Page 88 of King of Shadows


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—I would be delighted to continue teaching you, although I must make a list of supplies that we need to be able to learn at home.

"Everything will be on me," Salvatore comments, his brother thanks him with a tilt of his head. They can ask for whatever is necessary to keep Trixi learning.

-OK.

She excitedly hugs me and I read her congratulations. I turn twenty-six in four days, which means I have to prepare for a possible new birthday. It was common for me to go out with David that day so we could eat at a good restaurant, we would go to the movies or the park and talk about life. My birthdays were basic, I don't think I had understood why it was necessary to have a great birthday with balloons, streamers and countless things if you could also enjoy it with a good coffee, an outing and that's it.

We continue with breakfast, I enjoy all my food until we stay in the dining room in silence. Ginevra's looks tell me that she's up to something.

"Well, we want to make you something for your birthday," she says. Maybe something small that you can enjoy, you know you can't bring many people so we can do something small.

"Although I have to admit that our parties always end in drunkenness and indecent games," adds Domenico. Cards, you lose valuable things, shots and many other things.

—Apart from the fact that we bring people to entertain—Leon speaks with his arms crossed—: boys, girls, everyone can come in to entertain us. However, from what we see, you are together, right?

Salvatore and I look at each other, the little girl continues drawing on another sheet on the table and selects her crayons so she can paint the sky and continue with a radiant sun.

"We wouldn't say we're together, we're getting to know each other," I explain, looking at the three from time to time. I think it is not convenient for us to rush things because they can go wrong, that is why we are in the part of conquering ourselves, I think.

“That's how it is,” says Salvatore, showing one of his arrogant smiles. We do not believe that time is a limit, whatever happens we must take it calmly.

"I understand," Leon analyzes, he brings his elbows closer to the table, detailing the little girl who is in my lap. In the same way I think we should all thank you for trying to unite us, the bastard will not go away from us, I think everyone here will leave being cruel to the point of death. However, it is important to admit that my brother also had his problems, we had ours and if you are part of the family it is not convenient to be separated.

"I have to tell you," Domenico intervenes with amusement painting his face, "that here strong leaders are created, well-trained soldiers, and I think that all of us here can help you achieve the power that was taken from you." That stupid bitch must have gotten what she deserved, especially if she blamed you for things you didn't do.

For some reason I feel a new sensation, for so long thinking that I was alone with my own problems that realizing what I have pushed here before my eyes allows me to feel that I am not alone. She couldn't always be, of course some time ago she was only in bad company.

Today maybe not anymore.

—In short , we want to be a team among all of us, I told you that you were ours, our family,” Gin reminds me. And I never meant that we were going to keep you chained with zero rights, I wanted to say that you were part of our family, this house is yours and all of us must help each other.

"I'm fine with all that," I assume. I would really like to learn, since I am in this world and outside life is very boring to me, I think I can learn more things here. I don't think I will become someone so cruel and savage, however, I can become stronger than I am now.

—You are already a fairy with dust, Emily—Trixi raises her face to see me, her laughs are riotous—. You are already strong, you are the base when Leon and I play. You are strong, the foundation and the strongest teacher.

-Thanks love.

I kiss her cheek. Shortly afterward I heard proposals for a small party at the house, although I think it is an excuse for them to have a day of fun after four months that were not about improvement, they were about mourning, it is as if all the joy had been taken away from them. carried away until they realized that they were doing everything wrong.

I let them make and break for the party, I know that in the end I will be the first to go to bed because my social energy is not always through the roof. Being able to learn to teach and make children grow by teaching them the basics so that they can defend themselves before the world allowed me to learn about psychology. In all cases we must detect certain behaviors in children that we find alarming in order to help them.

Although I don't want to say it openly, they are like little mafia babies, every time I think about it I try not to laugh because they really need help with quite a few things to help them get out of all their conflicts.

I don't want to say that their parents are this or that, but the upbringing they had makes it clear to me that they are people who for many years always had two elders taking care of them and deciding for them. That's why for four months the four of them have felt directionless, meaningless. Salvatore with twenty-nine, Leon with twenty-six, Domenico with twenty-three and Ginevra with seventeen is a clear example that no matter how big or small you are, there is always time to grow, because they have not done so until now when they want to challenge themselves.

We stop talking when Guillermo and Tamara interfere in the dining room, Trixi was filling all of us with drawings. The head of the escort enters, leaving a box on the table, that simple movement tells us all to remain silent.

"Alessio's men who work in the lower areas selling the most common drugs you know gave us that when they saw us nearby," he explains sternly, his voice penetrating. The escort checked it and it's nothing more than a message. The Oslon member with the tattooed message has already arrived at the Rinaldi residence, this is Don's response.

—You two stay.

Salvatore asks, extends his hands to be able to uncover the simple gift box, leaves the lid on the table and takes the first photos. Curiosity kills me forcing me to take a look. They are photos that I recognize, they are my family, my father's second family, my best friend hanging out with Norma; the school psychologist, and several photos indicate that they have followed my relatives no matter what.

I remain petrified, Leone gets up so she can take Trixi in her arms and approaches, detailing each of the photos that Salvatore arranges in lines on the table.

"They're looking for you, they're investigating you, and they did the same thing they do when they want to capture someone," Leone says, surprised. They already have it checked.

"If they know everything, it is better that they back off, here more than one will be hurt, they will lose," Salvatore recites, analyzing the letter with a burgundy wax seal with the initial of the Rinaldi surname marked. We know that it is yours, we know that it belongs to them and sooner or later they will make it a Marino, continue making the love story that everyone hopes to read, tomorrow the blood wedding will end with everything that you took from us first.

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