After hanging up the phone, Eduardo Tercero held the cell phone and stood, for a long time, in front of the bedroom.
After tidying everything up, Eduardo Tercero pushed open the bedroom door and walked in with long legs.
Claudio Belles was lying on his bed, asleep.
Eduardo Tercero slackened his pace and approached her, sat on the edge of the bed and watched her in silence.
The woman lying on the pillow woke up just as the man was about to raise his hand to clear the long hair that had slipped down her cheek.
She rubbed her eyes in a rare daze, a little cute, “It’s late, sleep?”.
Eduardo Tercero looked at her, picked up the little affection that floated under her eyes and said coolly, “I don’t sleep, I have some business to attend to.”
Just as Eduardo Tercero was about to get up and leave, the woman on the bed, suddenly grabbed his hand, “I have something to explain to you.”
Eduardo Tercero turned around, pushed her hand away and said, “You don’t need to explain, if you want to leave, I won’t keep you, I’ll have someone dispatch you later.”
“…”
Claudio Belles froze for a few seconds, sleep finally took hold of him.
Eduardo Tercero was already heading outside when Claudio Belles lifted the sheets and stood up on the bed, saying angrily, “Eduardo Tercero stop right there!”
Eduardo Tercero stopped dead in his tracks.
Heh, the cat had woken up and turned into a tiger cub after all.
“What can I do for you?”
Claudio Belles gritted his teeth and ran barefoot directly in front of Eduardo Tercero, shorter than him but no less aggressive, asking, “What makes you think I was ever married to Esteban Zaragosa?”
“That’s something from your past that I don’t want to know.”
Claudio Belles was inexplicably exasperated by the man’s flat, uninspired assertion.
“If you don’t care, why are you getting mad at me in the morning about what I did with Esteban Zaragosa?” “Eduardo Tercero, clear it up!”
Eduardo Tercero clenched his fists, his dark eyes were shadowy and floating, and after a long silence, he finally exploded.
The man’s dark eyes stared at her and asked, word for word, “Speak plainly, are you going to tell me that you married Esteban Zaragosa because you loved him, or are you going to tell me how sweet you were to him during your marriage?”
Claudio Belles pursed his lips, took a deep breath, stared into her dark eyes and said bluntly, “I admit that at first I had a vested interest in getting a license with him in the name of business, and that before I recovered my memory of you, I had always pursued Esteban Zaragosa, even before I met you at eighteen, and I always thought that in this life I would love only him. Even if he didn’t respond.”
Eduardo Tercero’s fingertips, pinched in the palm of his hand, teeth almost clenched, repressing his anger and jealousy, looked at the woman in front of him.
“Enough talking already?”
Claudio Belles glared at him, “No, it’s not enough.”
Edward the Third: “…”
One night of ER was already enough for Eduardo Tercero to be anxious; now, Claudio Belles was adding fuel to the fire with what he was saying.
Claudio Belles said, “You once taught Claudio what it means to be in love, an emotion he had not received in Esteban Zaragosa.”
Claudio Belles brought his hand to the cloth around his waist and squeezed it.
Eduardo Tercero lowered his eyes slightly and let out an inaudible sigh, seemingly helpless, but still coolly pulling his hand away. “So what, the girl I’m in love with is Claudio, not Claudio Belles.”
“…”
Still, Claudio Belles said, “Nothing happened between me and Esteban Zaragosa, apart from a marriage license. You know, he didn’t love me.”
Eduardo Tercero hid all the emotions stirring inside him, “I’ll have you sent across the border.”
“…”
Claudio Belles was a little perplexed, how could he be indifferent when she had explained this far?
But what he found most damning was that Eduardo Tercero’s impassive gaze really stung him.
“Beep, beep, beep…”
Eduardo Tercero’s action phone rang.
Eduardo Tercero pushed Claudio Belles aside and picked up the phone, not knowing what was being said on the other end, Eduardo Tercero’s face instantly turned several shades of serious, then without even looking at Claudio Belles, he headed for the house.
“I’ll be right there.”
I don’t know what prompted her, but she went out after him barefoot: “Eduardo Tercero!”.
She had never been so insensitive and harassing, and it was the first time she had done it with Eduardo Tercero.
She stepped in front of Eduardo Tercero, but he grabbed her by the shoulders and said, “Claudio, someone will come to take you out of the border later, once you are out of the border, go wherever you want, get to safety.”
With these words, Eduardo Tercero released her, turned around and left without looking back.
Eduardo Tercero’s attitude toward her had taken a 360-degree turn for no apparent reason.
Had something changed in the army?
Claudio Belles quickly put on his shoes and grabbed a junior soldier as he walked out of his barracks.
Looking at the army with medical personnel spraying disinfectant water, he frowned and asked, “What are they doing?”
The junior soldier, who had never seen Claudius Belles, froze, “Girl, are you …?”.
Claudius Belles hugged and said, “The bride of his court lord.”
When the little soldier heard that it was the Court Master’s girlfriend, he was surprised and quickly said, “Madam Court Master, you’d better go back to your bedroom and sleep first.”
“What is it?”
“Tonight a child arrived from the border village, foaming at the mouth, and Lord Aurelius says the child is suffering from a supervirus, and now everyone who has been in contact with the child has been quarantined, including Lord Aurelius. So now we are doing what Lord Aurelio said as a precaution.”
Claudius Belles frowned, was it because of the supervirus outbreak that Edward the Third was in such a hurry to get rid of her?
Heh, this man, he was quite considerate of her.
The soldier, who was wearing a disposable mask, said to Claudio Belles with concern, “Ma’am, you should go back in the house, it’s not safe to go out. It’s not safe to be out there. You need to expose yourself less to people, you might catch it from someone.”
Claudio Belles was not afraid of the so-called supervirus, he had already been on missions and had encountered much more dangerous situations than this one.
Such a virus was but a trifle to her.
“Where is your master?”
The little soldier replied, “I just saw the Court Master take some people away and approach the consultation center.”
…
The consultation center.
Eduardo Tercero was outside, on the other side of Aurelio’s isolation door, talking on the phone.
Aurelio reported, “I just asked the boy’s grandmother, who told me that the boy had gone to a nearby cave to play a few days ago and came back like that, adding that at the time the boy was unconscious, his mouth kept calling for bats. I speculated that the supervirus was most likely carried by the poison bats in the nearby cave.”
“I know, I’ll send someone out right now to look for them, and if he finds them, he’ll set them all on fire.”
Eduardo Tercero ended the call and hung up.
Aurelio immediately returned to the table and went through the medical books.
Eduardo Tercero took a group of men, looking at the road map drawn by the boy’s grandmother, and headed for the cave not far away.
…
They carried numerous torches and a bunch of biochemicals, which they sprayed at the cave entrance.
A small soldier heard a swarm of chirping sounds coming from inside the cave, “Master of the Court, there seems to be a lot of bats inside.”
“Throw out all the torches and burn them to death.”