The Secret Between Us
Chapter 46

I feel my whole body trembling as I walk through the corridors of this private clinic, and no matter how much I’ve been told that the best doctors in the city work here and that Izan will be fine, nothing seems to be enough. I am afraid of losing him, I have told my uncle countless times that this was not a good plan, that Izan was not one of his agents, but he insisted that it was the only way to end everything his father and Giovanna’s father were doing.

-Miss Morelli, over here,” I hear a man’s voice, and as I look to my left side, there is one of the CIA agents.

I quickly approach him and I feel short of breath because I am so agitated – How is Izan? – I ask desperately.

-They are operating on him to remove the bullet, but they haven’t given me any more information,” he answers and I’m so afraid of losing him.

I try to hold back the tears, but it’s very difficult, I’m already very sensitive about everything and this makes things much worse. -And my uncle, why isn’t he here? He’s the one who got Izan into all this – I complain, full of rage.

-Miss Morelli, your uncle is in charge of the operation, he’ll be here as soon as he can,” he explains, while I feel I couldn’t go on if something happened to my husband.

-I hope it’s soon.” That’s all I can say and then I walk away from the agent and pace back and forth in this waiting room where I feel like I’m dying of fear every minute that passes and I don’t hear from him.

What am I going to do if something happens to him? How will I explain to my daughter that her father has not been able to meet her? 》There are so many questions and fears that I feel like I am suffocating.

All I wanted was to be happy with him, to be able to raise our little girl together and to think about the idea of having another baby… we wanted to be together, that’s all… I never imagined that our love could be so complicated, much less imagined that the price I would have to pay to be together was this. My mind is in chaos, my body much worse… I am forced to sit down and I can’t afford that something happens to me or to our baby… I want that when he reacts we can continue making plans together.

Time is ticking away and every minute that goes by the fear gets bigger and bigger. I have the feeling that nobody is telling me anything because they don’t want to give me bad news, or maybe it is so much fear that I feel that my mind is playing tricks on me, I don’t know. The only certainty I have at this moment is that I pray to heaven over and over again to grant me the miracle that Izan will get out of this.

-Mia!” I hear my uncle’s voice suddenly and as I turn around, I see him running towards me.

-Uncle! – I exclaim as he reaches me and we embrace in a hug that reflects all my deceleration.

-How is Izan? – He finds out when we separate and looks me in the eye.

-I don’t know, they don’t give me any news, since I arrived they were operating on him… and you? What happened with the operation? – I ask and try to wipe the tears that threaten to come out of my eyes over and over again.

-That’s it… they are all in jail and will be processed soon, Izan did a great job,” he compliments.

-At what price? Standing there between life and death? – I ask sadly and my uncle takes my face in his hands and stares at me.

-He did it thinking of his daughter, he didn’t want a world like that for her,” he murmurs.

-The world is not going to change because of this,” I complain, no longer able to control my tears.

-Yours is… Mia, if you don’t want to leave, you don’t have to, you know that? – He explains.

-And if you don’t get out of there, what’s the point of me being able to choose? – I rebut with rage.

-He’ll come out, he’s strong.” He assures me and at this moment I’ve lost hope in everything.

-I don’t know… this is a disaster,” I mutter and, unable to stand up, I sit down on one of the many chairs here.

I feel my uncle sitting next to me and he hugs me tightly as if trying to encourage me, but he just doesn’t succeed. We just remain silent until someone’s voice interrupts us.

-Izan De Luca’s relatives? – asks a man who seems to be the doctor and I immediately get up from my chair and go to where she is.

-I’m his wife,” I reply without caring about any formality. – I ask desperately.

-We have been able to remove the bullet, but now we have to wait for the patient to react so we can find out if this has had any negative consequences for the patient,” she says and I don’t understand.

-Negative consequences? – I ask fearfully.

-The bullet was lodged in a very complicated place and could have affected different parts of his body, but as I say, we can only wait,” he explains and I feel that the world stops at this moment while my uncle holds me and I can’t stop hugging him and crying because of my fear.

-You’ll see that he’ll be fine,” he assures me, but the truth is that at this moment hope has disappeared, fear wins over all other feelings and I don’t know how to fight it.