Chapter 18 - Captive To Love

"Ouch!" Persephone exclaimed in pain when Santiago tossed her on the bed. This man was not taught what chivalry was! Then again, if he was taught chivalry and gentlemanly behavior would he have kidnapped her? 

Santiago hovered over her body and warned saying, "If you are asked to not leave the room, you better act according to the orders."

She was beautiful in a silver satin nightdress that reached her ankles. Her green orbs were staring at his icy blue ones. And she was unendly blinking at him. His hot breath was fanning her cheeks, a blush crept up from her neck to her face, highlighting her freckles. 

Santiago had no idea why but he hadn't seen a woman as attractive and sexy as her. She should be Aphrodite, not Persephone.

It was his ringing phone which brought him out of the daze and prevented his doom.

"Hello?" He said as soon as he picked up the phone. 

"Yeah, I found her." 

"Keep an eye on the entrance." 

"I know."

"Don't worry. I have got everything under my control." With this said, he hung up the call. From the beginning till now, Santiago had not removed his eyes off her face. And Persephone was still blinking her eyes at him, unbeknownst to herself. 

When Santiago turned his back to leave the room, he heard Persephone say, "Villain, I will not run from this place. If you don't believe me, you can appoint more guards to follow me. I have no reason to run from this place until my father comes to take me from here. Just let me go out, please. I just want to feel the sun against my skin and breath the fresh air. I have never seen an ocean before. Please just for today." 

Persephone kept staring at his back, but he didn't stop walking. Once he was out of the door, he shut the door loudly causing her to flinch in fear. 

'You asked for his hate, Persephone. Why the hell does what he thinks about me matters to me?'

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"Dammit!" Santiago punched the wall as he returned to his estate. He couldn't believe that a tiny woman who just happened to be his captive and not to forget his greatest enemy's daughter, was affecting him so much. He couldn't be near her without wanting to devour her. This animalistic behavior of his was foreign to him.

She sounded so sad when she begged him to let her go outside her room. Why did he care if she was sad or happy? She was just his captive. Nothing else. 

He would stop lying to himself. He was so darn attracted to her. He was lusting after Marino's daughter and so was she. But at least like him, she was not refusing her blatant body reaction to him. 

He had noticed the sexy blush on her face whenever he was standing close to her. 

He needed to get Persephone out of his head. Even if it meant to fuck her. He would. Now he was going to offer a deal to Persephone Marino. A deal she would have no qualms about rejecting. 

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"You girl! You sure have the guts to run away from the Villain's cage." Anna said as she entered the room and found Persephone hugging her knees on the bed. She actually felt sorry for this girl. But now seeing her action of fleeing had erased all the traces of sympathy that she had in her heart. 

"I was not running away from here," whispered Persephone, her head resting on her knees. "I thought you can't speak."

Anna scoffed."I'm not supposed to talk to you. It's against the orders given by the boss." 

Persephone understood the situation. "What's your name?"

"I'm not supposed to tell you that either," answered Anna honestly. 

"I can't keep on calling you woman with dark eyes in my head," Persephone muttered under her breath. 

Anna took a deep breath calming her seething emotions. She couldn't believe that the girl who was obedient for the last whole week would suddenly try to escape this place. Did she not think that this place which was completely unknown to her might be dangerous to her? Not only did she invite danger for herself but also asked for Boss's wrath. 

"Raven," Anna said after a long time. 

"What?" Persephone glanced in her direction in confusion. 

"You can call me Raven," Anna told her. 

Persephone nodded. "Raven, you can call me Percy. But please don't call me by my name before your boss, I'm afraid that he will punish you for getting acquainted with me. I don't want anyone to hurt because of me." 

"If you really cared for the people surrounding you, why did you run away from here in the dead of the night?" Anna, now Raven, asked her with narrowed eyes. She couldn't figure out this girl. 

"I'm many things but a liar is not one of them," Persephone said to Raven, offering one of her genuine smiles. "I have been locked in the same room for a week, I just want to feel what it's like to be free under an open sky even if it was just for a few minutes. I wanted to come back to the room sooner but the singing ocean and open sky made me greedy and I fell asleep by the ocean shore." 

"You speak like you have been captive all your life, Percy," Anna said to Persephone.

"I was," Persephone smiled. "But that was a different kind of captivity."

She was captive to her sins.

She was captive to Santiago's love.

And she was treated as captive by Alessandro Marino.

After her marriage to Nico, the ownership would be changed from Alessandro Marino to Nicolas Scuderi.

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