yasinovel Chapter 1081: The President’s Daughter (7)
Chapter 1081: The President’s Daughter (7)
Chapter 1081: The President’s Daughter (7)
Mia turned to look at the approaching naked man. Her situation was already as weird as it was, and seeing a man walking towards her without clothes made everything even stranger.
As soon as the man got close enough, one of her guards, those who joined the fight against her, who clearly were not her real guards, gave something to the man to cover himself, with a deferential and servile look in his eyes.
It was at that moment that she became able to give a closer look at the man, and when she did, her heart started beating faster, much faster than it beat in the middle of the earlier fight.
She recognized him; she understood the reason why the guards were so servile towards the
man.
Terrifying, that was how Erik Romano appeared to her at that moment. It might have been because of how he carried himself; it could be because of his muscular body or for the look he had in his eyes, but that wasn't the reason. It was because this man exuded power in every move he made.
"You're... you're Erik Romano," she said.
Her blood ran cold, and she felt a chill run down her spine just saying those words, just saying that name.
The color drained from her face, leaving her pale and trembling, and she felt her knees weaken, threatening to give out beneath her as the full realization of who stood before her sank in.
"In person."
"What do you want from me? Why are you doing this?"
Erik smiled, trying to reassure her, but there was no warmth in it, and she felt it.
"What happens next depends entirely on you," he said, not liking his own words a little.
"Cooperate, and you might just walk away from this. Resist, and, well..." He let the implication hang in the air, an implication she fully understood.
Mia drew herself up, a flicker of defiance in her eyes despite the fear.
"You would threaten a helpless woman?" she spat. "The blackguards were right about you. You are as evil and deranged as they say. It's just that I didn't think you were a coward who preys on the weak."
Erik's smile wavered at that point, not because he felt offended by what the woman said or what the blackguards said about him. It was because he knew that the only evil and deranged ones were them.
"Evil and deranged? This is what the blackguards told everyone about me? Easy! Did they tell you because I'm waging a war against them? No, I assume."
But Erik didn't keep talking about this topic. Telling this information to this woman would not bring him any benefit, and besides, what would be the point of changing one person's mind about him? None, aside from the fact he wasn't even interested in that.
Mia Turke, daughter of Salena Turke, was going to disappear from his sight once he was done extracting the information he needed from her.
"Besides, I've fought against plenty of women who were anything but helpless," he said.
and Etrium.
Children, most of the time. He remembered having lived in fear all his life, thinking he might be just one of the next few people to get kidnapped and disappear.
It was just that there would have been no one to mourn for him, no one trying to find him.
And he could have likely ended up like that easily. If it wasn't for Uncle Benjamin needing information about his father, needing to blackmail him in case he returned by using him as a bargain chip, he would unknowingly be.
Just that thought made his blood boil.
But he could not ask that anymore, and even if he did, he was sure his father would have said he would have given them what they wanted, just for him to have done the complete opposite. Lucius... He said he loved him, despite him not having really shown that for a long time, and while Erik didn't really know what to think about him, it was still true that what he was doing
was important.
Erik realized long ago that, even if he was the one that had to end up with the short end of the stick, even if it had to be him to live a harsh life, what his father did wasn't something he could simply toss away and forget about.
The blackguards had to be stopped; it was just that. Now it was Erik completing what his father, Becker, Richard, and Caiden Joyce, started.
He mentally communicated with the Chimaeric Demons, who had already disposed of the evidence of a fight and assumed their new identities.
There were a bunch of dead, naked bodies on the ground, all of them belonging to the guards
and workers present on the scene. James was also on the ground, stripped bare of his clothes and weapons. The only thing they didn't take was the guards' underwear, for obvious reasons, of course. But for the women in the midst, while they left their pants on, they had to take their
bras.
Mia, too, had been stripped of her clothes and was lying naked on the ground. Erik never made distinctions between people, aside from being an enemy or an ally, and he would not start
doing that now.
For now, he had to focus on the next steps. They needed to get off the airport grounds before
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