#CHAPTER 47: Caught

FELIX Next to me, Mila froze. Her eyes were fixated across the street, seemingly on a redheaded man who was sulking in the shade of one of the buildings. I could sense her feelings of dismay and outrage swirling in my own gut. Something in my chest tightened. Who was he? “Do you know that man?” I asked cautiously. Mila kept staring straight forward, her face as white as a ghost. “Mila?” I asked again. She finally blinked, as if snapping back into reality. “Derek,” she breathed in response. My body immediately flooded with hot anger. Derek was the man who had brought her to Fresonia in the first place before scamming her and leaving her on the streets. I turned to the guards keeping watch behind us. “Seize him.” Mila watched, unflinching, as the guards surreptitiously crossed the street and dragged Derek into our car waiting nearby. I turned to Mila. “We have two options here,” I said. “We can either turn him straight over to the