Chapter 148 - 148

"I can't believe you would offer that!" Camilla said as she gave Seth a disappointed look.

"What?" Seth asked as he looked at his friend and co-worker. "These people have done horrible things to Ian, it is only natural that he will want revenge."

"They are already in the worst place possible, being sold and used against their own will, how dare the two of you?!" Camilla asked angrily as she looked at both men. 

"Some things need to be done." Ian told Camilla as he carried a worried look on his face.

"What do you mean some things!? Some things?!" Camilla shouted at Ian. "What you two are planning is vile and despicable."

"Camillia, they deserve this." Seth said in a low voice as Camilla glared at him. 

"I'm out of this." Camilla said as she raised her hands in the air and marched out of Ian's apartment.

"She doesn't understand." Ian said in a low voice. "She doesn't understand what it is like to lose everything and become hopeless because a few people decided that it was fun to toy with your life."

"So is there anything you want me to do?" Seth asked as he gave Ian a look.

"No, I think Camilla is right in this one." Ian told Seth as he sighed and took a seat on the couch next to his friend. "This is enough, no one deserves to suffer that fate, but it is the rule of the underworld, something I will not interfere with."

"You know, you could always tell us not to do it. I would if you asked." Seth told Ian as he sensed his friend's discomfort with the fate that the mother and daughter were about to face.

"And how would the people they owe money get what they owe back?" Ian asked as he considered his friend's suggestion.

In his mind, to Ian getting beaten up was better than being taken and sexually abused against your own will. 

He knew that Manuel's sister was in no way innocent in the case of his sisters' but he couldn't help but worry if he was actually crossing a line with this matter.

"There are other ways, I can give them a choice." Seth suggested. "Do you mind if I get coffee?" His friend asked.

"Yeah, go." Ian said with a nod as he followed his friend to the kitchen.

"Want one?" Seth asked, to which Ian nodded.

"What do you mean by giving them a choice? I thought selling them as prostitutes was the only way for them to pay off the debt?" Ian asked.

"Well, that's how the people that they owe money want them to pay their debts, but there are many odd jobs I could have them do." Seth suggested as he started up Ian's coffee machine.

"Like what?" Ian asked as he leaned forward, curious to hear the other options.

"One, is for them to work as maids for several families, to be honest those maids are more like slaves paying off their debt rather than maids." Seth suggested as he thought of the other options he could offer his friend.

"I would prefer that, but I don't think they will accept it." Ian replied to Seth as he carefully considered the personality of each member of the Juan family.

"Why not?" Seth asked. "It's the lightest I can give them, the others are much worse."

"It would ruin their names." Ian explained. "To the Juan's their name is everything. It is what determines who they are. They would rather be paraded around as prostitutes where people may not recognize them than to work as servants for someone they once mingled with."

"I was actually going to offer them to someone who would use them as servants publicly." Seth said with a grin as Ian brought up his concern.

"Let's keep it as an option, I doubt they would take that one." Ian said with a nod.

"There are a few more, but they are just as bad as selling them as prostitutes around the city." Seth said as he hesitated to tell Ian his ideas.

"Just tell me and we can figure out what they would probably accept." Ian said with a nod as Seth sighed and finished making their coffee.

"Unfortunately I cannot go too far from what their creditors wanted." Seth told Ian. "As it is my I'm already going against our laws."

"You don't have to do that for me." Ian said with a sigh. "The Juans are simply reaping what they have sown."

"I have one idea that may end up satisfying both their creditors and may keep the Juan's pacified." Seth told Ian as he handed his friend a drink and sat down.

"I'm listening." Ian said with a nod as he took a sip from his coffee.

"The creditors wanted them sold to pay for their debts. So there are three ways I can go about this." Seth said as he took a deep breath. "First is the obvious, use them as prostitutes across the city, something you are uncomfortable with."

Ian nodded in response as he listened to his friend.

"The second is to sell one of them as a personal sex slave." Seth suggested.

Ian frowned at the thought, he didn't want that, it still felt too much to him.

"There is a third one, which I think they might be more inclined to take." Seth said as he hesitated.

"What's wrong with the third idea?" Ian asked.

"There is no guarantee that it will keep them in line or if it will keep them down. But it will definitely break them temporarily." Seth said.

"Just tell me what your idea is, Seth." Ian said as he was now growing impatient with his friend.

"Sell Manuel's sister for marriage." Seth finally told Ian.

The answer caught Ian by surprise, this was not what he was expecting Seth to suggest, he was thinking that the man from the mafia family had something darker and more sinister in mind.

"I think they were already doing that." Ian pointed out. "The Manuel's would have definitely tried to pawn off their daughter to a rich and powerful family."

"They would, but I'm thinking of someone darker, someone under my control." Seth informed Ian. "She would not be a happy wife, he won't love her and he won't even touch her. They would only be married for show while the man would go on with his mistresses."

"This is a way out they might consider." Ian said as he thought of the option.

"Well?" Ian asked. 

"Let's see what they have to say when we approach the mother and daughter.." Ian said with a nod as he thought of what would happen next.