I walked towards the bike quickly, but before Lucas asked me:
- Where are you going, Professor? - he asked me
- To the Central Bank of the Country - I replied to him
- No, no, no, no, no - he told me - It is not a good idea. There is a lot of risk
- I greatly value your appreciation, but it is the only place in the world where I can find out if my wife is still alive - I told Lucas - get away
- No, no - said Lucas - no
- Move away, Lucas - I said
-I'm not going to let you get on the motorcycle - Lucas said as he put his hand on my chest as a sign of rejection
Meanwhile, in the police tent, Javiera came face to face with Lucía, in a place apart from the complete monitoring of the robbery:
- Seventy - said Javiera, as she placed Lucia's reports on the table - with what is in those reports, when you get out of jail you will be seventy years old, and your daughter, Paula, 40, and your mother will have died so long ago that you will not be able to visit his grave.
- Leave it there, you don't have to continue - Lucia told her - the request for years corresponds to the prosecutor, not to you. And the instruction, to the judge
- But you know very well that the prosecutor and the judge work with what I put in these reports - said Javiera, as he took off his jacket and took out a gun, and put it aside - And here they can put what I say . What would you like me to put?
Lucia just stayed thoughtful and serious
- You're going to force me to hit you - I told Lucas
- I only protect the plan - Lucas told me
- I'm the one who makes the plan! - I told him
- This is not a plan, it is an improvisation - Lucas told me - you always say: "No improvisation"
I tried to trick him and get on the bike, but he stood in front of me and said:
- I will not accept - he told me
It was then that I grabbed his neck with my arm to choke him and I turned him around and said:
- You must understand that only there is the place where I can find answers, in the Central Bank of ... aaaaaahhh! - I said until Lucas managed to throw me to the floor. I got up quickly and said as I rolled up my jacket and raised my fists to face Lucas - Very good
- Really, Professor? -said Lucas while he looked at me strangely
That's when Lucas raised his fists, and we started fighting.
-I don't know where the Professor is, or what he's going to do,-Lucia told Javiera
- You can't think - said Javiera - has love clouded your reason?
- The plan has this type of firewall - Lucia said - and none of this has to do with love.
- Of course it does - said Javiera - but think: in jail, love falls through an open tap. It empties at full speed. In two months it is dry.
While they were saying all that, I managed to hit Lucas in the face, and he also managed to do the same. But I was not going to give up easily, because in case Lucia was still alive, I had to rescue her yes or yes.
- Two months of suffering or a lifetime in jail - Javiera said to Lucia, while Lucas and I were fighting - Mmm?
- Not even in seven reincarnations would you understand the nature of our love - Lucia said to Javiera
- To protect the plan, we have to see if they are questioning her - I told Lucas during our fight - it would be Javiera who would be doing it, and that would be happening in the Central Bank of the Country!
After saying that, I immediately punched Lucas in the face of him again, and he did the same:
-But he can't go-said Lucas
And then when he finished saying that, I punched him in the face again. My hand hurt up to that point.
- Let me explain to you what is the nature of your love - said Javiera - one in Soto del Real and another in Cadiz, waiting for you to be granted a vis a vis a year, and hopefully that. Because if we don't take your loved one, you won't ever see him again in your fucking life. So choose between that or arrive in time to be the mother of your daughter
- Are you trying to manipulate me emotionally? - Lucia asked
- I'm telling you the truth - Javiera said - as always
- We have to go to the Central Bank of the Country - I told Lucas, trying to stop the fight
-How is he going to go to the tent if his face is all over the news? - Lucas asked me
- How is everyone going to the Central Bank of the Country? - I asked Lucas, but then I said the following to him - with a red overall and a Dalí mask
- Ah well - said Lucas - she will not betray
- Give me your hand - Javiera said to Lucía, and when she obeyed him, she said the following - How many of your crushes today seem like someone else's life?
Hearing this, Lucia wanted to let her go, but Javiera told her:
- The same is going to happen to you with this one, and you know it - and it was only there when Javiera released Lucía's hand
- Everyone can betray me, Lucas - I said to him - everyone. It's just a matter of ...
I couldn't complete what I was going to say because Lucas out of nowhere hit me in the face even though we had stopped our fight.
- Oooh, what a blow you have given me .... but we were already finished! - I told him
- Oh yeah? I did not know - Lucas told me
I was flabbergasted because Lucas didn't know we had finished our fight. But then Lucas handed me my glasses, and then he helped me up. And we decided to go to the Central Bank of the Country.
We had rescued Robert, but now, we had to rescue Lucia from the police. And it wasn't going to be easy at all.
It was then, when I remembered my brother's wedding, when I met Diego, Mike and Lucas. I watched as everyone danced the wedding dance, while the monks sang, and it was then that my brother told me:
- Joseph, drink a little more
- I have already drunk 2 glasses - I said
- You are very serious - my brother told me
- It is a very strange wedding, Matias - I replied
- Haha, it's a big party, brother! - He told me
-I'm sorry for her, because she is young and she is in love with you but you are sick
- Haven't you listened to the priest, mmm? -my brother asked me and then he told me- "Until death do you part"
- Maybe for you, this is the grand finale, but for her, it's the beginning, and this begininng is not fair. It's just isn't. - I told my brother
- Oh Lord! She knows I'm sick. Everybody knows that I'm sick - my brother told me
-You are betraying her feelings -I told him
He laughed a little, and said to me:
- I'm going to give her the best two or three years of her entire life - my brother told me - Yes, yes ... and then, in a way, I'm going to betray her. In short, betrayal is inherent in love. Look at Diego, how great, my best friend, happy. Would he betray me? Of course yes. Yes, if the right circumstances were given. Diana? Diana the same.
- No, you say that you live love better than anyone, when the only thing you see is traitors.
- No, I'm not saying that - my brother told me
- Everywhere - I continued saying to him
- What I am saying is that betrayal does not depend on how much you love someone, it depends on the magnitude of the dilemma that is put before you. Would you betray your beloved? Not at the beginning. But what if they told you that by doing so you would get a medicine to save your dear brother? Hahaha, that is a good dilemma.
It was then that my brother went dancing with the others. He invited me to dance with them. I finished my glass, threw it aside, and started dancing with the others.
- Joseph Vasquez - Javiera said to Lucia - emotional coldness, pathological shyness, psychopathic features, a little gem
- Well - said Lucia - a report made without interviewing the subject by your mindless dogs. But I can assure you, he's a lot more fun than that.
- Sure - said Javiera - a psychopath can be hilarious. Then there is your profile.
-Ah - said Lucia - what's wrong with my profile?
- That you are the caretaker who gets hooked on these bastards - said Javiera - you idealize them. Little by little you get smaller and smaller next to her. Then they use you and manipulate you. At what point did you give up your instincts, Inspector? Was it before the Professor came into your life? Because Alberto beat you up. What does he do to humiliate you?
-First you used my mother's Alzheimer's - Lucia told Javiera - and now gender violence
- Tell me you are not repeating a pattern - Javiera said to Lucia - tell me that your head has not clicked, and you said: "Be careful, this guy can be a bastard." Tell me that is not true.
Then, Lucia at that precise moment recalled our discussion in the forest:
"You know protocol and negotiation, but so do I. I beat you, Lucia" - I told her in the forest
"I must be an idiot, but I thought we had fallen in love" - she told me
"I didn't ask you to come" - I told her at that moment
- What has this guy done for you? -Javiera asked Lucía -Would he go looking for you on an island with his mother and his daughter? Did he follow you on a plan that was your idea? Have you ever been the protagonist? One time. Or have you always followed him like a puppy? I warned you with Alberto, that he was a bastard. And I tell you the same with this one. The question is very simple, Lucia: do you deserve to spend 30 years of your life in jail for a clown with a mask?
And Lucia was only very thoughtful after all the questions that Javiera had asked her. After all, she was under pressure.