by Rachel Rae
"Still lying!!! He said your name!! He said it was your car before he died!!! Evidence from your tire proves it was your SUV that ran him over!!!"
"Believe me, please!!! I didn't run him over!!!" I cried out.
"It's pretty hard to believe anything you say since you have lied this entire time!! The game while well played is over you will be charged with murder and attempted murder and I hope they give you life in prison for all the hurt you've caused to these families. Officer Paige..."
"Mrs. Wallace stand up for me, please? You have the right to remain silent, anything you do or say will be held against you in the court of law..."
"I didn't kill anyone!!!" I cried out. "Call my lawyer I didn't do any of this!!! Please, somebody!!!
SIX MONTHS LATER....
I stood before Judge Diane Graham about to face my sentencing, they painted me to be an oversexed money hungry bitch that didn't care about my kids well-being or my husband. The whole case made it seem like I was a bad person and if they didn't prosecute me to the maximum I would find someone else and do the same thing to them which was the furthest thing from the truth. My lawyer asked me if I wanted to take the stand but I declined I would do nothing but bring more drama to my life. As the judge called my name and asked me to stand I turned my head slightly towards the crowd and started to cry. I leaned over to my lawyer and tried to whisper, "They have my got damn kids in her! They shouldn't see me like this please!" He tried to calm me down but the more he spoke the angrier I got and ignored his request to me to keep quiet.
"Judge?!?!" I yelled out. "I know what I'm being accused of... But please ask them to get my got damn kids out of here!!! I love them too much for them to see me like this!!! Get my kids out of here!!" I cried and screamed all at once. I fell to the floor crying repeating the question, I can't remember what was said but I do remember them helping me into a chair and realizing my kids had indeed left the courtroom.
"Now that everyone is back in order maybe we can proceed with the ruling. Has the jury came to a conclusion?"
"Yes, we have your honor... In the case regarding Sebastian Wallace we the jury have found her guilty and in the case regarding Roberto Hernandez we the jury also find her guilty." the one lady said speaking for herself and the other 11 people.
"Bailiff please hand that to me and the jury can be dismissed."
She took the paper from the court officer looked at it then turned her attention to me. "These type of cases hurt me, to see a wife and a mother ruin her whole life over penis and money is revolting. Not only have you ruined your life but the lives of your children, your husbands, and Mr. Hernandez and his family. They say money is the root of all evil but I beg to differ, I believe the evil was and is already embedded into a person it's just the money that brings the evil out. With that being said, I sentence you to life in prison with no possibility of parole. The court is adjourned." she said banging her gavel.
Like that my life was over and there was nothing I could do about it. My babies, my home, my lifestyle everything was gone. I could appeal but who would believe me? Who would believe that I didn't run over Roberto? How come they didn't believe me why would I admit to the poisoning and not to killing someone? I walked out that courtroom with my head held high and my chest out, sometime later I would read articles saying I was cocky and what have you but what could I do about it?
I sat in jail for about 3 months before I made up my mind, I wanted freedom from this hell. I couldn't take being in here anymore. After I jotted down all that I wanted to say I stood up in my cell with my heart racing. I tied two bananas together then tied them as high as I could on the cell bars. I stuck my hand out clinching hold to a mirror making sure no one was coming, I climbed on the bars held on tight with my left arm then tying the bandannas around my neck with the right.
"Stace?" I heard my cellmate ask. "What are you doing up there get down!"
"I can't... I'm the one that can control my destiny."
Then I let go....
Chapter TEN
SEBASTIAN:
For the first time in a long time, I feel like I'm finally free like I could breathe without looking over my shoulder. I felt bad at first for the kids because I know they loved their mother but they also know that if she loved them the way she said she did she wouldn't have done anything to hurt them so bad. They all pretty much move as if she never existed now and I can't blame them. I still go to work but not as often I decided to let my money work for me and besides that, the one thing that Stacey did teach me is to pay more attention to my wife. I think I'm doing a pretty good job at that now…
"Mary?? Can you come here for a minute?" I called out.
"Sure husband what can I do for you?" she asked walking in wearing nothing but her wedding band and a charm bracelet I just bought her the other day.
"Nothing wife, I just wanted to see you walk in here looking as beautiful as can be."
"Well you're holding up the process babe, you know the Jared the photographer will be here to take our pictures any minute now, did you call your mom and Mike?" she asked walking away towards the bathroom.
"Yes, babe." I smiled.
"Anndd??"
"And what??"
"Baassssh, are they on their way?" she sung so sweetly.
But before I could answer the doorbell rang, "That should be them now." I said getting off the bed walking swiftly out the room down the stairs through the foyer to the front door. I opened the door only to be greeted by a man in a suit and two uniformed cops.
"Mr. Wallace?" the man in the suit asked.
"That is me, can you sign right here please?" he asked holding out a clipboard with an envelope on it.
"What is this regarding?" I asked signing the form.
"Place your thumb here please then place it right next to where you signed." he said opening up an ink pad then holding it out.
I did what I was asked and looked behind them watching my brother and mother walk up the walkway.
"Sebastian baby what's going on?" my mother asked slightly running up to the door.
"One-second mom," I said turning my attention back to the man and the two officers.
"Thank you, Mr. Wallace, have a good day."
He handed me two envelopes and the three of them disappeared.
"What was that all about?" Mike asked me putting his left arm around my shoulders.
"I don't know but I guess I'm about to find out," I said opening up one of the envelopes. And reading it to myself. I stopped reading then looked at my mother that was standing on her tippy toes trying to read the letter. "Mom if you don't mind could you go upstairs and help the kids finish getting ready? Mary will be out the shower in a second to help you."
"Sure but what does the letter say?"
"Mom please?" I said in a low tone.
She didn't answer me she just turned around and made her way up the stairs.
"Mike come with me."
We walked quietly to the guest house where we went in shut the door then locked it. I poured him a glass of Apple Crown with ice and did the same for myself then sat at the bar.
"Well???" Mike said taking a sip from the glass.
"The letter is from Stacey," I said taking a gulp from my glass.
My brother didn't say anything he just stayed quiet and while taking another drink, I opened it back up and begin to read it:
“If you are reading this that means that your plan has come into play and I have taken hold of my life I finally built up enough courage to do what I have to do for myself. Since we were 17 my life has been always to be in your shadow and now I'm free from it but there is no need to dwell on that because the past is the past and that is where I will remain. My last and finale request from you is simple, tell my children to never forget about me and that I loved them deeply even though at times my actions never showed that. Besides the hurt I brought to our family I never wanted any of this to happen and even though I know you won't believe it now I DID NOT kill Ro
berto. Please if you have an ounce of sympathy left for me please tell my kids that their mother is not as bad as they think I am. Again I'm sorry for any hurt or pain I may have caused or family but know that I truly did love you all...
Stacey/Mom.
After I read the letter out loud I put it down and opened the second envelope, in it was a check in the amount of 32 million dollars.
"Got damn!!!" Mike yelled out. "I know I ain't that fucked up yet, am I reading that shit right? Where that money come from?"
"Stacey's life insurance policy, I guess she really did kill herself." I chuckled to myself walking to the fireplace and lighting it.
"Say, man, I know you ain't about to burn that check," Mike asked walking behind me.
"No Mike damn how stupid do you think I am? I'm burning the letter and the check, that's for you and mama to split. 16 for you and 16 for her."
"You serious man??" he asked snatching the check out my hands.
"Yeah, I mean you earned that shit. For years I tried to figure out how I could get rid of her ass without her taking half my shit and my kids you helped me out and I appreciate that you did exactly what I asked you to do leaving nothing behind. How were you able to take the car and have it back at the house without being noticed anyway?"
"I came over and put a little something in her drink knocked her ass, she was expecting Roberto she left a plate out for him and everything I knew it was laced with something but I just souped it up a little more putting more eye drops in the pasta she made. I hid out until after he ate you shoulda seen that boy running out here when he started feeling that shit." he laughed.
I started laughing with him, "Classic."
"The fool ran right past his car, that's when I put on some gloves and her pink hoodie and jumped in her shit, he made it easy for me, dude was just laying down in the street. Shit, she fucked over you disrespecting you in your house and shit she got exactly what was coming her way. I didn't expect her to kill herself but shit..."
"Yep look what you got out of it bro." I smiled placing the letter in the fire.
"Appreciate that shit man, this is really gone help me and moms out allot."
"Blood money gang??" I asked dapping him up.
"Hell yeah, blood money gang!!" He smiled.
"Now let's go take these family pictures then go deposit this check." he laughed.
We walked out the guest house towards the big house where Jared was setting up and everyone was already sitting in their positions waiting for Mike and I. We took our positions beside both ends of the couch when Jared said: "Alright at the count of three everybody say cheese."
"I got something different, at the count of three everybody yell out MONEY!!!" I smiled.
"Alright family, 1..2..3..." Jared said.
"MONNNEEEYYY!!!!!"
PART 2
GREED
Chapter ELEVEN
Detective Brown:
I was sipping my cup of coffee when someone started knocking at my office door, "Come in" I responded quickly wasting a little bit on my white collar shirt.
"Hey, I have something for you," Paige said sticking her head in through the door.
"Yeah well, what is it?" I asked getting a couple of tissues wiping my chest where the spilled coffee was.
"Do you remember that case some months back with that dude Sebastian and his wife Stacey?"
"Of course I do what's up?"
"Well she sent you a letter and you might want to read this."
I held my hand out reaching for the letter opened it and read a few lines. "Shut the door," I said pausing from the letter then reading it out loud.
"If you are reading this then know that I am already dead, I know I lied to you from the beginning but I already knew that when I actually started telling you the truth it fell on deaf ears. At this time all I'm asking you is to reopen my case Sebastian and Mike ARE NOT who you think they are, they are a product of what has happened to me. I've lost everything so it isn't much else I could ever lose, when I told you Sebastian would take my kids and leave me out in the cold that was true and rather you want to believe it or not detective you have been played. Please take into consideration to what I'm saying, there is more to this family than what it appears on the surface, do not be fooled by their ways Sebastian is dirty so is Mike and so is their mom! Yes, I poisoned Sebastian and Roberto but it was all for the sake of getting away. To reopen this case I know you need proof, I know my word means nothing but it would allow me to put some color in the gray areas that would be great. I knew that Sebastian and Mike were going to set me up it was just a matter of time. When I told you that Mike and I were in love that wasn't a lie... We were... Mike and Sebastian are nothing less than a Cain and Abel story for the present. Watch out for them and know that your department will not be too far away for what's about to happen. My hopes are only that you don't stay dumb for too much longer. Please believe what I'm saying for the sake of my children and my name.
-Stacey
I scratched the right side of my head trying to put pieces together then looked up at Paige.
"Why are you looking like that Paige?"
"I don't know why you're asking me shit, you never consult me on anything else you do."
"Paige we keep the professional life professional and the personal life personal," I said standing walking from behind my desk towards her attempting to put my hands on her waist.
"STOP." Paige said aggressively, "Instead of screwing with me YOU need to take what you have and find out what you can get out of this shit, it sounds like you convinced the wrong person." she said slapping the letter on my chest.
"HMM. Well, a drunk man speaks a sober heart." I said kissing her neck.
"And a dead man or in this case should I say a dead woman tells no tales, you should reopen the case."
"Psssttt," I said sitting back in my chair so hard it caused me to roll backward. "There isn't enough evidence to prove anything wrong between those twins and their mother. Besides she's lying." I said putting my hands behind my head raring back in the chair.
"Is she now? Well if you're asking my opinion..." she started before I interrupted.
"I'm not," I responded quickly not raising my voice but in a matter of fact tone.
"You know what Mr. Brown??"
"Did you just call me Mr. Brown?"
"Yes I fuckin did and the way I got damn see it is you either look at this shit like you got another got damn notch on yo fuckin belt or you take this shit seriously and if she took the got damn time out for her to tell you what she thought was going on from beyond the mother fucking grave the fucking least yo ass could do is do what is asked which is not to presume anyone guilty!!!"
Paige walked out my office door and slammed it but I still held a smile on my face, maybe it was to play it off at first but the more I thought about the letter and about what Paige had said the more I begin to think that maybe she was right. I covered both eyes with the palms of my hands yelled out ‘SHITTT!!!!’ then picked up my landline phone. Lieutenant, I want to reopen a case....
Chapter TWELVE
MARY:
After the pictures I kept quiet, hearing what I heard earlier, I never knew what Sebastian and Mike would be capable of I guess solidifying it with my own ears caused me to wake up. Sebastian told me when we got married that the one thing that he would never do was hide anything from me, I can honestly feel that he never had until now. I had every key to the houses and I had access to everything which I soon found out was not a good thing. When Jared came to our house to take the pictures I already knew he only had an hour because he had other clients that day so we didn't have time to waste.
"Where the hell are those boys Mary? You are supposed to have a handle on all this here... The picture guy is here and them two, looking like they daddy, God rest his soul, country apple asses ain't here?? If you tend to carry on our name you must do what you have to do to keep Sebastian punctual at all times none of this shit here, this is emba
rrassing"
If I knew Sebastian like I think I knew him he was in the guest house with Mike but before I even had a chance to put on my house shoes and start that way his Momma grabbed my arm and pulled me close to her, "If you gone play the game baby play the game, this shit ain't checkers its chess and I'm already 3 steps ahead of you, if you think you will overtop me you are sadly mistaking."
I looked down at her grasp she had on my arm then back at her face.
"All this over the fact that I'm going to go check on my husband your son?"
"I know your kind little girl and YOU ain't no different, you just like the little wench that tried to kill my boy I see right through yo ass and if you ain't careful...”
I snatched my arm away from her and proceeded to out the kitchen through the front door. My gut told me something wasn't right I could feel it but I ignored it and walked over to the guest house. I stuck the key into the door turned it to the right unlocking it and slowly opened it up, that's when I heard my husband reading what seemed to be the end of a letter.
"Reopen this case I know you need proof, I know my word means nothing but if you would allow me to put some color in the gray areas that would be great. I knew that Sebastian and Mike were going to set me up it was just a matter of time. When I told you that Mike and I were in love that wasn't a lie... We were... Mike and Sebastian are nothing less than a Cain and Abel story for the present. Watch out for them and know that your department will not be too far away for what's about to happen. My hopes are only that you don't stay dumb for too much longer. Please believe what I'm saying for the sake of my children and my name."
I heard as Sebastian pretty much told Mike that he had his hand in his ex-wife suicide and Roberto's murder. I stood close by the door with it still slightly cracked open and listen to what they were saying. When I heard Mike confess to actually killing Roberto I covered my mouth and crept out the door backwards and quietly. I couldn't believe what I was hearing, "How could they?" I said in a whisper with my hand still covering my mouth.