The call hadn't been one Lena was expecting. Certainly not from this person. She had heard enough about him but had never made any contact herself.
"We do need you here right now, though, you see. We can't go about doing this process without you. The person that Sammy is close to and all of that. I am sure that you can understand." She didn't, though. The princess did her best to keep her expression blank as she listened to the man on the other end of the phone speak. It messed with her mind how much he sounded like Jovani. Far too much for her stressed-out body to handle.
"There are too many other matters going on right now. We had already agreed with Jovani that this would be taken care of at a later point in time. There is no reason to rush it." She kept her voice level to avoid attracting too much attention as Juluan set on dealing with Dino.
Dino didn't need to know what was going on. That would be an additional problem she didn't need to deal with.
Something about that thought made her blood run in a way she wasn't used to. "I don't care what Jovani said. He can go about saying whatever he likes. Right now, he isn't the one who is in charge of this. That would be me, and I'm' telling you things have changed. Was Samuel there with them right now? We are going to go ahead with this, and you need to make the time to come here and partake in it."
"I'm sure you can understand why there would be a certain level of urgency to take care of this. I can't have the person taking over the family not already be sworn in. We have never allowed something like that to happen before. I'm certainly not going to allow it to happen now either." Marcus's tone spoke of an impatience that Lena didn't like. She motioned to her uncle as she decided to take the call outside the room.
"Marcus, I don't know what you're playing at. I can't come." right now is neither the time nor place, though. Lena would have to be firm about putting her foot down on this. She and Samuel were undoubtedly in a relationship. Still, other matters took the president at the current time—namely, her family and everything that was going on with them. Samuel had understood that much. So had Jovani.
Why did Marcus decide to take it upon himself and change things up without discussing it with them? Indeed he didn't himself that much of a god to be able to go about doing whatever he pleased.
"Ticktock princess. I know what has been going on. Jovani was the one who helped fill me in on everything. I don't care, though, you see. Everyone except for you is here already. Matters have been processing too long." Lena could hear something shift in the background. Or had it been thrown?
"If you decide that you're not going to come and leave my fiance and little cousin alone like that, I think we will have to reconsider this union." Lena left her hand clenched around the phone. He would go so far as to make threats such as that?
"Marcus-" Lena was cut off before the words left her lips. The hiss on the other end of the phone caught her off guard. The man wasn't like anyone she had ever dealt with before. At least not for some time.
"I don't have the time to go about repeating myself. I already told you the terms. If you're not here by tomorrow, I am going to take it that you don't intend to serious get involved with my family.
"I don't think there is much else for us to talk about in that matter until Lena contacts me. I told you everything that I know about." Samuel shrugged, moving to get up from the chair until Richard pushed him back.
"Be that as it may, there are still some more aspects of that I want to clarify with you." Richard couldn't tell Samuel that he was better off not going anywhere. Marcus wasn't something that could be explained in five minutes or less.The complicated man needed a whole novel written about him if anyone outside of the family were even to begin to understand him.
"You can ask questions about whatever you want later. I want to go and talk with Jovani so I can better understand what is going on." Samuel pushed Richard's hand aside as he tried once more to get up. He didn't care about the fuzzy feeling in his head that made it hard to focus or the fact that his feet didn't feel properly attached to his body.
There had been too many things going on that he didn't know about. New to the family or not, it certainly wouldn't hurt for him to have additional information. It wasn't like such things would cause the world to end.
After all, hadn't Jovani been the one who said that sometime in the future, Samuel would be taking over the family? Knowing all the players he had to keep an eye on would only benefit him in moving toward that goal.
"You should already know after what happened earlier that Jovani is in no place to be talking right now. That conversation will have to wait for some time in the future." Richard tried to reason once more. He didn't want to use force on the kid who didn't know what he was trying to get involved with.
"Oh, not in a place to talk? I think that you will find that Jovani is plenty capable of talking. Maybe too much even. His conversations bore me still. Just as much if not even more than they used to. I do hope that someone can keep my attention better?"
The unexpected voice and presence made the hair on the back of Richard's next stand on end.
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