The King of City

42 THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

“Elsa look, that device that you installed on your father's computer will serve us to spy on what he does on that computer, that is, if he talks to someone through the computer we will know, if he opens any file with classified content, well, we will get to know the interior ”. Lionel paused and tried to use simpler words to make Elsa understand him, since, by her expression, Lionel knew that it was being very difficult for her to digest everything. "What I mean is that we are going to spy on your father."

"Wow! I always wanted to know what it felt like to be a spy, the excitement, the adrenaline, everything that life takes, but I feel bad that I do that kind of practice with Daddy, he has always been very good to me”. While Elsa was daydreaming, Lionel interrupted her.

"It seems that my computer is picking up something, surely your father". At the time Lionel said this, Elsa forgot everything her conscience told her about spying on her father and paid attention.

For the following hours, Mr. Einstein was glued to the computer doing business, attending financial statements, virtual meetings, complaints from his workers and clients, and projections of new businesses; Elsa was surprised to see everything her father worked, however what surprised her most is what he did in his spare time, in addition to entering the most popular social networks on the internet, she was outraged to see how her father entered to a popular website for dating and seeing the kind of conversations he had with those women, in Elsa's mind, her father was an inflexible strict person, but she admired him, yet she didn't think he was lonely.

"How can he do that kind of thing? Is it not enough for him to have me?”. Elsa had a tantrum; she was definitely not going to accept that part of her father's life.

"Will you give him the pleasures that a girlfriend gives him?". Lionel asked teasingly, Elsa was about to explode, when something relevant happened. "Look, an email arrived, he's going to open it".

"It's not possible!". Elsa exclaimed, very surprised and a little scared.

The email Mr. Einstein received read as follows:

Dear friend Einstein:

     For the republican party it is a pleasure to receive you as a new member among its group of collaborators, we are very happy to have someone with his background and reputation to enrich the party meetings with his knowledge, ideas and inclinations that we trust are the same as the party, I thank you in advance for the information you provided us about your old party, they will surely miss you, but it’s their fault that they don’t value a member like you, something that won’t happen while you’re with us. We also appreciate your generous contribution in money, which is part of the admission fee that all party members have to give, remember that this doesn’t accumulate with the administration fee, because the latter is annual.

Not being any more, WELCOME! >>.

"It’s impossible! Dad wouldn’t leave the Democratic Party". Elsa exclaimed in amazement and fear as she finished reading the letter.

"Because what you say? Isn't it normal for people to change parties?”. Lionel said she didn’t understand Elsa's reaction with something as common as politics.

"Lionel, what happens is that my father has belonged to the Democratic Party all his life, he is from a young age, so was my grandfather and his father before him". Elsa emphasized.

"I understand that it’s a traditional party for your family, but it’s not so bad". Lionel said he still didn’t understand the magnitude of what was happening.

"Lionel, there is a reason that no member of my family has ever left the Democratic Party despite its mismanagement and cruel treatment of members". Elsa paused in fright and thought, swallowed hard enough to have the courage to restart the story, and continued. "All the people who leave the Democratic Party die". Elsa said seriously, Lionel couldn't believe what she was saying and for a moment he thought it would be a prank he didn't want to be a part of. "And it's worse! They also make sure that the family members of the former member don’t survive so that they don’t talk, they cause them… accidents”. Elsa finished that she couldn’t stand and started crying because of the difficult situation they were in.

They were seeing Elsa's father for a few more hours, but with difficulty, since Elsa wasn’t capable to calm down, besides that, Mr. Einstein did nothing more suspicious, which made them resign themselves to the task. Lionel felt bad for asking those questions, what is more, at that very moment, they seemed to him the most stupid questions that a person could have asked. He spent more than an hour trying to comfort Elsa, the truth she was too nervous, Lionel couldn’t even touch her because he was too scared, he tried to take her to take something to calm her down, but things didn’t go as he expected, Elsa started to mix painkillers and wines, which in the end caused him an indescribable discomfort, filling all of Lionel's car with vomit, which didn’t matter much to him, because the car was rented. He had no other option than to take her to sleep in a motel, because Corrine couldn’t go to her villa, she could make some kind of conjecture and surely it wouldn’t be easy to explain that situation and since Elsa had already become part of the Lionel's personal life, he preferred not to mix it with Corrine, as a precaution, since he didn’t want Elsa to be used against him in any way. The next day Elsa's head was spinning, she didn't remember much after going to the bar and was quite disoriented.

"Where I’m?". Elsa asked disoriented, covering the sunlight that came through the window with her hand, since she had a lot of sensitivity to light and a headache.

"In a motel". Lionel replied that he was on the cell phone lying next to her.

“Larson! How could you take advantage of a drunk woman?”. Elsa yelled at him, who believed that Lionel had taken advantage of her circumstances and weakness so that Elsa had s*x with him.

“Are you kidding? Do you really think I'd bring you to a motel to have s*x with you dressed like that? Doesn't that seem awkward to you?”. Lionel said and in fact, both he and she were fully dressed, she was wearing her blue jeans, leather boots and a patterned blouse, she even had her doormat on, and on the other hand, Lionel was wearing a polo shirt with a vest, a hat for the cold, jeans and thick boots.

"Then why did you bring me here?". Elsa asked who was still too dizzy to understand things easily.

"Did you really want me to take you home in your state?". Lionel said, furthermore, he wasn’t sure if Elsa would be safe in her house once he left her there and if in his power, he was to protect her once again, he would.

"You're right!". Then she looked down thoughtfully, pondering her thoughts, and digesting everything that had happened the day before, after a long silence she asked. "What do we do now?". In an act of desperation, Elsa threw that question, waiting for the heavens to give her the answer and without waiting for any solution from Lionel.

"We will have to ask Einstein". Elsa didn’t understand Lionel's intentions, much less would she expect the reaction her father would take to Lionel's plans.