62: Loyalty Test

“What you are doing is extremely stupid,” Faith commented again as she felt being driven to an unknown destination. She couldn’t see where they were going because she was blindfolded. Her hands were tied behind her and her ankles were also tied with a rope. She squeak and fell on her face in the backseat when Mateo took a sharp turn. “Jerk,” she muttered under her breath. Whenever she passes a snarky comment at him, Mateo always takes a sharp turn to make her fall, but he never answers him verbally.

Faith’s head was still throbbing. She asked for a painkiller, but Mateo didn’t provide her with one. He is acting chillingly cold towards her. He has been dragging her, pulling her, tossing her around – without any care. With each passing minute, Faith feels like she is losing the old Mateo. With each passing minute, her heart sinks into her chest as she thinks about what he told her earlier. She has been searching for her family’s killer along with the killer himself. Maybe Mateo had noth