Federal Prisoner, Maya Restin was awaiting transfer to the Women's Federal Prison in southern California... She had been convicted of 19 counts of first degree murder and was facing 20 years to Life in prison..
She had been spared the Death Penalty she richly deserved because she had turned States evidence in on all of her employers and they now all sat behind bars themselves.
.
She represented herself with help from her court appointed Attorney..
They proffered the deal to Assistant United States Attorney Karla Williams
who in return for her turning in her employers , didn't go for the Death Penalty , but instead went for 20 Years to Life in the Women's Federal Prison in Southern California.
If Maya was ever paroled from her Federal sentence...She owed the State of Pennsylvania a life sentence...Having been convicted of killing James Logan.
ADA Rockland Cambridge thought she deserved the Death Penalty , but accepted the life sentence out of respect for Beverly West, the daughter of the woman he loved..Alfreda..
Surprisingly enough, Maya was in good spirits...The Feds couldn't touch either of her off shore accounts and she'd have plenty of money on her books...She wouldn't want for anything..
She was surprised when she was told she had not one, but three visitors....
She was escorted to the "Day Room" in the holding facility where prisoners usually met with Attorneys or Family....and was surprised to see, well ,Three Attorneys..who were kind of like family!
Beverly West-East
Kayla Bennett-St. Jacques
And Jasmine Coley...
''Well, I never expected to see you guys ever again.."said Maya, smiling...
''Well we heard you're being shipped out in two days and we don't know when we'll see you again, so we thought we should visit you one last time.."said Jazzy.
"When you'll see me again?You probably will never see me again...I'm going to California to serve a life sentence..If by chance I get paroled...and that won't be likely for twenty years...I still have to serve Life here in Pennsylvania..."said Maya..
"You seem to have uh accepted your fate.."said Beverly..
Maya shrugged her shoulders....
"Yeah well, what are you gonna do? I knew that this might all come crashing down around my feet someday...I got too comfortable doing this and I got careless...What can I say?" sighed Maya...
''We brought food, you hungry?" said Kayla..
There was cheeseburgers
Hot Dogs, French Fries
Onion Rings
and Cokes...
This Mass Killer, Maya Restin, who had killed almost 50 people in her lifetime shed a few tears....These girls had shown her real love and friendship...perhaps more than she'd ever shown them.. "Why are you guys here? You know what I am, what I've done...Why would you even want to have anything to do with me?" asked a now tearful Maya..
"Nobody is as bad as the worst thing or things they've done.."said Beverly..
''We choose to remember you as the Maya we all knew and loved.. The annoying, self centered
Ghetto fabulous princess." said Jazzy, laughing...
"Yeah....and not focus on the negatives.." said Kayla..
"Gee, tell me how you really feel girls!" laughed Maya..
They all laughed loudly and heartily as they chowed down on the food..
"Wow, Hot Dogs from Jakes...Cheeseburgers and Fries and these onion rings...God...I'm gonna miss these." she said..
"You've got money on your books...You can order good stuff from the local area."said Jazzy.
''Yeah"said Beverly...
"Yeah Maybe...It won't be as good as this.. This is hometown goodness! Heyyy uh, when I get settled...Perhaps you guys could write me...Send me photos...You know, your first kids, Anniversaries, New Jobs, what have you.." said Maya.
''Sure"said Kayla.
"Of course." said Jazzy.
"Certainly" said Beverly...
They finished eating.....
II-
"I see Raylene didn't make the trip...Guess she's still mad at me huh? I can't say that I blame her...I inadvertedly got her into this...killing James Logan...He was a dog....The way he was leering at you girls...Believe me, it took very little if any persuasion to seduce him...He found out who I was and was Blackmailing me. Other than that he'd of still been alive...And that big mouth Housekeeper blabbing to Lt. Tragg about Raylene and James arguing...That's what got Raylene arrested in the first place..I truly regretted killing James Logan, I did, but I felt nothing at all when I dropped Hortense over the side of the building."said Maya, who suddenly realized she had said too much...She had confessed to a murder she hadn't been charged with..
"Forget it...Your secret is safe with us...You have enough trouble already."said Beverly...
"I've gotten too non chalant about killing people!!!..After I flunked out of law school, I Was so embarrassed, so hurt...My family didn't want anything to do with me.. The whole time you knew me I was always profiling, always throwing my pedigree in all of your faces...and here I was, a failure...I enlisted in the Army and got as far away from here as I could... In the Army, I found out I was good at shooting...A Marksman...I was so good, I even taught classes... I became a Ranger...With the rank of Captain and went to Iraq as a sniper... The first time I killed a man it bothered me...It bothered me a lot...but after I'd killed two or three more, it no longer bothered me...I didn't know these people...They were just distant targets... After the Army...I settled into life in Atlanta...I was a Para-legal..I worked for a wonderful lawyer...He was married.
I fell for him hard and he for me...We made crazy love in his office
In his apartment...
In Hotel and Motel rooms and then...His wife discovered us.. He had to let me go...and there I was, jobless... I met one of his clients...A Mobster...We got to talking...He said that he saw my Marksmanship awards from the Army on my desk the last time he was in the office....He asked me how would I like to make a lot of money fast.... I was in..I killed my first man in Atlanta...I didn't know him...I shot him from 200 feet..never even saw his face.. This guy paid me 100 large and he refferred me to several people he knew...and the jobs kept coming, Not just in Atlanta, but everywhere, Denver, New Orleans, Miami, L.A. and my price got higher and my money got longer...Soon I had two off shore accounts...and could afford the nice things I always coveted. My thing was, as long as I didn't know them, didn't know their wives, girlfriends, siblings or kids...and shot them from a distance...I didn't care.... James Logan, was the first person I ever killed that I kinda knew...and from close range..and I didn't want to kill him...You saw that body he had on him girrrrlll and he had a nice sized penis and knew how to use it...but he knew too much about me and was threatening to spoil the real reason I was here..To KIll Carl Vansputin.. I got paid 2.5 million for that hit. I coudn't let James Logan ruin my money! After he screwed my brains out by the pool...He had the nerve to tell me how much money he wanted me to pay him for his silence....I bashed his head in then....I didn't regret it...slept like a baby that night"said Maya as non chalantly as if she was talking about buying drapes...
Kayla looked at her with horror.. Maya really was a monster...she thought!!!!
Jazzy would tell Bev and Kayla later that hearing Maya talk about murder so non-chalantly gave her a chill down her spine..
''You never know what you'd do if you were desperate."said Maya.
''How desperate were you Maya? Did you just want to throw in our faces again, how much money you have? How successful you were despite dropping out and us becoming Attorneys? We all wanted to make a difference in the world...It wasn't all about money. Not for me."said Beverly.
"Me neither!"said Kayla.
"Me Neither.."said Jazzy.
"Beverly,
I believe you...You worked as a Public Defender for years...and you and your Aunt Olivia
started that little boutique law firm with next to nothing and you made it grow...Thanks to the talented staff you both added....A great investigator in Donnie Ray and two very talented Associate Attorneys, Josie and your husband, Nelson...You guys got lucky....Great cases, News worthy clients....I've kept up with all of you over the years....You guys are true believers who just lucked up and got rich along the way... You guys have teamed up with and mentored some great attorneys..
and worked on some truly landmark cases involving Civil Rights, Labor Unions, Women's Rights, LGBTQ rights, Prison Reform, Immigration , Wrongfully convicted people, the works...Yes..you guys have been incredible and managed to make a buck..
But Kayla...
You were chasing a buck just like me, You were working at that big law firm in Atlanta almost as soon as you graduated and passed the bar, and you're working at a big firm now...You came back to Philly because the money was right at this present firm you're working at...Didn't you? Nice Come Up....You're right up there with your famous cousins...
Jasmine...
You started off as a Public Defender, but soon you became an Assistant District Attorney and was as ruthless as they come and now you're with a big firm and on a fast track to being made partner...You weren't chasing a buck? Girl please!!!...You wanted to get as far from the 59th Street projects as you could and you have...I'm impressed, I'm proud of you Jazzy girl...I remember freshman year , you were wearing off the rack specials...Knock offs...Now look at you, Designer brands..Rocking a Rolex...Shoes that cost almost as much as our first year tuition...Driving a Lexus...You done good Jazzy, you came up baby girl! I know....I know you have been working with Liv and Bev and others lately on wrongful conviction cases...but isn't that just to assauge your guilt? Isn't that just to make you feel a little better about yourself??" said Maya.
"What makes either of you any different than me? With the exception of Beverly? Huh?" asked Maya.
"None of us killed anybody Maya..."said Jasmine as plainly and as serious as she'd ever been.
"It's not against the law or morally corrupt to excel in your chosen profession...I can't say the same for taking people's lives and making money at it and if you can't see that Maya, then you really are a psychopath!" said Kayla..
Maya was quiet....All four girls were quiet...They had finished eating and their conversation had gotten dark...
III-
Maya put the trash in the waste basket...
"Well ladies.. Thank you for the food and thank you for the visit....In all, it was certainly nice seeing you guys again....I don't honestly expect for any of you to write me...but it really was nice seeing you guys and I genuinely am happy for you all, even Raylene...She lost all that weight huh? She looks good..Now maybe she can keep a man right?" Maya laughed...but her three friends didn't crack a smile.
"Have a good life Maya...As good a life as you can."said Beverly..
"Goodbye Maya."said Kayla.
"Goodbye Maya." said Jazzy...
Maya was fighting back tears...
None of them was in awe of her anymore....In Fact they stood up to her, a first !
"Matron! I'm ready!" she said..
The Matron led her back to her cell.....She didn't look back at her three former friends...
IV-
Everybody decided to meet at Blue Bar in Bayside that night..
It was relaxing and out of town...
"This is so nice...I love it here...I wish the others could have made it out tonight, but everybody had plans.."said Olivia...
"That's alright....This is nice...Just us four couples.." said Donnie Ray.
Olivia and Donnie Ray sat in a booth alone,
with a
Citris Martini
and a Corona
Drinking, laughing, talking and kissing every other minute.
Beverly sat in a seperate booth with her husband, Nelson...
"You do anything interesting today?" she asked..
He couldn't take his eyes off of her in the scandalous dress she was wearing..
"Not really, but I'm thinking of lots of scandalous things we can do tonight when we get home..We've got the whole place to ourselves.."said Nelson..
''Stop staring so hard before your eyeballs fall out...Here is a down payment on tonight .."she whispered..
She leaned over and kissed him passionately....
Jasmine stared at her husband, Dabnis....
"Know something? I love you!" she said..
"I love you too..." he whispered to her. "I'm even gonna order one of these lady drinks you like to prove it to you."said Dabnis..
and he ordered a Mango Martini to match hers....
Jazzy just laughed...
and kissed her husband passionately...
.
"Come here Bennett Woman, sit on my lap.." he said raffishly...
"Uh Uh....That might get me in trouble!" laughed Kayla slyly......
The four couples enjoyed the night...
None of the three girls, Beverly, Kayla or Jazzy ever wrote to Maya , nor she to them...and they never spoke of her again..
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