Chapter 71. The Old Lady

The lady looked at me and nodded. She had blood dripping from her lips and her face was already swollen badly. She was definitely too old for that kind of treatment, unfortunately though I knew that if she didn’t give me the reply I wanted I would do much worse than John had ever done to her.

“Do you know who I am?”

“Lupita? That’s your name?”

She shook her head.

“My name is Felix.” I pointed to John. “He must have told you that Lovette has been given out as a mate to a young man. I am that young man. Now my mate has run away from me, and I fear she has even stolen from me as well since her departure took a document containing access to lands and money I had worked hard for a while ago.”

“How did she get her hands on the document? Why do you think she will take them from you?” She probed further. Now it felt like we were having a casual discussion and I loved it.

“The documents were sent to me by John. They were payments for a job I did for