Mario and Old K said goodbye, left the studio and went downstairs to meet Claudio Belles, sitting cross-legged on the living room rug, pounding ice cream with a spoon.
Mario gave Claudio Belles a fierce look and pointed his finger at him: “You better not play with President Eduardo’s feelings! Otherwise I won’t forgive you.”
Old K nodded slightly to Claudio Belles and was polite enough to say, in case President Eduardo came after them and blamed them, he hurriedly pulled Mario out and said with a smile, “Miss Claudio, we’ll go first, President Eduardo might be upset about Mario probably being pissed off, so if you want to help President Eduardo calm down, do it!”
Claudio Belles grunted and looked at Mario and old K with disdain, “You expect me to give President Eduardo a bollocking after being so mean? Nice try.”
It’s a good thing he didn’t sue them hard.
That Mario, ironically, was badmouthing her in front of President Eduardo.
The way he was so fierce now, that he wanted to tear her to pieces, and she was still speaking well of him….
Claudio Belles jumped to his feet and ran upstairs to the study all at once.
Seeing Eduardo Tercero sitting at his desk, apparently deep in thought, Claudio Belles raised his hand and knocked on the door, “President Eduardo?”
Eduardo Tercero turned his eyes toward her and motioned for her to come closer.
She approached and was gathered into his lap by Eduardo Tercero’s gentle grip on her arm.
“Did you have a fight with Mario and old K?”
Eduardo Tercero wrapped his arms around the soft waist of the girl in his arms and Almira squeezed, “Not really, it’s just that they both don’t like me having a relationship.”
Claudio Belles snorted and laughed out loud, “Why don’t they let President Eduardo fall in love, it’s not illegal to fall in love, besides … can they both guarantee to be single dogs for the rest of their lives too? Besides, it’s President Eduardo’s private business to fall in love, what do they care?”.
Eduardo Tercero looked at her and said with sincerity, “But I am in a special position, and whatever I do will not be a private or family matter.”
Claudio BellesAlmira tugged at the short hair at the nape of Eduardo Tercero’s neck. “But what do you care if President Eduardo is in love?”
“There is only so much energy in a person and being in a relationship can be a distraction, Mario accused me of slacking off these days and he was right.”
Claudio Belles bristled, “Wouldn’t President Eduardo have human rights if he made it this far and wasn’t free to fall in love?”
The position is so powerful that it is true that he is not as happy as an ordinary person, nor can he be as spontaneous as an ordinary person, laughing when he is happy and crying when he is sad, and in such a position Eduardo Tercero is destined to carry his weight.
“As a child, I really cried a lot. But my father hated that I was a crier.”
Claudio Belles looks at his poker face and says with a slight smile, “I can’t imagine that President Eduardo was a good crier as a child. But it’s normal for children to cry. It’s not bad to cry.”
“It’s true that for ordinary people, crying can’t be a bad thing; in medical terms, it even helps to release bad emotions. But I was born The Tercero family, my father’s successor and the next chief of staff of the Hidden Organization. My father told me that if my emotions and my mind were guessed by the other side, at any moment I could endanger my own life and the lives of those around me. Therefore, when I was sad, I could not cry, and when I was happy, I could not laugh. Not smiling is not establishing authority, but when you don’t smile, the other party can’t guess your heart through your micro-expressions, so you are safer when you don’t smile.”
He put his arms around Eduardo Tercero’s neck, rubbed his little face between Eduardo Tercero’s neck and asked in a whisper, “But Presidente Eduardo smiled many times when he was with me. Presidente Eduardo Aren’t you afraid that I will second guess your heart and turn it against you?”
Eduardo Tercero looked into her watery, soulful eyes and said, “Claudio, I am relaxed and happy when I am with you.”
She said with deliberate pity, “But your subordinates forbid us to fall in love, so what?”
The man’s large hands, closed around her nape, his forehead against her Almira, Edward the Third rubbed the tip of his nose affectionately against hers, sighed lightly and said, “Claudio, you deserve my infatuation for once.”
…
Evening.
Eduardo Tercero was working in the studio and Claudio Belles had just come out of the bathroom, after applying cream and body lotion, when he noticed a ring from the bracelet he always carried with him.
Then, not far away, three golden fireworks exploded in the dark night sky.
This is not an unusual firework, but a code word for the Ming organization to meet with her.
Is this to tell her that recently the Ming organization will carry out the next step?
But what is the next step in the Ming organization’s plan?
Claudio Belles was not aware of it, only that a vague feeling of uneasiness arose inside him.
Orlondo Marta, that man, is so calculating that he has everything under control.
She was not nervous about Eduardo Tercero’s life. What Orlondo Marta wanted was definitely not as simple as Eduardo Tercero’s life, and Eduardo Tercero was not someone who let himself go so easily.
He only vaguely sensed that Orlondo Marta was playing a great game of chess.
The bracelet, worn on the wrist, was made in a very ordinary way, like a normal bracelet for checking heart rate, and it received signals through a special radar, so that even if the enemy found something wrong with the bracelet and picked it up to dissect it, nothing unusual would be found.
It was the same bracelet that automatically sent the exact location of her and Eduardo Tercero when she went to Valencia with him.
Tonight, Eduardo Tercero is working late and Claudio Belles is alone in his double bed, looking out the window into the night, somewhat sleepless.
In her mind, everything revolved around the night Eduardo Tercero spent with her, touching each other, feeling each other, having the most wonderful night of his life.
That kind of fullness and joy she had once had as a child, when the mother of the nuns at the orphanage, after finding her starving for two or three days, brought her two buns and gave them to her.
At that moment, her heart was warm and hot, as if it was about to melt.
It was a feeling that Eduardo Tercero fully conveyed to her that night.
…
First thing in the morning, the big bed collapsed slightly.
A warm, firm chest appeared behind her, and then the man’s long, strong arms encircled her and pulled her into his arms.
Behind him, Edward the Third, hearing the whisper of the woman in his arms, frowned slightly as Almira called out to her, “Claudius?”
But the person in his arms, did not respond.
Only when Eduardo Tercero turned his body, Almira’s body, to look at him, did he realize that she was asleep, as if in a dream, and that in the corners of her eyes were soaked with tears.
In tears.
In all the time she had been with him, it was the first time he had seen her cry, and cry so hard.
Who are we crying for?
Edward the Third reached up and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.