Not Carlos?
Micaela looks again unconsciously, Carlos’ new car is also white, there is no moonlight tonight, she can’t make out the license plate….
Yes, if it’s Carlos, it’s impossible for him not to get out…
The surrounding trees, all immersed in darkness, are quiet in the hills at night.
The moment was even more surprisingly quiet.
There was the sound of a car engine, far and wide, echoing across the valley, and by the sound of it there was definitely more than one, and then, behind a distant curve, a beam of blinding light shone through….
Micaela unconsciously raised her hand to block the light, and when she looked again, there were several cars parked in the open field in the yard, and some on the road outside….
The car coming from behind did not turn off its lights and illuminated the yard, the area of the house, as if it were daylight.
Micaela startled a little, her heart beat faster, and more certain that the visitor was not Carlos, and perhaps, not a good one….
A low pressure flooded Nilson’s body, who took out his phone, put it in his hand without saying a word, and then shielded Micaela behind him, his heart sinking, not imagining he would have a moment when he would desperately wish Carlos would show up, come and take Moya away….
The restlessness in Micaela’s heart was expanding, unconsciously she held the phone and rubbed a hand on her stomach, feeling a hardness in her belly, she didn’t have time to think about it and asked in a low voice:
-Do you know who’s coming?
He clenched his fists and turned his head to one side in affirmation:
-It’s Gerardo Saez.
Micaela was shocked when Gerardo Saez, a native of Ciudad Pesla, the most wanted man in Salamonsa, wandered from town to town, committing crimes and misdemeanors, with a dozen murders on his hands….
Nilson stared at the white car, the man had frequented Pesla City for six months, he had confronted him a couple of times, but had not caught him, and the last time he shot him in the right leg, he must have held a grudge….
But how did she find him?
Did Ian reveal his location?
Micaela poked her head out from behind Nilson and watched. The headlights blinded her a little and she squinted slightly as she saw people getting out of the cars coming from behind. …
They moved forward, one of them, and stopped at the first white car that pulled up, pulling out the back seat.
A pair of legs in brown Martin boots stepped out into the light of the headlights behind them, the man wearing tight black leather pants and a black leather jacket with studs reflecting a faint glow in the headlights….
He was a young man of about twenty-five or twenty-six, thin, with deep features, with a, a murderous aura of an outlaw….
Micaela withdrew her eyes hurriedly and hid behind Nilson, looking at the phone in his hand. …
Micaela stifled her breath and looked at the time, half past seven in the evening, Carlos must be on his way….
The man looked at the two men standing in the courtyard, Nilson standing in the flaming white headlights, holding a protective woman behind him, his shadows, blending into the headlights, drawn long….
A laugh was heard.
-“Mr. Nilson, what a surprise, you are so infatuated, Salamonsa is full of beautiful women, why do you have to look at a woman impregnated by another, it is not necessary to beget another if you want to annex Echave City.
Nilson frowned as he stared at the man, ignoring the mockery of his words and asking rhetorically:
-Gerardo, how did you find this?
With his hands in his trouser pockets and a smug look in his eyes, Gerard advanced, stepped through the hedge and entered, his steps deliberately slowed, but he was still seen to emerge with a slight limp….
He stopped two paces away from Nilson with an undisciplined look in his eyes.
-Naturally, someone told me. I’ve been wandering around this mountain for five days and I’ve finally found your landing place. I’ve worked so hard to get here, won’t the two city lords invite the group to their cabin for a seat?
Five days?
Nilson deduced, then, that it was the day after he and Moya first arrived here, only without a specific location, and they searched blindly all over the mountain?
It seems Ian didn’t leak it to him directly, if it was really Jorai who told him, he wouldn’t have needed to search for five days….
It is a proof of how accurate and receptive Carlos was that he found his way here, near Osdenra, and the next day directly to here….
He suddenly remembered Ian’s brief silence when he called him that night and asked him if he had told anyone about his location….
Ian has been with him for so many years, he would never betray himself, it must have been leaked to someone he absolutely trusts….
He took a deep breath and asked in a cold voice:
-Come in, sit down and be forgiven, what is so important that you have worked so hard to find me?
Gerard’s eyes peered again and again behind Nilson, and a meaningful smile tugged at the corners of his lips.
-Great, then I’ll be blunt, Mr. Nilson you came to Pesla City from Echave City and were not qualified to be our lord of Pesla City, now that you have been for so many years, isn’t it time for me to take my seat as lord of the city?”.
Micaela was a bit stunned, indeed, Nilson was from Echave City, and when he returned to Salamonsa, she learned from her mother that Nilson had gone to Pesla City when it was chaos, and with his own power, he became the Lord of Pesla City, and along the way Pesla City grew to become one of the most prosperous cities in Salamonsa….
Nilson smiled, but was secretly relieved, if he only coveted his position, well, he asked lightly in return:
-Oh, to let you sit? To turn Pesla City, which I managed to fix, into a blackened and disorganized city again? Wouldn’t you know then that if I hadn’t resurrected Pesla City, Pesla City would have ceased to exist long ago and you would have had the chance to yell at me here?
Gerard sneered and raised his hand, motioning to the men he had brought with him to gather around, all of whom were looking at them with unkind eyes and an undisguised gleam in their eyes at Micaela….
Nilson, at this moment, deeply appreciated why Carlos had to protect Moya in his arms every time, because the way these people looked at her, pissed him off!
-Mr. Nilson knows that in our trade there is little patience; what you can’t get, you steal, and what you can’t negotiate, you fix by force. I have to be grateful to you, look at the predicament you got yourself into. This shitty place, you can’t call it a day, can you? And you have to protect a woman with a big belly and no hands, so I advise you to sign the mayoral handover and save yourself the pain.
The man behind him stepped forward and handed him a folder.
Nilson took it and flipped it open: it was the Master City Transfer Agreement.
Gerardo continued:
-In our Salamonsa, men are mostly ephemeral, Mr. Nilson you are almost thirty years old, you have no son or daughter, and the child that the woman behind you is carrying in her womb is not yours, so you are completely ineligible for succession, so you are perfectly qualified to step aside, aren’t you.
Micaela knew this was not the time to take the initiative, so she listened nervously. …
Gerardo, seeing that Nilson was still looking down, knew that he wasn’t really looking at the paper at all, but was thinking of a ploy to get out, and continued:
-Sir Nilson, you’re alone now, and you can’t do anything to us even if we get you killed here in this hell, but the thing is, that woman behind you, I’m afraid she can’t stand us brothers, can she?”.
Micaela’s heart mentions hard?
More nervous than her, it was Nilson who raised his eyes.
-Cut the roll, I can sign the papers, give me a car.
Gerardo smiled full of deep meaning.
-The car is fine, you sign it first.
As soon as the words left his mouth, he took a very fast step forward and reached behind Nilson to pull Micaela’s hand, Nilson moved faster to shake off the folder, grabbed Micaela’s shoulder and spun on himself, avoiding him!
Micaela is in shock and has her hands protecting her stomach….
The woman who had been hiding behind him was exposed to the bright headlights….
Gerardo and the group of men went directly…
In Salamonsa, land of the handsome and beautiful, the beauty of this woman continues to shine and the more you look at her, the more beautiful she becomes….
In the space of a few seconds, Nilson had hidden Micaela behind him again, but it was no longer significant, Gerardo’s men had formed a circle around the two of them, each blatantly looking in a different direction at Micaela with a glint of astonishment in their eyes.
-No wonder Mr. Nilson hides this woman here, the seed in your womb is not yours and you admit it, such a stunning woman does have the ability to make people not love the rivers and the mountains?
Gerardo’s unconfessed naked glare made Micaela pause, remembering the Mr. Gallo she saw at the hotel the second time she met Carlos, no, that man’s eyes were a million times more repulsive!
He clenched the phone tightly in his hand, knowing what Nilson meant by giving it to him; he, these days, would go to the hill at the back of the house to make calls, where he could pick up the signal….
Nilson clenched his fists and spoke quietly:
-Gerardo, you will die a horrible death if you dare to flirt with her.
The room filled with laughter.
Gerardo’s eyes were full of disdain.
-Nilson, this is not the time for you to talk big, there are more than two dozen of us, we will kill you in a minute, be a good boy and hand over the woman behind you, sign the letter, the car is at your disposal, you can leave immediately.
Nilson’s brow furrowed as he looked at the crowd of Gerardo’s men, with a convincing glint in his eyes as he turned to Gerardo’s men and spoke slowly:
-You all know that she is the future lord of Echave City, and whatever happens with me or her, with whomever, you will not fare well, not to mention that I have not signed the agreement for the transfer of the lord of the city, and even if I did, Gerard would not be recognized by Salamonsa to sit as lord of the city, so brothers, why don’t you now leave the darkness and embrace us out of here and I can get you out of that sea of misery and out of Gerard’s control.