Chapter 185 - Walk In The Park

"No. I am with him not for revenge," Alicia told Persephone in clear cut words. " I don't want bloodshed in my life at all. I lost my parents and brother at a young age. I don't want to lose my husband and daughter too. I don't want even a shadow of that life anymore."

Persephone could decipher from Alicia's words that she had no idea that Salvatore and Lucian were related. 

What a mess!

Salvatore had a lot of explaining to do to his wife. Just thought of this gave anxiety to Persephone. 

She smiled and stood up to pat her shoulder. "I am leaving, Alicia. Take care of yourself." Holding the chain, she said, "And I am taking this with me. This is not just a piece of jewellery." 

Alicia didn't stop her as she believed Lucian might have asked her to keep it safe until someone comes to take it one day. And that someone was Persephone. 

When Persephone was halfway, she unexpectedly turned to look at Ellison. "Alicia, Don't make any decision in haste in the future, okay? Trust Salvatore. He seemed to love you and Emy a lot. He has his own battles to fight. You can just be patient and supportive for a little longer, please. Everything will end soon. And yeah, he would never hurt you." 

"How do you know him?" Ellison was surprised that Persephone knew Salvatore. And her words were scaring her a bit. 

Persephone just mysteriously smiled."I just do."

She didn't know what came over her to say all those words but she just said them anyway. What was the meaning of holding them in her heart? 

Right now, She believed that she and all of them needed to trust Salvatore. Perhaps, he would be able to end this monster named Alessandro Marino. 

Perhaps, just like Salvatore's secret married life, there was another secret identity of his too. He wasn't stupid enough to start a battle against his powerful father without any resources. 

She heaved out a sigh. Salvatore Marino really played all of them this time. His disguise was too thick to be infiltrated. 

...

Outside, Santiago was waiting for his wife in the car. Earlier this morning, she came to him and kind of surprised him by asking if he would be able to drop her somewhere. At first, he didn't know why she asked him when she could ask Romeo or Emmanuel but then he felt glad that she asked him not someone else. 

But wow that he observed the Villa that she had entered a few minutes ago, he understood why she did so. All he could say was Persephone's friend who ran the cafe wasn't a simple woman. Someone who wasn't in the same line of work as him wouldn't be able to find anything suspicious or different about this house, but he, who had seen the worst this world had to offer, could recognize the shadow guards from afar. 

He heaved a sigh of relief as he saw Persephone coming towards him and so he leaned to unlock the passenger seat of the car for her. 

She was breathing heavily as she sat in the car and started fanning her face with her hand. She appeared tense to him for some reason. Then, she looked at him and said, "Get me a Frappuccino from the nearest Starbucks, will you?"

Santiago was still blinking his eyes at him as he was unable to process that she was talking to him. Don't get him wrong. They do talk. But never unnecessary. And if she needed something, she would just tell the house help or Emmanuel or Romeo. So, it was a novel kind of experience for him that she asked something to him. 

"Will you or will you not?" She asked him again. She didn't know why the man was blinking his eyes at him as if he was seeing some bizarre phenomenon happening for the first time ever. 

Santiago fumbled with his words at first as he didn't know what to say and what he shouldn't say however he just nodded in the end. 

"Also get me some desserts preferably something chocolate," She added when he was alighting the car to get her what she wanted. 

No, she didn't want to die out of curiosity and over information. That's why she was going to drink and eat chocolates to ease her anxiety. 

Moreover, it was the baby bean in her belly that was over-hungry, not her. And he/she demanded some sugary stuff. 

Santiago sighed but nodded in the end. It would be a sin to not buy a pregnant woman what she craved for? He was already a sinner and had no intention of overdoing them. So, he went inside and brought all the things she asked for. Hell, even extra. 

Ten minutes later, he appeared with a bag full of snacks and drinks all preferable for pregnant women and Persephone couldn't be any more happier. 

"Would you like to go somewhere else or head straight home?" Santiago inquired. He knew that she had been extremely cranky and fussy all because she hadn't gone out for a while. If he had known that she liked going out, yesterday's episode wouldn't have happened. He wouldn't have gone almost berserk looking for her. 

Persephone glanced at him in hesitation as she asked in a soft voice, "Can we go to a park? Just take a walk or maybe we can sit on the bench for a while." 

Santiago didn't say anything but he did smile at her and took the detour to the park Persephone liked that was luckily just ten minutes away from where they were. 

He even carried her snacks and drinks while she chose the bench where she would like to savour all of them.. He occupied the seat next to her on the bench when she finally chose one and pass her the drink she was craving earlier and put all the snacks in the space between them.