“Is this a threat Mr. investigator?” He asked him with mockery similar to his.
The man in front of him tried to control his anger to respond coldly: “You can think of it as you want, but remember that I told you, I also advise you to take the opportunity to confess without losing your dignity in vain”
“Do you want me to confess something I did not commit or even know about, so is this a reward for who doing good? Why should I call the police in something I am involved in?” Albert replied with great indignation.
“Your problem is that you do not realize how serious it is that you have committed it,” the interrogator said as he threw it with ironic looks that provoked Albert so much.
“And your problem is that you really talked to me like a comet, as if I had actually committed a crime, it’s only in your imagination,” Albert replied with a frown.
The interrogator looked at him with terrifying looks and pressed his cigar in the glass bowl in front of him angrily. Then he said loudly “Do you think that such a play might fool the upper authorities as easily as you imagine?” He said as his tone rose from what it was.
“Do I have to admit something I did not commit?”
The interrogator sighed impatiently and then shouted at the officer standing outside to enter while nervously saying: “Take it is useless to talk with him,” he said, directing his words to the officer standing in front of him and then turned his eyes towards Albert, saying: “Do not forget I warned you”
On a high-rise, modern building in a different and contemporary city, The meeting was the most important officials a few minutes away, Before one of the officials set foot in the meeting room, his wife pulled him from his arm and turned to her, wondering what she wanted.
“Do not forget what we have planned for?” she said to him, and her eyes wanted all his senses to listen to her.
He exhaled impatiently and pulled his arm angrily from between her hands and she said to him: “Please Alfred, this is our only chance, please do this for me”
“You ask for the impossible Sandra,” Alfred said, pressing his teeth angrily as he looked at her sharply.
The tears began to sparkle in her eyes and then she said with a shrieking voice “ “Please, this is my only chance to feel the motherhood I was deprived of. You can marry another woman, but I will remain a pariah throughout my life and my heart burns every day to have a child filling my lonely life. This will be my last hope and if it does not happen, I will end my life, whatever you love, you will not be able to live your whole life without hearing your child calling you dad, Believe me, love ends here” She said with a loud voice crying.
He tried not to look at her so as not to weaken but came the tone of her voice crying to move all his senses and break his steadfastness and strength.
“Alfred please look at me,” she said as he pushed himself to look at her without showing his weakness.
“I can not do Sandra, I can not do what you ever want me to do, this will kill me now or later, and no matter how long the day will come when I witness my terrible end”
The hope vanished in her eyes, Sandra lost all the motivation to continue in this life, she walks away from him, while he walked toward the long corridor beside the meeting room and all the officials sat on the luxurious chairs around the long marble table to sit quietly among them.
“There is no need for introductions. You all know why we are together now. You know that we have to find a solution to the scandal that has spread like a disease in the area. This has broken all our concern to hide the topic of life on other planets outside the planet.” Said one of the top officials, who was sitting at the front of the table.
“Mr. Bernald I see that the only solution is to annihilate this rumor by force, we will not lose our efforts to conceal the past from the population on such a trivial subject. You all know how dangerous this is, and we are keen to block everything. But a number of the population, despite the fact that it is one percent of the population, has managed to leave the planet. We do not really know what the future holds for us from other calamities. This is only the beginning. “ George said who sitting next to the biggest officials.
“I do not find violence radically a solution. People will never forget what has happened. This is only the beginning of a new problem,” said another participant.
“We have stopped the people’s rebellion by force. No one will ever dare to talk about it, and if we have to resort to violence with them, there is no problem,” George replied. The evil was flying from his eye,
“Do you want us to unleash the bloodbath and we may write our end with our hands,” one of them said, objecting to what he said.
“so we kill every witness to this situation and with them the girl and so we finish this problem,” one of them suggested.
Alfred listened to the stupid suggestions of some of them, remember what his wife said and remember that she would end her life if he did not do what she asked for and did not really rule out the possibility of implementation of that threat has long been a suicidal and crazy woman in his eyes. he did not forget the image of her two crying eyes and her leaving as a broken bird, and this has hurt him so much. Bernald interrupted his thinking by his sudden question: “Alfred did not hear your opinion of what was suggested, do you have other suggestions? I doubt that your thinking hides a radical solution to our issue”
Alfred turned his eyes towards Bernald while unleashing what he was planning to satisfy his wife and going out with minimal losses. He has no other solution because he loves his wife to the point of madness.
he said as he looked steadily and confidently towards Bernald: “Sir, Mr. Bernald, allow me to reveal a solution that may get your satisfaction”
Bernald looked at him confidently and then said, “We are all ears”
“Why do not we solve the issue peacefully without wasting a single drop of blood? We can silence the doubts of the people and the press and find a radical solution to this problem, so I decided to sacrifice the inclusion of this girl to my small family”
All the audience looked at him with astonishment, wondering about his seriousness with what he was saying, while George, raised his eyebrows with disapproval and then said sarcastically: “Are you serious about what you say, and since when we solved our problems peacefully,”
There were whispers of attendance after George’s question, but Bernard asked everyone to remain silent, allowing Alfred to complete what he had begun.
“I know that you were surprised by what I said, but let me tell you about the rest of my plan, we will say that the women who were with the baby girl were only a maid who was working for me and when I expelled her for special reasons, she retaliated and kidnapped my daughter but she did not succeed in leaving the planet.” He looked at them for a second and then added in a convincing way. “So we shut up people and indirectly warn them not to think about what is outside this planet, especially after the emergence of many insurgents who try to wash the minds of people with their stupid ideas”
Bernald looked at Alfred expressed his satisfaction and approval removed tension a little, but it is only seconds until George stood up and said: “And do you want us to let that girl live among us? We do not even know which swamp comes from,” he said, and signs of revulsion appeared on his face.
“This is a baby girl who is not afraid of whom we can direct as we want and we are fortunate that the young girl who was with her has died,” replied Alfred.
“Say you want the child without fabricating all that naive story,” George replied with deep indignation.
Alfred smiled trying to hide his tension and then added: “It’s up to you. I just suggested, and I really see that I deserve to be thanked for this sacrifice of bringing a child to my family while I can have other children instead of caring for a girl who is not my daughter and knowing very well that no one in attendance can take such a step”
“I think that Alfred’s solution is the most appropriate, “said Bernard i
nterrupting George on the response.
George opened his mouth not to believe and then said with some irony: “How long have we been dealing with this peace, and since when have we dealt sensitively with the satisfaction of the distinguished citizen, what do you think we will offer flights to the two neighboring planets tomorrow? Looks like a great idea and very appropriate for the democracy we’re dealing with, right? “
And soon he ended his sarcastic speech until Bernald looked at him sharply and then answered him with a high voice: “We deal with our problems in peace because we have been unable to take control to the outside world, we not in the past decade, dear, we are here, where things are getting complicated and everything is gradually out of control. do you want to kill us all Mr. George “
George hushes a little and then followed in anger, saying: “These are signs and things are still ...”
“shut up I do not want to hear any other word from you. We’ve decided and ended and if you wanted to complain, leave the place immediately before you faced my anger,” said Bernald angrily, frowning at George with a look of threat and indignation.
George was hoping that the earth would sniff and swallow him instead of the humiliation he had in front of everyone.
All the participants agreed to the proposal of Alfred and praised his intelligence except George was completely rejecting the idea and he murmured, “You will pay the price of this rash decision”
“But Mr. Barnald, what are we going to do with that young man named Albert,” said one of them interrupting.
“Release him,” replied Bernald.
“But Sir he has been tortured in the past two days to admit”
Bernald exasperated and then asked him: “And did he admit something?”
“No, he insists that he knows nothing about it”
“this means that he really does not know anything, release him and give him compensation in an appropriate amount of money”
Chapter 23
Location: Planet Kepler
J ohn opened his eyes and the vision seemed confused before him, He closed his eyes again and then opened them again to make the vision clearer “A worn gray roof.” He wondered in surprise and was not sure where he was. he Tries to stand up to check the place around it but he did not succeed in the first time he felt more weight of his body and the difficulty of getting up, His body was so tired that he felt unable to rise, But again and again of continuous attempts until he was able to summon up his strength and then rise, He was lying on the floor and on his right is a worn-out wall, He moved his face to the left and saw rusty iron bars. He felt dizzy as soon as he tried to remember what had happened to him, he was completely unaware of why he was here in this a dark prison. he saw the reflection of the sun on the rails in front of him, and he turned his face searching for the source of light until he lifted his head a little to see a small hole in the roof, After a period of trying to gather his scattered memories and suddenly a question in his mind awakened remembering “where is the girl?”
He put his hand on his forehead, trying to ease the strong headaches he was going through and he remembers the last thing that happened with him when his vehicle hit the ground, he knew that his vehicle lost control at the landing because it was not prepared as it should, But is Madeleine vehicle also being hit? the anxiety began to sneak into his mind in all respects, but why he worries? Did he worry about Madeleine or the child or his fate of the unknown behind the bars of this dark prison? He did not seriously think of the next step after arriving at Kepler’s planet, but did he put failure and death at the top of his list of expectations?
“My lord, there is an urgent matter,” said one of the servants, lowering his neck down, respectful to the man sitting on his huge throne in front of him, A man in the fourth decade of age with white skin and dark brown hair and a beard interspersed with some white Bristles.
He looked at the servant with a look of indignation and said: “What, Did not this day end and its problems yet?”
“Sorry My lord, but the matter is important, and if it is delayed, it will torment me later,” said the servant, trying to rid himself of this responsibility.
“Well, what happened?” He replied with a sigh
“My lord, guards stand outside waiting for your permission to enter”
“Let them in,” he said after sighing uneasily.
Two guards entered with a woman in her mid-twenties. Her features were not clear, she was beaten and she was barely walking because of the severity of her severe beatings.
“what’s wrong with this woman again” he shouted angrily.
“My lord, her husband brought her here in a hurry and asked you to judge her personally,” said one of the guards.
“I’m not free to deal with his ongoing problems with his wife, get her out of here I don’t have time for this,” he said angrily and his voice echoed around his huge palace.
“she has committed a sin that can not forgive My lord,” said the guard.
He sat down on his luxurious throne with impatience and then said angrily: “Say quickly what you have I do not have time to waste”
“My lord, her husband said that she confesses that her six-year-old son was not his child and he lost his mind he almost kills her,” the guard said lowering his head.
He rose up as soon as he heard the guard and opened his eyes and realized the gravity of what this woman had done.
“Is this true, or are you trying to provoke your husband,” he said, trying to preserve the tone of his quiet voice.
“I am tired of this humiliation that I live among you, between a male government that does not give the woman any rights but oppresses her and denies her rights. I have been robbed a lot and I have nothing to sacrifice for it until my son, too, has not escaped your evil. do what you want to me I’m no longer care” she screamed with a mournful voice.
He looked at her with surprise at her own daring and audacity at the same time, how dare she raise her voice in his presence? His face was red with anger and he felt a volcano inside him about to explode, he walks towards her and whispering to her in words she could barely hear “How dare you to raise your voice in my presence?” and then he slaps her to fall on the ground.
“I will make you a lesson for the others, I want to know who is the father of this child?” He said to her with great anger.
She was feeling the pain in her face, but he did not hesitate to bend and pulled her from her long hair to stand against her will.
“Say before I finish your life immediately,” he said angrily.
She received his words coolly regardless of his threats, she no longer afraid death, to say to him indifferent: “ do what you want I’m not afraid of you”
“No, my dear, I will not kill you so easily, I will kill your child, who did not fear for his fate in front of your eyes, and then I let you live in humiliation to taste bitterness every day,” He said and smiled and then added “you wont die, I will protect you from death”
It was only a few minutes before two guards entered with John.
“welcome the stranger” Emperor Joseph laughed mockingly as John stared at him in surprise.
The voice of the woman interrupted the meeting, who was looking at John as if she had found her what she looking for to say, “He is ... that man ... he is John”
John looked at the voice that spoke his name and was familiar to him, he stared at the stand in front of him to distinguish the real features behind the beatings to whispered faintly “Ellen”
Emperor Joseph smiled and then said sarcastically, “Finally the lovers meet”
John looked at her in disbelief, he tried to deny her, while Joseph interrupted him by asking Ellen, “Is this the father of your son?” She shook her head approvingly.
He looked at her eyes asked her to retreat from what she had said, perhaps he would survive the disaster, but she insisted on what she said as if to make him pay for his leaving.
“You are the father of her s
on, so you returned to your destiny with your feet? have you longed to see your sweetheart and your son? And you have thought with your naïve thought that you will find them waiting for you and they will celebrate on your return” He said sarcastically to add “But we did the duty and brought your sweetheart to meet you.” He laughed hysterically at John.
“That’s a lie. I do not know this woman and I do not know what you’re talking about,” said John, trying to deny his calamity.
“Look at me well, do not you know who I am, if you do not recognize my deformed face, do not remember the tone of my voice that I claimed you would not forget, we were married before I deported to the planet Gliza, I asked you to tell Mrs. Victoria about our marriage, but you divorced me and then gave up on me”
“I do not remember you and I do not know you,” He said angrily, trying to deny this relationship.
“You forgot your words, or did you think you were playing a game, and then you throw your naive words and claimed that you did not know me or you forgot me, I know you more than I know my self,” she said crying.
He did not love her but she is the one who loved him, and he gave up on her love easily, and now he pays the price dearly, she lied to him and hid her choice to go to planet Kepler then he divorces her and disappeared.
“I’ve heard enough of you,” said Joseph, his sarcastic looks at Ellen, to add “Take her to the darkest prisons of the palace where she does not even get sunlight. I would send you to the planet Gliza to receive your punishment there,”
She was dragged by two guards from her arms amidst her resistance and screaming in the name of John trying to move something inside him to saves her from her black future, But what is she waiting for? To stand in front of a mighty man like Joseph in the name of love, which he always felt the absurdity of this word,
John felt hurt and pain, Whatever his feelings for her, his conscience scolds him to what happened to him because of his bowing to her love, which made her believe that he would be the knight who saved her.
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