Chapter 20 - Chapter 19

# Chapter 19
VUSI

"Are you sure about this?" Warder Meiring asks, leaning back against the door with his arms crossed, a folded newspaper in his hand.

"Have I been wrong before?" I ask, seated on my bed, a tattered copy of Dune in my hand.

"Booi confessed to the murders of those girls?"

"You know the inmates talk to each other through the walls. They're thin fucking walls."

"Jissie… Adonis has always professed his innocence."

I stay silent while he pinches the bridge of his nose.

"They'll want to review the evidence again, but the conviction against Adonis is likely to stick unless they find DNA linking Booi."

"Booi still hasn't made an official confession."

The look he gives me is comical. "You know I have to move forward with this information, even if it turns out to be nothing more than whispers between inmates. Adonis has already spent the better part of a decade behind bars." He falls silent before muttering, "Such a clusterfuck," under his breath. Then, as if he remembers the deal, he unfolds his arms and hands me the newspaper.

I place the tattered book down beside me and take it off him, wasting no time flipping through the pages until I find her photograph.

"Kyk hier, it's a bad idea to get attached to a girl, Hadebe. You know no one gets their happy ending in here."

"Spare me the lecture, will you? I already know—" I fall silent, looking up at the TV.

Warder Meiring walks deeper into the small space. "They found another body early this morning, hanging by its feet from the suspension bridge near the old fruit-canning factory. She had been decapitated."

I whip my head in his direction. "Fourth victim?"