Joanna smiled amid tears and then said: “I would be very grateful to you even if you asked for the most expensive thing I have I will give it to you”
“I will only ask you for one request,” Leo said.
“anything,” she answered without hesitating for a moment.
“I just want to keep this picture with me, please” His desire to keep his mother’s image was stronger than anything else, so he did not care if he raised his grandmother’s doubts about it, just wanted to enjoy looking at her image all the times.
Joanna was surprised by his request, but she justified that he wanted to search for it or perhaps remember it.
“I would have refused if it were her only picture, but it was not,” she said, and give him the picture, he picked up the picture and then grabbed her hand and kissed her, he could not hug her or even kiss her head because of the fence that separated them, she carries her smell, the smell of his mother who misses her so hard he finally found someone sharing his pain, Joanna looked at him lovingly though she was surprised by his behavior, but a strange happiness flooded her heart in an exaggerated way.
Location: Planet Earth
The secretary entered the office of bernald, saying” Sir, there is a man who wants to meet you?”
“who is he?” He answered her without looking at her.
“I do not really know but he said it’s important and you know him very well”
he sighing narrowly then said: “Is this place to play, Let him enter now, but next time do not enter anyone without a name”
she nodded to him and then turned away and only minutes until he heard the knock on the door. he checked the papers in front of him:” enter”
“In fact, you are absolutely wrong, this is exactly the place to play games of death and fraud”
Those words made Bernald jump up automatically, take off the reading glasses nervously, then look up at the speaker to face his provocative smile, Bernald froze as he watched the man standing before him, his heart beating with fear, his blood felt frozen in his veins, he did not wish to see this person even in his worst nightmares.
He opened his mouth in shock and examined the features of that sarcastic person, but did not say anything, “certainly not a ghost” muttered to himself.
“I’m sorry I didn’t expect this dry reception from you, but it’s okay I know you do not believe that I’m here, All this time frankly, I Excuse you, perhaps the joy makes forget how to behave,” he said smiling as he sat on the couch on the right side of Bernald’s office.
“Where have you been all this time?” Bernald asked him.
Albert raised his eyebrows with disapproval and then said in a tone filled with irony: “ “In fact, it’s a very important question, Of course, you have the right to ask, I exhausted you by searching for me for seventeen years, but I almost doubt that I’m not so important “
“Speak before you see what you not gonna like, Bernald said After he had completely emptied his patience.
Albert launched a high laugh and he listens to the words of Bernard and then changed his facial expressions to the seriousness and looked at Bernard with contempt and said: “I was an unimportant person, do you think I’m still so after all these years? Dear, I’m back here to live my life as I like it and I’m not here to Investigate with me, the old Albert is no longer Albert who is in front of you, I am now someone who can turn your game table in one touch”
Bernald’s eyes widened and he felt that he had been completely frozen. It must be an annoying nightmare, such a person can never threaten him like that.
“Believe me, you will not come out alive from here,” Bernald said to him, while his eyes trembling with anger.
Albert smiled then said: “If I had a percentage of one percent that you could kill me, you did not see me in front of you now. We do not play here and we do not throw jokes, but we enter the game of death by itself, I will not enter it without a weapon that protects me, And those threatening words are no longer useful, I will bury you here and will not come out alive all words meaningless Sir, “
Bernald’s shocked expressions turned into sarcastic expressions. He thought for a moment that who sitting in front of him playing one of his games and that confidence that makes him think that we lose, he said as his eyebrows rise with absolute irony: “And what do you have against us to speak with that confidence?”
Albert smiled and listened to the confident words of Berland, he really could not know the source of their self-blind confidence Although their tricks are exposed, they continue to dodge without surrender, he looks around Bernald then he said confidently “You mean what I do not have against you? by what do you like me to start?”
Bernald looked at him with great fury, killing him is not in his favor, and since he speaks with this confidence, it means one thing that they are witnessing the end.
Albert spoke after observing the complete silence of Bernard and he tries to ignore it for a moment, but Albert’s desire to provoke his anger more and more made him not deprive himself that pleasure waiting to follow, saying: “Well, I’m going to start with the biggest one, your own exile, planet Kepler and the planet Gliza,?”
Bernald stood up from his place and his body trembled. His mention of the planets made him very mad. He opened his desk drawer and took out a gun. He turned his head toward Albert’s and his hands were still trembling, while Albert was cool saying “If you kill me now, It will expose you. I have carefully documented your crimes. Besides, I have left those who depend on them for a serious revolution. You can not stop it.” Albert turned his eyes toward Bernald. He watched his pale face and his brief features. But with this weakness, soon as he heard those words and his hand that carries the gun goes down slowly.
“What exactly do you want?” Bernald said he was trying to regulate his breath as he lowered his gun to announce his surrender.
“now we can speak well, I and my nephew have come back after we got out of the accident and now I’m back I want to live in my house and I want my nephew to have a personal card and I want him to start his university studies in your own city and you will provide him with a suitable home “
Bernald almost lost his temper as he listened to Albert’s bold requests, especially the intrusion of his nephew into their own city. Not only will he be silent and bow to these requests, but he must also listen to the rejection of the rest of the officials and will be the wars of gossip and accusations.
“Your first request is acceptable, but the second is impossible. It is not my own hand, but the responsibility of all the officials in addition to the presence of good universities in your area and I will cover myself all expenses”
Albert looked at him with disapproval and interrupted him with a rush: “ you misunderstand Mr. Berland, these are not requests it’s ordered that you will carry out without any objection. This will be the price of my silence on your heinous acts, This is the least you can do to compensate me for the loss of my sister and her husband and her children in an incident planned by you to get rid of me “
Berland stares at him incredulously he did not expect their plans to be so exposed, Bernald did not try to deny, he will be a big idiot at this moment and he is quite aware that their papers are very exposed to Albert, He remained silent until Albert interrupted his thinking and continued to charge him “Did your exile to many people on the planet Gliza and Kepler become Exposed until you came to kill directly?”
This was a knockout for bernald was to lose his balance and consciousness of all those things that have been revealed and they will eliminate inevitably if revealed and worse that it is no longer resolved by giving a dose of memory loss and then exile to one of the planets or even a way to kill, Things will just increase more bad as they have been before.
Then Bernald, who was staring at Albert, said: “I will manage you that to be the price of your silence forever”
Location: Gliza Planet
Being with Victoria did not make Leonardo much happi
er, But he knows that this is not something that is optional for him but is forced on it and although he does not enter conversations with her and does not really have to hear her voice, he was talking to a woman working on spacecraft while Victoria watched, Leonardo, shaking his head while that woman stands beside him as she re-explaining perhaps For the tenth time.
He needed to know everything about spacecraft without exception, the mechanism of action and how to use the console, lunching, how to deal with all the factors of gravity loss in space, In short, he had to understand every detail of that journey that would be launched only days later to Earth.
“Well, that’s enough for today and tomorrow we’ll review all the information for the last time and a successful journey,” said the girl who was accompanying him on that learning trip from the start.
she asks Queen Victoria to leave after she finished her job, while Victoria nodded approval and as soon as she went until she turned her eyes towards Leonardo then she said: “Someone will meet you once you reach Earth and I want you to pay attention to his instructions, I do not want any mistakes and only you know what I can do”
He looked at her with a vague irritation, perhaps this thousand times she was warning him of any mistake, that made him angry. He knew from the start that she would never be better than Joseph, but worse. He did not know what she was hiding behind this calmness.
“There’s a last necessary flight you have to go through,” she told him as she returned her sharp eyes towards him.
“what is it?”
She got up from her place without answering and then pointed to him to follow her. he followed her into a long corridor that led them to a large room with big glass windows, the hall was very much like Clinic, medical equipment, many beds and lote of syringes, There was a girl and a young man wearing a white coat, the smell of sterilizers filled the place, making him dizzy for a moment, the girl approached him and then she said, pointing to the high bed “Lie on the bed please”.
He looked at her without responding to her request or answering and then looking to Victoria, who was waiting for him to execute the orders, but not this time he will not be a rat experience to them.
Victoria noticed that he refused to respond and said to him: “she asked you to lie down? did you hear her?”
he looked at her sharply and then added: “But you did not answer my question, Lady Victoria”
she sighed and then looked at him stubbornly: “But I am not obliged to answer at all”
“of course you obliged because it related to me”
She looked at him with great fury and did not really want to get a fight with him, She knows from the start that she did not choose an obedient servant, “It’s about the mission on the Earth”
He looked at her disapprovingly and then said defiantly: “But it is related to my body, I will not submit my body to anything without knowing everything about it”
she felt very angry inside but tried to control her self while she answered quietly: “Well this dose will help your body to adapt with the atmosphere of the Earth or you will not be able to live there, but as soon as the dose enters your body you will be unconscious for a while”
Victoria’s lie was able to fool Leonardo easily because his information about these things is completely none, he lies on the bed surrender. The girls started preparing the needle and filling it with a liquid that he did not know, and then one of them approached and said: “Relax, no need for convulsions It will be simple and fast”
he tried to relax as she asked him not to look. He felt a simple twinge, and the needle came out of his arm. It was only a few minutes before he could not open his eyes again.
Chapter 28
Location: Planet Earth
L eonardo sat in beside Albert in the seat of his car. He was greeted by Albert as soon as he arrived with the vehicle where he was standing nearby and then took him on foot until they reached the car. Albert ran the engine and headed for his city.
Leonardo was looking out of the window and he was looking around the place trying to find something different from what he had in Kepler and Gliza, But so far he can only see a path extending through the forest whose long trees have obscured the sun’s rays to make the place almost dark. The only thing that attracted his attention so far was the yellow sunlight and the clear blue sky, So comfortable for the eyes that he felt for a moment that he will not bear the redness of the sun on the planet Kepler anymore.
Albert sees how Leonardo look at the view, It was clear to him that he was a young man who would not speak, and perhaps if he remained silent, he would never speak, He said as he saw the road in front of him: “it looks like you like the place”
Leonardo did not expect to talk to him throughout their journey in the car: “Not much different from the planet Kepler or Gliza, the only thing that is very different is the color of the sun and everything that is affected by it”
Albert looked at Leonardo for a few seconds and then said, with a simple, attractive smile on his face: “You have not seen anything yet you will notice the difference later but so far your answer is correct”
He shook his head as a kind of response to his words not because he does not want to talk, but he really does not know how to do that, especially with a stranger who belongs to an unknown place.
“Victoria seems to have missed something important by choosing the right person for her job,” said Albert, as he takes the right side of the road.
Leonardo looked to him with a little indignation, but he said without showing any aggressive reaction: “What did she miss?”
Albert noted that he was a man who was capable of behaving very Brilliant.
“I do not mean to insult your personality at all, but to succeed in the mission and seduce the girl without raising doubts must learn how to deal with people and especially in the place where you will live and until this thing is achieved, try to train to open conversation with me at least “
He looked back on the road after Albert finished his words and then shook his head unanswered.
“It’s really clear that you’ve heard my words or given them any attention. I told you to open a conversation, boy, not shake your head and look away,” he said, and then add, smiling. “What did you send me, Victoria?”
Leonardo smiles as he listens to Albert joking while Albert said: “To be frank, I have made progress. I did not expect to get a smile that quickly.”
she heard several knocked on her door while she sits on in front of her computer, she expressed her desire not to receive anyone in her room, It has become its only place for a whole week and has refused to go to university. she went through a state of depression for days when she was crying for what happened on that fateful day, But perhaps who sees her two days ago will not believe that she herself is the girl who was sobbing in an exaggerated way, she passed through that drama and convinced herself that what happened was not her fault, the knock came back again and then a voice saying: “Violet open the door”
She turned her wheelchair a little and looked towards the door to sighed and then said: “I do not want to see anyone”
“Violet you open this door or I will break it, there is no other way,” he said, while continues to knock on the door without stopping. Violet rose from her place, murmured in angry expressions and then went to the door to open the lock and rushed back to her place without looking to who is.
“you still in bedclothes, you are lazy and you insist on preaching me each time you take on the role of the older sister.” He said, and a sarcastic expression on his face, But she ignored his attempt to get her to talk and returned as if no one enters into her room.
He made slow steps toward her and then he said, standing beside her: “Yes, you are a year older than me, but that does not mean that you will receive your poor brother this way”
She stood towards her bed next to the office to sit on it to follow her and sat next to her,
“I understand how you feel, but you must
always trust me, “he said, putting his hand over her hand.
“The problem is that all the finger pointing at you, it is impossible that father knows what we talk about on the university unless you tell him,” she said, and she pulls her hand with resentment.
“I will not justify you, Violet, but I will just say that I didn’t speak to our father about what we talk about in the university,” he said, and then he was silent, staring at the expressions of her face that did not change with his last sentence.
“It has become intolerable, Daniel, there are many things I do not know and I never understand, no matter how much I try,” she said as she was playing with her wavy hair.
“It’s normal Violet, but my father is exaggerating in his desire to make you aware and fully adult as you are the older of his sons,” he said, trying to erase her doubts, but she said: “This is a fake argument I had to deceive myself out of for years, Do not you see that there are a lot of incomprehensible things?”
“Did you ever think of the reason why my father married your mother? “She said, staring at him expecting any surprise reaction, but he raised both shoulders indifferently and said: “perhaps to get a distinguished brother like me”
Violet smiled as she listened to his usual temperament and then said: “I’m serious Daniel why he marries your mother as long as he loves my mother and has been able to have children, then what is the problem that makes him resort to marriage with another?”
“hold on Violet, these are analysis without any proofs, maybe there’s something you do not know,” Daniel said.
“And that’s what I mean and more clearly I think I’m Sandra’s daughter and not Alfred’s daughter”
Daniel looked at her with shock, and he saw the expressions of her very serious face and then said with disapproval: “You’re crazy, Violet, what are you saying? I swear I’m about to laugh hysterically”
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