Spain Has Secrets, Elizabeth A. [the top 100 crime novels of all time txt] 📗

Chapter TWO( one year later, Madrid)

" CHICO QUE TE ECHE A PERDER!" Barcelona screams at Dylan as she tosses him out the house she had been living in for all her life since she was seven years old. "Te amo, por favor, perdóname barcelona i didn `t significa ... me obligó a." oh no he did not just try pleaing for mercy...Pathetic."ella le hizo matar a su marido sí a la derecha ... tener una vida agradable." I slam the door in his face. I still here his pleas for forgiveness.

Some time later,"Knock!Tengo un trabajo para usted barcelona ... ¿estás bie? si usted no quiere hacer el trabajo que va a entender." I sat on the floor reading the note. Marco had a job for me. I needed something to save me from sulking about Dylan. "voy a hacer el trabajo y estoy mejor que nunca." I lie about being okay and accept his mission.
seven short hours later I had located the minister in which I had to assassinate. "500 florentinos para esto." I wisper to myself. I leap over the building and toss the knife. Damn, he dodges the knife. Flipping his head around the fat, bald headed man points and says something I don`t understand. "Swish!" the guards begin to let their arrows fly at me. "hijo de puta!" "swish... Slice!" The arrow goes straight through my heart and the pain is so excrutiating I scream and fall off the building. Damn, why was my life so screwed up lately?


( Hathersage, present day)

"Shhh... you`ll wake her, Amber." Where was I? "Sorry, Gradon." Who were these people? How was I alive? "Do you need me to tell her" "No I can do it Amber." Tell me what? Next thing I know that Gradon, man wispers in my ear at the same time a door closes, "wake up barcelona. I know your awake and I need to talk to you. please just listen." I flip my eyes open. "Is it that easy to see I`m faking?" every person I ever met never noticed me pretend to sleep. "No you just gave yourself up." "Shit Your to much like my brother." "You are a vampire. I have saved you from death. You are the princess of my land in return, understand?" "... I believe so." "Excellent, What is your last name Barcelona?" "Valentine... Barcelona Valentine." Gradon was six feet tall, had dark red hair, and deep blue eyes. "I needed to wait for the right time and the right person to be the princess. I am in need of a new ruler, I can not control the kingdom anymore for me and my wife Amber wish to simply live our lives." "This just doesn`t add up, Why me?" Gradon was now looking deeply into a book filled with hand written notes. His head snapped up, "No one else looks so much like me... See my people only feel comfortable around leaders who can also be sympathetic and hold their ground. Plus you look alot like me that will help you. I mean not to be rude, but in truth you could be my half-sister." How did Gradon know I was a leader? " I hope you do not mind me reading while we talk... You will need not learn much with what you already know about Assassinations and War training. Any young man will be lucky to have you... Unlike that ridiculous idiot which has done you horrible wrongs. " "How do you know so much about me?" He looked back up at the door. "Creek" "Sorry to inturupt... Gradon 'someone' is here to see you." He stood up brushing his pants off. They looked weird and unruffled but too plain to be a pair of slacks. his shirt was a little too hot and long sleeved for the summer. He nodded at me as he disappeared out the door. I looked around. Then I focused in on the book he had been reading... All my life had been recorded on the paper in the old, brown leather book. Were these people on drugs?

what was every one staring at? "Hey baby, how you doin`? " a stranger placed his hand on my shoulder. I twisted his arm around to his back,"Don`t touch me or you`ll lose something special to you." I walked off. "I hope you know that as a Princess you must get use to people tapping and hugging you." Gradon pretends I will go by the rules of a normal princess. "Damn bitch, you got an arm." the stranger says holding his wrist. "Gradon If you haven`t noticed I`m not exactly normal. I was in the Marines, An assassin, and not to mention I Grew up in the worst place possible for a spainard`s daughter." I was about to leave Gradon alone when he asked me a question in which made me boil with anger, " Do you know you must marry someone that will of course have the ability to tell you what to do?" " Yeah, but like I said I am not exactly normal. I will never do 'exactly' what I`m told and I promise That is part of my life code." "You must do as you are told and since you are being so stuborn then I should tell you we have chosen the prince of another land to marry you and you WILL do as you are told!" I am suprised that Gradon yelled at me he always keeps his cool around me. "I... I... I have to marry someone I don`t know?" "yes and you will be merging the two land and this must be completed before the end of the Year... I`m sorry, I know you must feel upset now that you know the truth, but you must understand." "Yes, of course I do." truth was I felt like comitting suicide. Why did I have to marry this complete stranger? Gradon was looking at me in absolute shock. He didn`t expect me to act so emotionless.


"Barcelona? Who would name their child Barcelona?" This could not be happening to me I felt like choking down bricks was less shocking. " Jasper, She is a beautiful, sweet, and out-going." How would my mother, Kathrin know she was all these things. "Barcelona is the princess of the land not far from here. Gradon has chosen her for the reasons of which I have stated and more... Jasper, please do not ignore me. " I felt like breaking people`s souls now. "I will refuse to talk to you till I have met this woman" Kathrin looked shocked but her face simply calmed down as she walked out of my room. I plopped down on my bed. God Kathrin can be so persistant.
Later that night Kathrin shook me awake, "Wake up Jasper!" I groaned and shifted to a sitting position. "What do you want now?" her face was fustrated all of the sudden," I just got a letter from Gradon, she would like to meet you tomorrow." I immedietly perked up, so she wanted to meet me too? "Is this alright with you?" "Absolutly, Positively perfect." "where are the drugs?" Kathrin asked me suspisiouly. "What? I just wanna meet Barcelona?" "really? Maybe your just tired." She wispered more to herself more than to me. But hey who was I to judge before I met the damn girl. I may even be friends with her. I was all for it if she was okay with it.
I was exstatic when we got there at about Midnight. We all sat and intruduced ourselves, then we ate lunch. Barcelona and I immedietly locked eyes and we were so caught up in each others eyes we didn`t notice Kathrin and- who I suppose was Gradon- sneak off. "So... Barcelona where are you from?" I try to kill the silence. She averts her gaze as I ask her the question. "Spain, but I was born in Puerto Rico. You?" "The next land over, I was born and raised there... Do you like England so far?" Mom was right, So far Barcelona was beautiful, out-going, and sweet, but she was also firmly grounded and sometimes a little random. I loved her already. God she was so pretty I was drawn to her with every breath We even breathed in harmony. I snapped out of my daze by a sudden anxious, yet cute giggle escaping Barcelona`s mouth. Her hazel eyes were now black but Jasper would have never known if he hadn`t locked eyes with her earlier, that they were actually hazel. "What are you giggling about? ... You aren`t reading my thoughts are you?" "NO! You just spilled fish on yourself." She jumps but continued to giggle as I looked over myself, completely embaressed I felt my cheeks turn red. I loved her laugh. I loved everything about her. I didn`t even notice the picture she had started to talk about.
She held the picture delacately as though any more pressure it might break.

Next thing I knew we were laughing and hugging and soon she was asking me if the fish had stained my pants. "No it was really dry and bland actually so my clothes are actually unaffected. Why?" She giggle and her face was a bright red. "I... well... um... I don`t know." she was embaressed and averted her gaze in no time. She handed me the picture for some reason.


Then I noticed something behind it. Another picture of what looked so charming not anyone would live in a place like that. It was abviously restored in color.
Anyone of this much important matter must miss a lot with the life they live and that`s coming from me so that`s a shocker.

Chapter THREE (Somewhere in Hathersage, England)

I swear I loved Him first minute I saw Him. Jasper was absolutly charming with that black hair, strong looking, pale skin, and the peircing Jade green eyes I was gonna cry from not being next to him. He was so interestingly handsome I felt the inresistable urge to run up to my room, Slam the door and deny I liked him. When in truth I love him already. "This is a Extravagent picture. Do you miss home?" "yeah, I kinda wish these people had asked me that question a couple years ago." "Ouch,