CHAPTER 38

HENRIQUE WAS WATCHING Armand approaching slowly, pointing a pistol with a silencer at the end of the gun.

–– If you move even a millimeter - said Armand menacingly –, I will kill you, boy, for now I just want to talk, otherwise, you can be absolutely sure that you would be dead a long time ago, I don't really intend to hurt you, but...

Henrique dropped the backpack immediately and raised both hands. It was precisely at that moment that he saw the last person he expected to see in the world.

BERNARDO WAS IN FULL free fall, and for the simple fact of having jumped from the 25th floor, it was not a very ideal distance to jump with a parachute, especially because the chest strap lock was screwing.

Shit... hurry up... hurry up...

For a fraction of a second he felt an anger that made him push and manage to close it and pull the trigger.

He felt the stride, but everything was going smoothly.

Calm daughter, I will save you...

BERNARDO GENTLY LANDED to the floor, causing the biggest uproar on the avenue. He gathered what he could at that moment and got into the first taxi that appeared.

His cell phone rang and he answered.

"Yes... actually... it's not all right Camila... my daughter was kidnapped and they managed to get the boy... of course, but at least I was able to find out what they want... the boy doesn't even know... right... call Sandro and we'll find out where they hid my daughter and get Henrique back."

BERNARDO RID ON A MOTEL and rested a little, putting each piece of that puzzle together. The story that Henrique had told him, along with all of Camila's research, was starting to make perfect sense, they really were after the last link that would link them to the diary of the Templar Willian de Rillencourt, but they were after the wrong person.

CLAUDIANO TOTTI FOLLOWED the news on television attentively; first, it was Carlos Cardeñas, the mysterious death of the greatest professor of ancient history in Brazil - perhaps in the world – and less than two days later, young Cardeñas was almost a celebrity, every half an hour news about him and his deeds, mainly from the bus, of which the police did not realize – because of the moment – that this was Henrique Cardeñas.

Of course... – thought Totti to himself – that Bernardo Garcia had a hand in history... Garcia... always this damn family...