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His firm hand covered with scars embraces mine, we give a firm squeeze.
"I could use people and weapons, this ends today between the Marinos and the Rinaldi, don't go after my father because I'll take care of that," he says. For the moment I can only give you free rein to leave my area without those obsessed with Alessio's way of ruling coming after you. It is a treaty, we will be partners until death wants to know us, however, this is where the rivalry ends.
—Until death wants to know us.
—The 'Ndrangheta and the Sacra Corona Unita remain in peace.
We formed the treaty, letting my brothers also shake his hand. When we finished, I said goodbye to him with a big hug and left with my people, leaving a few soldiers with him. His most faithful people enter the house to start cleaning up the mess, I get into my truck and have them give me the reports of my wife's transfer.
—Everything fine sir, waiting on the plane.
—Come on, we have nothing to do here anymore.
The war was over, it was time to go home and recover because that was all we needed. Nobody is well, nobody is at full strength because everything we did today had been just to achieve our freedom from those problems that had been bothering us for a long time.
Arriving at the plane there is a medical group that begins to treat us, Emily is already on medications that are passed through an IV and she is wearing a blanket, I sit next to her and have my brothers treated first. Ginevra screams as they massage her hand and bandage it, Domenico drinks non-stop while they stitch his wound and remove the bullet. Leone, for his part, is left alone, nursing the scratches scattered on his face alone.
A woman arrives to start treating me, I don't complain because until now even my throat is tired; It is impossible for him to utter a word. I take my wife's weak hand, kiss it while they give me necessary vitamins.
The war was finally over.
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When we get home Dom and Gin are the first to go to rest, I can't because I have to attend to Emily's needs who is taken care of by Adan, who has already apologized for the whole disaster. He didn't know it, he had a surgery and they forged his signature so they could give the order for Emily to be transferred to various operations to ensure her condition when everything was a vile lie. I have to take care of Cookie who is quite sad and dull, I make her play since above all this I am a responsible father.
In my office I return the weapons to their places, and I rest for a while in my chair seeing that my wife's dog is still lying down trying to understand what is happening or what time her mother will arrive to play with her. Leone enters my office with an unfriendly face, I point to the drinks cart but he flatly denies it.
—Two days have passed since we arrived, everyone has rested except you.
—I can't, Emily doesn't wake up and Adan says that there is enormous fatigue in his body that could cause his lungs to weaken again due to the accident on the plane.
—Will you need treatment?
—Most likely, his breathing is not very good, which makes his oxygenation very low.
"I understand," he bites his lips and then sits down, I notice he is nervous, tired even talking about his mind and feelings. The truth is I don't know if the time is right, I just came to speak to you clearly.
—I hear you brother.
He narrows his eyes for a few moments, leans his elbows on my desk and brings his hands together so he can rub them together.
—I'm not well, if I'm honest with you all the time I feel weak, tired and things aren't going well for me since the death of my little girl —his vision blurs—. I try to move on because the family has changed, the pace of things and everything is different now, which I like. However, being here and seeing that there are memories planted a long time ago and current ones is breaking me even though it may not be noticeable.
—I feel happy to know that you allow yourself to show your emotions, and even more so with me.
—I know that before we all spoke, I said things like: this is my office, not my home, this is my job, not my family —I nod, evoking the moment where his words did hurt me. I was doing things wrong at that moment. It doesn't mean that I make this decision because I keep thinking the same thing, I make it because it is necessary.
-What do you mean?
I hear him exhale with difficulty, I can tell that his voice wants to break.
"I'm going to Sicily for a while," he confesses without further ado. We finished all this as a family, I'm glad Emily is home safe, but my place right now is not here.
-I understand.
—I don't know for how long, the truth is that I doubt I'll be back in two months, however, I want to tell you that I will be in a nice house in case they want to show up there.
—Do you want us to visit you? I know you Leon, this is not the first time you isolate yourself from the world due to the loss of someone.
