Kamila's POV
"Hi,"
She didn't look like she would hurt me. I told myself to relax but could not. This stranger is pointing a short knife at me.
"Relax madam. Why are you here?" He dropped her hands and squatted before me.
"I..." I hesitated. Who is she to ask me why I am here? I should be able to ask why she is here too. "I don't know."
"no, " she shook her head. "You were brought here about a week ago. Concerning this Kam's case. You should have thought of what brought you here."
I was shocked at how much she knew. "Who are you? And why are you here if you know all these?"
She laughed. " You're being protective of your identity in a cell where you know not what would be done to you in the next minute. Are you kidding me?"
She turned to Damien and asked. "Are you also going to protect yourself seeing you are as weak as almost dead?"
He didn't even budge.
"Poor boy. He's been here for two weeks now." She stood up in obvious frustration stamping her feet harshly on the ground. "What am I going to do with these two weak humans now."
"Listen up guys" she bent again to whisper. "I know the way out of here and I want us to be out before tomorrow morning. If Paige receives her sentence today, Brianne will not hesitate to wipe us all out tonight. We need to be a team. I'm begging now okay?"
I was still doubtful but Damien spoke almost immediately.
"Do you work for him too?"
"Okay, I'll start my introduction then." She suddenly looked like a repentant sinner making her way to freedom as slow as she could.
"I am Karen. I am Brianne's secretary. His PA actually." she paused. " I was done with him. Or let's say I got tired of everything we did together and I wanted out but he said no. He didn't want me to go and so he kidnapped me while I tried to run. They got me on my way to the airport. Who is going next?"
"You should know me then." Damien groaned. "I was Brianne's fake son. "
"I know you," she said. "We just never met face to face. He kept you away as much as he could."
"Hm, he did," Damien responded. "I was also about to run. I didn't want to be a part of his plan again. He wanted to use me to get all of Jude Kam's properties when he finally gets rid of his family and I wasn't going to be a part of that and so he kept me here." he stopped.
"Wow," I winced, realizing it was my turn. " I am Kamila, Paige's lawyer. I am supposed to be defending her in court today."
"No wonder," Karen commented.
"I had planned for the worst before Brianne caught me. I expected his worst. And I'm glad I prepared. His boys did not know that I knew all the nooks and crannies of this house. But I know that once they tell him that they have kept me here. He will ask them to take me somewhere else. We need to leave as soon as possible. I have this knife here..."
"I would cut off your..." She untied the rope used to tie my feet. "Please we need to work smart. I have a bus waiting for me at the junction of this estate. I made a ride wait for standby at the gate of all of Brainne's estates because I knew he would have me locked up in one of the. And I know the easiest way out of here. We need to work smart and quietly. Please, This might be our only hope to leave again."
We stood unchained, free but weak and wondered while she even thought of escaping with us.
Must be an Angel.
"Thank you Karen" we echoed as if planned.
"Let's go." She led the chain, while I prayed that God made this work.
God, for Kyle, Paige, Damien, and Karen, please have mercy on me and make this work.
*Esther's POV*
"Miss Debby, this thing is not working. I pray her with you every day get back to my room and am tempted to do the same thing I had sworn to leave. By now, God should hate me for wasting his precious time."
She had this smile on her face when I entered that graduated into worry as soon as I shut my mouth. I had expected this, disappointment. Miss Debby had dedicated her time to me the past few days, counseling teaching the word, and praying with me but nothing has changed and hypocrisy is one thing I have grown to hate. Wasn't she the one who gave me this scripture? That the soul that covers his sins will die. Death, that's the last thing I want for myself right now because where I'm going to spend eternity in this state is not the most palatable place to be.
"You roommates are lesbians too?"
"Not really. My bunkie is my boyfriend and she doesn't want to hear about my change. It's just not working for the both of us."
"Wow." She sighed.
"I'm confused, Miss Debby. I just feel like I cannot change. Maybe this is who ..."
"Who you are called to be?" She questioned.
"Is there any calling like this?"
"No, you should ask yourself that." she shifted in her chair. " You let the devil plant lies into your head. Instead of countering it with God's word of truth, you proclaim the devil's lies over yourself and live in it. Why then wouldn't you be confused?"
"Ma i..."
"You and I both know that what you are doing is wrong so how did "calling" get into the picture, Esther?"
"I don't know i just don't think I can ever be free. Maybe..."
She sighed interrupting me. She reached into her locker brought out a book and began to read to me:
" But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness.... Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn't worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused.
Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.
So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other's bodies. They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen. That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires.
Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.
Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip.
They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents. They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy. They know God's justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too."
She was preaching again. t it's different this time. It felt like I had never heard the bible in this way before. It felt new. I believed every word and I felt my heart already telling me what I was and why I was failing.
"Romans 1," I said to her.
"You're right. Romans 1:18-32. I'm glad you know the word."
"I knew the word. Unfortunately..."
"So what do you think about what I have just read?"
"I have become..." It's hard to say. " so distant from God that he left me to my folly since I would not listen to him. I established my truth which contradicts his just so I could comfortably live in sin. And I feel like I can't change because I have not acknowledged Him. Seems he's the only can that can help me out of this..."
Wow... I'm preaching...
To myself! Oh my God!