Chapter 2 The "Rescue"
- Athens, May 8, 2021
- Patrick Amíntoros
- You sent for me, my lord?
- Patrick, we will have to rush our plans, Cleo just called to tell me that the information about the descendant has been leaked, and although I trust the surveillance team
- that guards her, I don't want to take any risks. The girl is essential for my plans.
- Would you like me to
- bring her to you, sir?
- That's how it is. Luckily Villa Philipides in Spiros is already finished. Leave immediately for
- Havana, I need you to bring her.
- What if she refuses, sir? I don't think the girl is... the kind who interacts much with strangers.
- He frowns at me.
- You won't be a stranger to her, not exactly. Reports say
- she remembers quite a bit of what happened that night. Be careful. She are emotionally unstable, she suffers frequent panic attacks and that could compromise her life.
- I "rescue" her then. Must put her to sleep and load
- her on the jet?
- Do what you understand is necessary, I only ask that you treat her with delicacy.
- I'm really stunned.
- This is the firs time, in these two millennia that my lord asks me for such a thing. Well, I'm not the one to question his orders.
- 000
- Havana City, two days later.
- I got her. It wasn't particularly difficult. She's is a lonely creature. Her life is summed up in
- waking up, going to work, returning home, eating, bathing, reading, sleeping
- and repeating. In twenty-four hours I put together the rescue plan (I refuse to
- think that this is kidnapping) and I already have her on the jet.
- When I caught her near
- her house, she resisted with tooth and
- nail. It was an enormous fun watching her struggle. I covered her nose and
- mouth with a formaldehyde-smeared handkerchief and good night! She fell
- instantly. The moment she was unconscious I felt a sense of dejavú, millennia
- ago my Lord entrusted me to bring another woman to his presence and I am
- surprised to note that that woman and this one bear an impressive physical
- resemblance.
- That is why my Lord has
- been so consumed with obsession for her, that is why he has been inactive for
- three years in the sexual arena. Which has astonished me, Alexandros's appetite
- for carnal pleasures is legendary and insatiable. That he has gone so long
- without lovers is a true mystery. There is something very strange about this
- girl.
- It is true that Alexandros had been searching for descendants of the ancient Sorceresses who
- cursed us both, for almost two centuries. I have always thought that he was so
- doing out of curiosity, out of interest in discovering what had become of that
- woman, but apparently my Lord is up to something else.
- The girl will sleep until after we arrive. I have administered an intravenous sleeping medication in the appropriate dose for said purpose. I had had to bribe the customs officer, the merchandise my Lord demands has been more expensive than expected.
- I take out my cell phone and dial the default number. He answers on the second
- ring.
- Well?- Asks my lord impatiently.
- I got her. It wasn't hard to carry out the rescue, but it has cost you five grands. The customs
- officer is an ambitious son of a bitch.
- He laughes merrily.
- Must I take her to Athens or...
- Take her directly to Spiros, I'll catch up with you there, tomorrow morning.
- Yes, sir.
- And Patrick...
- Master?
- Good job.
- Hangs up.
- I tune the controls and take off. I'll keep an eye on the girl once she wakes up. I don't know why but there is something in all this that gives me a very bad feeling.