Chapter 48 - He Appears

"You know many languages. It comes across like you have been to school," Maria said to her. It was a big deal in their community to send their girls to school. 

"Do people from here not go to school?" Persephone weakly asked her. She was talking to her because she didn't want to fall unconscious. 

"We are poor people. We can't afford to send our girls to school here. Moreover, our locality doesn't allow girls to study as their only job is to marry a husband and become a good wife to him by bearing him children," Maria answered in a neutral tone. "However, our king has taken many initiatives to make sure every child in the empire gets education. Still, we poor people can't afford it despite the fact that education is cheap in our country." 

"King? Is your King named Leonardo?" Persephone mumbled. 

"Young girl! You can't call him by his first name. It's insulting to His Majesty," Maria chided her. Persephone understood one thing that she was in that perverted King's empire somewhere. 

"Look at your reflection in the mirror. You look like a goddess descended from heaven,"Maria proudly said to her. She couldn't believe that someone could look this beautiful in a plain white dress.

Persephone stood up on her feet as she took the mirror from Maria's hand. Throwing the mirror on the ground, Persephone bent down to pick the mirror which had broken into two segments. 

"Maria, do you know what my name is?" Persephone gently asked the lady. "Persephone. Remember the name." 

Before Maria could say or do anything, the shaky Persephone had pointed the broken mirror segment at her neck. Maria froze in horror as she realized that she had let her guard down. 

"Walk ahead quietly and show me the way to leave this place," Persephone said in a threatening voice. "Try to over smart me, see how I slash your pretty neck." 

"You are making a mistake," Maria said with a small voice. "Jeno will punish you badly if you do something like this." 

"To hell with your Jeno. Do you think he will survive?" Persephone said through clenched teeth. "He dared to touch Villain's woman. He will not spare any of you." 

"Stop bluffing, Young woman."

"Show me the way, Maria or…"

"Okay. Okay. Do not hurt me, I will show you the way to leave this godown." 

They walked a few meters away from the godown when two people in dark blue uniforms appeared. They seemed different from the men who had kidnapped her. 

"What's happening here?!"The cops saw Persephone pointing a broken shard of glass at Maria's neck and came running to save her. 

"P-police?"Maria's eyes widened with fear. 

"Leave her or we will shoot you. You are taking law in your hands," A cop warned Persephone. 

Looking at the pointed weapon at her, she threw the glass shard and then, she also fell on the ground with a thud. Drugs had taken the reign of her body. Her body wasn't in her control. It was burning. She felt like dying. 

"Arrest her!" The cop shouted at the other one. 

"Sir, she is drugged," The cop who reached to arrest her found her drugged. 

"Catch the other one too!"

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Meanwhile, Santiago had deployed his men on every nook and corner of the Maisea empire. He knew that Persephone was somewhere on the land of this country because Caro had unloaded the ship on the port here. 

As soon as Santiago reached the port, he caught Caro by his collar and punched him in the face. 

"Where is she?" He growled. 

"Boss, who are you talking about?!" Caro said in a shaky tone. 

"The woman who used your fucking ship to escape my island. Where is she? Have you hidden her somewhere?" Santiago roared. He was resembling an angry lion right now. He was so mad that he himself didn't know how he was stopping himself from wreaking havoc. 

Caro furrowed his brows. He didn't recall anything about the woman his boss was talking about?! He wasn't crazy to help a woman from escaping Villain's island. 

"I swear, boss, we have not seen any woman. We left the port after we arrived. It was Jeno and his group who were supposed to unload the barrels." 

"Where is Jeno and his crew?" Santiago questioned them. 

Someone who heard Santiago shouting at the workers came running to where he was standing. He had heard Santiago asking about the whereabouts of the infamous Flamingos. 

"Boss, Jeno and his crew left their job midway and left. The job was done by the other group today," He informed a seething Santiago. 

"Why did they leave, Jameson?"Caro asked the newcomer. 

"Said something was wrong at his home. So, his crew left with him. You know the troublemaker Flamingos, they don't do anything without their notorious boss!"

Santiago had a hunch that Jeno was the one behind the disappearance of his Red. He ordered the workers to take where Jeno lived. They took him to a very dirty locality which was notorious for producing criminals and thugs in the country. 

Santiago kicked the door to the room where his man said Jeno would be currently found. As soon as he broke through the door, he saw the room adorned with cheap red flowers and a weird scent hanging in the air. 

Now, he just knew that this soon to be dead man was responsible for the disappearance of his Red. 

"B-boss?" Jeno trembled as he saw numerous men clad in black had pointed their guns at him. 

"One question Jeno and the answer will tell if you survive or not," Santiago said in a very low voice. 

Jeno felt a shiver down his back as he looked at Santiago's blue eyes which were as cold as the arctic. Those eyes could kill him with a blink. 

"Did you touch her, Jeno? Did you touch my woman?!" Santiago asked as he grasped his greasy hair in his hand and Jeno trembled under his hold. He had never seen death so near.

"N-No, I didn't." 

"But you were planning to, weren't you?" inquired Santiago. 

"I-I…"

"Collect the information and kill all of them except for him. I will show him what it means to touch MY WOMAN!" 

Touch him, you may live.. But touch her, you will die the worst death possible.