Revenge And Love Against My Mafia Ex-Husband
Chapter 13

We left the hospital, we stayed a few more days in Hawaii, I got bored, it wasn't the same without Angelo, besides being a violinist with Mia and her boyfriend, although they said that nothing happened I felt that I was in their way, it was uncomfortable when I interrupted their kisses or when Mia wasn't intimately with her prince because she was with me, we decided to leave for Colombia to organise some things, but as the crow flies we had to go to Italy before going on holiday, Italy was wonderful as always with that mythological air and Sicily with that romance in the atmosphere although it filled my mind with bad memories and a sense of failure, we arrived at the beautiful castle of Don Joseph who came out in person to welcome us, no changes were noticeable, the Mediterranean breeze seemed to preserve it, I greeted her fraternally:

-Ximena, my daughter, what a joy for your visit, at last the miracle happened to me, I thought I would die without seeing your beautiful face again.

I also greeted him with a kiss, I wanted to give it to him on the cheek and the very astute old dog, at the last moment turned his face and ended up mouth to mouth, I said to him: "Don Joseph, I am also very happy to see you:

-don Joseph I am also very happy to see you, I have dreamed a lot about this moment, only that I have postponed it, but I think he has become a little naughty.

Smiling and looking at Mia, he asked me: -and who is your beautiful friend?

-Her name is Mia, she's my best friend.

She also introduces herself smiling with a sparkle in her eyes, apparently she still has her fetish for older men or any male, sometimes I forget that she is the legendary Mia who has the quality of looking pretty to everything that has Y chromosomes, fortunately she is sterile otherwise she would be full of children, we pass to the castle again the memories hit me cutting my breath, Don Joseph asks me:

-What's the matter, my daughter, you look pale.

-Don Joseph, I was recently hospitalised for a mishap, I'm fine now, it must be a reaction to the medication.

He sends a lady on duty to bring us food and a good drink, Mia asks for a Pizza, since she arrived in this country she wants an authentic Italian one, somewhat recovered I tell Don Joseph the reason for my meeting and he sends for the family lawyer, the only thing I think is that it is not that muppet from the wedding, it made my stomach churn just remembering it, we wait a few minutes, The old man with his sense of humour makes us laugh non-stop, especially Mia who seems as if she looks like the lady of this castle, crowned as the queen mother, everything goes well until Don Joseph goes to the bathroom and Mia plays waltz in that great hall until she gives a dry scream, I go to help her and I see her pale covering her mouth looking at a big picture, I try to calm her down and she stammers:

-my-my-my-my-Ra, -pointing to the picture, I see it and I feel the castle collapse and we fall under tons of dark rubble, in that picture there is a man just like Angelo, suddenly my head starts to hurt appearing confusing images of the two Angelo intertwining comparing themselves and being the same person, Mia hugs me avoiding my shock, it can't be, my brain is accelerating, I think it's a horrible intrigue movie where everyone is plotting against me, Don Joseph must be the criminal mind behind this, maybe we won't be able to leave the dungeons of this fortress anymore, I feel Mia's voice telling me:

-calm down, there must be an explanation, it can't be the same, calm down, - she wipes my tears trying to fix my make-up, I do the same, just in time for the old man to enter along with the same badulent lawyer from the wedding, who thinks he is my friend stretching out his hand to greet me:

-Miss Ximena, it's good to see you again.

His face called out to my nails, provoking me to run them from my forehead to my chin, with my voice cracking I said to him:

-Sir, I want to know if my marriage was annulled?

-No ma'am, it has not been possible, it is very complicated to get Don Angelo, he only comes to the country to attend to business, if he goes to his family it is very fleeting and to be frank this matter seems to burden him a lot, I stopped touching that subject because I saw that it affected him and for my own safety, I do not like to arouse his anger, look here I have everything ready," I handed him a folder, "please Mrs. Ximena do not go to break them, I do not have any more copies.

In that folder there were the divorce documents where I renounced everything, information about my real family and my adoptive parents, there were also pictures of my lonely wedding, of the party and of Angelo that when we saw them we looked at them with Mia, rectifying our suspicions, thousands of questions crossed our minds, What kind of sick person was that guy? Or what was he up to, I had to clear up any doubts about his guilt, so I questioned that lawyer: Did Angelo see that folder, does he know all this?

-I suppose so, Mrs. Ximena, I was there the day he hired some private investigators to collect all that information of his.

Again I felt as if I was falling into a dark hole, I even heard a requiem of violins, the doubts were swelling my brain, what kind of sick person was Angelo?

The next part of the evening was to eat quickly the food that was difficult to get down because of the knots in my throat, where Don Joseph continued with his conversation and we, absorbed in our thoughts, laughed mechanically as we listened to his pauses, we left dinner in the middle, saying goodbye with feigned smiles and an all is well before the repetitive question of 'What happened to you? We left, clenching our buttocks in front of those enormous doors, believing that they would be closed with a thousand locks and that the floor would open sending us to a deep dungeon, we got into the car we had rented, we smiled watching Don Joseph say goodbye and Mia accelerated that sports car, burning the tyres, leaving the traces of our visit. On the way to the hotel, with Mia, we expounded crazy theories of Angelo's purpose only to replace out that soon after he would discover the real ones and none of them fit with what we supposed, they were even more complex and destructive.