CHAPTER 102

BERNARDO MEET Sandro.

— Are you okay?

— Of course, but it was close.

— I'm glad I managed to warn you, what are we going to...

Sandro's cell phone rings.

— Yes, it's me, of course... my God, yes, we're on our way...

— What happened?

— Asaph has been shot, he's out of danger now, but the doctor thinks he's going to be paralyzed. But...

'Has anything else happened?'

— Yes, they killed Paolo inside the police station, nobody knows how, but he turned up dead in the morning, one of the police officers took him to breakfast and found him lifeless.

— My God!!!

BOTH WERE WATCHING the young man lying on the bed, the surgery had been a success, but something still bothered Sandro.

A nurse entered the room.

— Excuse me — she said.

Bernardo didn't know how to explain it, but he had already heard that voice somewhere, and before he could imagine anything, he received a direct blow to the back of the head and fainted. Sandro still managed to predict the blow.

— Esperanza, stop it, the boy has suffered enough.

Why does everyone insist on calling me that?

— I told you, Esperanza is dead.

— What should I call you?

— Nemesis is fine.

— Okay, Nemesis, what are you going to do with him?

— I just wanted to make sure he's going to live.

— Sorry for what you did?

She laughed.

That was the opportunity that Sandro had to try to stop her, but as if she were a cat, Aisha used the bed as support and somersaulted over her brother while Sandro hit the wall hard.

— Useless, do you think you can catch me?

Sandro was rubbing his head in a lot of pain.

— It's worth trying.

But looking at where the girl was, she was already gone.

Sandro approached Asaph and picked up the rose Esperanza had left on her comatose brother's chest.

What does this girl really want?

— Probably jumped out the window — he said to himself after going there and seeing no one.

Sandro went to Bernardo and shook him, and little by little he came to.

— What happened?

— Esperza was here.

— And what did she want?

— From what I gather, he came to make sure the job was well done.

Bernardo looked at the rose in Sandro's hands and said.

— Thanks for your consideration, but did you forget something important, I'm married and still on my honeymoon?

Sandro smiled.

— Your wife reminds me of that on every phone call.