Page 118 of King of Shadows


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I keep my feet steady, calculate the weight and distance and then cut the air with that throw. Good point is that I almost hit the bag, bad point, I couldn't even fit it. Domenico lets out a nasal laugh when he sees that the knife fell against the grass, all of his knives remaining in the bags.

—I just think that you should leave your past, ask yourself what you want and go after them without thinking that a certain person will come out of his grave to do all those bad things to you, you know?

—I think you can improve for another day.

—Maybe improving is better than stagnating, Dom.

I turn around, leaving him alone in the patio, I take my cell phone and I intervene in the house, giving me a space to think about everything I must do to become someone like them. They have had a whole life, they have been in this place since they were babies.

They will always earn double, they will always be able to do everything they want in less time. However, if it is something I want, I must challenge myself as I have always done, I must achieve what I want so much to almost be at the same level.

I'm not going to let myself be defeated, I'm going to fight until I become stronger than I already am.

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Monday morning Trixi and I spent in the yard collecting some flowers so we could start math math tomorrow to help her move forward. I don't follow an educational system, I make my own trying to make her advance as much as I can so that she moves forward. Of course I don't pressure her to study more advanced things, I adapt to her way of receiving information.

—So I'm going to learn to multiply and divide?

—Yes, honey, tomorrow I will give you the introduction so you can understand how it's done.

—And we are going to reinforce my addition and subtraction, right?

-Clear.

—Dad taught me to count faster with my fingers, because sometimes I try to do it in my mind, but it's a little difficult because I lose concentration —he starts laughing—. And now it's easier, he also gave me a notebook to do my sums, I saw that he had a lot of money and I asked.

—What did you ask Trix?

—Where do you get so many bills from? —He moves his feet on the chair while I arrange what we occupy today—. And he told me that they have something very precious here - he whispers as a secret - a tree that gives them a lot of money at night.

-Really? I can't stay awake.

—But I do, tonight he is going to show me because there are certain moments when he gives money and others when he doesn't.

—Although you must also know about hard work, what I taught them.

—Oh, yes I remember, but miss, they aremymonians.

—Millionaires, Trix.

—That—he agrees with me—they have a lot of money and as far as I know they don't work. Maybe they bought a money tree from those magical gentlemen, you are magical, teacher Emily.

"Oh, I am."

I finish putting the flowers that we will use tomorrow in a plastic bag so that we can reinforce the mathematics that we are going to learn while at home. Leone makes an appearance, takes Trixi in his arms and makes her fly into the air and then catches her in his arms.

—Daddy, tomorrow I'm going to know what multiplication is.

-Really?

—Yes, can money be multiplied?

—Of course, little one.

They talk for a while until he leaves her with her sister Ginevra who winks at me, in the afternoon I have a talk with her. Leone sees that I arrange all of Trixi's utensils, I take off the flower that she put on my head and I approach him, who has his hands on his back.

—Escape strategy and planning.

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