If You Were Mine. Rosanna Capursi

      Prologue

      A day in October, 2015, when the cold of autumn was beginning to be felt, a 35-year-old man with blond hair and blue eyes, who just came out of prison for robbing several houses, was walking with no worries by the streets of Cologne, in Germany… It felt very so much peaceful.

      Around 2 a.m., when the man was walking down a street which was apparently alone, a drunk driver hit him killing him instantly.

      The man begins to see a red, blinding light; he covers his face with his left arm.

      – Felix Meyer, I come to give you an assignment. – Says a deep voice from that light.

      – Are you the devil? – Felix asked… he had other questions in mind, such as: ʺAm I dead?" ʺWhere am I?" He was making himself so many questions, but the first one, and apparently the least important, was the one that came out of his mouth.

      – That is not important, Felix. I come to give you the assignment to find someone.

      Felix crosses his arms waiting for the light to keep on talking and frowns. Now the brightness of the red light did not bother him anymore.

      – Agreed? What’s its name?

      – Oh, my dear friend, this person has not yet been 'created'; you'll have to wait at least for a year before beginning to look for her… Her name is Monica, Monica Valentini.

      – And why do you want me to look for her? – asked Felix.

      – That, my friend, is something I cannot tell you yet.

      Felix took his hand over his face, laughed and moves his hands to his waist.

      – And what happens if I refuse to do it?

      – Well, you'll come along with me to hell where you'll spent the rest of your eternity suffering with all the assignments I'll command you to do.

      Felix didn't doubt for long to choose his destiny. What would he prefer? Either do the job or go to hell?

      – All right, I’ll do it, but only if you promise me that I'll live eternally on the Earth and I won't be in jail ever again. – He crossed his arms once again… having them like that gave him some sort of certainty and wanted to show him that he didn't fear that devil or demon…

      – Agreed. I'll contact you in your dreams, meanwhile I'll give you a ring with a ruby stone that you'll use on your left hand, and you cannot take it away unless you want to disappear in front of the sight of any human being.

      – Is there anything else that I have to know? – Felix asks looking at his left hand where the ring that demon spoke about was supposed to be.

      – No, just that.

      Felix saw a light that blinded him. When that light was already gone, it turned out that he was lying on his bed.

      He was a year away from his mission, didn't know what was the hurry that demon had on that woman, but he would find out, and sooner than he expected.