449: That isn't hard, is it?

That isn't hard, is it?

"You have 10 seconds to decide how you want to die — WHERE. IS. MY. SON?"0

Heaven's growl echoed in the interrogation room as everyone's eyes went wide. All of them were staring at her, holding their breaths, trying to process what just happened.

"Didn't..." Dane's lips quivered, staring at the blood trickling down the man's broken nose. "... she says... she'll beg him?"

This wasn't begging. Definitely not the begging they imagined. 

Everyone's mind went blank for a moment as time ticked slower than usual. Just a moment ago, Heaven was akin to a desperate mother who would do anything for her missing son. They all believed her. She was a mother, after all. Moreover, she didn't look like she was someone who could hurt a fly. This display of aggression surprised even her husband, Dominic Zhu. 

"Sis..." Axel whispered worriedly, keeping his gaze fixed on the woman holding the suspect still. 

"Heh..." Meanwhile, the corner of Tiger's mouth curled up in amusement. His eyes shone brightly, excited at what was about to happen. "... she better take that eye, at least."

Tiger's vicious comment easily got past the officer's ears present in the observation room. All of them were too surprised at the abrupt turn of events, and they could only stare at Heaven's figure in a daze. 

Meanwhile, in the interrogation room, the detective interrogating the suspect snapped out of his trance. 

"Hey, you can't just do that --" Just as the detective took a step, a hand landed on his shoulder. Looking back, he paused at the menacing pair of eyes burning a hole in him. 

"Touch my wife and I'll make sure you'll regret it forever," Dominic warned under his breath. "Consider yourself warned."

"Mr. Zhu!" the chief of police yelled, displeased at this couple's action. However, when Dominic looked back at him, the rest of his words rolled back into his throat. 

[As long as you don't interfere...] was what Dominic's menacing glare reminded the chief. 

Ten seconds... how ironic. Ten seconds was too short, but... every millisecond ever since that time limit was brought up on the table felt like minutes. 

"Uh..." Despite the situation happening around them and the throbbing tension in the bridge of his broken nose, the suspect gulped. He couldn't look away from the pair of eyes hovering over him. 

As someone who had been a part of a gang, living his life in daily violence and felony, the suspect could recognize just how deadly this woman was. She wasn't joking. She would kill him in ten — five seconds if he didn't give her the answer she wanted. 

"I..." the man's pale lips quivered, tasting the tang of iron as the blood reached his mouth. He flinched when Heaven drew the pen closer to his eye, refraining him from blinking. 

"Three..."

The man's heart thudded in panic, holding his breath until it suffocated his brain first. Ten seconds was too short for him to even process this deadly situation, and Heaven counting down wasn't helping!

"Two..."

"I don't know!" the man blurted out, shaking in fear as he immediately followed up his confession. "I didn't know where they took him, okay!? All I know is that I have to deliver him to some people where that bitch followed us!"

Heaven narrowed her eyes, studying the man's countenance. The rest also furrowed their brows as they listened to the man's confession, who had been playing with them for hours. 

"Please... I'm telling you the truth!" the man continued in a shaking and urgent tone. "That's all I know!"

The man held his breath as his mind tickled him for more information, sensing his confession wasn't enough. "Right! I think... I think..."

"Speak." Heaven tugged his hair back, commanding him through her gritted teeth. "You think, what?" 

"Our gang owned a few warehouses where we... keep some people captive and also where we dissolve them in acid." The man gulped, giving away a piece of valuable information that could warrant his gang's wrath. "They will surely take the boy in one of them — I can give you where the warehouses were."

"Where are they?"

The man gulped once again, planning to ask for a pen and paper to list the locations down. At least, by that, this pen would go away from him. However, this woman didn't have any patience. 

"First is on the east side of the Cakewalk County..." the man uttered with jagged breath. His heart sank as he gave the second location, and then his mind realized he would soon die upon giving out the third and fourth. Even though he knew he might not get out of there, his boss would surely send someone to end him inside the prison for betraying the gang by snitching on them. 

As the man started giving more valuable information, the chief snapped out of his trance. He snapped his eyes, bringing the detectives back to their senses. One detective in the observation room immediately took out a small note, jotting down the locations the man was giving them. 

"That's… all," the suspect breathed out as cold sweats covered his entire body. "I don't know which one they took the kid, but he's surely in one of those places."

"Detective, send out the list to everyone and raid all those warehouses —"

Just as the chief gave orders in a hurry, knowing they couldn't waste a second upon getting this information, he stopped upon hearing Heaven's remarks. 

"That isn't hard, is it?" Heaven breathed out calmly, drawing the pen away back to the table. The man heaved a sigh of relief as the threat seemed to have gone away, but it was short-lived. 

When her eyelids drooped and her eyes glinted menacingly, the man's heart thudded against his chest once again. She continued, "Even so, how dare you hurt my family?"

SLAM!

Everyone stopped, breath hitching, as Heaven slammed the man against the table again. This time, however, she held the pen erected on top of it. Blood spilled all over the table in an instant before the man's scream erupted in the interrogation room with the pen stuck in his left eye. 

"Ahhh!!!!" 

"That one eye is for my mother-in-law. I'll take the rest later."

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