Revenge And Love Against My Mafia Ex-Husband
Chapter 54

-I tracked the whereabouts of your parents, through a camera near the airport I saw that the car they were travelling in was intercepted by Max's people, we were able to follow their destination looking for more recordings, but we lost the trail in a town called Biota about three hours from Bogota. -We were able to follow his destination looking for more recordings, but we lost track of him in a town called Biota, about three hours from Bogotá.

-No my Ximena, it will be too dangerous for you, let me go, I'm going with all my men to replace out what happened.

-My love, they're my family, I have to go, I feel bad enough for not having taken care of them, you see if it wasn't for that whippersnapper White I wouldn't have found out about his kidnapping, it's been hard for me,

-I know baby, you haven't stopped crying, Ximena please trust me, I'll bring them back safe and sound.

-Let's both go, I know that town, it's very nice, its climate is very pleasant, it has a lot of beautiful biodiversity.

-And a lot of guerrilla warfare due to its rugged topography, as I researched, although I thought it would be better if we both go there looking like we're going for a walk, we'll take an ugly car and look like a middle class couple on holiday, what a great idea I have, it's excellent.

Operation Search and Rescue began, Ximena and Angelo left in a small car, with Jean and tennis shoes, faded t-shirts, they headed towards their destination, they stopped to see the imposing Tequendama waterfall, where she imagined that she purified those waters and built a glass bridge as she saw in the great canyon, they followed their destination, the weather rose as the road descended, we passed through beautiful tourist towns like La Mesa, a curious name, Mesitas del colegio also beautiful, Ximena thought Biota would be better, her father took her there when she was little and she remembered it immense full of brightly coloured buildings, when they arrived she said, "It can't be Angelo, it can't be:

-it can't be Angelo, this is not the village.

-Yes, doll, this is the town, look at that sign that says welcome to biota.

-I remember that it was more colourful, better than the previous villages.

-I don't like the politics, but look at these results.

-What do you mean?

-That because of the lack of progress, the amount of brothels and brothels, this town is under dark powers with worn out ideas from old Europe, ideas that failed centuries ago and that are flourishing here, thanks to some opportunists who revived them, they made a monster out of pieces of corpses that now serves them as a motivator to recruit slaves in their struggle to get rich to the extreme.

-Look Angelo, that hat that boy is wearing is my father's, come here boy," I said, "Ximena called the boy and asked him about the hat, he answered:

-I was given it by an old man who was with Don Max, the Italian pasta eater.

-How long ago," Angelo asked, showing him a note folded in the palm of his hand.

-A few days ago, they were here with his wife, they said they came to do some business, they examined some stones and then they went back with two Max, who you can see that he loves them a lot because he was burning them all the time, he didn't even take the prostitutes with him as he always does, it must be that he also has respect for them," the boy answered, grabbing his hand and taking the note with dissimulation.

-Please don't tell anyone about this," Angelo advised him, handing him another note.

-Give me the cap, it may contain a clue," the boy gave it to Ximena as a gift for her beauty or on top of Angelo's gratification.

The boy's loyalty lasted a few minutes, until one of the most dangerous men in town whom everyone feared and respected asked him what those strangers wanted, the boy, like a Judas, told him: -Yes sir, Don Pochalo, they asked me about the old man who gave me the cap, about Don Max's friend.

Angelo and Ximena settled in a hotel, he almost couldn't replace a place to leave the car because it was full of fleets of cars carrying salesmen who were going to a convention.

-I'm going to call and tell my little sister and Mia, they must be worried.

-Yes love, don't worry, I'm also going to call Luis to replace out how business is going.

Ximena first called her sister and said, "Emily, my parents showed up:

-Emily, my parents showed up, I heard that they are in this town and that they are alive, I'm going to call the authorities.

-What a joy Ximena, although it will be complicated for the police to replace them in that sector, there is a lot of vegetation, mountains and caves, you should try to negotiate with the kidnappers. -Emily, if they haven't even called for ransom, we have to wait and see if we can replace them.

-Ximena, I'm on my way, please wait for me.

-No, sis, it's too dangerous, I saw a pool hall that looked like the wild west, it was full of guys with guns, in broad daylight. Please don't come, it's too dangerous.

A voice calling her interrupted her:

-Miss, come, it's urgent," the boy who gave her the cap was running to give her some information.

-Tell me, boy, what is it?

-A friend of mine says that the old man who gave me that cap is in the new swimming pool in the hamlet of Liberia, that he is well installed there," the boy spoke so fast that Ximena almost didn't understand him, fortunately Angelo was behind listening and asked him: -Who told you, boy, it seems to me that he told you not to tell anyone about this?

-Yes sir, what happened is that a friend of mine asked me about the cap and I told him the story, the one who lives on that side told me that they are over there," said the very scared boy.

-Well boy, take another ticket, please keep quiet.

-Angelo, come on, please, I have to rescue my adoptive parents, that jerk must be holding them because of me.

-Come on baby. Hey boy, could it be that your friend is leading us?

-Yes sir, he's on his motorbike, he was about to go home," said the boy scratching his head.

They went to that guy, who was Pochalo himself, who had disguised himself as a peasant, he even got dirty with mud and agreed to give them a lift in exchange for a few coins.

-Of course yes sir, that old man is in the new swimming pool that they made in the village, it was beautiful, they knew how to make it, instead of breaking the stones like everyone else, they made a kiosk and a jacuzzi on top of the biggest ones, that was a note, - Pochalo, he even faked the faded accent of the region.

They drove for three hours up a trail that threatened to destroy Angelo's poor cart, the whole way he imagined leaving it lying in the stadium, surely the repair would be more than the cart was worth.

The trip seemed eternal, but at last they arrived, the buildings on top of the rock, finished with blue metal tiles that looked like huts, made them look like a Roman villa, the imposing stone door opened before their eyes, they entered the car park contemplating the pool that although it was not spectacular, offered excitement when jumping from a diving board that was embedded in a stone.

-One moment I'm looking for him," announced Póchalo, while Ximena was fascinated by the place full of fruit trees, mangos, guanabana, cocoa and carambolos, was what she could see before the host entered, whom she could not believe, since it was Leonel or as Angelo explained to her that his real name was Max who declared to them:

-welcome to my humble villa, it is a pleasure to have you as guests,

-I demand that you hand over Ximena's parents or else.

-I don't know how you were able to enter these places alone, how did you think I would recognise you, I grew up with you, even if you disguised yourself as a clown I would recognise you, you're a fool, that's why this paradise will be your grave, -Max pointed a golden gun at him.

-The stupid one is you, you don't seem to know me, I'm always prepared and I leave nothing to chance, in front of the farm the buses of the vendors stopped and Angelo's men came out of there, firing their assault rifles and missile launchers that destroyed the beautiful construction, Angelo took out a gun and in the best western style, shot him in the gun, causing him to drop it, then shot at some gas cylinders that were near the kitchen and with the explosion, he lifted Ximena on his shoulder, escaping in a hurry shooting without seeing, in seconds he was in one of the buses that started in a hail of lead.

-Mr. Angelo, how are they? -It was Luis who checked them for bullet wounds.

-We are fine, Luis, thank you very much, what did you replace out, please tell me," Angelo hugged Ximena to calm her down.

-Sir, it seems that Ximena's parents were kidnapped to blackmail his wife, only they discovered that the man was an expert in jewellery and chemistry and they are forcing him to create drugs.

-We must go back, Angelo, my love.

-We are going to do it, but with more men and better weapons.

-Sir, hopefully at night, at dawn, so that they don't even know what happened to them.

-Luis, please coordinate everything from now on, the longer we delay, the better that dog will be prepared.