Page 25 of King of Shadows


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We both sit down so we can take the bag out of everything, we get going and I put a high ponytail so my hair doesn't get stained. I don't have designs in mind, we just make the ones that come from our imagination to be able to cover those frames. I myself tell you how to make the paper roses and the wallpaper itself so that they can be wrapped.

We make flowers of many colors, we make cuts, we paint and we stain our hands. Twenty portrait frames are perfect and ready to dry today and the small bouquets of roses are also ready to be another detail to the gift.

I'm surprised that Ginevra on her own wants to make chocolates covered in chocolate, almonds and walnuts. He bags them to add one more detail, when I see the brand I realize that they are quite expensive chocolates unlike the common ones. I don't say anything because I see her too excited to help. When we stop to look at all the gifts, the clearing of three men's throats makes us turn.

Salvatore, Domenico and Leone go into the dining room to see what we did.

-They do not like it? —Asks his sister—. We made them for the little ones, tomorrow is Mother's Day and she didn't have the material.

—Did you offer it to him?

Domenico asks.

-Yeah.

-Because?

Salvatore's intense gaze does not make her move away or fear him, I have no answer as to what we will do with all this if I can't go out, she looks at me and what she transmits to me is pure confidence.

—Because we have to help the family, this made us feel good and tomorrow we will go to kindergarten,” he proposes. Domenico, Leone and I can escort her until she sees her students, gives them their gifts and can stay at the festival her school is preparing.

I notice that the three brothers are not amused, they look at me and try to see to the depths of my soul as if I were hiding something. I don't, I don't mean to hurt a person who just helped me distract my mind for a few seconds.

"And we're not asking for permission," Gin refutes again. She needs to get out, she is not our prey...

—Gin.

Salvatore's voice is a deep threat to his sister warning her to be careful. He doesn't care in the slightest.

"She's my friend, they brought her here because of you," she looks at Salvatore. Because you were determined to get your damn pride back, but that doesn't mean you're going to stop him from even breathing. He has to act normal, he has to continue with his passions because I don't see that any of the four here stop enjoying what they love to do most - he defends me -. You can't make her trust, love, and want to belong here if you're this cruel to her. Because you make it small, you enclose it in a square with four fucking sides like they did to me.

"Gin, what we did with you was not lock you up," Leone attacks. It was to protect you because Rinaldi was very close, you have the evidence, they took our parents away from us and if we had simply left you, you would have died in their place.

He doesn't give importance to what he just said to his brother, he just turns to look at Salvatore.

—Can we go tomorrow to deliver this?

—Yes, but I want everyone out, I need to talk to Emily.

They obey and I can hear Leone and Domenico whispering to their sister. They move away quite a bit, I no longer hear their footsteps and I approach the table detailing what I did for the children who tomorrow have a special day to celebrate their mothers or fathers in case they are single.

—Wasn't yesterday's manipulation enough for you?

—My relationship with you and your sister is not the same, she offered and I must thank her because she is considerate, she realizes that I am not going to live in a room forever —I say firmly. If I stayed here without making a big deal out of it, it was because I won't put the kindergarten children in danger just because some bastard wants to kill any woman you set your eyes on. That's why I stayed and that's why I accepted Gin over you.

The last words hit him, when I met him there was still something inside him that told me he could be understanding. After four months I realize that he has completely transformed.

"You're right, since you decided to make a wise decision, I can't be acting this way or you can change your mind," he takes one of the paper bouquets between his fingers. Did you make them?

—Yes, they are part of the gift.

"The chocolates are my sister's," he assumes. Well, tomorrow you can go out with my brothers to the garden to deliver this and stay until the end of the festival. Just take it upon yourself to create a story, lie, justification or whatever you want to make your absence clear to them because I won't always let you out.

—And why can't your brothers accompany me to work?

—They are not your dogs.

—And if I want it that way? "I challenge him." I can't give in to this new life if I don't get what I want and what I want is for your brothers to escort me to my job, stay the hours I work and return me home.

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