Felix had arranged a meeting with Jacob Kennedy by emailing him on the computer in the lobby. They sat in the common room of the parliament building. Felix knew Jacob Kennedy was a very busy person, with little time to spare. However, inside he was burning with questions, making him restless when he'd tried to sleep at night.
Felix asked Jacob Kennedy as he sipped his mug of coffee. "Jacob. Why did you refuse sell Purple Island to Lolita?"
"Intermarium is not even close to the Island. She'd wanted to own the island because than she won't have to pay taxes on wine that was being shipped to Intermarium. I'm not going to give her a tax break, not when she's an alcoholic and needs to stop drinking."
"Do you know why she bomb the Island?"
"She did it out of spite! She'd wanted to buy the island for two hundred million dollars. I'm not going to sell her it for that! Not when it's worth over one billion dollars!" Jacob's green eyes were tense.
"It'd would prevent the war-"
"I'm not giving into Lolita's unreasonable demands! Felix, I like you but you aren't a ruler. You don't understand how politics work amongst countries."
Felix stared at his red and white sneakers. "It's just, I didn't want to be drafted to go to war. I have nightmares that haunt me."
"I understand. But sometimes war amongst nations is inevitable, Felix. Yesmin Trixie shouldn't never had loaned Lolita money."
"The money went towards the victims from the flood."
"The money was spent for herself; she'd spend more money on hiring staff in her castle. She needs to grow up, she can clean her room, she doesn't need to pay somebody to do it for her. To make matters worse, she pays her staff almost next to nothing for working her. She needs to stops being lazy." Jacob glanced at his gold wrist watch. "I've to go meet with Samuel."
"Who is he?"
"The ruler of Anua. We need to discuss trade agreements."
Felix left with Jacob's security escorting him outside of the parliament building.