Taken By The Mafia Lord

389 [Bonus chapter]An Evil Fortress

“I have heard all of your requests and you are assured that this case would not be waved aside as nothing. I would conduct a proper investigation and would punish them for their crimes severely. Also, you would be compensated heavily for your loss and maltreatment in the hands of my poorly trained men,” Daniel promised them and It left a sour taste in his mouth admitting that his men were ‘poorly trained’.

But he had no choice but to do it to appease their anger. As lithe as women were, they waged the greatest war with devastating damages and he was not ready to suffer the fury of a woman scorned. Not to mention that Marcel was watching him and like a hawk, he was ready to point out his flaw. The competition between father and son was quite intense and none of them wanted to lose.

“You better do,” Fred warned and then reached for Mimi, pulling her into his arms protectively. Right now, he had no care whether she was an attractive woman that he could hit on, what mattered was that she needed his support, their support.

“Come on, let’s get out of here,”

At once, Arianna came out of her hiding place, making sure to use the other’s body as a shield to prevent Dahlia from seeing her. They walked past Daniel and his people and she didn’t even dare to look at the side, Arianna kept her eyes straight till they were out of the room.

Thank God.

Meanwhile, Clara had enough of waiting. She had no idea what was going on up there and both men stopped her from joining them. She didn’t want to disobey their order or be seen as a gossip, but she was tired of waiting and so she stood up to head there.

However, when she cut into the corner of the passageway, Clara bumped into a bunch of cleaners judging from their uniform, and one of them, in particular, knocked into her.

“Sorry,” The woman said and moved on and Clara didn’t think much about it because she was in a hurry to go see Marcel and her father-in-law. However, she suddenly halted in her steps, having remembered something.

.....

That face....

She had seen that face before, wasn’t that....

At once, Clara turned around and went after the cleaners.

“Excuse me? Excuse me?!” She shouted after them and they had no choice but to stop in the end. They all turned at once and stared at the young lady waving after them.

Mimi and her team looked at the woman in front of them with no clue who she was and their gazes were filled with questions. What does she want from them?

Clara stopped and stared at them as well, checking for the face she had seen earlier but she was nowhere to be found and that left her confused.

She was sure to have seen Marcel’s mistress among them or had she mistaken? After all, she had been thinking of that woman a little too much these days, and come to think of it, why would she even be here?

It sounded outrageous.

“Do you need anything, Ma’m?” Grace was the one who asked her. Judging from the lady’s ostentatious dressing and the necklace on her neck plus her gracious countenance, she could tell that the lady must be rich or something. Not to mention that she was walking freely with no soldier harassing her.

“No, nothing!” Clara woke up from her stupid thoughts, “I must have been mistaken or something? Go on ahead, don’t mind.” She turned and left immediately, red in the face.

That was very embarrassing. What had she even been thinking? Marcel’s woman coming here for what? She must be out of her mind or something?! No, Clara knew she had to get that fucking woman out of her mind before she lost it!

“Jade!” Miriam called Arianna from her hiding spot not long after Clara left, “What are you doing there?” She looked at her weirdly.

“Oh, this!” Arianna stepped away from the pillar she stood behind, and then touched it, “I was simply admiring it,” She lied.

“Are you kidding me right now?” Miriam gave her an incredulous look. One of them was almost and the other was admiring a wall – probably losing her mind after her friend was harassed, she thought.

“Come on, let’s go!” Miriam went ahead to pull her and they quickly went after the others that had left already.

The truth is that Arianna had not been admiring any wall. No, she had bumped into Clara in the passageway, which was quite a shocker. What was Clara doing here as well? It was as if their plans were turned upside down and if she had gone with the original script, they would be doomed by now.

However, as soon as the shock wore off, she knew Clara caught a glimpse of her. So call it instinct or something, she knew the girl would come after her and as soon as they reached the foyer, she quickly hid behind one of the massive pillars and narrowly escaped that witch catching her.

Yeah, it was a narrow escape and she couldn’t wait to get out of this place because there was only so much her poor heart could handle. She couldn’t wait to be alone with Mimi so she could properly take care of her friend. All those acting and the emotions must have taken a toll on her and she looked exhausted.

The cleaning crew didn’t take their equipment because all that mattered was getting out of here before the assholes thought of something else to torment their life. They would probably send their things back to them at the end of the day. For now, they had to return to the company and report what happened.

They all got into the car and Arianna sat beside Mimi this time, making sure her head rested on her shoulder. She was never using her friend as bait to catch the bad guys again. She feared how to explain what happened to Victor because he was sure to go bananas.

They drove off and it wasn’t after they successfully left the place that Arianna was able to finally breathe. If Marcel’s base had been a prison, then this place was definitely an evil fortress.