At least I don't feel uncomfortable here, not even because I have the gaze of someone I want to kill on me at this moment. I can feel it; I know they're watching me from somewhere. The thing is, I'm used to more intimate celebrations with my family; my parents, my uncles, my grandparents, and my cousins. That's it. Birthdays, Christmas, special dates imposed by the commercial system, all of them, we celebrate just our core family in the castle, and I don't complain. In those celebrations, I can walk barefoot, without an elegant dress, and even without makeup, because the unity and warmth we have are such that, just as we've welcomed the New Year in pajamas at the vineyard, we've celebrated a birthday by the pool. And it's not that we don't dress elegantly or use the imposing royal dining r
