Nicolas staggered two steps, clutching the wall with one hand and holding his chest with the other, about to catch his breath….
His and Patricia’s son, and he’s only had a glimpse of him, and he’s already prepared for her to leave before him?
Did he owe his mother and son so much that he could never make up for it in this life?
Yerma and Mrs. Echave, Nilson also sinks instantly?
What to do, how to let Moya know, she’ll never accept it….
The door of the room suddenly opened from inside and Micaela came out, with red eyes…
Yerma, Mrs. Echave and Nilson are mentions of the heart, I’m not sure if Moya heard…
Micaela said nothing and walked around her towards the infirmary.
Nilson grabbed her arm with a nervous look on his face.
-Moya, where are you going?
-I’ll tell the nurse to bring swabs and antiseptic water,” answered Micaela, letting go of Nilson’s hand and turning to walk away. Nilson, uneasy, followed her to check that she had indeed gone to ask for swabs and antiseptic water before approaching with her, and that everyone had entered the room, which would gather around the bed.
Nicolas looks at Carlos with mixed feelings stirring in his heart….
Whatever it was about Nicolas and Patricia thirty years ago, no one was in the mood to ask Carlos, who lay lifeless in his hospital bed….
Micaela sat down in front of the hospital bed and carefully moved Carlos’ right hand a little, the back of the hand, on the fingers, was covered with small cuts and even some sand lodged in the flesh….
This is a bruise from Carlos covering the back of her neck with one hand as he rolled with her in his arms….
He himself unharmed by her protection, and here he lies….
Micaela held back her tears and carefully helped him little by little…
Yerma and Mrs. Echave reddened, and Nilson clenched his fists and looked away…
Nicolas looked at Micaela’s movements, guessed what was going on, looked at Mike in Yerma’s arms and asked in a trembling voice:
-Carlos’ son?
Yerma nods her head.
Nicolas gets a little excited and reaches out to hug Mike….
Micaela, however, suddenly looked up, unable at last to contain her emotion, and stood up, approaching with great strides, reaching out her hand to stop him from embracing Mike, her eyes bright with tears, but unable in any way to stop the light of anger.
-Mr. Nicholas, you have no right to hold him! Your son is going to kill the boy’s father! This is a lack of education on his part and no matter how much of a lord of the city he may have been and how much he may have done for Salamonsa, he has failed in his life!
Yerma, Dona Echave, Nilson, none of them speak for Nicolas….
Nicolas, full of shame, withdrew his hand, ashamed to be in the presence of that woman with clear eyes….
-You’re right, I’m sorry, it was my bad manners….
Micaela wiped a tear from her face with the back of her hand, her tone still resounding.
-I don’t accept your apology, Mr. Nicolas, and I will never let your son go if Carlos doesn’t recover! I bless the fact that my shot went straight to the point where he had no chance of waking up!
Yerma and Mrs. Echave, Nilson are shocked…
Was that shot on Efraim really Moya’s?
Nicolas was in an extraordinarily mixed mood, with his head slightly bowed and without a trace of the majesty and haughtiness of Salamonsa’s top man…
-I will send the best doctors to cure Carlos, he will wake up and Efraim, I will give you an account….
Mike, in Yerma’s arms, suddenly burst into tears and at the same time a young man in a suit entered and stood in front of Nicolas and bowed slightly.
-Lord of the City, the Lady has come and is looking for you everywhere….
Mrs. Echave sighed.
-Nicolas, let’s all go take a look. Nicolas looked at Carlos in the hospital bed, then at Micaela who had picked up the baby, whispered that he would come back later and went out with Mrs. Echave.
Yerma looked at Micaela with a shrinking heart at the thought of the “lady” who had been spoken of and said:
-Moya, Mike must be hungry, feed him first?
Nilson snorted and wisely bent down, saying:
-Moya, I’m going to get you something to eat. He must not have had breakfast yet….
Then he turned around and prepared to leave.
Micaela pulled Mike closer to her and the crying subsided, opening her mouth again to eat….
Without rushing to feed him, Micaela looked at Nilson, who had approached the door, and called out to him.
-Nilson…
Nilson paused and turned around, his eyes full of concern.
-What is it? What are you ordering me to do?
-Did you get in touch with Diego?
Nilson is a bit frozen, clearly the same car he took after coming down from the mountain and talking to Diego on the phone himself….
After a while, Nilson realized that Moya must have been so preoccupied with Carlos in her arms that she hadn’t heard him.
Still in an uncontrollable mood from a few bitter moments, he said.
-Contacted, he was captured by Efraim’s men yesterday, luckily they did him no harm, just as we left the mountain Lord Nicolas had ordered his release, this too should come soon. Micaela then felt a slight relief as Nilson came out and closed the door behind him.
She sat down with Mike in her arms and nursed him….
Today is the day of her full moon, but her father lies in a hospital bed, not knowing whether he will live or die….
Micaela’s heart is getting more and more broken…
Yerma sat on the edge of the bed, her eyes full of pain.
-Moya, everything will be all right. She was afraid to tell her that Carlos would definitely wake up for fear that if she gave him too much hope, it might not turn out as she hoped….
The snake was originally called “Green Eye”, because of the green color of its body but with a bit of vermilion on its forehead, but it was so venomous that, although a serum had been developed, many people were bitten and died before reaching the hospital. That is why the name “King Toxic” was coined. The official time frame given is one hour to inject the serum and you’ll be fine, in reality most people who get bitten don’t make it past half an hour, so it’s a wonder the doctor only said that in Carlos’ case….
Now, you can only pray in your heart that Carlos turns out to be lucky….
Micaela looked at Carlos in the hospital bed and, with reddened eyes again, said to Yerma, and even more so to herself:
-He won’t leave Mike and me behind….
He won’t give up and she knows it…..
Yerma gently strokes his hair.
-Moya, whatever happens, you have to be strong. Micaela struggled to adjust her emotions, nodded her head and looked at Mike, who had squinted again in her arms, and asked:
-Mommy, was Mike okay last night?
Yerma’s eyes also fell on Mike and she replied:
-Cry for a while, sleep for a while, do not drink a lot of formula, really hungry to drink a couple of mouthfuls, in the end I know I’m a grandmother, I hold is still good, in the morning, how can not be coaxed to listen, cry to fall asleep, wake up and then cry, fortunately you guys came back….
Micaela’s heart aches again….
Seeing that Mike was full and asleep, Yerma lifted him up and, with a large hospital bed, placed him next to Carlos, father and son sleeping together.
Soon after, Nilson returned with the porridge, Micaela went to the bathroom and washed up, came out and sat down at the table, forcing herself to eat a little, just a few bites, she really couldn’t eat anymore, she sat back down on the edge of the bed, looking at the pale Carlos….
Now he could do nothing but think of one thing, to get Carlos to wake up and get out of danger….
A little later, Diego finally arrived in a hurry, having learned from Nilson on the way that he was glad that Senor Carlos and Miss Micaela had gotten out of the car first when he was caught yesterday, but that something had happened to Senor Carlos….
At that moment, looking at his own Mr. Carlos in the hospital bed, Diego’s heart saddened and he tried to reassure Micaela:
-Miss Micaela, the best news for Mr. Carlos is that you are well and that Mr. Carlos will definitely wake up. Micaela nodded, held Carlos’ hand for a long time, looked at Diego and, with determination, gave an account of his seriousness:
-Diego, if Carlos doesn’t wake up tonight, tomorrow you will take him to Ode Nation and settle in, contact the best doctors and cure him however you can.