Cardinal Rules

𝐋: In Flagrante Delicto

Morality is just one pathetic son of a cocksucking bitch.

The idea of conscience is weakness, an ideology guised as divine intervention to control you, holding you from your truest, most radical, ambitious thoughts. The absence of it allows you to shed the scales of your truest nature, however hinged it may be.

If you ask Cardinal Michelangelo Vaughn Florentin about this, he will look at you in the eye like he might spit at you in the face from just the mention of it. "Even morality does not even truly know what really is right or wrong. Why would you follow a system so flawed? It's like a bad indie murder movie plot made by freshmen college students who do not have a single, fucking idea about film."

But of course, Cardinal never swears (at least verbally). He never says the f— word. The a—hole word. The c— word. The p— word his mother likes to say. He does not have to say it to offend someone.

But, God, yesterday they were pathetically poor. Right now he feels he could buy the whole country of Lithuana.

And his mother knew, it takes this one thing to change his life.

His mother, whom he knew as Jourdan Romano has escaped from her world and hid from everyone in a very secluded and remote province in the southern part of Visayas. Right after adapting herself in a very transformative and challenging environment alone, she finds out she is on the first trimester of her pregnancy with Cardinal, whose bastard is by Valdemar Clavane Florentin, a powerful tycoon who is the chairman of Banco Del Mundo.

Eventually, Cardinal discovers his mother's secret truth.

Ang kanyang ina ay isang tanyag na Italian trillionaire, who goes by the name Celestine De Luca. An exponential times richer than his father. Even fairytales don't get this kind of plot twists and mind games.

His mother knew what power lies atop his head once she appears from hiding, kaya hindi niya maipagtanggol ang sariling ina kung iniisip ng iba na ang pagbabalik nila'ng mag-ina ay parte ng plano nito. They say that her mother's reappearance after a 20 year hiding is calculated.

'Why did she even try to hide him from his father for 20 years? What must be the reason?' Everybody asks the same thing. And yet, no one could answer but his mother only. Hinintay niya lamang ang panahon na magdesisyon ito'ng magpakita sa mundo, and he had to wait for several years.

As he wears the black tux with black rose on the pockets of his tux, he stood just one step back from his father. He knew everyone in the audience is murmuring things, inaudible, unreadable words, close to their ears as they both stare at him and his father. Yet he knows what they are talking about.

Iba pa rin talaga kapag mata sa mata mo'ng makita ang mukha ng taong replica ng mukha mo. As a matter of fact, the only thing that he does not copy from his father is indeed, his ocean blue eyes.

Perhaps this was the reason why her mother breaks down with the sight of his face sometimes. She does this to him a couple of times, and at first he thinks it was her way of telling him how she disgusts him, that perhaps she regretted giving birth to him, and that he was the reason for all the hell she had to go through. He was the root cause of it all.

Right now he realizes, maybe she just missed him too much. It must have been extremely antagonizing to mourn for your disconnection with someone and see the imitation of their face every single day. Nothing can fill the gap of someone's loss in your life.