Just A Bit Of Trust (Constel·lación #1) Read Free

audience; do you want to continue the father and son conversation elsewhere?”
    Abramo who was clutching his neck in pain and holding his bloody nose backhanded his wife. “Shut up; no one is talking to you.”
    The people gasped. Laying hands on women and younglings was a criminal offense in Constel·lació.
    “The crown was mine. I formed an alliance with your mother because I had no choice.” Abramo looked crazed. “Imagine what you fought for being taken away from you in a flash. Would you simply accept it and continue on or you would do whatever it takes to get it back? Because I can assure you, I will get everything that was taken from me.”
    That statement set alarm bells ringing in Agostino’s mind. Are you turning down the opportunity to be the most powerful man in the world? A sense of foreboding assaulted him. “What have you done, father?”
    “What I should have done a century ago.”
    It was at that moment that Agostino realized how far his father’s megalomaniac attitude would make him go.
    A massive explosion shook the ground. An odoriferous smell of dynamite and almonds permeated the air. The glass walls of the left wing of the castle caved in and shattered into a million pieces and flew to where everyone that was standing close managing to instill a few cuts on the crowd. Chaos arose as people started screaming and running to take cover.
    Agostino though stunned, stood his ground never taking his eyes away from his father. As his father tried to scramble away and mix with the crowd, he followed him. Agostino didn’t want to take any chances of his father escaping, this time, so he took his dart gun from his holster and pointed it straight at his father’s neck and shot. He watched as his father crumbled to the floor, unconscious.
    Agostino felt nothing about what he had done to his father. His father was like any other criminal. He was a close-minded, bitter man who used violence by any means necessary to express his dissatisfaction. His father was a monster and deserved to spend the rest of his life in the dungeons, where he would be taking him in a few minutes. All his life he had protected him against the law because he had felt an obligation to do so as a son. But he had crossed the line today by his admission in no uncertain terms by attacking the planet: his home .

Chapter 2
    The matter at hand commanded Didac to call all the other officials responsible for the other Stars for a closed council meeting, but he had a war to prepare for.
    Didac looked at the evidence presented by Andrzej Basara. It was just undeniable. Abramo was well known to regularly place his friends and family in administrative positions that they were unqualified for which they had fought over on occasion and had led to his demotion. His nepotism was legendary and was soon going to add convicted felony to the list. Abramo had conspired with Bradford, each man with a different motive. Abramo wanted to overthrow Didac so he could impose his archaic views on Constel·lació and he was unsure of Bradford’s motive. Didac suspected that as soon as Abramo had succeeded in taking over the planet, Bradford would have devised a plan to kill him and take over purely out of greed.
    The interrogation tactics they had implemented didn’t work on Abramo. He had made them, so he knew how to withstand them. Continuing with the torture would have surely killed him. Killing a male or female without a trial was unimaginable to him. Of course, as the King, he could do what he pleased, but his conscience would not permit him. It would keep him awake at night. He wanted transparency in his role and verdicts. The footage of the security system that Abramo had installed in his home and the stunt he had pulled earlier cemented Basara’s allegations.
    “He is already weak; if I push him further, it might kill him before we get any information from him.” Kugawa stood over the earthling soldier they had captured.She lowered her hands to her