Once Allyce walked in and saw the papers scattered on his desk, she knew that Victorino was indeed as she thought, still working on the K1LU73 virus in Severo.
“Have you been staying up late lately?” Allyce nonchalantly picked up a piece of paper and looked at it.
It had graphs and strange data that I couldn’t understand.
Victorino didn’t deny it either, he just nodded.
Sleeping was actually a waste of time for him.
Besides, Severo was unwell and there was no more time.
Without further ado, Allyce explained the reason for his visit: “Do you know how Severo contracted the K1LU73 virus?
Victorino smiled and looked at Allyce with a somewhat unsure look, as if to ask, “How come you don’t even know?
Allyce was a little embarrassed, but she didn’t really know it.
Victorino was not a man of many words and did not press the issue, but answered Allyce’s question directly.
“The man said earlier that someone gave him a pill a few months ago, I’m not sure of the details”.
Although Victorino said as much as not, Allyce heard and understood that Severo had voluntarily taken the pill, which meant that the person who had given it to him was someone he knew.
Someone he met a few months ago. …
It seemed that in the end it was Severo himself who had to find out.
“Thank you, I’ve got it, get some rest, I’ll be back”.
Allyce and Victorino said thank you and returned to the room.
As he pushed open the door and entered, he saw that the lamp on the bedside table was on and that Severo, who should have been lying in bed sleeping, was now sitting up.
He was sitting against the bed, with a slightly stiff posture.
Severo heard her moving in the doorway and turned his head to look at her: “Where have you been?
In the dim light, Allyce saw that Severo’s dark eyes were unusually awake, as if he had been awake for a long time.
“I’ve gone to see Dr. Griego, why are you up?” Allyce explained where she had gone as she walked towards Severo.
He took off his coat and got into bed.
She snuggled into Severo’s arms and wrapped her arms around him without speaking.
I could feel Severo’s discomfort.
Severo placed a soft kiss on the top of her hair, before whispering, “I woke up without you by my side.
Allyce’s heart fluttered, even for the mighty Severus, his body was restless after such a change.
He thought he was sleeping too much, so he got up and left for a while, not expecting him to wake up suddenly.
“Sorry …”
He was about to apologise when Severo put a hand between his lips, preventing him from saying what he was about to say.
Severo let go of his hand and asked quietly: “What are you doing looking for Victorino in the middle of the night?
Allyce hesitated for a moment before saying: “I thought of something and went to ask him.
“Something to do with me?” asked Severo directly.
Allyce froze for a moment: “How do you know?
“It means it does concern me. Why don’t you ask me about something that concerns me, instead of going to see Victorino?” the slightest rise in Severo’s tone was one of imperceptible discontent.
Allyce looked at Severo carefully.
He noticed that all this time, Severo was acting calmly, as if nothing was happening.
He ate when it was time to eat, slept when it was time to sleep, and remained jealous even in such trivial matters.
Allyce was under the mistaken impression that Severo was still the same as before and that nothing serious had happened to him, only a minor illness that did not itch or hurt and he was hospitalised.
Allyce took his hand, looked at him with a slight smile and said, “Well, let me ask you then, who gave you the medicine? I heard Dr. Griego say that you took it voluntarily”.
Severo had just thought that Allyce had gone to see Victorino to ask him about something related to his health.
But he didn’t expect Allyce to ask him that.
He froze for a moment before saying: “It was Amado Mejía”.
“Is that him?” Allyce’s face was stunned.
A few months ago, Amado Mejía …
This meant that Severo had taken the drug when he followed her to the big mountain, and the effect of this drug had only started to take effect a few months later.
What about the time in the mountains when Severo would have voluntarily taken the medicine given to him by Amado Mejía?
She remembered with a jolt that the time she had been abducted by Amado Mejia, Severo had come to her alone, and that when he had found her Severo had been in a pit in the ground in a trap.
It was obvious that Severo had come to her alone, that Amado Mejía had taken him there, and that Amado Mejía could not have taken Severo to him without asking him for anything.
Severo looked into Allyce’s ever-changing eyes and knew she had reasoned the curves in the middle.
He looked at Severo, his face pale and his mouth open as if he didn’t know what to say for a moment.
Severo touched his face and said with a tired face: “Well, it’s late, go to bed first”.
Allyce said nothing, just lowered her eyes and withdrew from his arms, intending to let Severo sleep.
Severo’s eyes flickered, at first he had chosen not to tell Allyce because he was worried she would think too much of it, so he didn’t say anything unless she asked, but now that she had come forward to ask, he had no choice but to say it.
“Don’t think about it too much.” Severo let out a slight sigh and rubbed his hair.
Allyce choked on her neck and said in a gnat’s voice: “It’s my fault again …”.
“It was my own mistake, I would have been fine if I hadn’t taken that medicine then”. It was true that he had not thought about Amado Mejía’s multiple identities, not even Grizzi’s.
Allyce just shook her head, but stopped talking.
Severo continued: “Even if Amado Mejía had not succeeded, someone else would have found a way to drug me afterwards. As long as there are bad people who want to harm me, they will come up with all sorts of ways, and there is no way I can keep defending myself against bad people.”
Indeed, Allyce felt a little comforted by Severo’s statement, but only a little, and the feeling of remorse inside her did not diminish.
Allyce didn’t want Severo to spend any more energy trying to understand her, so she had to push the doubt and say, “The person who ordered Amado Mejia to drug you wasn’t ordered by Grizzi as an organisation, was he?”
Severo’s eyes sparkled with surprise, then he pursed his lips and smiled: “You don’t look stupid enough to have thought of that.
Allyce said: “Yes, I’m that stupid, you’ll have to keep an eye on me”.
Severo’s face lingered for a moment before he said, “Yes”.
A single word was worth a thousand words to Allyce.
What Severo had promised him, he would do.