The interior of the Holy City Steel Mill is poorly lit.
Tied to a junk chair, Paulita’s eyes are covered with a black cloth and her small face is covered with tears.
“Woo Woo Woo Woo… Daddy… Star … Come save Paulita Woo Woo Woo…”
The little boy was still crying with fear and Amara Montellano, a little annoyed, scolded him: “If you cry again, I’ll cut your tongue out!
“…”
Paulita’s little body shuddered with fear and immediately closed her mouth tightly, unable to resist several stifled gasps, looking pitiful.
Amara Montellano scoffed: “You are Lupita Vasconcellos’ only granddaughter, Lupita Vasconcellos must love you very much, if she cut her granddaughter’s little white face a few times, Lupita Vasconcellos would hate I guess hahahahaha …”
With that, Amara Montellano raised the knife in her hand and slapped it into the soft little face of Paulita, who, being a child after all, moaned in fear.
“Daddy there are bad people here…. Daddy come and save Paulita … this woman is very bad Woo Woo …. ”
“Don’t worry, your father and uncle, they’ll be here soon.”
The one-hour deadline was up and in the last five minutes Adán Rouco and Andreo Fanta arrived in a hurry, kicking open the door and striding in.
Andreo Fanta’s dark eyes glared at her: “Amara Montellano, it’s you!”.
As soon as Adán Rouco entered the room, he saw Paulita, who was tied up and crying, her face red with fear and trembling, the daughter he had raised, the daughter he could never hit or touch, and who was now tied up and threatened by an enemy. As if ready to strike, he was ready to strike hard.
“Hatred between adults is counted with adults, what is your kidnapping of a child, free Paulita and the terms can be negotiated!”
As soon as Paulita heard Adán Rouco’s voice, the tears she had just held back collapsed: “Papa! Papa!”
Adán Rouco’s heart bled when he heard Paulita’s voice, which was already hoarse from crying so much, and he could not help but gently reassure her: “Paulita, don’t be afraid, daddy is here to save you, don’t be afraid, with daddy here nothing is going to happen to you”.
“Mmmmmm!” cried Paulita, nodding her little head.
Amara Montellano put the knife directly into Paulita’s tender little neck, “Where is the money? Throw the money here.”
Andreo Fanta threw the safe he was carrying, directly, at Amara Montellano’s feet, “You can count it, we brought the ten million you asked for, what more do you want before you let Paulita go?”
Without taking her eyes off them, Amara Montellano opened the safe with one foot. As soon as the automatic lock on the safe popped to make sure it contained real money, Amara Montellano used her foot again to close the safe immediately.
He took the knife in his hand and brought one end close to Paulita’s neck, Paulita felt the pain and her little eyebrow furrowed very deeply, “Daddy …. Paulita pain pain pain … ”
Adán Rouco looked at the blood running down Paulita’s neck and his dark eyes snapped shut, “Amara Montellano! What the hell do you want!”
“You sent my son Estevan to jail and you are living happily as a family, while I, Incendio Fanta, not only got divorced, but now I don’t even have a son. And Estrella Berrocal! If I had strangled her at birth, she would still be Ms.
With that, the force in Amara Montellano’s hand increased a little more, and the blood flowed faster and faster from Paulita’s neck.
Adán Rouco’s heart in his throat: “Don’t you want to take the money and leave Ciudad del Rey? Let Paulita go and I can be your hostage”.
“Will you be my hostage? You’re harder to control than this little guy, and I’m not going to fall for your tricks!”
Andreo Fanta made a tempting offer: “If you release Paulita, I can get Estevan Fanta out of jail right now and send you mother and son abroad”.
Hearing this medical examination, Amara Montellano’s gray eyes lit up for a moment: “Really?”.
Adam Rouco’s dark eyes looked coldly at the knife in his hand: “Take the knife away from Paulita’s neck for a moment!
Paulita opened her mouth, her face was covered with tears and her little milk voice whispered hoarsely: “My neck hurts…”.
The anger in Adán Rouco’s chest burned with the force of a flame: “Amara Montellano, can you hear me?
Amara Montellano moved the knife slightly away so that it was no longer pressed against Paulita’s neck, but it was still extremely dangerous and could have severed the artery in Paulita’s neck at any moment if she had moved.
Adán Rouco’s heart was pounding and a cold sweat was running down his back, sweating all over his shirt.
Amara Montellano ordered Andreo Fanta: “Call me right now and tell the police. The office releases Estevan!”
“Good.”
Andreo Fanta called the police directly. Amara Montellano asked him to turn on the loudspeaker and Andreo Fanta did so.
When the call was answered, Andreo Fanta spoke calmly, “Director Heriberto, this is Andreo Fanta, Estevan Fanta, who was sent to you for drug use, he seems to have served his sentence, can he be released today?”
Director Heriberto sent someone to check it out, and after a few minutes said, “Since Mr. Andreo asked for it, of course it can be released today.”
“Good.”
After hanging up the phone, Andreo Fanta said, “Now, do you want to let Paulita go?”.
“How am I supposed to believe you when you say words like that and I have no idea if you’re lying to me or not?”
Adán Rouco offered, “You can call Estevan Fanta now and ask him to come to the airport and we can provide him with a ticket to take you to the airport to meet Estevan Fanta. ”
“Are you really so kind?”
“Now I do want to kill you with a thousand cuts, but you have my daughter, and whether you live or die is worth nothing to me compared with my daughter, and if letting you and your son leave King’s City gives me peace for my daughter, naturally I will do it gladly.”
Amara Montellano seems to have believed most of what Adán Rouco said.
Shortly thereafter, Amara Montellano put Paulita, with a knife to her neck, in a car with Adán Rouco and Andreo Fanta.
Andreo Fanta drives, Adán Rouco rides in the passenger seat and Amara Montellano and Paulita ride in the back seat.
Andreo Fanta drives while communicating with Adán Rouco out of the corner of his eye.
Adán Rouco looks in the rearview mirror and watches Amara Montellano’s every move.
It seemed to Amara Montellano that Andreo Fanta was driving slowly and she spoke a little grumpily: “Drive! If you think of anything, don’t blame me for doing something bad to this child!”.
“Sit well.”
Andreo Fanta stepped on the accelerator and the black Bentley took off down the road like a cheetah.
It was a long way from Acería de la Ciudad Santa to the airport, and just as Amara Montellano was getting a little tired after a long impasse, Adán Rouco turned with great speed and caught the knife in Amara Montellano’s hand!
Amara Montellano tried with all her might to pull the knife out of Adán Rouco’s palm, but found that Adán Rouco was incredibly strong, and as if he was not afraid of pain, his palm seemed to grow with the knife, and he grabbed it directly by the blade!