Chapter 47 - Sleping Beauty

On Persephone's side. 

"Why are you doing this to me?" A crying Persephone asked the people who had deceived her. She tried to move but wasn't able to as she was tied to a chair.

"Young lady, accept our conditions and we will free you," one of Jeno's men said. He was the same man who had advised Jeno to seize this woman before Caro or his crew could discover her. 

They had told her that if she agreed to be Jeno, that sick man's mistress, then she would live in luxury all her life. 

Persephone didn't know whether to cry at her pathetic fate or laugh at her rotten luck, after escaping one captor she was seized by another. But if she had to choose one, she would choose Villain a thousand times over this one because she believed that Villain would never force him on her without her will. The level of trust that she had in Villain was insane. That man betrayed her trust yet she was praying to see him for once. 

"Albert, boss has asked you to send Maria in and help his sleeping beauty change into something beautiful," Another man came inside the door.

The place where Persephone was bound to the chair seemed like an old godown where many discarded machinery parts were placed. Anything could be used as a weapon but she just needed to be free from the rope that was tying her hands. 

Albert or the man who was threatening Persephone earlier gave her a look and said," Accept our boss's goodwill or you will die at our hands." 

"It's sin to force an unwilling woman," Persephone mumbled. 

"Sin? Unwilling woman?" Albert snorted as he came towards her holding a small crystal bottle. He forcefully opened her mouth and dumped the content inside her mouth. She had no idea what he made her swallow but judging from his overconfident body posture, she understood it couldn't be anything good. 

"Let's see if you are unwilling or not!" The man carefully said. "Bitches like you will beg him for more once he touches you! Who knows, the boss will like to share you with all of us once he is done with you!" 

Persephone could feel the changes occurring to her body. Suddenly, her body felt as if it was on fire. She was having trouble breathing. Her head was swirling. Her vision was blurring. Tears streamed down her cheek but she managed to hold her body reaction but for how long would she have to endure all of this? 

"Call Maria and tell her to get her ready. Boss is impatient for his sleeping beauty!" Albert said while leaving the room. He even ordered all of the other men to leave the room too as it wasn't acceptable for them to eye the boss's woman. 

Minutes later, a woman who was probably in her early thirties came with a dress and other accessories to adorn her. 

"Ah, so you are the woman that Jeno is gushing about?" The woman said in scilician but with a weird accent. Anyone hearing these people could recognize that they speak scilician but in a very varied accent. "What a gorgeous young lady you are! Are you perhaps a local?!"

Persephone somehow managed to shake her head. Her face was crimson and it appeared as if she was in great discomfort. 

"Then where are you from?" Maria questioned her gently.She wanted Persephone to lower her guard. 

"N-not from h-here,"Persephone said in a broken voice."They kidnapped me. Want me to serve their boss despite my unwillingness." 

"My dear, you probably don't know but Jeno is smitten by you. If you give in, he will treat you like a queen. He is the richest man in our locality after Caro. If he chose you as his woman, everyone in the locality will bow their head to you," Maria said to her. "What else do you want?!" 

"Richest man? He looks like a thug to me? What world do you live in? He is nothing but a rap*st to me who would force himself on an unwilling woman," Persephone said to her in utter disgust. 

Maria untied her hands and started changing her clothes. Since she was vulnerable due to the drug inside her body, she didn't fight with Maria about changing her clothes. She let her change her clothes silently. Maria had picked an A-line white colored long dress for her. She wanted to tell her that white was not her color but she didn't because she hated everyone and everything. 

"What country are we in?" Persephone asked Maria who was changing her clothes. 

Maria thought that Persephone was not in her senses due to the drug that Albert had made her swallow, so she gently told her the name of the country they were in. 

"Maisea Empire." 

Truly, Persephone had never heard about this country name. She didn't even know if this country even existed or if the woman was lying to her. 

"What language do you speak here?" Persephone then asked. 

"The locals speak Masilian which is a dialect of scilician but our official language is Greek and Italian," Maria answered while braiding her hair. She then paused and then asked her,"Do you know any of these languages, young lady?" 

"My mother was born and raised in Greece but her parents were pure Italian," Persephone said with a fond smile. "My father is Italian too. So, I know Italian more than I know English. But since I was engaged to a man whose family was scilician, I was taught everything about Sicily from its culture to the language." 

"You said your mother was greek? Is she not alive now?" Maria asked her. 

Persephone nodded her head in reply. "She died when I was very young.. She taught me to read and write in Greek but I'm not fluent in speaking Greek since I have not spoken it for a long time."