Chapter 42

2011, December 7th, Scotland Seven years ago The very first time Nick had met with Valeria and Pete, it was not under the best or under the fairest or prettiest of circumstances. It was a winter morning in Glasgow, the largest city in all of Scotland. The wind was a little high that morning and very few men and women littered the vacant street. The building that loomed ahead was a theatre house and at that hour, it was just getting ready for the event. While the inside boomed and was noisy with life and busy people of all ages and statures, some were hanging up the best of linens, others mopping floors and some making sure the decorations were top notch and as elegant and gorgeous as they were being paid to make it look. For every ladder, there was a group of no less than six person gathered at the base with one up there, putting up the best of classy and beautiful decorations for the coming event that would be hosted in that very place much later that evening. The ladders numbered