, and I rushed to my feet through the darkness, running towards the gate which provided the only illumination.

The officer left, and she looked up with a smile. "How did you like the new accommodation, sister?"

"Nirvana you b***h!!" I reached out through the small bars but my hand was stuck. "What did I do this time, why did you frame me!!"

Her wicked smile melted into a shameless smirk. "Because you're the easiest target, my sister. You've been serving me all your life. This is not too bad...."

"You're mad!" I cried. "I tried to stay away and take care of my son alone. I tried my fuckin best to grow up alone despite what you and your mum did... why did you have to come to this level, Nirv? Why!!"

"That is the reason why I hate you!! Keiran wanted this to be pushed onto another person, but I chose you because I want to crush that ego!! I want to crush you, Balqis"

I fell down on my knees, crying painfully my chest hurt, and I could hear her whimpers too as she continued... "Balqis you're too good. You can do everything all alone. I can't"

"But I'm not to blame!!!" I yelled. "Born from the same father, but different mother, Nirv please! I have to go back to Riot!"

She sniffed hard and cleaned her face. "You'll be fine Balqis, like you've always been. Mr Mage, our neighbor had taken Riot in. You don't have to..."

"Beep. Beep. Beeeep" We both heard the emergency siren. Then a loudspeaker. "All inmates should be evacuated. A fire broke out!"

"s**t!!" Nirvana screamed and ran away.

Smoke filled everywhere, and the officers were running around, yelling and coughing.

It all happened too fast, and the last thing I saw was someone at the cell entrance, trying to break in, wearing a mask.

I don't know who but immediately he was inside, the bite mark activated!

That was undeniably him...

"I'm here.. Balqis I'm here"