-Bang!
A shot rang out and the world instantly went silent….
Efraim felt a sharp pain in his chest, he looked down in disbelief and saw the bright red blood gushing out of his chest, his hand lost strength from the pain, only a second later Carlos below him waved the knife from his hand, he pushed it back and rolled onto his back, seeing the girl sitting on the ground not far away, her hands holding the gun, still held high….
Micaela’s chest was heaving violently, she had just been thrown to the ground by Efraim when she saw the pistol not far away, it was in Carlos’ pocket, he had dropped it in the previous tumble and it was hidden among the fallen leaves….
She ran towards him in disarray, so nervous that she threw herself to the ground again, without bothering to get up, grabbed the pistol, turned quickly, saw Efraim with the knife held high, and without hesitation raised the pistol and pulled the trigger hard in his direction….
The recoil of the shot was tremendous and the inexperienced woman felt her whole arm go numb, but she had no time to worry, seeing that Carlos was struggling to get up, she immediately dropped the gun and stumbled over to….
Carlos’s face was pale, without a trace of blood, his lips black, his forehead pearly with sweat, his eyes slack, his steps weak, and he reached out to take the person who met his eyes in his arms, running his large hands across his back.
-Micaela, are you hurt?
Micaela was so distressed that she could not breathe, and before she could say anything, Carlos could not hold himself and fell, Micaela could not hold him and fell to the ground with him….
-Carlos, you hold on, hold on…..
Micaela sat up and took Carlos in her arms, tears streamed down her face, looking at Carlos, who had exhausted all his strength and was lifeless, her heart swelled with fear and anxiety….
Carlos, breathing more and more with difficulty, his eyes blurring more and more so as not to see the girl he loved most, struggled to reach out, caressing her cheek and saying, haltingly:
-Good girl, don’t cry, girl you…. saved me… you saved me… me….
I have no choice but to give my life in return….
He wanted to tease the girl, but he didn’t finish, because he couldn’t speak, his throat was blocked in general, his chest was like a thousand pounds of boulders, so he couldn’t breathe, his body was cold like being in an ice cave, he wanted to open his eyes to look at her, he wanted to calm her down and tell her not to cry, but even his eyelids had a thousand pounds of weight, how could you not open….
Micaela held him with one arm and his hand with the other, pressing it against his face while tears were falling on his face.
-Carlos, stop talking and save your energy, Nilson should be here soon….
Efraim, who was lying a short distance away with his hand on his chest, leaned out, just as pale, grimaced and said with all his might:
-Lord of the City of Echave City, you, you don’t dream, he, he must die, that snake, he is ‘King Toxic’, one hour without a serum injection and he comes back to life, not to mention, not to mention he just fought me and his blood flowed even faster, the toxins would have flowed to his brain and heart, guys, might as well say a last words….
-Shut up!
Micaela growled, looking at Carlos, who was unconscious in her arms, her whole heart clenching in pain, Efraim’s words, soaking her whole being from the fear of Carlos abandoning her, tears like an open tap….
-Carlos, don’t die, I beg you, hold on…..
Micaela let go of his hand and tried to hug him a little tighter, Carlos’ hand, which was caressing her cheek, immediately fell weak without Micaela’s support…
No, no…
Micaela’s eyes were full of panic, hugging him tightly, her small face pressed against his forehead, finding his body temperature were cold, suddenly more and more tearing pain, howling….
-No… Carlos, if I had known that you had to go through such an ordeal to come to Salamonsa, I would have preferred you not to come and marry Natalia and have children, as long as you were well…. Carlos, look at me, you don’t want to die…
Micaela’s crying liver made Efraim’s men, who had come from several directions to meet, stop in their tracks and feel a strong sorrow….
-Carlos, oooh, don’t leave me, you can’t die…..
She blinked to chase away the tears, runny nose, looked around and found a knife in her hand, the one Efraim had just had, and put Carlos’ head on her lap, picked up the knife from the floor, took it with her right hand, brought it to her left wrist and gave it a strong slash, blood spurted instantly….
Micaela let go of the knife, grabbed Carlos’ neck with her right hand, held his jaw open with her thumb and brought his bleeding left wrist to his slightly open mouth…
-Carlos, drink, drink, drink, isn’t it my blood that can discount the effects of any medicine? If you drink more, surely you can also make your poison lessen… please, oooh, please don’t leave me….
Blood and tears combined to flow into Carlos’ mouth….
Carlos’ consciousness was blurred, he felt a steady stream of hot liquid flowing down his throat, warming him, he swallowed unconsciously, the pain seemed to be disappearing little by little, as if his whole body was floating in the air, many images flashed in his mind, the night he met the girl three years ago, the moment she crashed into his arms two years ago, the first time he kissed her secretly, the first embrace, every image was so vivid….
Efraim’s men immediately crouched beside their master to stop the bleeding, while he looked sideways at Micaela, who was not far away; was it a disease?
But he was actually a little moved….
Nilson also arrived in a hurry with his men and the first thing he saw was Efraim lying on the ground, his clothes, his hands covering his chest were red with blood….
Frightened eyes moving to see Carlos lying in Moya’s arms, Moya’s wrists bleeding, a blood stained knife on the ground next to her….
Did Moya really feed her own blood into Carlos’ mouth?
What was the terrible thing that happened?
-Moya!
Nilson approaches her, bends down and quickly pulls out his pocket handkerchief to cover her wound….
-Don’t touch me…
Micaela refused, she didn’t even raise her head, she didn’t take her eyes off Carlos’s face for a second, trembling, wanting to give him all her blood if it would help….
Sadness, nervousness, fear made her whole body tense, she hadn’t been so nervous and upset when she was kidnapped by Nilson and forced to go back to Salamonsa, and looking at the unconscious Carlos in her arms, she didn’t even feel she could find the motivation to live…
-Moya, let me see, stop the bleeding quickly….
Nilson spoke anxiously, forcing her hand.
Micaela finally came to her senses and saw that it was Nilson who had arrived, as if she had seen a savior.
-Nilson, take Carlos to the hospital, he has been bitten by a snake, let’s….
Said Nilson, withdrawing his hand taken by Nilson, to lift Carlos with his own strength….
Have you been bitten by a snake?
Nilson froze, this was Bamboo Mountain, was it the most poisonous snake of all?
Watching his movements, Nilson took his bleeding hand again and wrapped it with the handkerchief, his mouth anxious.
-Okay, we’ll get him to the hospital, right away, but you need to stop the bleeding too, do you want him to be okay while you’re losing too much blood to hold on? She shot a look and the men she had brought with her immediately came over to help pick up Carlos and go back the way she had come.
Micaela didn’t care about his wound, she only thought about Carlos, seeing them help him up, Micaela immediately got up and followed him, Nilson had to walk while pulling his hand to heal his wound, the handkerchief was immediately soaked with blood, making his heart ache….
How Moya is so stupid…
He couldn’t let the blood keep flowing, he had to find something to tie it above the wound to stop the blood flow, but he couldn’t find anything suitable for a while, today he wasn’t wearing the tie, he turned to look and saw a man in a black suit coming towards him, he had the tie on, he was already walking towards him, Nilson didn’t even look at who he saw, he immediately walked over and pulled.
-Give me the tie!
The man did not stop him, but looked at Carlos, who was being held, with a complex glint in his eyes and a tone of astonishment in his mouth:
-Carlos….
Efraim, who was also being helped to get up, saw the man and his fists clenched….
-Dad…