Forty-eight
— He's in the kitchen, Mr. Bennet! -she gives the whereabouts of my security guard to Benjamin, looking at his ass as he leaves for the pantry.
- Right, thanks! -kept walking.
— Wow... -commented still looking at him.
- HEY! I raise my voice to get your attention. -What are you looking at so much?
James soon senses a certain spark, deciding to walk away without question.
— N-nothing...yeah...look...your clothes! - she disguised. -We need to solve your fashion problems!
'With all due respect, Martina, I don't feel like talking about my clothes with you again!' - I say heading for the stairs. -I think you remember what happened when you decided to get into my wardrobe...
— About that...
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Meanwhile, Benjamin finds his nephew snacking in the kitchen.
- Cum! - he said seeing him. -Finally, huh?
The boy sees his uncle cross the threshold, deciding to drop the cake on the table and getting to his feet. He gets up, claps his hands very quickly on his uniform and then pushes the chair without noticing that a monster is coming his way.
"What a delay-"
At that moment, the security guard's eyes leap out, as he collides with the severity of his uncle who grabs him by the collar of his shirt, shaking his body.
- WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM? - shouted captured.
- He speaks! - she said between teeth. -Repeat what you said on the cell phone!
"Fuck off me, I'm on my job!"
- Screw this! she snapped.
"Okay, okay, okay!" - he said in distress. -Sorry!
"Now you apologize?"
“I was just kidding, dammit. Now let me go!
The vampire lets go of him and he balances himself so he doesn't fall on his ass.
— If you speak here —
- I am not going! - She cuts him. - I won't repeat it. You sick!
"Where did you put the King?" he asked, getting straight to the point. -What did you do with his body?
— There was no way to get him out of the Palace, it was impossible!
- What? -gets irritated. -Is he still in the closet?
- No! - she replied. - I put him in that little room...
In the basement, in the same corridor where the servants' room was located, there was a small room that was in the last door on the left, which was used to store some pieces of the palace, very old pieces.
Nobody used to go in there, besides having spiders, it was also very dusty.
"I remembered taking a freezer there last month and then I thought it was a good idea to throw it in there!"
"Did you remember to plug it in?"
- Obvious!
"That was a good idea, but getting that freezer out of there is going to be the problem!"
— We have time, no one goes in there but me!
- Locked?
The boy hands him the key.
"What do you intend to do with the body?"
- I don't know!
"And have you told Mila yet?"
"No..." he said thoughtfully. -What did you say to the others?
"That he went on a trip, an emergency trip!"
The vampire stops and thinks for a few seconds, trying to find a way out of all that mess.
PHONE RINGING
The two take their cell phones out of their pockets at the same time, noting that the screen on was the security guard's.
"Piter: Again, Scott?"-complained. "-It has to be very important for you to be wasting my patience like that!"
"Scott: Is Benjamin with you?"
The vampire listens to the doctor's question.
"Put it on speaker!"
— Okay, you can talk, he's listening to you!
"Scott: Benjamin!"
"What is it, Scott?" she asked. -What's so urgent?
"Scott: I've called you a thousand times, why didn't you pick up or reply to messages?"
"I had a problem with the Queen!"
His answer elicits a negative look from his nephew.
- What problem?
"Scott: What happened, was it something with your blood?"
"No, it wasn't that, she's reacting well to my blood." The problem was a boy who ended up drugging her and -
- WHAT? she screamed.
"Scott: My God!"
"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THAT?"
"Stop yelling, dammit!"
"Scott: How did that happen?"
"It hasn't even been twenty-four hours since we saved her from being raped and you let a boy drug her!"
Piter was right, in such a short time two horrible things almost happened.
- I didn't know. The girls were having a party and then -
"Did you take the Queen to a party?"
"Scott: Apparently you guys have a lot to talk about..."-he understands that the news would not stop coming.
- He arrives! - closes her. -Get straight to the point, Scott!
"Scott: The Queen's results are out. I asked you to bring her back, but you haven't responded to my messages!"
"I didn't have time to touch my phone!"
“Why do we have to take her back? she complained. -Say it over here and that's it!
"Scott: If they don't get her now, they won't get her later!"
"She won't run from the Palace!"
"Scott: She doesn't need to run, Piter. What she has can easily come to you!"
What a boring suspense.
- CUM! - he got nervous. -Speak soon!
"Scott: The results show something different about her blood. And when I say different, I don't mean your blood, Mr. Bennet!"
- What was? -gets upset. -What was in her blood?
"Scott: Not what was, but what is." - she corrected. "-The Queen has dragon blood in her veins!"
They might not be soul mates, but the synchronicity with which they looked at each other at that time was perfect. Benjamin and Piter looked at each other with haunted expressions, where the boy remained with his cell phone on in his hands.
"Scott: Hi, are you there?"
— Wh...wh...what do you...wait... -it doesn't come out, no complete sentence can come out.
"Did you say dragon?"
"Scott: That's right!"
It is at that moment that the vampire remembers everything that happened in his library.
- Impossible. Retake the exams, I know they are wrong.
"Scott: I ran the survey three times and all three times they gave the same result!"
"Then throw those fucking devices in the trash, because they're broken!"
"Scott: Piter, I wouldn't make something like that up!"
“Benjamin? - she called him seeing that his consciousness was on another planet. -Will not you say anything?
"Scott: If word gets out that we found dragon blood on her body, she'll run away just to protect the creature!"
— She won't run away, she won't run away because she doesn't know any dragon and if she did she would never protect a monster like that!
"Scott: You can review the results if you like!"-it's mockery.
“Watch how you talk to me, you—”
— Piter! - she warns, manifesting herself.
"Scott: What are we going to do, Mr. Bennet?"
"Changing doctors, certainly!"
“He's not wrong, Peter!
"How not?" -debated. - We're talking about Falkor, damn it. The only dragon that still exists and the only one that can kill you.
- I know!
"And you really think Mila the Queen would win Falkor's trust?"
He starts laughing, laughing like an idiot.
- For God's sake! - mocked. - We're talking about the most feared being in the world. Even if it's true, she at least knows where he is, she's not in league with him or anything.
"Scott: You already knew that, did you know that she knew the dragon?"
— No, but if I had paid attention to myself a little more I would have understood why she was so interested in his story.
"What do you mean she said something?"
she asked, putting so much effort into finding out more that we even fought about it.
"And you don't tell me anything?"
— I didn't know that I had to give you explanations about everything that happens in my life!
"We're talking about Mila!"
— Yes, Mila! she repeated. -My baby!
— Fuck you!
"Scott: STOP, STOP YOU TWO!"he yelled into the speakerphone. "-You should unite your anger to find the cursed dragon, instead of fighting over a woman who already has an owner!"
"She has no owner!"
— Oh, she does!
"Scott: If you want to carry on with this, carry on alone. Don't look for me when she burns the whole country down. I'll be far away from here!"- he warned by hanging up the call.
“Only the two of us know that the King is dead. Why is he now acting as if she were his property?
— I wanted to understand why this bothers you so much!
"Maybe because there are other people in line already!"
- Row? -he closes his hands. -What queue, Piter?
Ready to fight to the death, a sweet voice echoes from the door, suspending the entire event.
- Hey! - I appear in the kitchen with a shower and suitable clothes.
— Mila! He straightened.
— O-hi!
"Is-is everything okay here?" -noto.
- Yes!
- Great, because we have a visitor and I hope you behave!
- Visit? -He asked.
"But I wasn't told!"
One step, two steps, three steps, four steps and five steps. With each step, a piece of wood hit the ground, synchronizing perfectly with the oncoming footprints.
An old man with a gray hair and beard, wearing clothes that showed enormous wealth, appears in the kitchen with a smile on his face, holding his cane with a golden eagle in the base of his hand.
Lucian Clifford- Hello gentlemen!
The Greek God, in the same second freezes.
“Lucian! - recognizes it. -Lucian Clifford!
"Do you know him?" - I'm surprised.
- Yes! - he said. -He's Thomas' grandfather!
— Speaking of my grandson. He's already back from his trip, hasn't he?
- Yes! echoed his voice behind me. -I'm fine here!
The King appears with a glass of champagne in one hand and a small suitcase in the other. He comes all radiant showing off his bare chest, in a beach blouse that had the buttons undone.
“Tho...Tho...Thomas...
— Hi Peter!
- You bastard! -he doesn't mince words even though he's in front of everyone.
“Benjamin!” - I'm shocked by your boldness.
- I'LL KILL YOU!
Benjamin runs towards the King who immediately takes the same attitude raising his arm to his friend. We all got scared when the two fell to the ground exchanging heavy punches, without worrying about the others around them.
They curse each other, they beat each other, they really bleed.
— THOMAS! - I try to interfere.
"BENJAMIN, RELEASE HIM!"
— Majesty!
Suddenly my husband's grandfather appears beside me putting his hands on my shoulders.
— Leave them! - he asked pushing me away. -Don't get involved, you might end up getting hurt if you stay close to them! - he said calmly.
"They'll end up killing each other like that!"
"Where did Thomas get so much strength to fight Benjamin head on?"
— And we will watch! -smiled.
- What is your problem?
— Will find out soon!
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