POV RICHARD "I had the feeling I heard shouting outside."Lord Rockfeller watches me suspiciously."Those screams weren't Akira Selena's, were they?""Yes, they were. She is in my hands. There is no way she can escape."A cretinous smile draws on my lips and I pour myself the wine my father Jeremy Rockfeller enjoys.Even though it was me who achieved the feat of having seduced Akira Selena, winning the diamonds and having her on our side, it is my father who occupies the best booth, entitled to privileges like a good wine of an old vintage to toast to victory."Careful, she is needed to translate the diary."My father and his interests."I know, so I will make her suffer so much and then trade her peace and freedom in exchange for the translation of that diary." My father laughs and proceeds to use his fingers to rest the weight of his head."Whatever for me, as long as you don't screw up like the one I saved you from earlier.""You were more considerate of Akira Selena, my father"
POV ALFRED"If the Rockfellers are so dangerous and want to do harm to your people, why not attack them and get it over with?" Suggests the elegant woman who calls herself Teresa. And it amazes me that big city people call us savages."Because we are not murderers. We have our values. The exact time will come and the guardians are counting on me to help" I explain."Interesting, practically an impossible mission, however, I will do everything in my power. I feel like an envoy of the guardians" She jokes and I like her humor.I feel safe being around her, so much so that I have already summarized the events to her, hiding the parts that are most painful to me or too intimate to be told to a woman I met an hour ago."Where are we going?" I peek out the window.She doesn't have a metal horse like Richard, making it necessary to continue the journey in a carriage."All the way to Boston. An important city. We will make some contacts and prepare for your arrival in London" She stares at m
POV ALFRED"I took down the for sale ad, I won't have to sell the house anymore. It was a shame I dismissed the servants, but it's easy to fix" She speaks as she takes out huge white cloths that cover the furniture."I can help and we won't need servants" I start by taking the remaining cloths off the furniture as well, but I am surprised by her hand gripping my wrist tightly."I am not trying to make you a lord, I will make you a lord. And for that, we will spend all the necessary resources. Powerful lords always have many people to serve them" She releases me and collects the cloth for herself "Then go up to the first room on the right, I will bring you warm water in a moment.I raise my hands in surrender, accepting that here I am a beta commanded by a woman, not an Alpha.The stairs to the second floor are clearly visible from the room, so I walk up them until I find the corridor and the room indicated.As I open the door, I leave it ajar, and the decor reminds me more of the styl
POV AKIRA SELENA "Sel, sometimes Richard is explosive, but deep down he's a good person" Lilian not only puts cloths over my lips that were swollen from Richard's slap, but softens her brother's attitudes. "Sometimes? Because it's the first time I've seen him like that, and the impression I get is that he's been hiding under dry leaves all this time and then biting me like a snake." Having nothing new to argue in Richard's favor, Lilian cranes her head with a pitying expression that I hate them to have of me. "Don't worry Lilian, if I survived a fall from the cliff as a child, it won't be a slap to bring me down" I remove the cloth wet with warm water from her hand, so that I can be the one to improve my bruise. " Did you fall? And how can you not have a scratch? A broken leg or arm?" She is not very convinced. "Because my mother asked the guardians to give me my life back. Then I would serve their purposes." And who knows, maybe because I didn't, my life is doomed to ruin at
POV RICHARD Before dinner "Lilian, what happened?" I watched her walk out of Akira Selena's booth with an embarrassed expression. Very few things make my fake little sister nervous, and most of them are related to her stupid desire to perform a good wedding. Would this be yet another confirmation of Selena's inappropriate behaviors? If it is, I'd like to know, and as it turns out, I don't need to go meet Lilian to find out, she came towards me herself like a bull ready to hit me. "How did you have the nerve to bring a dishonorable woman to share the same roof with me? You know what will happen in London when everyone finds out about her reputation, don't you?" She's very upset, and it's amazing how un-united women are when their interests come into conflict. "There are many important things at stake, and her reputation is one of the least of our problems, Lilian" Not even my sister she is, and from what I remember, my father would marry her to the first man who was most con
POV RICHARDI was the first to arrive, followed by my father who was surprised by the set table and stared at me with a sarcastic smile of one who would enjoy dinner as well."Will we be celebrating a special date today?" he pretends to be confused and sits down at the table " I hope this is not a waste of yours, we are on the high seas and if the winds are not favorable it will take us a while to arrive. Reservations should last" He places the napkin in his lap and signals the maid to come forward and pour a wine for him." This is the first dinner Akira Selena has been with us, I thought it should be big. Just tonight..." I make eyes at him like a little boy begging for another pawn or a wooden cart he saw in a store window one Christmas time."I know exactly what you're getting at. I don't know from whom you inherited such a sadistic temper" He drinks a little from his cup."You tell me, that you left my mother dying alone after childbirth to go after a child of an unrequited love
POV ALFRED"Selenaaaaaa!" I scream desperately."Calm down, Alfred, it was just a dream" Tereza wakes up on my side a little startled and still caresses my hair and kisses me gently.While for me, there remains the embarrassment that I have shouted another woman's name when the two of us are naked and lying on the bed in her house."It was just a bad dream, Alfred" She reassures me, but only I know how I feel."No. It was real, I saw her falling from a place and asking for my help. I shouldn't be here, I have a mission to accomplish, I hope you understand" I move away from her body and go looking for something to wear."Alfred, I understand and I promised to help you. What happened here was just a moment of leisure. It won't happen again unless we want to relax" She replies and I am reassured that she sees things as we do in Skyfall."Thank you, Teresa, really" I thank her sincerely for her understanding."The diamonds are enough for me" She winks at me and it's nice to know that she
POV ALFRED"Don't take Sara's words so literally. Gypsies are a superstitious people" Teresa speaks as we arrive at her house.I observe her gesture of leaving her fan and shawl at the entrance, then do the same with her hat."She is identical to the women of my people who read our fortunes and warn us of the dangers of our choices" I note, it is only that I don't call her old mother because she is young for that "Besides, there were too many details. Almost no one knows the name of the real mother's mother Akira Selena. That is a forbidden subject in Skyfall so she wouldn't find out the truth. I only told it to you and there is no way she could have heard it, both of us being in a carriage on the way here" I defend Sara, because that is what my intuition commands me to do."You're right! I am being drastic and denying the obvious. I don't want you to create expectations that will then give you more grief, Alfred. You've been through so much already..." She laments."But I am resilien