Love Comes To Me
Chapter 1043: Handing over the stuff

The "old place" Raimunda referred to on the phone was in fact a green bush in the park near the hotel.

Before the plan began, Manzanares had made all the arrangements, even for her to be discovered.

He was prepared for this, but when it happened, Manzanares couldn't accept it.

He and Rosero went to the park and took a small box out of the greenery.

Inside the box was the USB stick they wanted.

Squeezing the flash drive into his hand, Manzanares had mixed feelings as he looked to Rosero, "I want to go and save Raimunda."

"Are you crazy?" Rosero was taken aback, "What if you don't get her out and you get yourself into trouble?"

Manzanares pursed his lips and didn't say anything.

Rosero knew he was upset and patted him on the shoulder, "Raimunda was trained by you to sell her life, and I don't think she would want you to save her." That being said, people are emotional creatures, and after spending a lot of time together, they more or less have feelings.

Manzanares thought about it, shoved the flash drive into Rosero's hand and made a decision, "You give this to Mr Hector for me, I'll go and save Raimunda." With that, he turned and ran away.

Rosero tried to stop it too late, and could only hold the flash drive in place, not knowing what to do.

...

Manzanares went to the hotel where Pierce was staying and asked the receptionist, who did not want to reveal Pierce's room number.

He was about to ask for more information when his mobile phone suddenly rang.

He took it out and saw that it was Raimunda.

He picked it up and before he could say anything, a voice with a strange accent came through: "Mr. Manzanares, how are you?" "Pierce?" Manzanares said uncertainly.

"Yes, it's me. I don't know if you remember your girlfriend being here with me?"

"Of course I remember." Manzanares returned calmly, "I'm here to pick her up, aren't I?"

"Hmm?"

Manzanares looked around, the hotel lobby was not very crowded at this time of day.

"I'm just downstairs, what's your room number?" He asked bluntly.

"2303. i'll be waiting for you, Mr. Manzanares."

Manzanares hung up the phone and stood in place for a few moments before lifting his steps towards the lift.

Meanwhile, Rosero contacted Perez, "Manzanares is going alone to rescue Raimunda, I'm afraid it might be dangerous, bring some men over."

Without another word, Perez led the men straight to the hotel to join Rosero.

The dark corridor was silent as Manzanares took one step on the carpet and headed for room 2303.

In room 2303 stood two tall foreigners with fierce faces, and when they saw Manzanares, they stared at him with a fierce glare.

Manzanares looked unperturbed, a light smile on his lips, "I'm here to see Mr Pierce, please let me know."

Instead of briefing, they simply opened the door.

A quick glint crossed Manzanares' eyes and he straightened his back and walked in.

Pierce was sitting on the sofa in the living room, legs folded, one hand on the back of the sofa, the other resting on his lap, looking at Manzanares with a smirk. "Mr. Manzanares, we meet again." Pierce said with a smirk.

Manzanares nodded, "Yeah, hello again."

He looked around, "Where's my girlfriend?"

"So Mr. Manzanares remembers your girlfriend, I thought you forgot."

Manzanares laughed lightly, "How could I forget?"

"Didn't you guys have a big fight the other night?" Pierce raised an eyebrow.

"Isn't it normal for lovers to fight?" Manzanares shrugged, with an expression of being used to it.

"That's true."

Pierce shot a wink at his sidekick, who comprehended it and turned to go into the bedroom. Manzanares looked over.

Soon the man walked out escorting Raimunda.

"Mr Pierce, what do you mean by that?" Manzanares looked at Pierce in feigned disbelief. The latter was silent.

Raimunda's eyes widened instantly when she saw Manzanares, "What are you doing here?"

"I've come to pick you up and take you home. But...?" Manzanares eyes narrowed.

Her cheeks were swollen and the palm marks on them were obvious.

He turned his head and shot a sharp look at Pierce, "Mr Pierce, can you tell me what's going on here? How did my girlfriend get beaten up like this?" Pierce was in no hurry to answer as he slowly got up and paced over to Raimunda, lifting his hand to clasp her jaw hard and smiling coldly, "You'll have to ask to see what your girlfriend has done." "What do you mean?" Manzanares looked confused as he looked to Raimunda, "What did you do?"

Raimunda bit her lip tightly and didn't answer.

"What the hell did you do?" Manzanares questioned in a stern voice.

Still no response.

Furious, he rushed up and pushed Pierce away from him, grabbed Raimunda by the lapels and asked through gritted teeth, "Are you dumb? What the hell did you do?" Pierce was caught off guard by the push and stumbled a few steps to the side before he could stand.

He looked at Manzanares with a look of rage and for a moment couldn't tell if it was real or not.

"Mr. Manzanares, do you really not know or do you not know?" Pierce asked tentatively.

Manzanares turned his head and asked back, exasperated, "What should I know, what can I know when you guys have no heads?"

Seeing that he really didn't look like he was acting, Pierce smiled slightly, "So let me get this straight, your girlfriend stole information from my computer."

"Huh?" Manzanares thought she had heard wrong, "Are you making a joke?"

"I'm not making a joke. She drugged me and took the opportunity to copy the information from the computer while I was unconscious."

"He's telling the truth?" Manzanares asked Raimunda, narrowing his eyes.

Raimunda gave him a look and just lowered her head, still not saying a word.

Manzanares took a deep breath, "Raimunda, if you did this, hand over the stuff."

"Throw it away." Raimunda finally spoke.

"Throw it away?" Manzanares snorted, "You went to all that trouble to get something and you threw it away? What is wrong with you?"

Manzanares let out a long sigh of relief, suppressing the anger that was churning in his mind, and turned to Pierce, "Can I take her back? I'll look for the stuff and send it to you when I replace it." "You're taking someone away?" Pierce asked.

"What, no?"

"Of course not. She's stealing trade secrets and I've called the police,"

"Call the police?" Manzanares' eyes widened in surprise.

Pierce smiled, "I didn't want to keep her, but for your sake, I'm keeping her alive to put her behind bars."

Manzanares was relieved to hear that.

He had expected Pierce to take Raimunda's life, but fortunately it was only to the police, and as long as the life was still there, he would replace a way around the rest.

"There's no room for negotiation?" Manzanares was still trying to fight.

"No."

Pierce replied dryly.

Manzanares nodded, "Fine then. She should be held accountable since she did something wrong."

He walked over to Raimunda and sighed in disappointment, "What can I say about you, you've been a good girlfriend to me, haven't you? You've got no idea what you're thinking! See, you've got yourself into it." "I'm sorry." Raimunda whispered an apology.

"Forget it, you behave yourself."