There was a brief silence throughout the room, everyone with incredulous faces, as they watched Carlos approach water and give it to Micaela, who drank it, and Carlos looked at her, then took the glass she was handing him….
The simple gestures, without a word of dialogue, but all through pure love, that atmosphere, as if the previous events had not happened at all in general….
For a long moment, Alba ran to her excitedly and hugged her.
-Yes, of course, great, Micaela you are fantastic!
Olivia also came over and hugged Micaela from the other side and said with surprise:
-So empowering, you are true love!
-Yes! I was thinking about how to remind you of Mr. Carlos and you remembered yourself!
The little ones gathered around and surrounded Micaela, who was holding Mike, one by one, excitedly talking to Micaela, Yerma and Carlos stepped aside….
Yerma smiles and wipes the corners of her eyes, full of excitement….
-Great, just a false alarm…
Alba came back from her joy, looked at Micaela and said to her:
-By the way, has your husband told you that that crazy Natalia has a dual personality disorder and that Javier was a prisoner of his second personality, and according to Javier, Natalia’s master personality has disappeared since that time she took him.
In other words, the subsequent collaboration with Nilson to take Micaela was actually all done by Natalia’s second personality.
Micaela carefully went over her thoughts, her hand on the bedspread clutching the sheet, her face calm as she nodded.
Alba starts rubbing her fists together, a glint in her eye….
-Micaela, don’t tell me you’re going to let her get away?
Micaela laughed and spoke in a cloudy voice:
-Even if unfolding a new personality wasn’t Natalia’s intention, it was provoked by her and it’s hurting Carlos and me and worrying you, and this time, unless she dies, old scores will be settled!
Carlos’s mouth sketched a smile, the girl’s vindictive look touched his heartstrings, no, it attracted him anyway….
Alba nods heavily.
-No soft hands this time, even if Javier begs for mercy!
Micaela looked at Alba with a glint of excitement in her eyes and approval.
-Good!
As we spoke, several more people came running through the door of the pavilion: Mateo, Nicolas, Evangelina and the two brothers of the Obregon family, bruised and battered, who had come from the village….
They approached and all made a conscious effort to move aside.
Evangelina was the first to approach, watching Micaela and Carlos with concern.
-Moya, Carlos, did it hurt anywhere?
They both said they were fine and Micaela said:
-I have worried you, we are fine, and I also thought about Carlos?
Matthew and Nicolas were instantly relieved, their eyes constantly roamed over the two of them, Moya looked in pretty good shape in her hospital gown, before chanting:
-It’s good to be well, it’s good to be well….
Carlos took two steps towards them with a gleam in his expression, he lifted his wrist to check the time and his eyes roamed their faces….
-Dad, the wedding is later.
This “Dad” made Matthew and Nicholas rush to respond:
-Well well well well, I just talked to the wedding party about the delay too, the guests have not gone…..
-I’ll inform the family to get ready for the bride!
Then in unison they said:
-Let’s go back to get ready!
Then they turned and walked out as if the most aggressive person was the one who shouted -Daddy-, making both Yerma and Evangelina laugh….
The two brothers of the Obregon family approached, both with strong apologies in their eyes, and Efraim opened his mouth:
-I’m sorry, things are still beyond our expectations.
Carlos’ thin lips curved into a slight curve.
-It’s okay, I should thank you for choosing to be on my side at the end so that we could prepare in advance and it wouldn’t go so badly.
After a pause, he looked at the girl behind him and said:
-And thank you, too, for losing the bouquet of flowers.
Flowers?
The audience is puzzled…
Carlos explained:
-The night I spent the night with the Obregon family, as soon as I entered the room I smelled something in the air, something similar to the smell Natalia had on her on the few occasions I had contact with her, catnip in the flowers placed on the small table.
When I checked the flowers, I found nothing wrong again, but there was still a lingering smell in the air, so the flowers must have been replaced before, I guess, and they kept having dealings with Natalia, but finally changed their mind and huan a bouquet in….
It was this very act that made me get up and go to Micaela and Mike when they had already fallen asleep.
It was then that it dawned on everyone.
Not knowing that Carlos was already allergic to perfume, the women with extraordinarily acute sense of smell expressed their surprise:
-Mr. Carlos has a great nose!
-It’s all out in the open!
Cesar touches the corner of his lips where the skin has broken and explains.
-Natalia said she had to deploy some company business and come later, she sent the “potion” she had developed in the first place, she said this would help with hypnosis when you smell it and the effects would last until it reached Salamonsa, she told us to find an opportunity to get in touch, my brother and I thought about it and finally we still withdrew the bouquet, luckily, everything arrived on time….
Carlos and Micaela also reacted to the fear that today’s hypnosis would have been more successful if Natalia’s plan had not failed….
Alba gritted her teeth.
-Natalia is so hateful and so desperate to stop the resuscitation now!
Katarina and Antonio, who were waiting at the end of the operating room, came in just in time to hear what Alba was saying and Antonio said:
-I’m afraid it’s really going to go her way, Natalia is in a terrible state, her lungs are infected, tests for heavy metal poisoning in the blood and a series of tests are pending and it’s not expected to be good. And worst of all, Natalia’s sense of survival is so weak that she is now hooked up to a ventilator to help her with voluntary breathing…