CHAPTER 60

CHAPTER 60

MARIANNE HAD BEEN adopted by an upper-class West German family after World War II, she and her brother had been separated due to the loss of their parents, who she was told were Nazi officers and had been killed by the Red Army.

Despite the country being torn apart by the war, the Marshall Plan helped in the reconstruction of the country and as his father was an influential politician he never experienced any difficulties.

— Mommy, do you think I'll ever find my brother?

— Probably not, dear.

— Because?

— He was very sick when we adopted her, the doctors all gave the same opinion.

Marianne went to the window and wondered what would happen to her brother.

THE YEARS PASSED, and Marianne grew up a beautiful woman, won several awards and a scholarship to study Business Administration at the Faculty of Berlin, where she met a Polish immigrant named Klaus and fell madly in love.

Klaus showed Marianne the follies and delights of passion and it didn't take long for the results of the missed classes to show.

— YOU WHAT? ' shouted the indignant father.

— It happened, father...

— No... it didn't happen...

The father paced indignantly, huffing with rage.

— We're going to get married...— she said, trying to justify it, but her father stood before her, which for the first time in her life she took a straight slap across the face, her mother remained motionless.

— I love him, Dad, there's nothing you can do.

— Of course there's something I can do, I can always do something.

Marianne never heard from Klaus again.

THE PREGNANCY WENT WITHOUT major complications, Marianne took time off from school so that no one would find out.

— I'm already going crazy if I don't get out a little, Mom.

— Daughter... one day you will understand what your father and I have done for you, I only ask that you trust us as your mother did.

— Have you met my mother?

— Yes… we were from the same brotherhood.

'What was she like?'

— How is she...

— She is alive?

— In a way, yes... but your mother was the most beautiful and intelligent woman that ever walked the face of the Earth, her name is Maria.

— And where is she?

— For the moment we can only say that he is sleeping, and that at the right time he will appear, as soon as his daughter is born, his initiation will begin.

— Initiation?

— When the time is right, you'll know...

When the time is right you will know...