Simon was standing on the balcony of his room. He could not forget what Ella had said. He suddenly felt anxious when he recalled what had happened before. Simon grabbed his chest, then turned a blind eye. THE YEAR 1500 After Simon had burned the house, Helena and Lando's son Rafael went with him. Every town they went through was already contaminated with the disease. Many had died; others had already been incinerated. Simon wrapped Rafael in a blanket while he carried him. He has been walking for several days and still has no safe place for the child. He also ran out of food and milk. Simon doesn't have enough cash to buy milk. Simon sat in the shade of the hut to look at the child he was carrying. He was asleep, but Simon frowned, noticing the child's high temperature. Simon also noticed the deep breathing. Simon looked around. He was amid coconut palms and mango trees. Simon carefully lowered the infant into the crib he had made for him. He was climbing and picking c
Luna and Ella sat on a broken limb of a big tree while Simon and Seth sat on the sand. They're sipping beer and eating barbecue on the beach. The breeze is cold too, so it's nice to be on the beach. "Uncle, you've been quiet since morning," Seth said. "I thought we could be here because you're glad I'm graduating, but it's as if my funeral is coming." "Haist, you kid, don't even say that thing," Simon growled. Seth smiled and whispered to Simon. "Uncle, Luna looks hot in her dress. Did you notice?" Simon beat Seth with his head, but instead of getting hurt, he laughed. Simon glanced at Luna, whom Ella was speaking with. The two of them were happy whispering. He drank a beer and then smirked. Seth smiled as he looked at him. "Uncle, I think Luna likes you. You have no intention of going out with her?" Seth asked. Simon looked at Seth. "What did you say? You are making no sense." "It's obvious you like Luna too; why don't you date her? Why are you restraining yourself?" S
It surprised Ella and Seth the next day to see people lifting the big old clock. They hurried down the stairs. “Dimitri, where are you taking the big clock?” Seth asked. “Master Simon puts it in his room downstairs,” said Dimitri. “In the stockroom?” Ella and Seth said at the same time. “In his collection room,” said Dimitri. “In that stockroom.” Seth and Ella said. “Hrmm, do you have anything to order?” Dimitri asked. “Nothing. Where is uncle?” Seth asked. “He left early. There’s an emergency at the hospital,” said Dimitri. “Your uncle asked me to prepare breakfast. You can go straight to the dining room. ” Ella and Seth looked at each other. It distracted them when they heard the door of Luna’s room open. “You know, Ella, something is happening with uncle and Luna. Uncle’s mood is different,” said Seth. “Haist, you are pure nonsense. Come on, maybe what uncle cooked for breakfast is delicious.” Ella said. “Good morning.” Luna smiled. “Hello, Luna. Uncle allegedly cooked
Simon hadn’t even thought about Rafael’s visit to the hospital. He was busy with his patients and those he operated on. Sometimes he calls Luna, and he is not too worried because it is only at the police station and not in the field. “Aren’t you going home yet, Clara?” Simon asked as he approached her table. Simon was already carrying his bag and was on his way home after a long operation he had performed. It was close to midnight at that moment. “Are you going home, doc?” Clara asked. “Yeah, it has been a long day. I’m tired,” said Simon. “Let’s go home.” “Someone will pick me up, doc,” Clara said, smiling. “Oh, I see.” Simon smiled. “Then I’ll be ahead of you.” “Be careful, doc,” Clara said. Simon walked quickly out of the office. He went straight to the elevator and his car's basement parking lot. He immediately approached his vehicle but heard a voice from behind before he could open the door. “Who are you? What do you know about me? ” Simon turned his back and saw Rafael
Rafael sat in his house. He sat down several times, stood up, and walked while thinking. He still couldn’t believe that the man he had shot in the head was alive. Rafael bit his nail hard as he walked back repeatedly into the living room of his house. “Impossible. What kind of person is he? How did he live? I’m sure I shot him in the head.” said Rafael. Rafael was stunned and reflected on what had happened. It was like a movie that flashbacked to his brain. He was sure he had shot the man in the head. He saw the blood on the floor before his companion shot him. Rafael grabbed his head. “I need to find out how that happened.” Rafael stared at his reflection in the mirror. There were still traces of wounds all over his body, and blood showed on his clothes. He slowly approached the mirror and examined his wounds. He remembered what the man had said. “My secret is, I gave you immortality. Your parents died of an illness and left you to me. There was a serious rising disease, and ther
“Aren’t you two going home yet?” Ella and Seth sat on the sofa while watching tv and eating fruit. Luna sat beside the table while busy peeling the fruit the three were eating. Ella glanced at Simon. “Uncle, it’s not just obvious, but I’m on duty now. There is a lot of police downstairs and around the hospital.” Ella said. “And me, I can’t go home. Will you leave me there alone while you’re all here? No way!” said Seth. Simon frowned and glanced at Luna, laughing, looking at Ella and Seth. ‘Haist, it’s my chance to be alone with Luna. There is some annoying brat here.’ Simon thought. Ella stood up and approached Luna. She sat next to Luna. “You, Luna? Have you had a good rest? ” “Yeah, but it is so boring here,” said Luna. “Let’s tell the doctor that I’ll be out tomorrow so I can find Rafael.” Ella smirked. “As if you can get back to work right away.” “Why not? You can do it, can’t you?” Luna asked. “I’ll ask the doctor and chief first,” said Ella. “Huh? You are in a higher
Rafael was waiting for Simon and Luna to come out of the hospital, and he didn’t make a mistake. He saw their car get out of the hospital basement parking lot. And why he could not recognize the vehicle, police officers escorted their truck. “Do you have a police escort, huh?” Rafael said softly, then he started the motorcycle and pivoted it on. Meanwhile, Simon is driving the car. He puts Seth in the back seat and Luna in the front. Ella was riding in another vehicle. Ella looked in the rearview mirror to see a motorcycle following them earlier. She couldn’t see its face because it was wearing a helmet. The rider saluted her and then passed her car when it got next to Ella’s car. “How did that rider know I was a cop?” Ella asked. Her eyes widened, and she immediately called the car in front and Luna. Luna immediately answered Ella’s call from the last car following them. Ella said a suspicious motorcycle rider was following their vehicles. Luna peeked in the rearview mirror and s
Simon was inside his laboratory and took his blood sample. He hid his blood sample and cleaned the inside of the laboratory. Sweat drenched him as he turned off the air conditioning in the room. Using the vacuum, he removed the dust and dirt around. He had already taken off his clothes because it’s wet. Luna was standing in the doorway, staring at Simon, who was taking off his clothes. Who would have thought that a hottie in front of her was 544 years old? She smiled. “Do you have to be naked when cleaning?” Luna asked. Simon turned around and smiled. He noticed Luna was carrying a food tray and laid it on the clean table. “You didn’t go out for dinner, so I brought dinner here. Let’s eat together?” Luna said, smiling. Simon turned around and washed his hand in the sink. He also washed his face and removed the cabinet's clean towel to wipe his body. Simon approached Luna, then; sat down on the other side of the table. Luna arranged the food on the table. “You have not eaten yet?”
The guests clink their glasses together to express their desire for further kisses from the newlywed. Simon laughed and put up one hand to encourage the guests to keep clinking the glasses. He wrapped his hand around Luna’s waist and leaned her back as he kissed her. Luna’s arms encircled Simon’s neck as it wrapped them around his. —Flashback— Luna grabbed Simon’s hand right away so that it wouldn’t go all the way under the water. She opened his mouth and gave him air as she tried to swim upward. Later, two divers gave Simon air and helped them swim back up. Luna gasped for air as soon as she pulled her head out of the water. Luna’s fellow police officers pulled Simon away. “Let me..” Luna said, and then her colleagues gave her space. She put her ear next to Simon’s mouth and nose. Without feeling the wind on his face, he looked to see if his chest was moving. She checks Simon’s pulse for 10 seconds. She put the heel of one of her hands on the middle of the breast at the nipple lin
Simon woke up because he could feel his bed moving. He got up and noticed that one of his hands was handcuffed. When he turned around, he saw Seth and Luna standing at the end of the yacht. Their mouths are covered with tape, and their wrists, chests, and feet are tied.“You said you wouldn’t hurt them,” Simon said.Rafael smiled. “I lied.”“You are crazy!” Simon retorted.Rafael did not answer. He just laughed as if Simon was just joking. When Simon looked at his arm, he saw he was drawing blood again. He tried to take it off, but he handcuffed one of his hands to the pole and the other was numb. Rafael had taken blood from one of his arms, and now he couldn’t move that arm. He didn’t know how much blood he had taken, but he already felt weak and lightheaded.“Stop fighting, Simon. If you can get out of there, I will throw those two into the sea.” Rafael said as he sat down in front of Simon. “Think about how they could swim if they were tied together.”Simon was breathing hard, and
Rafael tied Luna’s hands and feet together and taped her mouth shut as he did with Seth. Luna was struggling to get away when Rafael picked her up. He lifted her onto his shoulder and carried her to the garage. He set Luna down. Later, Luna’s eyes grew wide when she saw Rafael holding a syringe. He immediately injected it into her arm. At first, she was still struggling, but she couldn’t keep her eyes from closing.“Don’t worry, you only slept for about half a day or so,” Rafael said, laughing. “As long as you don’t get in the way of my plans. I don’t want you with me anymore...” Rafael carried Luna to the car’s compartment. “But I thought I could use you just in case, you know, your boyfriend didn’t agree.”Rafael closed the trunk of the car with a smile. He went back into the house and walked up to Seth with a smile. He started by looking at Seth.“For an 18-year-old, you have a muscular body. Do you go to the gym?” Rafael asked.Rafael pulled Seth’s arm up and forced it up. “Just j
Ella noticed that someone was being followed by a motorcycle after she had already gotten on the highway. She glanced in the side mirror and just let the motorcycle follow her. She was almost to the village where she lived when a motorbike blocked her way, forcing her to step on the brakes. When she saw the man leave his motorbike, she immediately ready her gun and waited for him to come toward her. When the man got close to the driver’s seat window, it knocked. Ella quickly opened the door, which the man didn’t expect, so when the door hit the rider’s body, he fell a short distance away. Before he got up, Ella got out of the car and immediately pointed the gun at the man. The man immediately lifted one hand and used the other to open the front of the helmet.“This is Sanchez, ma’am...”Ella didn’t immediately believe that’s why the man took off his helmet. When Ella saw who it was, she just put the gun back on her hip.“What are you doing, Sanchez?” Ella asked. “I said I’m fine. You
Simon is at home to rest. The private doctor who looked after Simon gave him back the blood that had been taken from him. Since they left Nueva Ecija, he hasn’t woken up. The doctor said it was only normal. Simon’s body had lost too much blood.Simon was sleeping, and Luna was sitting next to the bed and watching him. Seth brought Luna food. Seth put it on the table next to the couch, and Luna went over to it right away.“Ella has already left,” said Seth. “Why doesn’t uncle wake up?”Luna gave a headshake. “Rafael looks like he drained his blood. That person is horrible.” Luna took a bite of the burger.“Because it’s easier if he takes Uncle’s blood and puts it in him before he kills him.”“Yes, that’s right. That’s what he wants to do.” Luna said. “Thank goodness we found him right away. If not, what your uncle has been hoping for since then would have happened.”Seth chuckled. “As if you are going to let that happen.”“Of course not, no,” Luna said, and then took a bite of the burg
Seth keeps looking in the library for Simon’s diary. He looked in every cabinet and on every shelf for it. Ella and Luna are at the hospital waiting for an update.“Why did it take Zev so long to find it?” Ella asked.“Don’t you know where Simon might have hidden it?” asked Luna. “Or he might have said it before and you just don’t remember.”“When Uncle was telling stories, he never said the name. Even the years, you still have to confirm with him.”Luna said nothing—she just took a deep breath. He couldn’t imagine what Rafael could do to Simon. So far, they have heard nothing, but she’s sure Simon is still alive.———-When Simon woke up, it was dark outside. He was so dizzy that he didn’t know how much blood Rafael had taken from him. And he still doesn’t take away the devices used. He felt cold. A sudden drop in blood pressure can also bring on chills. His heart needs some time to pump fresh blood through his body. That’s why it makes him feel weak, dizzy, shiver, and sweat. He als
Simon woke up on a bed, unable to move. Rafael tied his hands and legs to the corners of the bed. He was in a room that wasn’t furnished, but the bed was comfortable.“Why did you tie me here? I told you I wouldn’t run away, didn’t I?”“Yeah, I heard,” Rafael said. “But I don’t trust you. Also, you need to get some rest.”“Why? What’re you going to do?”Rafael smiled. “What kind of food do you want to eat? Just tell me what it is, and I’ll buy it. I’ll spoil you while you’re here with me.”Simon saw Rafael was dressed as if he was going to leave. “Where’re you going?”“Am I supposed to say where I am going to, uncle?” Simon said, chuckling.“If you are going to leave, let me go. Even if you just tie my legs. What if I need to go to the bathroom?”“Hold on, I’m just fast. I won’t last long. Also, if I do that, you will wear yourself out. That’s not possible, because I told you, you need to rest today. Behave, I’ll be gone in a moment...”Rafael got up and left the room quickly. Simon s
“Rafael...”The man was not too far away from them with a revolver in his hand and was aiming it at Luna. The man was staring at Luna. When Luna was about to approach Simon, Rafael shot again, and this time it was between her and Simon. Luna stepped back.“You..” Rafael said to Simon. “Come here if you don’t want me to shoot that policewoman again.”“Simon, no!”Rafael shot again and hit Luna on the other leg, causing her to fall to her knees. Simon’s eyes got wider.“What? Are you approaching or do you want the next bullet to hit the girl’s head?“No, don’t shoot Luna, please.”Luna was sweating cold, her hand was numb, and now her leg was too. He leaned against the car’s front.“What are you... what are you doing, Simon?” asked Luna.“I am waiting, Simon Gonzales...”“I’ll go with you, but don’t hurt her anymore...” Simon tried to stand.“No, no Simon!”“Do not worry about me. Call Ella and have her come pick her up so she can go with you to the hospital...”“No Simon. Don’t follow
“Alright, I’ll call you later.”Ella is working in her office. She is now awaiting an update from her troops who are out in the field and who are keeping surveillance surrounding the building and within it. Rafael hasn’t shown up yet, and nothing out of the ordinary has happened.“There is no sign of the killer in the area, ma’am,” a police officer said from her desk.She nodded and let the person out. Ella set the two elbows down on the table, brought both of her hands together, and rested them on her forehead. When the killer doesn’t show up after a week, they have to stop the operation and leave Simon with Luna.When the phone rang, she immediately turned to answer it. Luna calls her. Before she picked up the phone, she took a deep breath.“Luna, something has happened?” Ella asked.“Yeah..”“Is Rafael there?” Ella asked, surprised.“No!” Luna suddenly answered on the other line.“What do you mean then?”“We are now at the mall and the jewelry shop.”“Where? The mall?” Ella looked