Chapter 43: The plan to become a lord

POV ALFRED

"If the Rockfellers are so dangerous and want to do harm to your people, why not attack them and get it over with?" Suggests the elegant woman who calls herself Teresa.

And it amazes me that big city people call us savages.

"Because we are not murderers. We have our values. The exact time will come and the guardians are counting on me to help" I explain.

"Interesting, practically an impossible mission, however, I will do everything in my power. I feel like an envoy of the guardians" She jokes and I like her humor.

I feel safe being around her, so much so that I have already summarized the events to her, hiding the parts that are most painful to me or too intimate to be told to a woman I met an hour ago.

"Where are we going?" I peek out the window.

She doesn't have a metal horse like Richard, making it necessary to continue the journey in a carriage.

"All the way to Boston. An important city. We will make some contacts and prepare for your arrival in London" She stares at m