Chapter 135 - Words Of A Traitor

If getting herself away from the power struggle and the game of revenge meant that she and her baby would be safe, she was gladder to take this selfish step. 

It wasn't like Alessandro Marino's death would affect her in any way. He was the biggest threat to her unborn child and if Santiago could kill him as he expressed his kind words in a very unkind manner, she would be more than thrilled.

She couldn't kill him with her hands as she knew it wasn't possible. If she killed him, she would never be able to leave the nightmare behind. Even after his death, he would haunt her. So, it was better to kill him with a borrowed knife. 

Or it was better to lend the knife called evidence that she was looking for to someone capable of fucking over her daddy dearest! 

It didn't matter to her who that person was as long as he/she could complete the task. 

As for this man, she couldn't read him like other people. He was as deeper as any abyss to read him out. 

"If your animosity is with Alessandro Marino, then why are you involving my innocent sister?" Persephone asked him. "If Alessandro Marino is a sinner for getting your family killed, then aren't you the same? Aren't you involving my innocent sister in this fucked up game that you are playing? Aren't you the same as Alessandro Marino, Mr Vittelo? You are as much a villain as him." The last sentence was spoken with sheer disgust and loathing. 

Santiago grasped her arm and she winced in pain. With a hated look, he said, "I never claimed to be a saint. I'm a villain thorough and thorough but I'm not your father. I can never be him, the sick motherfucker!" 

"You are hurting me, Santiago," Persephone flinched once again and his hold on her loosened. 

"I didn't mean to hurt you," He murmured. 

"Well, you are," Persephone said with bare satire. "You have done nothing but hurt me since the day my eyes landed on you. Previously, it was mental torture but now you started hurting me physically too." 

"I'm sorry," Santiago apologised. He truly didn't mean to hurt her. It was just that he couldn't bear her to see him in the light she saw her father. 

Persephone wanted to make a comeback but the sincerity in his eyes stopped her. 

What the hell was wrong with her?! 

"You are hurting me by hurting my sister," Persephone whispered. "She didn't want to marry you but she was forced to. You probably won't keep Don Marino's daughter as your wife for long. You will get rid of her sooner or later. Only the outcome matters to you, not how many people get hurt in the process." 

"Who said I will get rid of my wife just because of the fact that she is Alessandro's daughter? I can spend a lifetime with her if she wishes," Santiago said in a tone that she found weird and uncomfortable. 

"You love Sophia?" She gasped. 

Santiago flicked her forehead and said, "How dramatic! Doesn't your brain work too fast?! And stop making assumptions!"

"Then, make yourself clear! And you can't marry her now! I will never let my sister marry an asshole like you!" Persephone glared at him. 

"Really?" Santiago sneered. "What will you do? Sacrifice yourself in her place?"

"Stop talking nonsense," Persephone blurted out. "I will never do something so presumptuous!" 

She would call herself dog before marrying him. He was not marriage material! She repeat, he wasn't marriage material at all! 

Man of his kind deserves to die alone and unmarried! Why torment a poor soul by getting her married to him?! 

Santiago folded his arms on his chest, his back leaned against the wall in the darkness of the room, a very arrogant and cold expression playing on his face. "I don't care who I marry as long as she is Don Marino's daughter. You are right, I will get rid of her sooner or later. You want to escape Nico Scuderi and I need someone who will keep me close to the Marino family. Aren't we a perfect match?"

Why did Santiago want to marry Persephone now? 

Was there some hidden motive? 

Or does his sinister planning involve her too? 

Persephone held him by his t-shirt and pulled him closer, "How tragic that I am not falling for any of your shitty words! I will rather chew on shit that believes the word of a traitor!"

"Do remember to inform me later how it tastes to chew on shit," Santiago said with a very kind smile and removed her hands from his body. "Again, I'm the only safe option that you have right now. You can choose to marry me, play the heroine by saving your fragile and airhead sister from a big mean villain like me, and also escape that douchebag who says something and preaches something else!" 

"I would rather die than marry you," Persephone sneered. She would never put her baby in danger by marrying him. She had an intuition that he was more dangerous than her father. 

"Aren't you the type of girl who would choose to survive at any cost? What happened to you now? It's such an amazing idea but you don't want to listen to me! People don't value good people anymore," He dramatically sighed out. 

The audacity of the bastard! He put on such a good drama with a straight face! 

And he has the nerve to call him a good man?

Well, it seemed like he had yet to see a mirror. 

"Doesn't your conscience hurt calling yourself a good person?" Persephone asked him. "Oh, look at me! How forgetful! How can I forget that the big bad mafiso like you have sold their conscience to satan! How disrespectful of you, boss!" 

"Don't cross your boundary, Persephone," Santiago warned her. "Or..."

"Or what? " She fired back. "If you think I'm afraid of you..." 

"Wait, why are you coming towards me..." 

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