"You can leave it," Ramirez said in a hoarse tone. "I'm already traumatized enough to want to at least go to this side of the city. I will spend a lot of time on the beach, or with my daughter, or my wife. I want to recognize the world, because I don't even remember what it looks like, outside these walls. And someday, I hope that very soon, you can be with me in those moments too, brother. I will be praying for you every day and night until God works a miracle in your life. Thank you very much for everything. I'm going to say goodbye much earlier, because, as I said, anything can happen overnight.”"I understand.”"Is your lawyer heard from you?”"No," I cleared my throat, slightly bothered to think of Jo again. "And I think we're going to spend some time without seeing each other. Don't ask me why, but I stepped on the ball. And Joana has every right not to want to see my face painted gold again. I will respect her absence, if that is the case. I just hope she keeps helping me in th
"I didn't even start throwing stones at you" I mocked with a giggle. Hazz closed his face. “Hazz, what do you really want with all this?”"I want my brother back," he said."No, that's not what you want.”"So what would it be, Pablo? What do you think I want?”"You want to do for me what our parents couldn't" I replied coldly, but that sounded with so much resentment that I even blinked by surprise. "I know you feel guilty for letting me come with you to the big city, and now you're afraid to go back to our parents' house and let them know that you convinced me to come, but it wasn't convincing enough that I didn't get involved with the wrong side of life. That's what I think you want.”"And am I committing a crime for being sorry?”"No, but make one by not understanding that my choices would still be the same, even if I knew how the story ends.”"How can you think like that?”"Thinking was all I had to do in those two years, Hazz" I exhaled softly, watching the table between us. "I t
The accident and everything after it was a mess of shit.Somehow, my security guards' big car was thrown off the road, as the person responsible for it ran away. We were all on seat belts, we all survived. But, sitting next to the window that was thrown against the large rock in the center of the track, I ended up having my forehead cut by the glass and my head beat painfully against some stone fragment.I fainted at the moment of the impact. If the person responsible for the collision decided to end everything right there, he would have succeeded. Both I and my security guards were totally vulnerable and the help took a long time to arrive. In general, we were lucky that the accident happened closer to the police than to the city, because they had priority to call for help.I had glimpses inside the ambulance, as my neck was tightened in a cervical collar and my head was throbbing as if it was still being hit against something solid. My eyes couldn't open, and the rest of the body wa
"Oh, what a horror! "Jackie grumbled, laughing. "I think Jo is my favorite sister because she always has a little time to talk to me. She doesn't treat me like a child, she doesn't belittle me like certain people "she threw a sharp look in Jessy's direction. "And it still has the most beautiful heart I've ever known in my entire life. I know I will never fall in love at first sight with anyone other than my own sister. And I'm not getting paid to say that.”"Everyone knows that Jo is paying for you to flatter her," said Jessy, rolling her eyes. Our sisters laughed, but they didn't deny it. My older sister took my hand, sliding her little fingers lightly. "They're right that you're really always here for us, Jo. Not only because your job is precisely to defend us from every shit we get involved in, although the media barely knows that it is you who causes most of the shit and needs to solve it yourself, like that time at the nightclub, when you assaulted a girl for no reason.”"She ste
I haven’t heard from Joana for a week.Hazz was my brother, and I would love him until the end of time, but the guy was a beautiful son of a bitch. He visited me only once to talk about Joana's condition and that she would already be home, but he didn't come back to say anything else. I was in the dark for a week. I didn't receive any call, no letter, not even a smoke signal. And the worst problem is that my head only knew how to think about Joana.I slept thinking about her, I woke up thinking about her, and there was nothing in the world that made me more anxious than the visiting hours. But during that one week, I didn’t get any news from anyone. The peace I had sealed with Hazz began to break again at that moment. I knew that the crazy guy worked in two jobs, had a college, and now a girlfriend who, being Joana's sister, should be a hottie who needed all the attention in the world.But he was my brother. He had said that he regretted not being present at that worst moment of mine.
I got tense at the same time. The sound was nothing like the screams of the men I had gotten so used to hearing. It was feminine. I really scream with dread. And it wasn't once. From the sound that accompanied that scream, someone would be getting beaten up. I didn't realize I was standing until I opened my half-open cell and left. The guards were too busy with a particular call girl to notice, but I swered around the cells, looking for the sound.I found none other than P2. The most despicable gang leader in that entire jail. A woman was lying in front of him. Naked, with his face bleeding, and he was standing, with his hands closed in his fists. P2 was smaller than me. Thinner, but he was also bald and with a frown on his face that could only indicate difficult years. I went into the cell. He was alone with the girl. Of course. Gang leaders were always alone to commit their atrocities in peace."I want her in my cell," I said in a firm tone."She's busy," said P2, without being shak
"Not really," she said, leaning her head on the wall. "Some of my co-workers were also killed in a mysterious and complicated way. All call girls know that it's a problem to get involved with men with money. Some have that dumb hope that they will get pregnant and will be able to live happily ever after in a comfortable and warm place. These friends of mine got pregnant, they thought they would live on some fat pension, but they ended up dying. One of them was never found, so there is only my version that she always told me about the rich man she was relating to. He was married, and had no daughters with his wife, it was obvious that he would not want a definitive bond with a whore. She was too naive.”"Or the people around her who were bad enough" I spoke with a movement of my shoulders. "For a long time I judged your profession, you know? I thought it was very easy to lie down and spread your legs, in this kind of sexist thinking that we are all taught to learn. But long before I wa
In the middle of the night, while I was watching a dull romance movie, my thoughts were directed to Pablo. Exactly out of nowhere.Jessy didn't tell me any information about my client, considering that Hazz didn't make a point of keeping her informed either. I didn't understand where the relationship of the two brothers was, but I had a slight suspicion that they wouldn't get over that raid anytime soon. And I began to think that the stubborn and proud side should be a family thing, because it was the only reason for neither of them to give in and simply apologize.As I looked at the big television screen in my room, pretending to watch the boring movie, I found myself thinking how much more comfortable it would be for my forced rest if Pablo were one of the inmates who stole cell phones to scam other people. At least we would be able to know if the other was okay, or do more than that.I was bored, away from work, and with a lot of energy to spend. So, it wasn't fair to judge me by m