Forty-five

"Are you sorry you accepted it?" she - she questioned when she saw that I was thoughtful.

- No! - I'm quick to respond. -I'm not sorry, I'm just intrigued that you chose me when you had three other options...

"You shouldn't be surprised, you've been "The Chosen One" by so many others...

Yeah, he's right, but he's wrong about one thing.

"Y-yes..." I stammer in agreement. -Chosen by so many, but never by one who truly loved me!

He looks at me in a different way that makes me regret saying those words. It's a look of pity, filled with pity as if he's hit an invisible wall, facing for the first time the truth he never made the effort to see.

— You —

— OPEN SOON!

Sequences of blows on the door come from the other side, taking Vincent's screams into the library.

— Is that Vincent?

— MILA! he yelled again, banging on the wood.

— Yes, it's Vincent! - he said going to unlock the door.

"I really want to see how Benjamin will explain the mess he made..."

"May I know why you're acting like a sick person?" -she questioned opening the library.

"I've been calling for you for a long time!"

He was there the whole time, but the massacre that took place inside prevented us from hearing the sounds that came from outside.

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- Can I ask you something? I say looking at myself in the mirror.

- Clear!

It was late the other day and Julie and I were alone in the Greek God's room.

"Benjamin doesn't mind your clothes?"

I was wearing a short skirt with a regular white tank top.

It was amazing to put on a piece as simple as that one and feel like a Goddess. They would certainly force me to take it off, but at least I could enjoy that little freedom until I reached the palace.

"Sometimes yes..." he replied, looking at me. -Yeah...if...well...if I may say so...

- What it was? - I look at her.

- You are beautiful! she snapped.

- Thanks! I smile at her with blushing cheeks. -You have great taste in clothes. It's a shame I didn't get a chance to wear pieces like this!

"We can pick another one if you want!" she said. -What do you "Queens" wear?

Dresses, dresses, more dresses and dresses again.

— Most of the times dressed, other times they need to be something social... -he explained sitting me down on the bed next to her. -But we don't need to change, it's great like that. Piter called saying that Thomas left earlier today, so there will be time to change when he arrives.

"I'm sorry..." he commented.

"Like this?"

"It must be awful having to share your life with that man!"

"I try not to think about it, and when I'm around him I manage to keep my distance...

"Why don't you stay here one more day?"

— I can't, it's too strange that I was taken out of the palace without anyone seeing me. Piter must be crazy, having to make up lies about my whereabouts!

— Don't worry about it, Piter is very good at making up lies!

Talking about Piter with her, knowing that they were sexually involved even though she was married to Benjamin, makes me think that I might have the answer to what I've always wanted to know.

— I heard what happened between you... - I take advantage of the subject. -Among the four of you actually!

"I thought you knew!" - she told.

— I'm sorry, I didn't expect you to... - I avoid speaking.

- We do not have. At least I don't have anything to do with him anymore! - she says. -When Piter was a boy he lived with us, we helped him lose his virginity, but Benjamin ended up catching us in the act.

- Our!

"Yeah, I'm sure you can imagine what happened...

Not really, because if we're really talking about Benjamin, I'm surprised he didn't kill his nephew when he caught him eating his three wives.

"I've decided never to do that to Ben again, but I don't know if girls share the same decency!"

"What does that mean?"

It could be that they are still making out, or it could be that they are getting involved with other people.

"So that's why the two of you can't be in the same space for even three minutes?"

"Actually, they can!" - he said leaving me shocked. -They always exchange pinpricks, but they don't usually avoid each other like they used to.

— I don't think we're talking about the same people!

— Oh! -she sings the letter "a", as if she had discovered a gold mine. -Now I understand!

- Did you understand? -I'm lost. -What did you understand? -I talk. -Because I didn't understand anything!

"Were you involved in the fights when you saw them arguing?"

"Y-yes...yeah...I think so..."

— Benjamin doesn't like it when Piter is around his young. You certainly see them fight a lot because he is his security and is always close to you. So when Benjamin catches you too close, he feels uncomfortable.

It is so strange to hear from my lover's wife that her husband is jealous of me. The most bizarre thing is the naturalness with which she speaks, implying that she doesn't care who he sleeps with.

— It's not just that, Julie. The two live avoiding each other and when they meet it's like cat and dog. If you decide to ask them something about their past, then everything explodes!

"Strange..." she said thoughtfully.

“I know why! -like a child in an adult's body, he puts his little head in the half-opened corner of the door, surprising us with his presence.

"Were you snooping around?" - I joke when asking.

— How ugly, Vincent! -she laughs.

"For a Queen, your vocabulary is very confusing!" -she said entering the room.

"I tend to be myself when I'm not around the King!"

"I think you should always be like this!"

— I agree, it's more fun!

He sits on the bed next to the two of us and that scenario of us all gossiping on the mattress starts to look like the cartoon from "All Three Spies".

"Now tell us why!" -charge.

"I'm curious too!"

"Remember that bet?" - he asked with his eyes turned to the third wife.

— Oh! -she screams the "a" sound again in our ears. -The bet! she repeated.

— After having taken his nephew from the wives, it took some years for my master to forgive Piter.

— Only the day he found us together, Benjamin threw him out of the house blocking all the assets that Piter had.

"He did, he said it once!" -I remember.

- Well, if I had been a little more responsible with my family's assets, I believe I would be living even better than the King.

'It was a lot of money, it really is!' -he corrects. -My master never touched the boy's riches. They remain under his responsibility, where every month he asks me to transfer a certain amount.

“So the money isn't sitting still. If Benjamin manages his account, it means that -

- That's right! -she locks me like she's infiltrated inside my mind. -It means he's filthy rich, so rich you can't even imagine.

— So he cares about Piter... - I thought aloud.

— He always took care of the boy, he didn't show his face, but he protected him from afar.

"Then why all this rivalry?"

“Because they're men, Mila. And men when they lose something, especially money, end up doing horrible things!

— When my master threw him out, Piter shouted:

Ready to narrate my security guard's attitudes, the voice of the Greek God catches our attention, showing that he was standing, leaning against the doorway.

— "I swear I will take the most precious things you have from you!"

He related in a serious tone, reliving the nightmare he had spent with his only living relative.

"Benjamin..."

"We didn't see you there!"

- Sorry -

- Everything is fine! - she cut him off, coming towards us.

"I know you don't like this subject...

“Finish it! - ordered. -Say what he said next! - she asked standing in front of the bed.

— Yeah... he... -she is undecided whether or not to tell. -He said he would have sex with all the women Benjamin approached...

"CUM!"

"WHAT?"

' Those weren't the words he used. He said "I swear I will take the most precious things you have from you. I will fuck every woman you come near, including your offspring!"

— "And when they're in your bed Benjamin, it's my name they'll moan!" she concluded.

When they finished narrating my security, my conscience was no longer among them. My soul went back and forth from hell more than thirty times in a row, giving me a free taste of where I would go if your uncle found out I was part of the fuck package.

"So it's revenge...

"Clearly!" she confirmed. -Even women who notice Benjamin from afar, Piter runs after to try to prove something. You can't even get close because the boy already puts a target on their backs.

This without a doubt manages to be the second worst day of my life.

Piter had been one of the best things that happened to me in the midst of all that hell when I became Queen. Always very fiery, affectionate, insistent, my lap and friend. But he's just a boy. The feeling I have now is that I've been pierced by a dart while the target has been stuck in me all this time.

I never considered having a happy ending, or a happily ever after with him, but today I see that our story already had an end before it even started. Nothing we've experienced has been real since the day I arrived at the Palace. The kisses, hugs and even those beautiful words were everything to his uncle.

I wonder which is worse. I wonder which is the sickest. I wonder how far a person can go just to prove to another the size of his power.

- Let's go? she called me, pulling me back to reality. -I need to take you to the Palace!

I look up at him, half my brain still deep in my thoughts. I don't give answers, I don't move, I just observe him minutely, coming face to face with points that I missed over time.

My attitude generates strangeness in the other two, including Benjamin. They didn't understand why I was so still and stuck in his face. My actions were unprecedented even for me, who always looked at him with admiration, desire and passion. That was the first time I looked at him evaluating his influence on my past, present and future life.

- Yes! -shot after almost two minutes of silence.

I get up, say goodbye to the two with a brief and confused smile, then leave the room without waiting for the vampire.

"W-what was that?" - he asked after leaving.

"Did they say anything to her?"

- No. We didn't say anything!

— I know I've only known her for a short time, but I'm sure it's enough for me to say that it wasn't normal...

"Did you see how she looked at him?"

"She's never looked at me like that before!" -exposed totally insecure.

"Better go after her, Benjamin!" she advised.

"I'm not going to go along with what she just did!" - refuses.

"Don't you care what was going through her head?"

- Clear! -took on. -But maybe it's just another one of your dramas!

Then, his wife rises from the bed towards him with an upright and serious pose.

"Or maybe you're just fantasizing about it because you're afraid to know what she really thinks about you!"

- What did you say? He clenched his fists. -Why do you think her opinion of me matters to me so much?

"Because I'm your wife!" -it's clear. -And I know you very well, well enough to know that you hide behind lies when you are cornered and your feelings are touched.

That's when his insides get slapped in the face, leaving him speechless.

“Run from her all you want, Benjamin, but understand that she'll keep coming back and coming, and you won't be able to stop that. You can keep its cover, you can stay behind the stories you make up for yourself, you can even exclude it from your life and live another three thousand years without seeing it, but that, that won't stop it from occupying every part of your life. her body letting it burn in regret and longing.

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