Campaspe

Yolie:
We leave the treasure room and Alex escorts me back to my humble abode. (Note my sarcasm?) We near the door and he stops by it.
—Inside you will find a new cell phone waiting for you on the nightstand. - He offers.
—What happened to mine?
—Patrick left it in your bag, on the very side of the street where he picked you up in Havana.
That phone was special to me. I had to save a salary and half of another to be able to buy it, but I imagine that "Mr. Golden Statues" wouldn’t understand that king of sacrifices.
—Patrick has put a line to it and has inputted his contact number and mine. He has also given you the password for the Villa's Wi-Fi, so you can use the Internet.
Great, there are a lot of things I need to investigate. I know he does this not because he trusts me, but because no one would believe me. If I post "Help, a vampire has kidnapped me and is holding me prisoner in Greece!" all my Facebook friends will think I've gone nuts.

—Good thing you know, little witch. - He whispers hugging me from behind.- You've earned these little freedoms, do use them wisely.- He kisses my ear and turns away.
—There is a matter that I have postponed for days and I need to attend to in Athens. I'll be away for two days. Use them well. Your idea of doing internet searches seems great to me, it would save me from having to give you too long explanations. During the time I will be away you will be able to think freely about everything, since I will not be close enough to hear you. I'll take the jet. Patrick will stay here, I’ve already gave him orders to keep you... watched.
I look at him in surprise. He's already ordered? When? He’s has spent all morning flaunting his incredible wealth to me.
—Patrick and I share a bond similar to ours. - He says, taking my hand. -The big difference is that thoughts are shared in both directions.I pull my hand off his. I don't want him to touch me, every time he does I go out of my head.
—I'll be on the phone, little witch. If there is something you want to talk about, the slightest doubt you have about you’re... research on the Internet, call me. - He says and leaves.
I push open my bedroom door and step inside, bolting it. He is right. There's too much to think about.

000

Half an hour later I hear the unmistakable sound of the private jet taking off and leaving. I look at the clock on my cell phone and ponder for a moment where to start. I think I know enough about vampires and a search on Alex would only reveal current events in his life. Can it be called a life? Well ... his existence, then.
That wouldn't answer my questions about who he was before he became a vamp and what he wants with my blood. It mustn’t be drinking it all, he would have done so by now, and it certainly isn’t the cure for vampirism either because Alex wouldn’t have had fangs to show me if it was.
I wonder if I should I start with ... yes, maybe "she" can give me some answers.
I connect the Wi-Fi and tap on the finder icon, typing "Venus coming out of the sea" and the image of the painting I have seen appears on the screen. I read the footer.
**Venus Anadiómena is a pictorial work made by the Greek painter Apelles, who was one of the most famous painters of the Ancient Age. Born in Colophon in 352 BC. n. and.; died in Cos in 308 BC.
Apelles, took as a model Campaspe (the concubine of Alexander III of Macedonia) to represent the goddess Venus rising from the waters (that is what the word anadiómenes means).**
Campaspe...So, that was the blonde's name.
The search says she was a concubine of Alexander III of Macedon.
Alexander III? Am I hyperventilating? Cou... could it be him?! But wait... wasn't that Alexander, THE Alexander, the very famous conqueror?
With my finger I copy what I will search for on Wikipedia. This situation requires all the information I can compile at once. I can't bear to run into more surprises every two by three.
The encyclopedia does its job and I start reading.
**Alexander III of Macedonia (Pela, Greece; July 20 or 21, 356 BC [nb 1] [1] - Babylon; June 10/11, 323 BC), [nb 2] [2] better known as Alexander the Great (Greek: Μέγας Αλέξανδρος, romanization: Mégas Alexandros) or Alexander the Great, [nb 3] was King of Macedonia (from 336 BC), Hegemon of Greece, Pharaoh of Egypt (332 BC), Great King of Media and Persia ( 331 BC)**
I drop the cell phone with a squeak.
Oh no. Oh no! I've been groping and getting frisky with Alexander the Great!

Patrick:
The witch has locked herself in her room...again. She has been there two hours already, quieter than a grave. If I couldn't hear her breathing, I'd think she's dead. My Lord has entrusted me to guard her in his absence, the first twenty-four hours of this mission have not elapsed and I have already received the first complaint from Yulia.
It is totally logical. The woman kills herself preparing food day after day and most of the time she is forced to take most of it home, because Alex and I don't need that kind of sustenance and the witch... I narrow my eyes.

Through millennia my Lord has had many lovers. Being who he is, he is hopelessly drawn to beauty. But this time everything is different.
The current guest at Villa Philipides is anything but beautiful. If at least her appearance justified in something the interest that she has awakened in my Lord?
But, her features are simple, her hair hideous, she’s too small …to sum it up? She is a complete disaster and also has a very bad behavior pattern.
I do not know how my Lord has not lost his composure and has not snapped her neck already. She dared to yell at him, she deliberately disobeyed him, she locks herself in her room every time she gets cranky. I shake my head. No other of his women had ever been so temperamental.
Anyway, if she stays locked in her room these two days it will be good for me because I will have very little work to do. I just hope she doesn't refuse to eat. My Lord left me precise instructions. If the witch refuses to eat again, I have permission to tie her up and make her swallow it.

Yolie:
Mégas Alexandros. Wow
I'm stunned. Someone brought my lunch and I ate what I couldz but I know I can't put this off any longer. I wanted answers and finally it seems I will get some.
Mégas Alexandros.
I'm sitting on the window landing with the phone in my hand. I can't believe it. But it has to be him. After all, he's Greek, he's filthy rich, even the age at which he supposedly died matches what he appears to be now, about thirty-two or thirty-three years old.
Also, the way he talks, the way he behaves, as if he were the master of the whole fucking universe, must be part of his personality, all those traits can’t have been acquired after his conversion. I turn on the cell phone screen and continue reading.

King of Macedonia
Hegemon of Greece
Pharaoh of egypt
King of asia
Great King of Media and Persia
What a string of titles. I only need to include... inveterate womanizer, psychopathic kidnapper and vampire, obviously.
Dynasty Argeadas
Father Philip II of Macedon
Mother Olympia of Epirus
Consort
Roxana de Bactriana, Estateira and Parisatid

Offspring
Heracles of Macedon,
Alexander IV of Macedon
Son and successor of Olympia of Epirus and Philip II of Macedonia, his father prepared him to reign by providing him with military experience and by entrusting Aristotle with his intellectual training. His ascent to the throne was not easy, his father exiled him with his mother for considering him an adulterous son. His mother went into exile in Epirus and Alexander's friends were also exiled for a possible conspiracy. Filipo dies assassinated, and Alexander takes control of the power, eliminating adversaries that could claim the throne.
Alexander the Great dedicated the first years of his reign to impose his authority over the peoples subjected to Macedonia, who had taken advantage of the death of Philip to rebel. As hegemon of all Greece by way of successor to his father, he continued the plan that the Greek polis had approved: to conquer the vast empire of Persia, to avenge all the damages that they had caused to the Greeks for centuries, including the recovery of all the coastal cities of Asia Minor and islands of the Aegean Sea. He prepared an army of Greek allies (mostly Macedonians) and in 334 BC. A. He launched with his small army, of barely 40,000 men, against the powerful Persian Empire: a war of revenge of the Greeks - under the leadership of Macedonia - against the Persians.
In his thirteen-year reign, he completely changed the political and cultural structure of the area, when he conquered the Achaemenid Empire and began a time of extraordinary cultural exchange, in which the Greeks expanded throughout the Mediterranean and near-eastern areas. It is the so-called Hellenistic Period (323 BC-30 BC) So much so that his exploits have turned him into a myth and, at times, almost a divine figure, possibly due to the deep religiosity that he manifested throughout his life.

*Thirteen years. He reigned for exactly thirteen years, I’m not a superstitious person but that is a very curious and terrible coincidence. The thing about the three wives is understandable, in those days it was expected and even mandatory for a monarch to have more than one. Here also says that he manifested great religiosity throughout his life, but there is a detail that doesn't add up to me.
Alex was born some century before Christ, he should therefore be a worshiper of the ancient Greek gods, however he wears a crucifix around his neck and not just any but a silver one. From there two doubts assail me. Can vampires be Christians and isn't silver supposed to be deadly to them?*
My eyes return to the cell phone screen.
After consolidating the Balkan border and Macedonian hegemony over the city-states of ancient Greece, putting an end to the rebellion that occurred after the death of his father, Alexander crossed the Hellespont into Asia Minor (334 BC) and the conquest of the Persian Empire began, ruled by Darius III. Victorious in the battles of the Granicus (334 BC), Issos (333 BC), Gaugamela (331 BC) and of the Persian Gate (330 BC), he seized a domain that it extended through Hellas, Egypt, Anatolia, the Middle East, and Central Asia, down to the Indus and Oxus rivers. Having advanced to India, where he defeated King Poro in the Battle of Hydaspes (326 BC), the refusal of his troops to continue towards the East forced him to return to Babylon, where he died without completing his plans to conquer the Arabian Peninsula. With the so-called "fusion policy", Alexander promoted the integration of the peoples subjected to Macedonian domination by promoting their incorporation into the army and favoring mixed marriages. He himself married two Persian women of noble birth.
Throughout his life, Alexander married several princesses from the former Persian territories:
Roxana, daughter of the satrap Oxiartes de Bactria; Barsine-Statira, daughter of King Darius III;
Parisatid, daughter of King Artaxerxes III.
Alexander was the father of at least two children: Heracles of Macedonia, born in 327 BC. C. of the princess Barsine, daughter of the satrap Artabazo of Phrygia, and Alexander IV of Macedonia, born in 323 a. C. of the princess Roxana, six months after the death of Alexander.
One of his most famous concubines was the Thessalian Campaspe, of apparently great beauty, which at Alexander's request was portrayed by Apelles (his favorite painter) and served as a model for the painting of Venus rising from the sea, among other works. Alejandro felt sympathy and respect for this painter and even submitted to his demands.

I’ve completed the circle. There is a lot to read but I don't feel like it right now. I stand up and put my cell phone on the nightstand, going to the bathroom I undress and get under the hot shower.
Have I learned something? Well, yeah, a few things and I have corroborated others that I already knew. I wash my hair in the shower with furious movements. I've been a fool to even think for three seconds that Alex could want me. I always suspected that there was something more, there is always something more and this morning he gave me a glimpse of the real reason why I’m here. Today has been a very productive day without a doubt. I have acquired a great deal of knowledge and knowledge as they say is power.
Alexander Philipides, better known as Alexander the Great, became a vampire sometime over two thousand years ago. He and his henchman ,Patrick ,saved me from dying three years ago and now they have me kidnapped because they need my blood for something.
I lather my entire body and rinse off, enjoying the high temperature of the water on my face.
Well. I already know exactly what questions to ask when he gets back.

000
It is morning on the second day and I help Yulia preparing what I have asked her by peeling the garlic while she takes the eggs and oil from the fridge. We have tested the blender and luckily it works.
—Thespinida must love Kyrios Alexandros verry much. Oh,the Kyrios is beautiful. Very beautiful.-Yulia comments in an almost unintelligible English.
— I really hardly know him.
—Women love the Kyrios verry much. Verry good in bed and giving verry expensive gifts to women.
I have not the slightest doubt.
I don't want to think about Alex and his women. I don't care. I'm not here as her lover, I'm just... I'm just... Damn! There isn't even a definition for what I am. The woman he kidnapped because he needs her blood? Yeah that's what I am , but, what does he need it for?
The garlic is already peeled. I mash them in a mortar and throw them into the blender while Yulia cracks the white of the eggs and starts mixing, pouring in the oil little by little. The homemade mayonnaise is taking form and becoming thicker by the minute.
We stop the blender and I test our work with a teaspoon. It tastes almost perfect, it just lacks a pinch of salt.
—Worrking for Kyrios pays good. Few islanderrs will have good luck of worrking for him.
—I can only imagine it. - I answer disinterestedly.- Has Alex's family lived here long?
—Uh, yeah. A long, long time. My great-grandmother told me that Kyrios's family live here before other islanders arrive. They are old family. Very, very old in island.
Poor Yulia has no idea how old the Philipides family really is, obviously.

—If Thespinida wants me, I can bring my niece to fix Thespinida's hair. Be good surprise for Kyrios. Ne?
I know that '' ne''means yes. I stare at my reflection in the microwave door. Maybe Alex would like...? I shake my head a couple of times. Alex won’t care, if he returns and finds me completely bald, I am sure he will raise an eyebrow, make a sarcastic comment and continue on.
—Thespinida doesn't think that would be good idea? - Yulia asks somewhat downcast.
Alex said that I couldn't leave the Villa, he never ordered that I couldn't bring someone. Although he might not mind me having a makeover, it would make me very happy not to have to battle with the vultures 'nest on my head every morning.
—I think it's a great idea, actually. Call your niece and ask her to come. Please?
Yulia smiles from ear to ear. A few days ago I found a wad of bills in one of the drawers of the gigantic closet in my room. I hope they are enough to pay for what I would like to do to my hair.