The sole heir

9. At stake

As soon as she was pushed into the car,she tried opening it, but to her dismay the door was locked. She quickly looked around to find anything to help her escape from this stranger, the man got in suddenly.
Without making an effort to look at his face she threw an unpractied punch at him, but she was too slow for a man like Lee. He got her hands, 

“ Relax, relax , I am not hurting you.” Ruth didn't believe him as she tried prying her hands from the dead lock. Ruth was scared and couldn't think of anything else.

“Hey , I am a friend of Marques ,see he has got something to discuss with you and for some odd reason, he can't do that inside the campus, alright? . So let's get the hell out of here before your friend spots us.

“ How can I believe you ?” Ruth asked, shaking her hands free and looking at  Zake,who was looking around in search of her and was actually praying he sees her .

“ jangnanhae? He snorted "isn't it enough to believe me that you are sitting there comfortably , I could have punched you or tied you or even more, knocked you out , while I just dragged you because I was sure you were not going to come by will and I saw your boyfriend was coming this way too. So I had no other choice.” 

He has a point ,she thought, but she didn't notice that they were out of the campus by now. She quickly sent a message to Zake about leaving early.

“Okay ,I noticed you're not american , you said something in-”

"My bad!, introductions was first , Iam Michael Lee ,like you said , I am half american,native korea . Some complications with collage, thanks to the king, so for now just wandering around.” 

She nodded her heads in acknowledgement as to why they were on campus.

“ Iam-” she was cut off by Lee saying “You're Ruth Fernandez,coming from the Mary's Orphanage. I don't know about your major but you were there to look after Sam for a few days.” 

Ruth gasped at the mention of Samuel’s name. As for what she knew, that information was something of an huge conspiracy.

“ Milady , you can relax , I've been with Marques since our sixth grade , nothing kept is behind us.”

“ Okay” she said, taking a deep breath , still gazing at Lee and having second thoughts on whether she made a fool out of herself or not by believing the man she could barely even call a stranger.

Lee chuckled looking at the lost face of Ruth . “ God , you can believe me-” the car halted inside an old garage “as we are already here and you’ll be at ease when you see Marques inside.”

They both got out of the car as she mumbled a “ I don't exactly know him either ”. Lee broke out laughing and exclaimed "that's a first to hear!." 

It was an old car wash garage that was not in use for like ten or fifteen years . Ruth noticed that they have come to the most populated and congested part of the city where half the people were fishermen or small shop owners. The gangs and drug dealers and every other blackmarket thing could be operated at ease cause these areas lacked security and cameras. But the thing was no one gave a shit about who Marques or even his Phanuel Angel of a father was. Cause they didn't even bat an eyelash at them or others for that matter.

 Lee opened another door and gestured his thumbs in for Ruth to enter. Ruth could see Marques inside sitting on an old stool,smoking on the last butt of his cigarette. In front of him was a table of two. Instantly Ruth's right hand began to tremble and a rise in her heartbeat . She wanted to leave .She hated to be weak but couldn't fight the fear that this idiot of a son will definitely have a gun around his waistband like the other day.