Chapter 139 - "Your Red Sounds Like My Red"

Detective Emmanuel was studying all the necessary things when Santiago was stuck in a dilemma. He smiled at the mother-son pair before introducing himself. 

"I'm really thankful to you for saving my brother. He told me how he unnecessarily got stuck in a mob fight and you helped him out," Valencia said with a smile filled with gratitude. "Thank you for taking him to the doctor that day. I can't even imagine what would have happened if you hadn't saved my brother like a Messiah." 

Santiago had to blink his eyes twice to digest the compliment. He went from Villain straight to be called Messiah. Just what in hell was happening? 

'Mob fight?' Santiago scoffed with a very gentlemanly smile while staring at Cameron who had his head hung low. 

'This little liar!'

However, Santiago smiled at Valencia before saying, "It was not a big deal. You don't have to thank me." Seeing the hesitant look on Valencia's face, he continued, "Have some snacks or these not up to your liking?"

"No, No, it's alright," Valencia said quickly. She was just awkward. And she just couldn't stop looking at the man. He was very familiar to her but she just couldn't understand how! 

When she went to visit Cameron at his dorms today, she found him beaten black and blue. No one could imagine what she felt at that moment. But when Cameron informed her how he got stuck in a mob fight and how a hero emerged from nowhere and saved him, she felt as if that man just came into their life as a messiah. Cameron and her son were all she was left with. And she didn't wish to lose them at any cost. 

Santiago saw how the little boy was looking at him with narrowed eyes. "Is something the matter, Mr Reynolds?" 

He found his nephew quite fascinating. 

Little Santiago rolled his eyes before saying, "I really wish we don't meet again." 

Valencia choked on her drink when she heard her son, Cameron quickly shifted his eye to his little nephew and Santiago just helplessly looked at him as if even he didn't know what wrong he had committed. 

"Santiago, how can you talk to Mr V like this?" Valencia asked her son, softly. Her son was not disrespectful at all but she wondered what triggered his dislike for the unknown man. 

"Mom, I have a feeling that he will be very fatal to me," Little Santiago said with a sigh. Seeing the looks of confusion on everyone's faces, he explained, "He looks like a grown-up version of me. What if he met my Red and she decided to fall for him since he is bigger and more powerful than me?"

Valencia didn't know whether to cry or laugh. Why was her son so immersed in Persephone? 

Little Santiago started calling Persephone Red after he got to know that she was a huge Disney fan just like him. When Persephone told him what her name meant, he started his search for a more Disney friendly name for her. But when he didn't find any, he just took the shortcut and began calling her Red. 

In the future, when little Santiago would be calling his uncle's wife by the name of Red, he would surely get his bottoms spanked. 

"Your Red? Is it your pet's name?" Santiago asked his nephew. He didn't know his nephew was an intriguing kid. He had learned in the report that the kid was smart as a whip and knew how to keep teachers in the palm of his hand but since it was his first time meeting him, he was going to observe him a bit. 

Now it was little Santiago's turn to glare at him. "How can you call my all grown up girlfriend pet? This is insulting to her as an extremely beautiful woman." 

"Ah, my apologies," Santiago said, looking all apologetic. "I didn't wish to hurt Mr Reynold's feelings. I hope you can be magnanimous and forgive my first mistake." 

Little Santiago pretended to be an adult and nodded, "Since it was your first mistake, I forgive you. But I'm serious about not meeting again."

"Santiago," Valencia groaned. 

Cameron just prayed in his heart for him and his nephew. Although he didn't know Mr V much, he could tell that he wasn't a very patient man. 

"If meeting me can cause you a loss of girlfriend then I will take your words seriously," Santiago nodded like he understood him. "However, I'm confused, why would you be with a fickle girl? If she can throw you aside for someone else, then she ain't worth it." 

"She is very good. No, she is the best. But my Red said she is after all human just like us. And like everyone, she too has her weakness and vulnerabilities. It's not her fault that she found herself vulnerable to blue-eyed beautiful men," Little Santiago ended his speech with a painful sigh. 

"Your Red sounds like my Red," Santiago murmured while shaking his head. Looking at Valencia, he said, "You have a very interested son." 

"Thank you," Valencia said. She then stood up and taking the cue, little Santiago and Cameron too stood up. "We should leave now. Once again thank you for helping Cameron." 

Santiago nodded."I hope Cameron will keep himself away from the unnecessary mob fights." 

What could Cameron say at this time? 

In the end, he just nodded weakly. 

"Mom, I want to use the washroom, "Junior Santiago said with an uncomfortable look. As a diabetic patient, he needed to visit the washroom more frequently than normal children.

"Please show them the way to the washroom," Santiago said to Romeo who nodded and took them to the washroom. 

Cameron was quite uncomfortable with Santiago staring intensely at him. 

"You are quite skilled in lying, kid, "Santiago said after a couple of moments. 

"I'm not a kid and I have told you many times not to call me that either, "Cameron scowled. "As for the lie, you could have just exposed me." 

"I should have, "Santiago murmured. 'But why didn't I ?' Keeping aside his feelings, he asked, "Now tell me Cameron who informed you where Simon would be?"

"None of your business," Cameron growled. 

"Your sister is still here. If you don't want me to expose your little lie then just answer my questions," Santiago didn't hesitate to threaten him. He didn't want Cameron near Mafia men at all including him. He had made a lot of sacrifices for them and he wasn't going to let them end in vain because of Cameron's mistakes. "You don't want to upset your sisters, do you? I heard she is your guardian too. A woman only in her twenties is burdened with the responsibility of an eight years old kid and a rebellious teenager. I don't think she deserves it." 

"Stop making judgements," Cameron looked at him in anger. "You don't know about her at all." 

"Of course, I don't but you do," Santiago said with a scoff. "When you hit Simon, you attracted the wrath of his brothers too. So, tell me who informed you about his whereabouts if you don't want your sister and nephew implicated." 

Cameron was put in a difficult situation. He still asked, "Why would you help me?"

"You give yourself too much credit," Santiago said with a straight face. "I'm just helping myself. I hit him too."

"Why did you hit him?" Cameron inquired. 

"He might have offended me too," Santiago answered. 

Cameron heaved out a sigh before replying, "There is a man. I met him a few days back. He is my sister's pursuer. I was there to warn him to back off and not irritate my sister with those flowers and stuff. But when I was warning him, he informed me about the incident." 

Santiago knew what incident he was talking about. When he asked his men to do an investigation about the day when Valencia was almost assaulted by that obsessive stalker, he found out that James Simon and another man were arrested. However, there was no information on the other man. 

"Do you think for a minute before trusting that unknown man that he could be trying to hurt you too by sending you behind James Simon, "Santiago questioned him like he was scolding a child. 

"I know I was impulsive but I am very protective of my elder sister," Cameron murmured. 

Santiago sighed and patted his shoulder before saying, "What does he look like?"

Cameron knew what does he meant by 'he'. 

"He is tall like you with a built body like the men I saw with you that day. He has an Italian accent too," Cameron said remembering how Nash looked." And he is weird… he said is a tycoon or something like that...but trust me, he doesn't like like one. At most, I can call him a goon."

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