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.

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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.