Chapter 4 4

When she found out, she said, when her mother managed to arrange her contact with him, just like my mother, but that due to religion, she became celibate from there, a woman thirsty for money, who left everyone the children.

The woman didn't have to think twice about leaving the religious life, being seduced by a wealthy demon who simply had more love for money due to her recent interest in sex, after years of being celibate for her father, who she went to live with her lover, that was six months ago, she kept going from relationships with rich people involved with Um-Mu cult priests to rich people involved in big companies.

She gave up her children, life, religion, for the mere mention of money and stewardship, on the same fateful day when Astrid herself says she is free against the life she had all her life until she was 19.

My mentor, who is the man who received me in the city is called Reginald Nicodemus, did not like the idea at all, and my mentor in the financial sector, my mother's current lover, in which, in addition to being exchanged for a demon, at the slightest opportunity her mother proved to be more than a traitor, as she left like her eldest daughter all her children, one of whom, the youngest, was little more than a year old.

Where in his opinion, if I were less proud, I could work for a friend of his and reap the benefits inherent in that kind of closeness, even if his boss was an assistant to the very rich man who chose me.

- I wanted you to just accept that some advances and the offers they want to offer, but apparently you have to try to keep college costs down. - Your mentor said.

- That shepherd, you can run away from the old life in the colony, but you are stubborn like your father. - Reginald said.

- If you continue like this, the amounts that the project lent you, it will take a lifetime to be able to pay off your student loans with what you earn as an assistant. - He said.

The girl herself, managed to get into college, would go the next week after the start of her work, at that time, she won a partial scholarship, the other part would be paid with her salary that she would receive from the work she achieved in the project of selection.

This was another point of contention, and my father adamantly refused to budge, yet he almost caused a problem, his mother's rich lovers, being one of the rich men who transported and bought the colony's supplies and goods.

- You know when I offered to pay for some work your father said. - Well, he said.

- There's no way any other man is going to pay for my daughter's education. - Geronimo Cristal when Nicodemus made his proposal.

- He has his pride hurt, I have nothing to do with it, nobody has, after all, they have a place to take care of the children that their mother left.

The mother's trophy goes to her, trust me, the children, they can barely turn around, she just dropped them, Astrid herself wouldn't stay to take care of it out of pity...

Still, I convinced him when you entered the room, I said, that I didn't intend to come back after knowing all the proposals, he's simply trying to avoid contact with you two longer..., Astrid heard Nicodemus say.

At that time, the man fell kneeling prostrate on the ground, when he began to lecture, saying that you were lost and would not find God anymore, even more so when the girl saw her father begging her mother not to do that, but it was already late, his mother left.

It was that same morning, when you left with me on the bus, your mother didn't stay with me, but both you and her must be the reason for gossip in that community, I believe he must think, when his mother said, that he didn't know where you would go.

So, she just walked away, abandoning everything, including her old life. - He said. – But she is now with a rich man from the cult of Um-Mu, she changed her father for a rich vampire...

Astrid wondered later, how her younger brothers were left at that time, about his mother's betrayal, the community, but she had dreams, she didn't want to stay there, she wasn't the one who had children.

That's when he earned my respect with that attitude, even if I think Nicodemus 's too, although he will never admit it, when at that time, I even understood their side, because I wanted to pay for my studies myself, but there was no way, since I cannot depend on the pastor, even though he was my father, it was a matter of honor.

When my mother didn't want to go back to my father's side, she gave up everything to leave, the same afternoon that Astrid, heading to another region of Lovecraft County, where she would no longer stay with him, but that didn't happen. it lessened her determination to act as an alternative between her and her father in any and all situations, even if they hadn't seen each other for a long time.

Sin city, everyone wants to have sex here, everyone wants sin itself.

Dwelling on past frustrations never led to anything, so I focused on getting to work as quickly as possible.

So, I timed the drive on a Monday rush hour, and was pleased to be able to make it to the Eternal Crystal Building, home of Patterdaemonum & Delphos, in less than half an hour.

I tilted my head and followed the outline of the building until I found the blue sky.

When Astrid saw the building, the Eternal Crystal was absolutely phenomenal, one of the tallest pointed towers, surrounding a series of turrets, imposing with a glow of one of the greatest splendours, in which it seemed to reach up to the clouds.

Since in the interviews I did there, I saw that the other side of the copper ornate revolving doors was as sumptuous as its exterior, with floors and walls covered in golden marble and tables and turnstiles in polished aluminium.

I took my brand-new badge out of my pants pocket and showed it to the two dark-suited security men sitting at the table, even though they stopped me anyway, no doubt because I was too poorly dressed for that environment, but then they let me in.

When going up the twenty floors in the elevator, I was able to estimate the travel time from home to work, which I found to be not bad at all.

I was getting out of the elevator when I saw a pretty and very well-groomed redhead go through the turnstile without properly lifting her purse, which got tangled up and opened, causing a deluge of money onto the floor.