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The Story of Bella Montez begins when she sets out on a journey looking for a place to settle in. She was looking for a place to live a normal life away from sorcery and a relentless powerful witch-hunter. Her wish was to find peace in a place where she would be among good people and a desire to have a family of her own to love...

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Publié par	Xlibris US
Date de parution	18 juillet 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669821281
Langue	English

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THE STORY OF BELLA MONTEZ

Stories from the Book of Bella

Ricardo Martinez

Copyright © 2022 by Ricardo Martinez.

Library of Congress Control Number:
2022913139
ISBN:
Hardcover
978-1-6698-2130-4

Softcover
978-1-6698-2129-8

eBook
978-1-6698-2128-1

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.
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Rev. date: 11/15/2022

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Special thanks to a very special friend, Jose Martinez, who inspired me to write.
A very special partner who has helped me through thick and thin, my wife Dorothy Martinez.
CONTENTS
Prologue
Chapter 1 Curiosity, Uncertainty, and My Venture
Chapter 2 The year 1786
Chapter 3 Azul
Chapter 4 George’s Family
Chapter 5 The Voyage
Chapter 6 Bella in New York
Chapter 7 The Puppet
Chapter 8 Tim
Chapter 9 The Barn
Chapter 10 The Lady in Purple
Chapter 11 Bella Finds a Place in Cuesta, Nuevo Mexico
Chapter 12 The Bear
Chapter 13 Bella Is With Child
Chapter 14 Bella’s Death
Chapter 15 Back to 1938
Chapter 16 Clarita’s Accident
Chapter 17 World War II
Chapter 18 Cracking Unsolved Cold Cases
PROLOGUE
Today is July 31, 1970. In a couple of weeks, I am leaving for Pueblo, Colorado. I must meet a couple who are having problems. They claim that their house is possessed by a force that haunts them wherever they go. I thought I would write a little before I go to meet them in Colorado. The story of Bella Montez’s life is what I have been waiting for. For a long time, Maria de la Luz wanted me to join her on a venture and journey to the past. I had time-traveled to the 1800s before, but this time I am going into the late-1700s—to see Bella. She had the power and knowledge to take me back to the time when she was a spirit looming around her son Vittorio and Bella as they went on with their lives. What fascinated me is that I was about to see Bella . . . one hundred years before I released her spirit from limbo. I had to know why she did not want to live forever even though she had a natural resistance against death—but she chose to die. What excited me was that Maria was going to take me back in time to 1786 when Bella had turned eighteen . . . and the way life was for her and what she had to go through with her life in Europe. Maria told me that there was one particular time in her adventure where her granddaughter Bella went through a bad experience and was helpless. She said there was nothing she could do! She did not have a body. She was a soul looming around as a spirit searching for a way to communicate with her son and granddaughter. At one point, she told me that she wanted to rewrite a part of Bella’s history, where part of her life was stolen from her. I did not understand what she meant to rewrite her history. But Maria was clever, she never ceased to amaze me with her supernatural powers. Maria wanted to prove that her granddaughter was a good person and wanted to be accepted by God to live a normal life with children and a husband of her own . . . until her life was ended at the ruins in Questa, New Mexico. At the time in 1700s the Spanish community of Cuesta later changed its name to Questa in the 1800s. The US postmaster misspelled the name, as it should have been spelled “Cuesta,” which is Spanish for “ridge” or “slope.”
CHAPTER 1
Curiosity, Uncertainty, and My Venture
It was September 21, 1938. We were supposed to meet at the Coney Island Café. When my sisters arrived, we ordered a footlong chili cheese dog with french fries. Olivia and Camila each had a Coke. I had a Coke and a vanilla float. We talked about many things I had missed because I was not here. Something I did not mention was the Great Depression. My father told me that the Great Depression started in 1929. It gradually got better by the time I got here in 1937. Just after I left the Silvas and the Salgados in 1837. I could not tell the difference whether there was a depression going on until my parents talked about it. Camila told me that it was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. My family said that it lasted for many years. Camila said that it began after the stock market crashed in October 1929. She said that millions of investors lost their businesses when Wall Street crashed. The United States had been doing good after I got here in 1937, and it seems to be doing good now. We went back home; it was late at night. Mom and Dad were asleep; we tiptoed into our bedrooms . . . I was tired and fell asleep.
The next day, right after breakfast, I went to see Maria. I thought I would go check on Doña Kika to see how she was doing. I stopped and parked the car on the side of her small store and home. As I was going in, a man had just bought a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes and was walking out. He nodded his head and said hi. I replied kindly likewise as he walked out. “Juan, what are you doing up so early?” Doña Kika asked. “I just opened up the store.”
“I need to go see a friend,” I answered. “I will have the usual Coke and candy.”
“I will get your Coke from the ice chest,” she said.
As she walked to get my Coke, I saw that she had one webbed foot, and the other was her regular foot with her shoe. She came back with my Coke and candy. “That will be ten cents, and do not forget I close at seven o-quack.”
“I know, I will remember just in case I need a Coke later today. Goodbye.”
I left to meet Maria at her place. Soon I was at the door. Pablo opened the door and welcomed me in. I told Maria, Sophia, and Pablo that I was happy to see them. Super Mio, Maria’s owl, was on the top door of the little barn. I felt that I was among my family who were in the same league to help release lost souls and to fight evil demonism. I wanted to see about Bella Montez’s life. I wanted to know why she did not want to have powers. I will be learning a lot when I go see real evil and see why witches get powers like Olga. As I came to find out, the demon that held Juan de Dios was created for Barcelo. Maria and I had discussed that the same thing might be happening with Olga. She started obtaining shadow demons from Abraxas for lost souls when she chose to be closer to Abraxas. I was curious about how this power was used to create a demon to deliver evil powers. “I do not think Olga gets direct powers from Abraxas,” I said. “I have a feeling that she Is getting her powers from a demon she created. Just like Barcelo del Moneo created Fernando.”
“Olga might have thought that Abraxas was one of the ten horns of Satan,” Maria said. “Or, maybe, she is really that good, like Fernando’s demon said, ‘You would never be able to afford Beelzebub’s services. Not in your lifetime,’ he said. ‘You would have to be someone as good as Olga who is merely a witch crying for her soul to keep.’ That is what made me think. Does she receive demons from Abraxas?”
“That is how we found out when the demon Fernando had lied to Abraxas,” I said. “That is why I was able to break the spell that possessed Juan de Dios for one hundred years.”
“There has to be a connection between Doña Kika and Olga,” Maria said. “Every time we save a soul or spirit, Olga loses a part of her body, and it seems that Doña Kika gains back her body parts.”
“It seems that Olga is turning into the duck she gave to her demon,” I said. “If Olga loses the spirits she possessed, she will lose a part of her and will be replaced by parts of a duck or some other animal.”
“She is dealing body parts of people for animal parts as a guarantee that he has a soul, body, or a spirit coming to him soon,” Maria said. “In the white bag, she takes the animal and human body parts to her demon.”
“I realize now that the white bag I saw Olga take from Doña Kika was Doña Kika’”s feet and parts of her mind,” I said “She took the bag to the demon she created.”
“If Olga fails to fulfill Abraxas, or the demon he produced for her,” Maria said, “the evil compact will be turned against her. The demon will collect Olga’s human parts and will replace her body with animal parts. She has to pay back what she owes. She has to honor her compact.”
“We need to keep an eye out for the dead bodies,” I said. “Olga will not get any help from whatever evil she has a connection with, because they are trying to get to her.”
“Well, that is because I have her put away where no one not even the forces can get to her,” Maria said. “If she stops creating, she will lose her soul, body, and spirit to the demon.”
“I want to go see Clarita. I feel like I must see her before we go on our venture to see Bella,” I said. “I was hoping I could go see Clarita for an hour before we time travel to see Bella.”