Chapter XIV

XIV

Darío is lying in his bed with the television on, not watching anything in particular, but instead talking on the phone with his older brother.

—I'm glad to hear what you told me. With that information, I'll go to London to talk to her. I'll show her the images. I hope I can convince her to go to Iceland with the nomads.

—I know you will, she has a lot of respect for you.

—He who doesn't respect me is someone else. What are you doing in America? My orders were to leave the continent.

• Sorry, I couldn't just leave everything, my job, my friends, my Secu...

—And your family?

• Since she kicked me out of my house and doesn't want to have anything to do with me anymore, I've respected her decision.
• Nereida is no longer angry.
• She knows very well that I would never do such a mean thing to her, she wanted to play the victim when I was the victim and you know it, everyone knows it, Elián, you know better than anyone who he was, who he is and if he doesn't say anything he will continue to be my lover or rather we will continue to be.
• Yes I know.

• That's why I returned to America. I prefer to be here than to listen to your insults.
• Even so, you shouldn't have come back. What will my pack think?
• You sent me to continue the investigation. They're killing us in various places, and we're just going to sit back and act like nothing happened? I don't think so.

—I'll tell Hector to keep you company.

—No, I already have Loke. And speaking of Bacchus…

—I'm listening…

—He's doing a good job, it's Emilia, she's changed a lot with my friend, she answers her reluctantly, she doesn't want to get back with her, you know my friend... the truth is I'm afraid that one of these days she'll fall asleep and not wake up and that's why I have her with me.

—Are things really that bad?

—Yes, I know that you are the same or worse than her brother, but if we look at it from another point of view, things are like this: she doesn't know that you are a werewolf who accidentally found his new partner, his alpha, an alpha who will help him reinforce his leadership as alpha of the pack, she is the one who will help you in everything and protect you, she marked you with the pure ignorant scent of your condition, she doesn't like you, she doesn't love you, you must learn to live with that broken bond.

• Do you believe it?
• Yes, I know she loves you in her own way, but she does have feelings for you.

—The man in me knows that she doesn't love him or even like him, he accepts it. I'm not Fernando, married, promiscuous, that I caught his attention, okay, I lost to him, he's handsome, I won't deny it, but my wolf...

—That's what worries me.

—Don't do it, I already called Cyrus, he'll help Calix again.

• You will leave your address, even if it is a telephone number.

—From what I'm seeing, only Elena will be able to have contact with me.

Elian's passion

He gets out of bed and goes to the kitchen to get a beer.

• Elián, I'm speaking to my brother, please, for whatever you want, don't isolate yourself again. Ciro and I miss you as the head of the family. He gets scared when he sees Secundina in front of him. He offers her a beer, but denies it. "It's Elián," he says with lip movements. "Think carefully about what you're going to do."

"What's wrong?" he asks in the same way. He writes on a kitchen napkin.

• “He’s going to isolate himself again,” he snatches the phone from her and listens: “I know I’m the patriarch.” “Hey, you millionaires, don’t be ridiculous, don’t run away like a coward, face your problems…you little man.” He hangs up. “Do you want to order a pizza?”

Dario just shrugs his shoulders in the basement Loke makes a gesture of fear, in Athens everyone in the village hears a terrifying growl.

—Yes…yes, thank goodness I'm in America because I'd rather face the fury of the gods than that of my brother right now.

—Hm? Why? Why did I hang up on him? Don't be ridiculous, or a clown. —He orders a pizza. —Although he looks sexy when he's angry.

In the Athenian village everyone runs terrified, because despite not being a full moon they made the Alpha angry and nobody likes to see an alpha angry, the betas of the pack try to confront them, some omegas even offer themselves as bait in order to calm the fury of their alpha, several betas were brutally beaten by the omegas, no one is going to talk about them, they were close to dying, it was Estrella the housekeeper who knocked out Elián with a blow, she shakes his hands, orders some betas to take Elián to his room, she will personally place the silver chains, she also orders that the wounded be taken to the villa's infirmary, that the children do not leave the communal rooms.

Estrella waits patiently for her master to wake up. She is the only one who enters that room to clean it. She knows what her master is going through. There are no secrets between them, since Estrella has been in his family since she was cursed.

Flashback

The palace cooks were waiting for the butchers, who had already killed two bulls for the festivities, and others to take to the temple to give thanks for the good harvest, from who knows where, but rumors spread that Zeus himself would come down to the feast.

• An unexpected guest arrived at the party and your lord commands that you cook this along with the beef you must make your best dish.
• My lady, that guest is the God Father of the Gods.