Chapter 173 - Emy Got Kidnapped

Persephone was sitting on a bench in a park while looking at several kids playing before her eyes. After meeting Leena, she didn't want to go home just yet not bothering to think about the stress and worry she might have caused back at home. 

Right now, she didn't know if Santiago had signed the divorce papers or not but she was hoping that he did, even when a voice inside her heart was telling her not to do it. 

Perhaps, it was physical exhaustion or a mental one but as warm sun rays fell on her face, her eyelids dropped. 

In her dreams, she saw a very happy girl dancing with a man in the middle of the night on the shore of an ocean. 

She heard herself asking the dancing question, "Why are you so happy?"

The girl dressed in a man's white shirt, barefoot with long wavy dark hair didn't pause in her movement. But she did laugh at her. 

"Why won't I be happy? Look at me, dancing with him."

She didn't understand the reason for the girl's enthusiasm. "Is dancing fun? I can't believe a simple dance can make anyone so happy."

The girl didn't mind her doubtful gaze. Instead, she softly replied, "It's not the dance that's making me happy. It's the promise that he will dance with me all the nights we would be together. Tell me, how can his promise not make me happy?"

"Who is he to you?" Persephone asked the petite woman in her dreams. "Is he your lover?"

She didn't know why but she wanted to know the answer to this question. It was as if it was too necessary for her. 

The girl's eyes softened as her gaze fell on the man who was holding her back and murmured, "He is my life."

Before Persephone could ask any more questions, she woke up. She didn't know what was the meaning of this weird dream but she found her heart hurting for some reason. There was an emptiness accompanying the pain in her heart. 

Thinking that it was almost noon, she thought of going back but just as she stood up, her eyes fell on a little figure playing a little far from her. 

'Isn't it Emy?' She asked herself. 

The little girl dressed in a white fur coat, black leggings and another white fur cap placed on her head, was actually Emy who had come to the park to play with her nanny. Ellison was sick and to not infect her baby girl, she had been distancing herself from her daughter. It was very difficult for Emy to maintain distance from her mother and so she had been extremely cranky these days. To make her delighted once again, Ellison sent her to play out with her nanny and a bodyguard. 

Apparently, the security around Emy was, even more, stricter than Ellison's. One might think that she was a daughter of a very rich father and it wasn't wrong either. 

"Emy!" Persephone excitedly called her name. She had been feeling low after that dream. She loved kids like Emy and Santiago. And she was really excited to meet this furry doll. 

However, much to her disappointment, Emy didn't hear her. Persephone walked faster to reach the girl but before she could reach her, she saw a man who didn't resemble Ellison's bodyguard at all talking and laughing with the nanny. The nanny teased him by smacking his butt but he just shook his head at her as if saying it wasn't the right place or time and picked up the girl who was looking at the stranger in confusion. 

As much as Persephone understood Ellison, she was very strict with her employees. She would never tolerate such unprofessional behaviour from her employees. 

"Emy!" Persephone once again called the toddler's name. Now, she just wanted to reach her. 

This time, Emy heard her. She cried when she saw her mommy's friend calling her name. 

The nanny looked back too following Emy's gaze and found Persephone walking to reach them. She patted the man's shoulder and asked him to run. She recognized Persephone as the same woman who came with that big and scary man that night and spoiled her plan of stealing the kid. 

Persephone understood only now that something was not right with this nanny. So, she began running after them but thinking about the child in her belly, she slowed down a bit, clutched her belly in her hands and then started walking faster. 

"Emy!"

"Hey! You both stop!"

Seeing that no one was coming forward to help her, she increased her speed. The man and nanny were 

not running to avoid the suspicion. They both pretended as if Persephone was a nuisance following them. And surprisingly, people believed them. They thought she was out to trouble the family of three. 

Only when they exited the park, they increase their speed a bit and showed some panicky behaviour. 

"Stop both of you!"

"Where are you taking the kid!"

"Emy!"

Unfortunately, Persephone didn't have her phone with her and the street was empty and no one was there to help her. She was sweating badly, her legs were wobbly and her feet numb. She was, after all, a fragile pregnant woman. Running after a kidnapper was no easy feat. 

Seeing that the street was about to end, she ran after them but the couple was more sneaky than her. The nanny disappeared into another street and the man carrying Emy was now running faster. 

"Please help me!" Persephone shouted as a busy crowded street came. 

"The man is kidnapping the child!"

"Please help!"

A man, who was buying coffee for his wife, happened to hear a very familiar voice. 

When Killian looked back, he saw Persephone running after a man, clutching her stomach with her hands, shouting for help. While looking at her, it could be said that she could faint anytime. This was how bad her condition looked to him. 

He slapped some dollar bills on the counter and unconsciously ran to help her. He caught her by her shoulder and asked in concern, "Are you alright?"

He didn't realize that in hurry he forgot to switch to English. Thankfully, Persephone could reply to him back in Sicilian. "That man. Please stop him. He is stealing Emy." She shouted at the crying toddler " "Emy! Don't cry! Baby, Aunt is here!"

"Em, take care of her," Killian yelled as he saw Emma coming towards him in confusion. He ran after the man. Although the man was proficient in stealing kids, this time, he was caught and beaten by another man. 

Emma hadn't thought that one day she would see Persephone in such a bad situation, running after a man in a half-unconscious situation. 

"Percy, are you alright?" Emma shouted in helplessness as she saw the latter had her eyes closed. 

"E-Emma, save the girl…"

"Don't worry. Killian will keep her safe. Trust him."

Killian saved the crying girl from the kidnapper and embraced her safely in his arms. A few passersby who now had an idea of what was happening here began to beat the kidnapper but unfortunately, he succeeded in running away from there. 

When he was running for his life, a gold locket that was stuck on his jacket fell down. It was the same Locket that Persephone had been looking for in Lucian's wing. The locket didn't belong to the kidnapper but Emy. 

Killian's eye fell on the locket that had just fallen down and he took it from the ground and put it in his pocket. He would give it back to the girl's parents. 

He had bigger problems to deal with now than to put back the locket to where it belonged. And it was how to make this toddler stop crying. She was crying with no will to stop. 

Killian, who had never dealt with the kids before, was put in a dilemma when the toddler in his arms was almost breathless from all the crying. 

In a helpless state, he wiped her tears with his big callous hands. "Hush! Cara! Hush! Uncle will buy you chocolate! Hush!"

When nothing worked, this sentence worked like magic on the girl. 

"Chocwate?" Emy seemed to hear her favourite word. Her big and innocent glassy eyes looked at him in anticipation and once again asked, "Chocwate?"

Killian didn't know that a kid could have such beautiful eyes which no less resemble a ball of chocolate. "Yes," He nodded his head at her and the girl gave her a toothy grin. 

An arrow shot his heart as the girl grinned at him and he found his lips forming into an arc. 

Emy clapped her chubby hands in excitement. "Emwy wawnts Chocwate now!"

Her white fur hat was making her appear even more gorgeous. And that big grin adorning her delicate face was enough of melting any heart.. As if her lethal attack was less effective, she even gave Killian a wet kiss on his cheek.