CHAPTER 89

THE DELEGATE'S ROOM WAS hell. He turned off his cell and took the phone off the hook so he wouldn't be disturbed by anyone, he desperately needed to think of something.

Sandro, Paolo and Asaph entered the room at the exact moment that Francesco Nuñes threw the lamp on the wall and shattered it.

— I already told you that I didn't want to see anyone… — he swallowed the sentence without finishing it — I'm glad you arrived, did you manage to save the boy?

— Yes — said Sandro — but we couldn't save the pastor.

Francesco Nuñes was thoughtful for a moment.

— The important thing is that we break the cycle.

— I think she's going to the next target.

— Wrath?

— That's right.

— But how did they get to us?

— Want to have the honor, Paolo?

— Of course, our killer follows a logic described in a biblical verse in honor of her father, and the way she kills is the same as a crime that occurred more than twenty years ago in Paris, and our friend here— he said, pointing to the detective. — is an expert in logic, has been putting the pieces together and is almost on the heels of his sister, Esperanza Sanchez.

Asaph was apprehensive upon hearing the name of the unknown sister.

— How do you know her name? — I didn't even know.

— The police have many ways to get to the answers, and your family was well known for the social scandals on the periphery, we were putting together some pieces here, others there and we managed to put together the image of the puzzle, what remains now is to get some pieces specific to solve the whole picture.

— Don't worry — said the deputy — we're not going to tell anyone the true story of your father, everyone will consider him a man of God, only we in this room know the truth.

— Is my sister.

— But her days are numbered — said Paolo — we know who she is, and...

— We know who she was — Sandro corrected — it's still a long way until we find her, my ace up our sleeve would be this time, now we'll have to do our research for the Society of the Sun.

— And what would this 'Society of the Sun' be?

Sandro smiled and started to explain what Camila had said the night before.