Carlos held her close to his heart and kissed her to remove her tears:
-Good girl, Micaela don’t cry, this Nilson told me too….
Only he didn’t know where the “remorse” in Nilson’s eyes came from until Nilson took it upon himself to tell her about the “vaccine” he had given the girl when he was a child….
Micaela froze, still with tears in her eyes, and looked at Carlos with some disbelief that Nilson had dared to tell Carlos….
Carlos will kill him when he finds out, I’m afraid.
The corners of the man’s lips quirked into a small smile.
-I tried to kill him at the time, it wasn’t his move and I could have taken you both back to Anlandana’s house as planned….
There was a pause, and a seemingly renewed effort to suppress the anger that had arisen in vain, before continuing:
-But for seeing him spit so much blood, because he knew how much he really meant to you, and that he had done nothing to hurt you except this, and even risked his life to protect you, my raised fist did not fall after all….
Besides, the way he didn’t dodge and tried to take his anger in knots at the time made it harder and harder for Carlos to do so….
Micaela sniffled and asked nervously:
-So, am I going to inherit it from Mike or not?
-No.
Carlos’ tone was light, but with total discretion, which made Micaela’s heart drop a little, but she still looked at Carlos nervously, wanting to know more specifically to feel at ease….
Carlos squeezed her arms, trying to give her strength in general.
-Girl, the “poison” is inherited and transmitted with many conditions, and, what you drink, is not “poison”, much less a living being trained with poison, but a modern drug, absorbed by the body and then melted into the blood and merged into one, a chronic poison with a latency period of up to fifteen years… but the same is that you both depend on the land of Salamonsa, and the only way to prevent that poison from taking root is to live here.
Micaela’s mind is confused, the uneasiness in her heart is even greater, they say they are one with blood, Mike has her blood flowing in him too….
Carlos gently pinched her little face.
-Easy girl, listen to my analysis first, huh?
Looking into Carlos’ deep eyes, Micaela took a deep breath, knowing he would tell her everything he knew, and tried to calm down, nodding her head.
Carlos rubbed her head.
-Have you heard? This “poison” is for men.
Micaela nodded, the only ones whose life expectancy was threatened were men, not women, and halfway through she volunteered:
-That’s why there are always Salamonsa women who want to escape, who have no poison inside, and who can get away completely from the current situation if they manage to get out of Salamonsa. That is why your mother, Moses’ mother and my mother wanted to throw me out.
Carlos nodded and continued:
-That’s right, except that, although it is not a nation, but only a tribe, it needs a balance of yin and yang, and the loss of women would mean the extinction of the Salamonsa sooner or later, so the Salamonsa forbids the exodus of women, but there are exceptions, like any woman has rendered a great service, then she can request the right to leave the Salamonsa, like for example Elsa, the Moises’ mother.
It dawned on Micaela that she had not thought about how Moses’ mother could leave Salamonsa and come back with a straight face, being from Salamonsa!
It turns out that Moses’ mother was allowed to leave because she had previously rendered a great service?
-There is another class of women, women who go under the pretext of traveling and who will definitely return, those women, who are descendants of powerful and wealthy families, whom the Salamonsa authorities make them take two kinds of things, one, a chronic poison of those just mentioned, and they must return or, at the latest in fifteen years, they will die from the poison, and the other. …-. was Antinolol, so that they would keep their secrets and not talk about Salamonsa, and much less about the different secrets of Salamonsa, like the one of my mother, and the one of the people of Salamonsa who were there before Anlandana and ended up dying.
Carlos pauses, looks at the girl and adds:
-That’s the only guy you’ve ever had.
Micaela looked at Carlos’ deep eyes, his calm tone, nothing to do with the fact that he had just found out that he had such a poison in his…
The woman stood up and wrapped her arms around his neck, sinking her face into the back of his neck and lowering her voice a little.
-Carlos, did you know about this long before Nilson told you…?
Otherwise, he didn’t need to understand so much at all, according to what was said before, he finished helping her sit in the city lord’s position, identified a suitable next lord, took her will be good, he must have known this, just to want to understand the root cause, just to want to resolve the poison in his….
He remembered the other day at the hospital, when he had come out of the bathroom and saw his mother and Diego discussing something with Carlos, with heavy faces, surely, that’s what they were talking about.
Carlos’ hand brushed her hair.
-“Well, that time I accompanied you to the Fracimon Nation show and made a point to visit Moses’ mother, and it was she who told me about it, because I couldn’t talk about words like “poison”, she used the word ‘feat’…. Instead, I planned since then to bring him back to Salamonsa to look for him when his contest was over.
Carlos’ words made Micaela look up again, surprised, really, so long ago?
Carlos rubbed her head, knowing she was still upset that Mike hadn’t inherited her poison, and said the most damning piece of evidence of all:
-My mother drank the exact same thing you did when she left here, and she had the same poison running through her blood as you did, but I’m fine, and I’m over 15 years old for a long time, right? Hmm?
Hearing this, Micaela finally felt completely relieved and her whole body gently snuggled into his arms….
-Carlos big bad man, it was so long ago and you didn’t reveal anything to me?
No wonder that, since that time in Fracimon Nation, he clings to her more than ever and when she sleeps, he hugs her tightly, fearful that she will disappear. It is all due to the restlessness that emanates from his heart….
Carlos hugged her tightly, his chin brushing her head and his voice full of affection.
-You have the nerve to say that you know you can’t leave and you still think of leaving Salamonsa with me, huh?
Not the way things are nowadays, I wonder when you will wait until she shows up to tell you…..
Micaela had wet eyes and hugged Carlos tightly, she knew they were both worried about each other and wanted to be happy one more day, and only after a long while she said in a breathy voice:
-Carlos, my only wish is that you and Carlos are well?
-Little fool, I know….
Carlos encircles the woman in his arms, a glint of sadness in his eyes….
My Micaela, how could I be well without you…