Chapter 32

(Filippo Valentini)

I feel the air escaping from my lungs, for a few moments I think I am experiencing an illusion and my body freezes in front of the scene, but the smell of blood makes me bite my mouth so hard that I can feel my own blood. Never since I arrived in this country have I been careless, and by a moment of distraction, the woman who is temporarily being my girlfriend is shot right in front of me.

I hold Renata with my right arm before her body falls to the floor, I look forward and see the waiter unlocking his gun preparing to shoot once again, I quickly reach down and draw my gun, using only one hand, I unlock it, the sound of the wine bottles crashing with the shot echoes throughout the room making the women in the room scream hysterically.

I run my eye quickly over the source of the outflow of blood, the shot has gone through her collarbone, I am a little more relieved and mentally hope that the bullet has not fractured her bone. I lay Renata's limp body on my lap and