A/N: Now for the devil's POV ;) Oh, and again I own nothing. Please don't sue me, unless you're interested in a lovely collection of LPS figurines owned by a 3 year old.

He moved swiftly within the village he needed to see Don Noel immediately to let him know he had arrived. He knocked on his door and heard him yell from inside to be patient. He smiled; his friend was getting older so he retired very early to his bedchamber.

"What time is this to arrive at a gentlemen's home?" Don Noel asked with annoyance.

"It isn't late, Don Noel."

"It is for me, you know I retire early. How was your trip? Did everything go smoothly?"

Eric prepared himself for the fatherly speech that would begin at any moment. Don Noel was the only man he could come to call that. His stepfather was a cruel man who as punishment for his wife's infidelity with an aristocrat, tortured him with words and did not allow him to take his name. That was how Eric of the Devil was born; no one knew who his sire was. No one, but Don Noel.

"Everything went well the cargo is ready for sale." He braced himself.

"Contraband again, I assume." Don Noel looked at him with disapproval.

"What else is there for me to do? Become a servant? Is that what you wish for me? You gave me an education so that I can clean another man's shoes?" Eric was tired and his tongue lashed out.

"Eric, I could give you my name. You could become a gentleman, live decently and within God's rules." The years suddenly showed on Don Noel's face at this statement. Anyone could see he cared for Eric like a son.

Eric let out a sigh. "And again I tell you that I am grateful for all you've done, but I will not take a name until the one that belongs to me is given to me by right"

"You know that will never happen, Eric"

"The word never does not exist in my vocabulary." He spoke with the presence of his lineage.

Don Noel sighed with exasperation and a smile. "You are too prideful Eric."

"It is the pride of Appius de Alcazar. I must've inherited something from the dog who was my father." He knew his father's old friend would defend him as soon as the sentence left his mouth.

"Eric look…"

"Don't defend him, Don Noel. I hear Guillermo is back." He would rather change the subject to his half brother. He worried about him, even though nothing tied them but blood. He was worried of his time spent away from his country home. He expressed this to Don Noel.

Don Noel moved his weary body in the chair he sat in for so many years. He looked at Eric's expression so much like that of his old friend. The similarity was uncanny. How anyone could think this child was not Appius' was beyond him.

"Dona Lorena has been running the country home and has been a marvelous administrator. I am told Guillermo studied at the French Naval Academy and has traveled throughout Europe." Don Noel hoped keeping Eric appraised of his brother would cause a connection to exist, even if it was just one of respect.

"Dona Lorena is a slave owner even without blacks at her farm. It is common knowledge she fertilizes her fields with the blood of the peons." Eric had heard this from some of his pirate friends that had gotten caught and worked Campo Real's fields as punishment.

"Maybe Guillermo will change that. He has brought many modern ideas with him"

Eric laughed, "Guillermo? If he is still that cowardly little boy who hid at every sound; I doubt very seriously he'll have the balls to stand up to his holy mother." He remembered the time his real father found him and decided to bring him as a playmate to his "real" son. That week his father was riding a horse into town and fell. The bastard child was quickly expelled from the home as soon as his father's death was announced by the doctor. Dona Lorena made sure of that; she threw him out herself without so much as a coin.

He was tired and no longer wanted to reminisce on his past. "I came to ask a favor of you, Don Noel. I have an orphan girl who is working at the saloon. I want to make sure she's taken out and given a decent shop as a maid. Can you help me?

A/N – Guess who the orphan girl is and I'll give you a preview to the next chapter ;)