Episode 11

"Calming down, Lawrence! I highly doubt that Miki did anything to the girl," Santiago quickly responded.

"Santiago, you're too naïve to think that Miguel is incapable of doing something to a woman... Miki is the devil himself, especially when it comes to a beautiful woman."

"Calm down? Santiago, do you really think I'm an idiot? If I were, I wouldn't have grown everything my parents left me in such a short time."

"I know Miki, and I know he won't be able to resist a beautiful woman, especially if he thinks she had something to do with what happened to me!" I mentioned angrily again.

Santiago's face completely changed. He paced nervously, his hands moved around his neck, and his lips trembled.

It's a clear indication that he knows more than he said. Otherwise, he wouldn't be this nervous.

"Call Miki and bring him here right now!" I said without hesitation.

"Lawrence, do you really think Miki did something to that woman?"

Before Santiago finished speaking, I looked at him in a way that made his body tremble, at least for the next twenty-four hours.

Santiago took out his phone from his pant pocket, hesitated for a few seconds while looking at the screen, and his hands trembled like melting jelly.

After a few minutes, Miki didn't answer his call, which made me very annoyed. Miki is going too far.

"Lawrence, Miki isn't answering. He must be very busy..."

Of course, I can imagine what his "busy" means; he must be with one of his many lovers.

"Keep insisting!"

After a long time, Miki answered Santiago's call. His voice sounded agitated and furious at the same time.

"Oh, it's you again! Damn it, Santiago, it's the last time you call me! Can't you see I'm very busy..."

"Yes!" I exclaimed.

"Ah!" The moans of a woman were heard on the other end of the line.

I asked Santiago for his phone; I wanted to hear Miki saying those words myself. Has he forgotten who the boss is here?

"You have less than ten minutes to come back to the Shop Mansion. If you don't, you'll regret it."

"Lawrence, have you regained consciousness?" Miki excitedly replied.

"As time passes, if you don't arrive, you'll truly regret it!" My voice sounded so cold that Miki simply ended the call.

"Miki is incapable of doing anything wrong to a woman. Maybe it was a misunderstanding..." Santiago tried to justify Miguel.

"You have less than ten minutes to inform me everything about that woman, Santiago. I want to know everything about her, even the most intimate secret."

Santiago turned around to start working on what I asked him. Miki only took half an hour to bring me to my room...

...Miki⬇

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"Lawrence, I can't believe you've already regained consciousness," I said to Lawrence in disbelief.

"Leave me alone with Miki," I ordered Santiago.

Santiago approached me only to provide the information he had gathered from the girl who saved my life.

"What's that?" Miki asked, pointing at the papers Santiago had just given me.

"It's something that doesn't concern you, Miki. Actually, it's you who needs to explain. Don't you believe him?" I responded.

"Lawrence, I don't understand what you're trying to tell me," Miki furrowed his brow.

"Enough, Miki!"

"Do you think I'm an idiot?"

Miki fell silent for a few seconds, then continued speaking.

"When we found her kneeling in front of you, trying to save your life... We brought her to the mansion and locked her in the basement."

"What happened to her?"

"I had to take her back to the city. The stupid girl cut her knee on a broken glass. She was burning with fever when I went to see her."

I squinted my eyes, realizing that something else had occurred in that basement. Miki was not the type of man to harm a woman, regardless of her condition.

"I want to see her right now," I declared.

"Lawrence, are you joking?... That girl means nothing," Miki argued.

"She means something to me, and that's more than enough. Can't you hear me, or do you want me to repeat it?" I snapped.

"Lawrence, you're putting that whore above me. I've been your friend for many years..."

"I hope, for your own good, Miki, that you didn't do anything to that girl while she was locked in the basement. I don't want our friendship to be affected..."

"Lawrence, are you serious?" Miki said, taken aback. Seeing my serious expression, Miki became agitated.

"Damn it, Lawrence! I can't believe you're saying this to me!"

With anger in his eyes, Miki turned around and stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind him.

I, too, was furious because I knew Miki had done something to that girl. However, I wasn't willing to jeopardize a lifelong friendship for a woman I had yet to meet.

... After a few minutes, once I had cleared my mind, I started reading the first lines written on the papers Santiago had given me before leaving the room...

... But before delving into all the information, I glanced at her photo.

Her name was Marcela. She was a breathtakingly beautiful woman with an angelic face. She was my angel, the woman I wanted for myself.

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"***Marcela Wlod."

"Age. 24 years old."

"Orphaned. At the age of 9."

Marcela inherited a vast fortune that her uncle Fabian Wlod has been managing for the past fifteen years.

"A week ago, she was about to marry Cesar Sox, who is thirty-two years old."

Their marriage didn't come to fruition as he left her at the altar for her cousin, Susana Wlod, who is twenty-two years old.

Now he is the new owner of all the Wlod family businesses, leaving Marcela Wlod*** on the streets.

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I finished reading the limited information Santiago had given me, although Santiago is highly capable in technology, he leaves much to be desired as a private investigator.

I tossed the papers onto the side of my bed, closed my eyes for a few seconds, and there it was again, his face.

His hands caressed my face as he drew a beautiful smile.

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