Tajo briefly dissected Severo’s mind in his mind before speaking slowly, “You and Lorenzo have the best relationship in the Solares family for two people your age.”
Severo smiled as if remembering something funny and spoke without thinking: “He was just a punk when I met him”.
So he and Lorenzo would have crossed paths, but only because Lorenzo was not a Solares at the time.
If I had known then that Lorenzo was Tajo’s illegitimate son, there is no way I would have intervened to help Lorenzo, no matter how bad I felt that day.
He does not like the Solares family.
Tajo had said earlier that Severo was a lot like his mother, so unconsciously he hated everything related to the Solares family as much as his mother, but he could not disassociate himself from her.
It was as if when Ariela died, the Solares family went to collect her body, covered up her death and buried her discreetly.
In those early years, he did not understand this.
Only later did he realise that the Solares family was like a huge black hole that dragged everyone connected with it, and that, wherever he went, he could never completely separate himself from it.
It is a tug to continue the century-old glory of the Solares family.
Tajo’s face hardened as if he had been pricked in the wound.
Although he had been living abroad and had become the head of the Solares family, the Solares family, due to changes over time, had a number of people in the family who were from Z and had inherited some of the traditional Z culture.
The issue of illegitimate children is a dishonourable one.
Moreover, it was he who had a one-night stand with a woman and did not know there was such a child until years later, when the rest of the family found out, and it was no secret in the Solares family.
It was a long time before Tajo said, with a sombre face: “He has suffered enough”.
Severo raised his eyebrows slightly in disbelief.
Allyce had only said “grandfather” from beginning to end, but she felt the atmosphere in the room was oppressive.
Although Severo and Tajo’s expressions were calm, Allyce could feel the tension, the quiet smoke in the room.
“It’s getting late, it’s better for grandfather to rest early so he won’t be in a bad mood tomorrow, I’ve just arrived today and I’m a bit tired too”. Severo spoke and made a gesture of yawning.
Tajo’s face was still mean, as if he wanted to scold Severo, but it was as if he couldn’t find a reason.
He held his breath stiffly and waved his hand at Severo: “Go on”.
The smile on Severo’s face faded: “Good night, grandfather. The tone of his voice was soft and seemed unusually warm.
He saw Tajo’s face change again before Severo led Allyce out.
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Saul, who was watching the room, saw Severo leave with Allyce with a smile on his face and his heart clenched. He waited for the two men to leave before entering the studio.
Once inside, Saul shouted, “Monsieur le Comte”.
Hearing no response, he looked in, just in time to see Tajo angrily grab a glass of water and slam it down.
The room was covered with expensive carpets and the glass only made a dull thud, but did not break.
He paced back and forth between the sofa and the desk, saying incessantly: “He is really trying to make me angry, all the members of the Solares family want to please me for fear of offending me, but he wants to antagonise me for fear of not offending me.
At this point, he stamped his foot heavily on the spot.
Saul, as if he had expected it, listened to Tajo’s ramblings and fetched a new glass of water and handed it to him: “Count, calm down, young master Severo is always like that, there is nothing to be angry about”.
Tajo was still angry: “You don’t even know what he said!
Saul had been with him for decades, and although he was furious, he did not lash out.
He took the glass of water Saul held out to him and took a sip before sitting down.
Saul said: “Young Master Severo is now only lip service, he and Mademoiselle Delahoz are now in the castle of Solares under your control, and whatever he wants to do is still under your control…”.
At Saul’s words, Tajo’s face gradually improved.
“I didn’t think Severo would leave his precious son in Cloud Cit,” was something Tajo didn’t expect.
In his expectations, Severo was going to bring Alonzo.
From what he knew of Severo, he did not yield easily to the people and things that mattered to him, it was like a natural instinct of the beast that what he possessed should remain on his own ground.
And he cared so much about Allyce that it was only fair that he brought Alonzo too, considering that Allyce would miss his son.
“If you’re not interested, why don’t I send someone to fetch the young master?” asked Saul sheepishly.
He raised the tone of his voice at this statement.
It was better to say pick him up than to say kidnap him.
Just when Saul thought he would get Tajo’s approval for this opinion, Tajo snorted coldly, “Nonsense!”
“The man to whom he is entrusted is not someone we can just take away from him”. He knew Neto, and naturally he knew who Neto was.
The family behind Neto, Pastrano, was too complicated, and had been Severo’s friend for many years and was extremely trusted by him.
As he had promised to help Severo look after Alonzo, he would naturally do his best.
If Tajo were to take it back from Neto, it would probably become a provocation by the Solares family against the Pastranos of the Z nation.
At that time, Tajo would be confronted by the Pastrano family of Z. …
Not even the Solares family can afford to mess with the Pastrano family.
The consequences are not something they can foresee, after all, once it happens, what is at stake is no longer a simple personal dispute.
Saul also blushes when he sees that Tajo is angry: “It was silly of me”.
“Well, go about your business, in a few days I will give a banquet at the castle to formally introduce Severo to everyone. Although everyone knew that Severo was Tajo’s grandson, it had never been officially announced again.
After formally introducing Severo, it was no longer possible to disassociate Severo from the Solares family.