THE BATTLEFIELD OF LOVE
Part 87's. Sergie Mashkov
Eliza's Marriage to General Gilbert. This is the first time I've met Svetluny's mother. With his brother Albert I've met at several party venues. Even though he said he told me who I was to his mother, even though he said so I still need to ask what to say and what not to.
"Didn't your mother ever ban you from dealing with the Russian Mafia like me." Now I ask curiously.
"We never let Mom know anything too hard, her health wasn't so good anymore, so we didn't want to burden her. After all, we're all grown up why we have to burden our parents again." I agree of course, we take care of our own problems
"Oh so she doesn't know I kidnapped you?"
"No."
"It turns out so." Worth it, I thought which mother didn't do the trial for me.
"Don't tell him, just say the general thing, don't talk about all your family problems."
The family meeting went well, I was received with warm, loving family and support from each other. I could only join in the fun with them, feeling the newness and joy of the bridal family who would take off their daughter.
"Your family is a very happy family." After dinner I had a very beautiful picture of a brotherly relationship that I never had, and the story of Eliza saving her father and mother from the black zone was heroic.
"Sister and Gillian's relationship was not unopposed before. Albert wants Eliza to stay in Canada to help him take care of party matters. Until finally there was a compromise I was replacing Brother."
"That's so." I just understood why I see him so often at party events now apparently he was prepared for the task.
"Mafia Lord, you have to be honest with me. You want to go back to Moscow or not, move headquarters to from Montreal to Moscow that's impossible, don't lie to me." He kept chasing me about it, as if there was no more negotiating room for this. I'm still trying to bend his stance.
"Why can't, I know how he's doing. If I say I can, I can." That gap I haven't got but that doesn't mean there's no way in the future.
"If you lie, you'll waste my time. What are you looking for in Moscow? You've got decades of life here, business and work here, our kids are gonna have families here. Uncle, Aunt, Grandma who loves them, perfect family. Are you going to trade that for a chance to go back to Moscow, tell me what's in there, other than stepmothers who hate you."
"You're right, of course you're right." I admit that everything Svetluny said was true, all the friends I thought were family here, sometimes Bibipun often to the US, I had left Moscow too long so it felt very far away.
"I'd hate you if you lied about this, you're serious. You've got to find a way, whatever it is your 20-year life is in Montreal."
"Yes I know, I told you I'm not leaving Montreal."
"Yes, I'll find out how Svetluny works." She looked at me with her beautiful eyes. I really hope what I say is true.
"Sergie still fighting with you?"
"Hmm still."
"Will still be looking for trouble with you if you go back to Moscow later?"