-Angelo, the doctors say it's time to wait, they've already taken out the two bullets, but it's a question of her recovering, they had to put her in intensive care, we have to be patient and pray, I'll go and do my round of donations so that everything goes well. -José, it's time to postpone it, we'll leave for the patio bonito, we'll hunt down the capo's entire family, the boys are ready, headed by Cancán, we're going to erase them even from the memory of their neighbours. -Sir, I expected nothing less from you, it will be an honour.

They arrived in that neighbourhood, Cancán greeted them with his characteristic grimace, an undeveloped smile and led them to a carpentry shop, where several men were making wardrobes and beds.

-Don Angelo, don't be guided by appearances, that's just a façade, the real merchandise is kept in the basement and the family lives on the upper floors that look like factories. -Do you have anything planned? -asked José Luis

Yes, sir, I brought some friends to entertain those guys, they'll put them to sleep and that way we'll get in without making noise," Cancan pointed to a group of well-dressed women in mini-skirts, low-cut blouses and high heels, who were coming in under the pretext of buying furniture.

-You came with the most dangerous calibres, the heels and the lace. -José Luis joked, contemplating the women, who came in smiling, swaying their hips. One pretended to pick something up from the floor, and the gazes of the guys were lost in her curves, the production slowed down and everyone was mesmerised.

-It reminds me of the magic piper. -Cancán liked fairy tales.

-The one about the Hindus who make the cobra dance? -José remembered his trip to India, he even moved like one of those snakes.

-No, the one the king hires to clean the city of the plague of rats and who, not receiving the reward, took the children to a cave and sold them to a witch. -Cancan answered, raising his hands as if he were grasping something heavy. -The story is not like that, although that touch would give it a little more realism, after all it would do justice for not getting paid. It's like the one about the goblin, that nomo called Rumpeltilski, who helped the princess at a crossroads, who had been put there by her father, who, in order to make a big deal out of it, joked that his daughter turned straw into gold, and that's what he was talking about, pure straw. So the king was filled with greed, capturing her, threatening her that if she did not transform tons of that grass into threads of the golden metal, he would kill her and her talkative father. The poor girl cried inconsolably, that little being who passed by, took pity on her predicament and helped her, with all his power of alchemy, transmuted the nature of the elements, saving the lives of those two unfortunates, only in exchange for something that had not yet arrived. Something that might be improbable. Only the girl's firstborn, who had not even tasted the delights of love yet, is a losing deal in itself, the king surely imagined all night how he would kill the charlatans, surely he would hang them by their tongues. He must have been very surprised to see those golden quarters that would increase the royal treasury. He opened his gill and made her repeat this operation several more nights, in the end he decided to take her as his wife, because perhaps he felt a pang of conscience for wanting to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. Or he wanted his name to go down in history as the king who married the witch who turned straw into gold, and he married her, without giving her flowers or taking her to dinner. I suppose that at the time he neither warmed her up nor gave her kisses, he was only one of those who was the kind of man who went up and down, caring only about satisfying his own desires, not those of the couple. She got pregnant and when her child was born, the elf came for his. A deal is a deal, everything was legal, so much straw that he transformed the gold, on the black market babies are bought for less, and the traitor did not want to fulfil the agreement. The bug instead of rebounding, make him comply, it was fair, he was already won, decided to give him the opportunity that if he guessed the name he would leave her alone, and if it were not for a couple of clueless soldiers, who were so good that they heard the goblin full of pride, sing as it was called. That child would have grown up among the magical creatures of the forest, as Merlin did, to grow up surrounded by luxuries and pampering that spoiled him into a fat monarch who died on the guillotine when the people revolted. - Joseph explained his way of looking at this beautiful German tale.

-I'm going to go and do my round of donations so that everything goes well. Already the dolls have put the super-workers to sleep. Let's hit them, quick, before the police arrive. -Angelo was the first to enter. They cut a false wall through which they entered the cellars that were full of weapons, drugs and even kidnapped people who were chained in small dark rooms.

They went up to the rooms where they were greeted with bullets, the grenades helped them, giving them a free way where Angelo executed the capo's wife and children, breaking his vows not to kill women or children, because he was blinded with rage and also because they could be future threats.

...

At last Ximena was discharged, Angelo waited for days in the waiting room, his sadness broken when the doctor gave him the news.

-Sir, your wife and child are out of danger, you can see them now.

His joy was somewhat dampened when he was met with the iron wall of indifference of his beloved wife, who, when he went to embrace her, threw her hands in front of him, saying, "Go away, I don't want to see you:

get out, I don't want to see you.

-Love, Ximena, what's the matter with you?

-Get lost, you told me lies, you're a mafioso.

-Ximena, you're confused,

-you're f*****g doctor D.

-Sir, please, you have to leave, the patient is getting worse, her blood pressure is rising, it's very dangerous for the baby. -The doctor interposed him, forcing him to leave.

Angelo left with watery eyes, the only thing he could think of was to call Mia.

-Mia, I need you to come to the hospital to take care of Ximena, since she doesn't want to see me, please, I'll give you whatever you ask for.

-Calm down Angelo, I'm here, I'm coming in. -She spotted him and hung up to talk to him in person.

-There you are, please Mia, I'll take care of them, call me if you need anything.

-Angelo, you look bad, you should go to sleep, take a bath, you look like a rag.

-Please Mia, help me with them, I don't know what to do, my life has been torn in two.

Angelo left without saying goodbye to Mia, his words were forced out as he tried to swallow his tears.

Mia went into Ximena's room where she was screaming like a little girl,

-What happened to you, doll? -asked Mia.

-My friend, imagine, while I was kidnapped, I found out that Angelo is a mafioso, he's doctor D, the real doctor D.

-Ximena, that's not so bad, I've had several mafia boyfriends, it's normal.

-It's not normal, they're evil people like the ones who killed my parents, he's one of the worst.

-Ximena, you're being very extreme, very exaggerated.

-I thought you were going to be surprised, but you sound like you already knew, that's right, you already knew, how long ago did you replace out? -Actually, a while ago, I just didn't tell you so as not to hurt you.

-Of course, you betrayed me too, it would have been better to hear it from you, that way I would have left him before I got pregnant. -Ximena, please calm down, it's bad for the baby.

-How can you tell me to calm down when I found out you're a traitor, get out of here Mia, I don't want to see you either.

-All right, you should at least let Angelo visit you, remember he's your baby's father.

-Tell him to come in four days, I'll give him the divorce papers that I'll send from Italy or I'd better call my lawyer to draw up some more.

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