At the end of the day, Dulcina Calvo went to the infirmary to say goodbye to Yanamaría Félix, thinking that tomorrow she would return to La Ciudad Santa and that Yanamaría Félix had taken good care of her during this time.
As soon as Yanamaria Felix saw her, she smiled and asked, “Why did you have time to come to see me? I thought Esteban liked to have you tied up twenty-four hours a day.”
Dulcina Calvo blushed slightly at the comment, “No, Miss Yanamaria, I’m going back to La Ciudad Santa tomorrow, that’s why I came to tell you tonight.”
“So soon, Esteban returns you?”
At the mention of it, Dulcina Calvo flattened her little mouth and sighed, “Even though I wanted to stay here with him, he was stubborn about sending me back to La Ciudad Santa. ”
Yanamaria Felix nodded, “That’s true, it’s not safe here and the living conditions are bad, plus I guess you have a job in The Holy City.”
Dulcina Calvo completely forgot about work: “I was suddenly sequestered here for so many days that I forgot to contact the head of the hospital to ask for leave. Oh no, they’re not going to fire me.”
Dulcina Calvo rushed to check WhatsApp, but was unable to connect with anyone in the outside world.
“You had better explain this to your leader tomorrow when you return to The Holy City, the signal here is not for external contact, only for internal use.”
Dulcina Calvo was stunned, the secrecy was really strict.
Yanamaría Félix was taking stock of the medicine, “Oh yes, Esteban should have finished the medicine he took around here before, then you take this bottle to him”.
Dulcina Calvo took the small bottle of medicine and frowned slightly, “Miss Yanamaria, this medicine, what is it?”
Dulcina Calvo is a doctor, but this bottle, with only the name and no specific ingredients, let alone information about the manufacturer, which she has never seen, looks like a homemade medicine.
Yanamaria Felix looked at her with a start and a slightly strange look, “Didn’t you know about Esteban’s illness?”.
Dulcina Calvo’s hand, holding the medicine bottle, was slightly dazed: “What is he sick with…?”
Yanamaría Félix looked at Dulcina Calvo without any knowledge, reacted half-heartedly and sighed: “It’s okay to tell her anyway, it’s okay to tell her”.
Yanamaria Felix sat down and said, “He had an upset stomach that came back not too long ago, which is why Tom Paul and Claudio were so anxious for him to come back for treatment.”
“Is it … stomach cancer?”
Dulcina Calvo’s heart was suddenly in her throat.
Yanamaría Félix gave a slight “hmmm” and when Dulcina Calvo became nervous and worried, she said, “But don’t worry, she’s fine now, Tom Paul is a miracle doctor in this field. The pills she is taking are the latest Tom Paul has developed, and after three treatments, she will be cured. He’s not going to be any different from a normal person, and the guy is much better than a normal person after all, he’ll be fine.”
“But how is it possible for me to be in such good health to have this disease?”
Yanamaría Félix spread her hands and said, “There are some diseases that don’t have much to do with fitness, although many medical studies are saying that they carry genes or something, but who knows, maybe it’s fate out there, but Lobo Blanco is Lobo Blanco at the end of the day and he has a hard life.”
Dulcina Calvo’s heart ached, so when he suddenly fainted and broke up with her after being taken to the hospital, was it because of his illness?
Why didn’t you tell him?
Yanamaría Félix, seeing the redness in Dulcina Calvo’s eyes, reached out and patted her on the shoulder and said, “Don’t feel so bad, it’s all in the past, especially for people like us, who live and die every day. Maybe tomorrow, the defenses of this base will be breached by the enemy and blow us all up. So don’t think too much about it.”
What kind of life and death have they experienced, and how many times have they experienced it, to be able to talk about it so lightly and take it lightly.
Dulcina Calvo knew that she was not in the same category as Esteban Zaragosa and Yanamaría Félix, or at least that she could not see life and death, nor had she really experienced them.
Although she had been kidnapped a few days ago and it was dangerous, her life, at least, was secure and she had not had the experience of licking blood from a knife every day like Esteban Zaragosa, who feared death.
“Miss Yanamaria, thank you for telling me this.”
“No need, it’s just that I think Esteban is very happy to have met you, he’s been very tense in all his past lives, but when he’s around you, I see that he’s relaxed and happy.”
…
Dulcina Calvo was beside herself all the way back to the lodge from the doctor’s office.
Returning to the dorm at six and seven, I found that Esteban Zaragosa had returned from training and was taking off his top and getting ready to go to the shower.
The man turned his head to look at her, “Where did you just go?”.
“I went to the doctor’s office, greeted Miss Yanamaria and told her I was leaving tomorrow.”
Esteban Zaragosa smiled slightly, “Are you close to Yanamaría Félix?”.
Dulcina Calvo nodded, “Well, it seems that Miss Yanamaria is very gentle.”
Esteban Zaragosa didn’t notice Dulcina Calvo’s mood and sneered with a smile as she headed for the bathroom, “That’s because you’ve never seen Yanamaría Félix exterminate a living soul, more brutal than Claudio. ”
Just as Esteban Zaragosa was about to enter the shower, Dulcina Calvo suddenly ran up and grabbed him from behind.
Esteban Zaragosa froze, looking at the small hands around his waist, slightly puzzled, “What’s wrong?”.
“Why didn’t you tell me you were sick?”
Esteban Zaragosa was also silent for a few seconds, “Yanamaria Felix told you that?”.
Dulcina Calvo gave a choked “mmm”.
Esteban Zaragosa had felt her tears, wetting the skin of his back, very hot and scalded.
“Why does everyone know but me that I’m your girlfriend, Esteban Zaragosa, how can you do this, in case you die accidentally and I don’t even know… then how am I going to see you for the last time?”
Esteban Zaragosa slightly curved his thin lips and slightly opened his mouth, “Then don’t see the last thing, what is the last thing.”
“If I could not forget you for the rest of my life and yet could not find you, I would be unhappy for the rest of my life.”
“… I’m sorry. I didn’t think of all this.”
Dulcina Calvo, for a moment, wept inconsolably, asking for forgiveness when it was clear that she had failed as a bride.
Dulcina Calvo hugged him tighter: “… I will not leave you alone from now on. You ache for me while I ache for you”.
Esteban Zaragosa smiled and approached her and hugged her from behind with a slight sigh: “Our Dulcina, all grown up and loving”.
Dulcina Calvo touched her operation scars and old bullet wounds, and bit her lip in pain, “I know death is a common thing for you, but for me, living is more important than anything else, Esteban Zaragosa, I want you to live, you must not die. ”
Esteban Zaragosa looked deep and straight into her tearful eyes and promised her in a single word: “Before I did not fear life or death, but from now on I will do everything possible to protect myself and return to you alive.”
Because of her, he has become afraid of death. In the past, when he was in danger, he only thought about how to solve the problem, but now, he longs to return alive and safe, if only to see her from afar.
Thanks to her, Esteban Zaragosa understands how important it is to be alive.