CHAPTER 88

AND THE IMPOSSIBLE HAPPENED at that moment.

Sandro and Paolo saw a movie scene unfold right before their eyes, as if everything happened in slow motion. The car that was stopped accelerated at full speed towards the boy, but at the last second, Pastor Jônatas Guilhen managed to push his son and was run over in his place.

The car even went into reverse to hit the boy again, oddly enough, Paolo was faster than Sandro and managed to get the boy out of reach of the car that ran away after shooting three times without success.

— Dad!!! — Asaph shouted.

Asaph kneels before his fallen father and began to cry.

Jonathan with a Herculean effort touched his son's face and whispered.

— Son, I love you, I had a past I would like to forget, I deserve what my daughter did to us, but you don't...

— We'll save you, soon an ambulance will come to pick you up.

Jonathan smiled despite the pained look on his face.

— My time has come, but you still have a lot to accomplish in this life, don't let anyone take away your joy and try to show that same joy to your sister, she deserves to be happy in life too.

Gradually Asaph felt that his father was leaving for good...

Until everything became absolute silence.

Asaph hugged his father and cried even harder.

Sandro and Paolo just watched everything in silence, they knew they couldn't do anything at that moment.

THE RESCUE MEN PUT the lifeless body of Pastor Jônatas Guilhen inside the ambulance being watched by a small crowd.

— My condolences — said an old man — we all liked your father very much, he was a kind and honorable man.

Asaph couldn't say why, but after hearing his parents' true story, everything they stood for inside him seemed less than honorable.

He smiled and returned the hug given by the man, and this was repeated several times.