Make the Price and I'll Pay

I got up immediately, feeling my heart already beating faster and the air seeming to fail in my lungs. Hector took my hand and said:

- Sit down, Barbara. Calm down, please, or I won't let Sebastian finish talking. He looked in the direction of my brother.

- Do what he said. – Sebastian asked, pulling out a chair, unceremoniously, and sitting between me and Hector.

- Please, Nic, take Maria Lua. I don't want her to hear. – Hector asked seriously.

Nicolete got up and took the baby from Allan's lap and left immediately.

- When? – Hector asked.

- Last night. They approached me as I was leaving the building.

- This building? – I asked.

- Yea. – He confirmed.

- But how did they find him here? Ben asked, confused.

- I don't know. They intercepted the car, almost throwing themselves in front. Initially Milena and I believed it could be a robbery. But they started screaming Maria Lua's name... So... I figured it was them.

- Fuck! Ben got up, stunned.

- Why did they look for “you”? – Hector ask