The Earth After Rebirth

"What do you know about the Sanctum anyway? What did the kidnappers tell you?" Jesús however wasn\'t going to readily let go of this.

"Unfortunately, nothing. The two men didn\'t betray their master, they were loyal to the very end." He lied without missing a beat.

To say Isla and the rest were confused would be an understatement. Of course they heard about the kidnapping, but what the hell was the Sanctum?

But the two speakers didn\'t dwell on the. subject for very long. As soon as Jesús confirmed what the boy claimed he knew, he let it go.

The grandfather was uncharacteristically quiet. When Kiro met him, he thought he was an outspoken kind of person.

"So, how do I do this? Do I just blurt it out?" Kiro whispered to Isla.

"I don\'t know either, you\'re my first." She whispered back.

He sighed slightly. This was his first too, he didn\'t know how these things went. He thought blurting out would be embarrassing, especially with a full table like this.

If there wasn\'t Angelina back at home, he\'d be very impressed with the food. But it wasn\'t anything he\'s never had before, Angelina was stop class, so was this. So the taste wasn\'t that far apart. He still thought Angelina\'s was better, of course this could completely be a bias.

His armpits were starting to itch, because the night was almost at its end and the topic hadn\'t yet come to the table.

Tiana looked at them with admiration. She thought they were courageous, most importantly she thought they really looked good together. She had no problems with Kiro, she quite liked him.

The boys were just being protective older brothers. They gave him cold looks occasionally, Kiro didn\'t blame them, he\'d do the same with any boy that wanted to take his sisters out.

The parents were unreadable. The grandpa couldn\'t careless. Kiro thought it was a funny dynamic. The family was so different, as if they were raised by different people.

Jesús got up from his chair. Kiro was about to say something when he beckoned for him to follow right behind him.

Even though he didn\'t trust his legs to carry him over, he did as he was told. If he was going to threaten him blatantly, that\'d only eliminate him from the good rich people. He\'d count that as a win.

They reached the study, it wasn\'t really different from his father\'s, as if these were all built by one person who was bored, therefore lacked creativity.

He offered him a drink, which he declined. He wanted to be sober for this. He took a seat, not showing that he was nervous. His breath was even, but his insides were burning.

"I understand that Rosy is quite smitten with you." He said and let it marinate in the atmosphere.

"Yes, sir." Kiro answered, uncomfortable with the silence that followed.

"Do you feel the same about her? Be honest. I\'m a father after all, I can\'t just let any dog to take her away." He looked at him intently.

Kiro didn\'t look away. He looked at his intense eyes, with an intensity of his own. He wouldn\'t let anyone tell him no with whatever he wanted.

"I feel the same. I like her quite a lot, sir." He said with sincerity and respect.

"Would you, protect her from anything, including me?" He knew it was a strange question, but he wanted to know where this kid\'s was at.

"Of course, I\'m prepared to shield her from anything, including you." He said truthfully.

This was something he vowed even before he had this talk with her father. If he turned out to be a bad guy, he was prepared to do whatever it took to put him down.

"That\'s good then." He smiled sadly.

Jesús offered him his hand, Kiro\'s eyes went wide with surprise. But took the hand before he changed his mind. It wasn\'t bigger than his, but it was rougher.

Clearly he\'s lived longer than he had. Even with his past life, he lacked the years. It was a wonder.

"Well, Kiro Waynworth. I approve of you, of course, it\'s still entirely up to Isla whether she wants to engage you as a love interest or not." He said shaking his hand.

"Yes, thank you sir for the blessing, even though the choice was always hers, I knew how important your approval was to her."

They stayed at the study room for over an hour. Talking about all sorts of things, Jesús figured he could give him advice about everything.

Kiro didn\'t feel like a prisoner, they were bonding instead. With how much they had in common, he gave him a benefit of a doubt. He hoped against all hopes that, Silva was at least one of the clean families.

When they walked out of the study, it was already too late. Most had gone to bed, the table was cleared. Only Isla awaited by the door.

"I\'ll see him out." She told his dad.

"Of course, Good bye Kiro." He bid him farewell and immediately went up.

"What the hell kept you two in there? We have to go back to school tomorrow and you spent most of the night with my father?"

"You know, this and that. He approves of me, you know?" He said with biggest grin Isla had ever seen on a person.

They were walking through the walkway. The gate was still pretty far but they were not in a hurry.

"Of course he approves, your charm is unparalleled." She blushed.

The walk seemed to end pretty quickly. It felt like it took a second to them, they were happy in each others company.

"May I?" Kiro asked, holding her chin this time.

She simply nodded. He leaned in for a kiss.

"I\'ll see you at school, or maybe we will ride the train together..." He left, glad this was over, he could now focus on destroying the Sanctum.