Chapter 156 - Liar!

Persephone held his face in her hands and made her look at her. She didn't want him to avert his gaze from her and neither did she want him to turn his face from her. It was juvenile behaviour of her but hell if she cared. 

She has done thinking. For weeks, she has been trying to decipher this man and the gush of feelings that he brought to her confused heart. 

It was time to stop thinking and start doing. 

Santiago sighed as there was nothing he could do. This woman was becoming his weakness each passing day. 

"Just answer me if we know each other from before? Because I don't remember your face but I recognise your scent...the feelings you brought when you're close to me. Please tell me." 

Her tone was almost as if she was begging him. 

"We don't feel familiar with the people we never met before," Persephone shouted this time. "I know there is an angle that I can't see. But you know everything. I know you do." 

"You are overthinking Percy!"Santiago said, averting his eyes and removing her hands from his face. 

Persephone bitterly scoffed at his response. " Am I?"

"Yes!" He didn't even hesitate before uttering this damned lie. 

"Really?" She asked him once again. If he think she was going to leave this matter here, then he had another thing coming. "Meet my eyes and answer me. Dammit!!"

"Yesss!" He said, meeting her eyes. 

"Liar!" She cried while slapping his chest. 

"You are a big fucking liar!" She slapped his chest several times. 

Santiago caught her hands and pulled her close. "Why would I lie to you? It's your habit of building stories in your little head, not mine! If I say that I never met you, it means I never met you! Stop complicating this!" 

Persephone smiled at him while tears pooled inside her eyes. "Last night, you said you owe me a wish!" 

Santiago looked at her in horror. "I did not!"

"Why are you getting so defensive, Mr Vitello?"Persephone questioned while mocking him. 

His jaw tightened as he realised that he didn't know what had happened last night. 

" You said you still owe me one wish," She continued. "I can ask you for anything and you will fulfil it. Was it a lie too, Santiago? Even if it's, don't worry I won't say anything because I should get used to it. Should I not? All you do is lie and lie and lie to me. So, tell me if your words from last were a lie too? "

Santiago looked at her. "No." 

"Then, tell me how I know you, and how you owe me a wish?" Persephone kindly asked him. 

"We have never met before." His clock was still stuck in the same place. 

Good for him. 

"And I owe you a wish for forcing you in this game of power. So, ask me for anything. I will certainly fulfil it. " It was his fucking reply. 

"Oh, I will...when the time comes...and let's see if you can fulfil it." 

With these said words, she was gone from the room. 

Apparently, this man deserves to rot in the pyre of misunderstandings. 

She takes her words back. He didn't need to know anything at all! 

If he so wished to be married to a woman who was carrying someone else baby in her womb, then he was more than welcome! 

… 

When Persephone had left Santiago in the room with more fear than doubts. He immediately took out his phone from his pocket and dialled a number that he had never hoped that he would call once again. Or even if he had, it shouldn't have been this soon. 

"Callum?" The name slipped out of his mouth. 

He heard the man yawning through the phone. In a lazy and deep voice, he said, "Ah, if it's not the infamous Villain! I had hoped that you would only remember me when I would be on my deathbed, asking for my buddies. Oops, ex-buddies to be exact."

"Stop your nonsense, Callum," said Villain with apparent annoyance. "Would you?" 

"Sure, Your Highness," Callum mocked. "Say how the sun has risen from the west today?"

"I think she remembers everything," Santiago said. 

"Who?" Callum yawned. "Mona Lisa?"

"Red! Who else?" Santiago said in an obvious tone. 

"Red. Blue. Orange. I don't know any of them," Callum said, behaving like an ass that he usually wasn't. But he felt like being one today with this stubborn Villain. 

"It's Persephone Marino, you fucking ass," Santiago growled. 

"The Fuck!" Callum, who was wrapped in sheets, immediately sat on the bed. "By Persephone Marino, you mean your sweet and gorgeous former captive? 

"The One and only," Santiago spoke. 

"How the hell does she remember you? And how do you know?" Callum asked him."Did you come across her somewhere? Fuck, Santiago. What if she opened her mouth? And did the hypnosis not work on her?"

"The hypnosis backfired, Cal," Santiago murmured. "Like others, she was only supposed to forget my face but she forgot almost every major incident of her life. Her brain is a mess." 

Santiago heard Callum cursing under his breath. "My friend, I tried persuading you. But you were adamant at that time. I told you that she didn't want to forget you. Hypnosis can't be stronger than one's will. Her will to remember you was greater than any hypnosis that we wanted to use on her. And see what happened! She forgot many things but you." 

"She didn't remember my face," Santiago said to him. "She is familiar with me but is not certain for sure." 

"Santiago?"

"Yeah?"

"You are in trouble, my dear friend!" Callum said. 

"What do you mean?"

"I have a feeling that she will remember everything anytime soon. What are you gonna do when she snitches on you to her daddy?" Callum said in a worried tone. 

"She won't," Santiago said with a maddening amount of confidence. 

"How do you know?"

"Because…"

"Because she is my wife, Callum." 

Tut. tut. Tut. 

This was the reply Santiago receive in the end.