Page 168 of King of Shadows


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I jump out of the vehicle, my brothers do the same and Leone spots Erick who is in charge of his entire battalion of people who are supporting him. When he looks at us he tries to push us away, but my brother's group that helps us at sea when we have to cover bodies or send merchandise from the sea also approaches.

—You can't be here, you own this place, but I recommend that you leave.

"We won't do it," I say, facing him. My wife is there, in the water and my people are the ones who will get her out because your group of idiots are going to leave us for last.

—We are doing everything we can.

“Shut up Erick,” I spit haughty. Don't forget the many times we gave you money to shut your mouth, if you're helping here do it, but let mine do their thing because among those people I only care about three people. It is understood?

—Anyway, Salvatore.

Erick returns to his work, Rodrigo sets off to lower his men who are preparing with the diving equipment, the boats and the medical equipment. Leone and Domenico form them, they deliver the latest range and quality devices on the market that help detect foreign objects underwater.

—It's Emily Fiore, David Bianco and Lorenzo.

“I understand Leone,” Rodrigo speaks, preparing to get on the boat. This can take hours, it's better to...

I approach him to take him by his diving suit, I press him against my face, every word I roar is full of fear, fear and desperation; If you realize, it's something that doesn't matter to me because my wife is in the water, possibly losing her life.

—I'm not here for hours, you get in and get them out in your record time, bastard!

—Salvatore, I...

"You take her out, she's my wife and I'm not going to leave here without her, much less take her dead. You take her out alive at any cost or I'll kill you!"

—Salvatore, stop.

My brothers pull me aside, Rodrigo nods with a simple look and gets on his boat to begin tracking down the people who may have fallen. This is where the game with time begins, there are airplane pieces floating, body parts on the edges of the beach and all of that distresses me because I don't want to believe that my wife is scattered in pieces in this place.

I go around, Erick takes care of his thing in his own way, which is the slowest possible, they search for bodies in the large pieces of plane that were left intact. They look for people and actually take out the black box to speed up the process. This box always brings data that can be used to track people, to know what happened in the cabin.

My head is spinning, there are families arriving that they keep off the island so they don't make a fuss. We are the only ones who have the power to be on the shore watching how our people are deployed to visit the strategic points of the accident.

Domenico offers me cigarettes, this time I don't refuse because anxiety is eating my mind. Leone takes a bottle out of our truck, we pass it between the three of us and every minute that passes is as if it were an hour in which they have only removed remains or pieces of bodies that they have to analyze.

"Was he wearing something you could instantly recognize?" —Leone asks—. I'm not a pessimist, but if the fire hit it, there are parts that you can recognize if they pull out complete bodies.

—No, he had a ribbon on his wrist and he took it off, anyway if that happened—he breathed harshly—the ribbon would have burned.

-You have to be patient.

Adds Domenico, taking a sip from the bottle and then passing it to me. The sun begins to set, causing me to enter a despair that is destroying my neurons. I feel dizzy, vomit on the floor and continue drinking because this is eating me up. I finish a pack of my brother's cigarettes, he takes out another one and I have another cigarette because this is not working.

Leone makes a couple of calls, the sky becomes dark, which can complicate the situation because there is not enough light at sea to detect objects with the naked eye. As time went by, even those same bodies could sink more and more.

Damn, I can't take it anymore.

—Ginevra is ready at the hospital with Adan, some wounded people are arriving, but there is no sign of the three of them,” she reports. They have the blood ready too.

—Tell the person at the helm that I'm not going to move until they take her out.

With my head, making a slight movement, I point to the person who is driving the boat.

—Guillermo is already after Fabian and Nadia and has been on Massimo's trail for a while, do you want to listen?

—Let it go now.

—Massimo was on the plane, based on the data on the box, the people who boarded and the data. Massimo entered after everyone else did and that's how he did his thing, Salvatore escaped,” he says sternly. And Fabian continues to hide outside his house, and Guillermo soon promises to have him in his hands to hand him over.

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