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"Relax, champ. This is not a fight that I can win," I said sadly. "My daughter's still back there...in arguably safer hands now..." I remembered Mrs. Ricci. "...than she ever was with me."
"That's not true, Sienna. There's no safer hand the child can be in than with her mother. You have to get your child back and live individually. You don't need them." He stressed the last statement with so much emphasis.
"You know what, you're right, Carlos. I have to take matters into my own hands and not wait for fate to decide my destiny."
"Atta girl!" he hailed me.
"But now, these hands are empty. And you know what would fill them?"
"Matters?"
"Shot glasses of Bulleit Bourbon!"
"Well, there's that too," he chuckled and led me back out of the staff lounge we went to have our little private talk.
The rest of the night passed exactly how you'd expect it to pass when Sienna Asghar handles things. In a blur. Literally.
"I see stars,” I slurred as I staggered into the house.
"Well, that was when you were outside. Now you're in, my best bet is the chandelier dangling from the ceiling," Ricardo heaved as he supported my weight. I made sure to drink myself to stupor today - a realm in which entirely nothing made sense.
I see someone in my disheveled state. He was being dragged.
Then came in... Alessandro? There was a brief conversation I couldn't make sense of before two loud retorts jolted me into a small gap of sobriety.
"Did you just..."
The man lay limp some few feet from me. Alessandro looked at me and came forward. I tried as I could to get away from the monstrosity, but I had better control over jelly than I did my legs... besides, Ricardo held me as still as he could.
"You probably won't remember this in the morning, but this guy followed you from the club. Be more careful next time, tigre. Bullets fly liberally these days."
In the blink of an eye, it was morning again. Wondering when I passed out, I did a full freshening up and chugged down some aspirins to keep my pounding skull in check.
Didn't I see Alessandro yesterday? We did have a conversation, nothing I remembered much of, but slowly during the day, I remembered bits and pieces of the happenings. He killed a man. I wanted to confront him about it, but I decided against it. It might've as well just been a machination of my mind.
Now having almost fully mastered the house thanks to Ricardo, I strolled with Artemis to the kitchen to get something to eat as she had been disturbing me the past hour since I woke. On the way, I passed the devil himself. He didn't even acknowledge me, and he just continued whatever it is he was doing and moved along, but not without giving Artemis a custom high-five.
I felt relieved when he passed me. That way, a lot of the awkward tension was completely avoided as well as him as a whole. No matter how fast my heart rate picked up, no matter how rosy my cheeks were any time he looked in my direction, I made one thing clear to my psyche. I was going to adjust to being ignored by someone I once really loved.
Chapter 18
The days slowly crept into weeks. I was completely shattered with boredom. Had it not been for Ricardo, I probably would've hung myself with my own intestines to get rid of the sickening feeling that there’s more that I could do with my life. That was the question I asked him now as we both lay basking in the sun by the pool.
"Hey," I called out to him.
"Huh?"
"Do you ever feel like... there's something more you should be doing with yourself that makes it kind of look like you're wasting time right now?"
"What do you mean?"
I sat up now, to further explain my question to him.
"Do you feel that you were made for better, Ricardo?" I asked him curtly.
"Every time," he sighed. "I think everyone feels like they can be the best in whatever field they set their imagination to. There's just a few people who know how to actually bring this imagination to proper fruition," he mused.
Hmmmm. "That's deep."
