Page 178 of King of Shadows


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—Can you take Cookie?

I point out to my dog who is asleep on my legs.

-Yes ma'am.

—When will I go home?

—In less than three hours, they will be fast.

—Okay, maybe I'll sleep for a while, my neck hurts.

—Rest.

I watch as Cookie is carried away, I recline my stretcher to see the ceiling while I eat the chocolate cereal bar, I detail my bracelet at all times remembering that we must trust each other for things to go well. A last link within the pyramid of enemies is what is needed.

One last pillar that they must tear down.

I feel tired, in many ways to tell the truth, however, I try to be strong because when they return from Apulia we will be united to continue each of us on our path. The union of siblings is beneficial, they no longer have to believe that their parents are alive to continue repressing them or molding them into something they don't really want to be.

Salvatore deserves to be a different father than his was.

Leone deserves his family and to have another path that doesn't always involve being a member of the mafia.

Domenico deserves to experience whatever he wants and move forward to never again be stuck in his past.

Ginevra deserves to fall in love and see the world without believing that she is locked in a glass cage.

All of them, no matter how cruel, murderous and sadistic they are when it comes to doing what they work for, also deserve something in life.

I feel like sleep is overcoming me until one of the nurses comes in with two more guys that I have seen here several times. When they check me completely I think that they are going to discharge me but they look at the paper in their hands.

—Miss Fiore, to prepare you for your departure, we must do some final studies, take x-rays to rule out fractures that we had not seen due to the inflammation of your body.

—Did Adam order it?

—Yes, he is our superior in command and he wants you to not have problems when you return home that could endanger your life. They will be quick tests so that your family can come and they will not have to go through any more tests.

—Okay, tell the escort that they are going to transfer me.

They come out to present the order for the new tests they must do on me. I think it's good to occupy the time before the brothers arrive to take me home. When I leave they push me onto a wheelchair, my back, lower back and part of my neck hurt. I prefer that they do tests until I leave because I want to rest at home without having to call Adam to check me for any ailment.

—Miss, your escort cannot enter some areas of the hospital due to security.

-AND? If it were someone different I would accept the complaint, but things are not like that, they follow me wherever they have to follow me.

-OK.

The nurses push me, they point to a new floor in the elevator so they can take me to a more secluded floor, the patients are in their rooms and here there are more doctors ready with their gowns to enter the operating room. I see the x-ray cubicle, new nurses and a doctor with his badge on his uniform come out to receive the application.

I see a board on the wall, there are names, rooms, times and I locate a familiar name. Seeing Guillermo I make him come closer, but the doctor who was receiving the ballot intervenes.

—We're going to do the tests, sir.

—Where is Adam? -asked.

—Taking care of some high-risk patients who are on a tightrope, miss, just because you are part of a private group of doctors for the Marinos does not mean that you will always be at the disposal of others, you are a doctor, and you have to save many others. lives.

The nurses push me to the x-ray room before I can speak, at that moment when they act like idiots at work, the bullets explode against the walls. Guillermo and Tamara arm themselves so they can't get in, the nurses take me through another door, but they don't let me.

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