David Tercero’s eyebrows drew together and his dark eyes looked at Claudio Belles with a cold, stern stare. “What, you think a simple you is more important than her future and the rest of her life?”
David Tercero’s voice held a slight tone of contempt and mockery.
Claudio Belles did not bother, he looked directly at David Tercero and said with a smile, “Why do you hold me in such low esteem, old master, if I am the rest of your son’s life?”
“You! A yellow-haired boy, what a big mouth!”
Claudius Belles pursed his red lips and smiled slightly, his temper was rare to see in a million years.
The old man in front of him, he had it in his mind at all times, was Edward the Third’s own father, and possibly his future family.
He put up with David Tercero’s cold words, not because he was actually afraid to fight him, but simply because he put up with the middle-aged man in front of him, who was Eduardo Tercero’s father.
If anyone else had done that to him, the delicate and precious flowers in this courtyard would have been beaten to death by now.
“Old Court Master, I respect you because you are Edward the Third’s father, but I really don’t approve of your backstabbing tactics.”
Nasty and petty.
“You think I’m really afraid to do anything to you?” David Tercero’s face sank and there was coldness in his tone.
“This is your territory, Old Court Master, and even if I were capable, I couldn’t escape with my wings, but if Old Court Master really wants to do something to me, I’m afraid that when Edward Third returns from the border, Old Court Master, he’ll really regret what he did to me today.”
Sharp and direct, David Tercero’s fists clenched behind his back, and for a moment he was speechless.
With those words, Claudius Belles raised his legs and prepared to leave, “If there is nothing more you wish to say to me, Master, I will leave you.”
“My subordinate? Does he even know he’s a junior with that attitude?
No one had ever dared to contradict him like that, not even Eduardo Tercero.
David Tercero clenched his fists.
Claudio Belles had just arrived at the gallery when he was surrounded by several dark guards.
It looked like they were not going to let him walk properly.
However, he was not messing around and had brought a pistol with him when he arrived.
Claudio Belles turned around and stood at the back of the hallway, looking at David Tercero, who was not far away. “Is the old Master of the Court really not going to let me go?”.
David Tercero’s face was somewhat stony, “If you insist on staying with Eduardo Tercero, Eduardo Tercero will have to carry a reputation that may not be erased for the rest of his life, a traitor son, do you know how serious that is?”
Claudio Belles lowered his teary eyes slightly and was silent for a few seconds, before raising them again and looking directly at David Tercero.
“Of course I know how serious the accusation is. But what’s the use of being a loyal general if you can’t live your own life? Giving up your own scatterbrainedness and the love of your life to live the perfect self that others say you are, such a life is no better.”
David Tercero’s face darkened, “You’re only young, when you get to my age you’ll know what responsibility is!”.
Claudio Belles smiled slightly, “I once thought I could live a bachelor’s life for the sake of the highest ideals. In this world, someone always has to sacrifice their own ego, and if I don’t do it, someone else will have to, so it’s better that I do it.”
“What exactly do you mean?”
“I mean that after meeting Eduardo Tercero, I don’t think like that anymore. All those ideals of preserving peace and supremacy turned out to be less important to me now than someone I liked and was going to spend the rest of my life with. I don’t want to care what he thinks or does in the future, right now I just want that peace and quiet.”
I may regret it later, but if I choose this now, I will regret it later that I didn’t choose that in the first place.
People are like that, they always regret their decisions after they have made choices they don’t like.
But regret is regret, life and fate are not controllable, and if you want to control them, you can live like that without problems, but it’s also boring.
David Tercero’s eyes held a hint of emotion and compassion, but he soon looked at Claudio Belles with a steely gaze and said, “Aren’t you afraid that Eduardo Tercero will hate you later and that he will have to live with a lifetime of fame because of you?”
“What’s a lifetime fame, what do you care if you’re dead when you’re in the coffin? Besides, if Edward Third chose to be with me, he must have thought about the situation he would be facing, why should I care about him if he doesn’t care about his reputation?”
David Tercero frowned, “You can’t change who you are, you’re with Eduardo Tercero, you’ll probably get kicked out of R and Eduardo Tercero will be left with nothing, you want the Eduardo Tercero who is nothing?”
Claudio Belles said, “Who says we have to live in R? My love for Eduardo Tercero has nothing to do with his wealth and status. If that’s all that matters to me, in my terms, it’s not like I have to marry Eduardo Tercero.”
She laughed lightly and added, “Eduardo Tercero is partial to me, even when I have made mistakes, even when my status is wrong for him, he is partial to me. That’s why I love him.”
There were very few people who could be partial to her all the time, so she wanted to appreciate them.
After a long moment, David Tercero ordered the guards who had surrounded Claudio Belles to stand down.
Claudio Belles turned and quickly exited The Tercero Family.
When he left The Tercero Family, he got into his car and ordered K. to drive immediately.
Curious and concerned, old K. asked, “Miss Claudio, you and the old court master … did not quarrel, did you?”.
Claudio Belles looked at him, “Drive fast, if you keep slowing down, later your old Court Master will change his mind and I will be lying in front of you in a river of blood. When that happens, you will take my corpse and answer to your master.”
Old K’s little heart shuddered and he immediately started the car and drove out of La Familia Tercero.
Claudio Belles sat on the seat of the car, opening the window and letting the wind blow in.
He stretched out his hands and there was damp sweat on his palms.
In The Tercero family she had been surrounded by guards, and if David Tercero really hadn’t let her go, she would never have made it out of the mansion.
She looked at the damp sweat on her palm and frowned.
Since when had she ever been afraid of death?
She was used to living a life where life and death hung in the balance, and once she had hope of living a peaceful and quiet life, she actually feared that the King of Hell would come to claim her life in a minute.
A life that is not easy to live is really afraid of death, and it is also true.
Old K cautiously looked at Claudio Belles in the rearview mirror and asked, “Miss Claudio, do you think we should tell President Eduardo about this?”
Claudio Belles spoke decisively, “No. I’m not a bitch to separate them from father and son.”
The corners of K’s mouth twitched: … Miss Claudio always hit the nail on the head.
It was no wonder President Eduardo had loved the woman for ten years.
“Go back to La Villa Real.” ordered Claudio Belles.
“Right.”
Claudio Belles, more awake from the wind blowing through the window, looked out at the gliding landscapes, red lips pulling.
Sometime in the last twenty years or so, he had longed to live and fall in love like Dulcina Calvo, to be a girl like Dulcina Calvo, softly willing to wait for someone to come up and embrace her.
But this idea was soon discarded and killed by herself.
It always seemed impossible, that no one would want her for a long time.
But now it turned out that there must have been someone like that, unconditionally partial to her, always on her side, who would have fallen in love with her even if he had been on the opposite side of her.