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Yet things weren’t meant to last. Not when Raf’s fate was on shaky ground, and even the guards themselves didn’t know what to do with him.
The first week passed in a blur. As did the second and the third. His injuries healed, and he gained strength thanks to the food and medication Noelle brought each night.
But at the end of what would have been one month of Raf in isolation, everything changed.
Noelle, being called on an emergency outside of the country, had to cancel their nightly meetings. The last thing she wanted was for Sergio to suspectanything, so she had to behave as before.
But it wasn’t all in vain as the moment she was away from the hacienda, she made phone calls and inquiries into how she could help Raf escape.
Although her heart broke because she was far from him, she made breakthrough discoveries into how she could help him with the help of a few mercenaries.
Getting their information and promising she would keep in touch, she returned to the hacienda, excited to tell Raf about her plan.
But to her horror, she discovered his cell empty.
He’d been moved again.
And this time… She didn’t know how to help him.
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“Talk to me, Lulu. What happened?”Noelle asked as she burst through the door.
“I tried to call and tell you,” Lucero bit her lip. “None of my calls would go through.”
“I didn’t get anything,” Noelle frowned.
“I think we know why…”
“You think Sergio is behind this?” Noelle’s eyes widened.
“If not him, who else would have the authority to move Rafaelo to another facility?”
“But the drug facility?” She uttered in an anguished voice. “And now they won’t even let me inside. I’m in charge of that damn facility and they won’t let me enter,” she gritted out, her fists clenched in anger.
“What do you mean?” Lucero blinked in surprise.
“I tried going in and they said I wasn’t allowed to anymore,” Noelle explained.
The moment she’d realized Rafaelo was missing from his cell, she’d gone through all of the footage in an effort to see where he could have gone. That’s when she’d seen the guards taking Raf out of his cell and moving him to the drug testing facility.
“If El Señor did this, then he is expecting you to lose your calm over it,” Lucero added thoughtfully. “You can’t play his game.”
“But that means Raf is there… And they’re feeding him God knows what drugs…”
Lucero sported a grim expression on her face.
“This is just my guess, but…” she paused, swallowing uncertainty. “If they were afraid to let him out because he’d cause problems with the other slaves, then maybe this is the best outcome. It would have been either this or killing him.”
Noelle stopped, pivoting to look at Lucero.
She opened her mouth to speak only to close it as she ruminated over what her friend said.
Lucero was right. She should have considered this earlier—as soon as she’d realized they weren’t going to let him out of the isolation cell. If they didn’t have any use for him, why keep him? Except now they did find another use for him, and it was one that rattled her more than anything, because she’d seen how people were treated in that facility.
Since she’d taken over the reins and helped develop more drugs for Sergio, she’d had a first-hand look into what went on in there. Although she’d tried to militate for a better treatment of the test subjects, the reality was that whether she liked it or not, some simply… died. Either by overdose or as side effects of the drugs.
The worse alternative was that some of them lost their minds, becoming trapped within their own bodies as they slowly went crazy. She’d seen that happen more times than she could count, yet she hadn’t been able to intervene.
