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Pablito.
My childhood dog, smiling at me, telling me that I shouldn’t have cried or been hurt when that mean man knocked him down. He’s waiting for me, and now we’re together again.
“Pablito,” I smile, as he licks my face just as he used to when I was a kid.
I can’t believe that we’re back together again. It makes me wonder if mi abuelo is here too. I’ll be reunited with the two people I love the most. No more do I feel anxious as I’d done a little while ago, if anything it’s as if I’m at peace.
1 Oh God!
2 No. Please.
3 You are going to kill the bitch.
22
Diego
Pablito!
Did she just call out her childhood dog’s name?
As soon as I felt Leticia’s fingers moving I sent my contact a message to say that she’s awake and he should get the doctor. It’s been three days since the attack, I used my phone to tell her parents that we’re enjoying our honeymoon so much that we’re extending it. A lie. The guilt of what happened that night weighs heavy on my mind.
He was going to rape her and judging by the sword that he had in the bathroom, kill her with it afterward. He cut her leg, deep enough to make her pass out. As if she was a piece of meat in which he was going to dissect later. If we hadn’t got there when we did, I don’t know what would have happened to her. It’s been three long days and nights of not being able to sleep nor eat as a result of it.
I beat the crap out of him, but if I’d known about the sword, which I never saw, then I would have done a lot more to him. He’s lucky, very lucky that my contact told me Leticia needed to get to the hospital.
Hana died after she’d told me Leticia was in the bathroom. She had a heart attack. They are saying it was due to anunderlying condition. Unfortunately she was not the only one who died in the club, so did the finance minister’s son. The one who was led to the back by two men.
Who knows if he was killed by the hands of his own father when he found out what happened or by the two men that had led him to the back. Either way, I have to stay in Tokyo until Leticia has the green light and is well enough to leave.
I told Lucas everything that had happened, and as always the only thing he could say was, “Do you need me there?”
My phone’s vibrating in my back pocket, and I know it’s him. I gave him another number to call me on here, so that only the doctors, my contact, and him have it.
“¿Hermano, estás bien1?” he asks as soon as I pick up the phone. My eyes cast over Leticia to make sure she’s comfortable, before I move to the next room to talk to him some more. It’s where I sleep on occasion, not that I’ve slept since she went into remission again. I thought she was getting better, then once again she was out like a light.
“The doctor says the drug is like some sort of poison. Can you believe it? They’ve invented a drug that kills people slowly and they blackmail their loved ones to pay the price for the antidote.”
He takes on the other side, as I slump on the bed, I shouldn’t because the way I’m so tired, I may just fall asleep.
“Yeah, I heard about that thing. I thought it was only in Korea. I didn’t realize it had reached Japan.”
I could ask him more details about it, but it doesn’t matter. I’m not interested in manufacturing this shit. My contact’s already found out one of the places where it is manufactured, and shut it down.
“I’m going to make them fucking pay for this.”
“Them?”
“Yeah,” I sigh. “Everything was pointing at me. I thought it was the teacher at first wanting revenge, but after Aoto’s wife died, I have a feeling its deeper than that.”
“You’re paranoid Diego.”
“And you’re too kind. You see the best in people all the time, I just know this wasn’t a coincidence.”
“So you think shutting down the factories and staying in Japan is a good idea?”
For a second I wonder if I’m really speaking to Lucas.
