Page 98 of Shattered Pieces

I hated it. I understood, but I couldn’t imagine sleeping with random people as bribery or blackmail, especially ones that I didn’t find attractive.

“What’s going on?” Jamie asked as she appeared beside me, and I shrugged.

“Nothing to worry about. How are the newbies?”

“They seem okay. You might have gotten lucky,” she answered, stealing a grape off my tray before walking back to the newbies.

I headed to the laundry room with Jamie, Tilly, and the newbies once we were done eating, Lexi joining us half an hour later. She gave me a small nod on her way past to the dryers, letting me know it was handled.

“Guard will cause the diversion in an hour. Maxwell’s girls will cover the cameras, and we got lucky because apparently Anderson has asked to shower early tonight out of concern,” Lexi murmured, kissing my temple. “You’re a genius, babe.”

“Don’t thank me yet. All it takes is for one thing to not line up on time and the whole thing fails,” I warned, wiping at my face. “Did you just kiss me with dick lips?”

“No. Pretty sure there’s still cum leaking out of my ass though,” she smirked, and I scrunched my nose.

“You let him go raw?”

“He’d never fuck an inmate’s pussy without a condom and risk a pregnancy, but the ass is free game,” she said dryly, blowing Jamie a kiss when she caught her watching us.

“She wants to know what’s going on,” I said as I folded a shirt.

“We’ll tell her tonight,” she replied before walking off to get to work.

Vines was staring at us now, definitely catching onto the fact something was happening, and it made me wonder if Lexi was right and she was the spy after all.

She seemed to be way too curious about what we were doing.

“Bryant, Donovan, you’re with me,” the creep said as he appeared fifty minutes later, excusing us from our job.

Most of the girls didn’t bat an eye at it, but Jamie and Vines were straight up staring as we left the laundry room.

“Give it ten minutes,” he said under his breath as he escorted us to the hallway, and Lexi huffed.

“You’d better not fuck it up.”

He grumbled but didn’t argue, leading us to the one spot in the hallway that had a blindspot.

“I’m only giving you a couple of minutes, so be fast,” he warned before walking off to the security room, and we counted out the minutes until Maxwell’s girls tossed towels over the camera so we could head into the bathroom unseen.

We stepped inside and found Anderson showering alone, her face paling when she noticed us.

“Bryant, I⁠—”

Lexi motioned for me to drag her out, so I walked over and grabbed her hair, yanking her out and forcing her to kneel on the cold floor at Lexi’s feet.

“You know why I’m here,” Lexi murmured, grabbing Anderson’s chin hard as she bent down to her level. “What the fuck have I told you?”

“I had no choice!” she hissed, her eyes flicking to the door in hope of someone coming to save her. “Tina⁠—”

“I don’t give a fuck what Grovers wants. No drugs in my fucking prison,” Lexi spat, letting her go and giving me a nod to get on with it. My fist hit Anderson’s head and sent her sprawling out on the floor, and I threw punch after punch at her until Lexi was literally dragging me off her.

“Damn, babe. Cool it. We don’t need her dead, and our time’s up. We need to go,” she chuckled, giving me two seconds to wash the blood from my knuckles before leaving.

The girls in the hallway removed the towels from the cameras once we were gone, and we headed straight back to the laundry room to get back to work, hoping no one would notice Anderson for a while. My knuckles were red, but Anderson wouldn’t rat on us in fear of Archer, so I was pretty safe.

It took an hour for the alarm to blare through the building, all of us being locked in while the situation was assessed. Miss Jarvis checked off our names to make sure we were all accounted for, then she left, keeping us locked in.

“What the fuck is it now?” one of the other girls groaned, and Lexi sighed.