29- What do you mean?

What do you mean? - Jessica asks, confused.

You will agree with me that coming to my house this morning, crying over Cameron, and staying in the living room while I prepared breakfast for you. And that precisely at that moment two kidnappers entered and I did not hear them is very suspicious, it is not natural, nor logical. - Vicki looked at Jessica with intense eyes, demanding an immediate answer, and added: - You must tell me who those men are and why you conspired with them to kidnap me. Jessica looked at her with angry eyes, enraged, and the pupils of her eyes that usually look like the eyes of a frightened lamb, filled with a glow when she said in an offended tone, raising her voice.

What are you trying to say?

You, can you blame me for those criminals having something to do with me?

Perfect, that's the reaction I wanted to see from you. - Vicki added, smiling. She was wearing a yellow silk pajama and white fabric pants with yellow flowers. Then she leaned towards the small window that had been lowered when they put her in the truck.

My primal instinct is to run or attack them, but when they open the window we won't have time to run because they open it upwards and we'll be in plain sight.

We need a plan, and we will use that lion within you and that ego that is so easy to provoke as bait.

We need to make them believe that there is a rupture - Vicki affirmed - that I am very offended and suspicious of having been hospitable to you this morning.

Do you want me to pretend that I'm mad at you? Why? - Jessica asked dryly, as she had resigned herself to the idea of dying that day. And for her to lose her life in a way that would make her ex-girlfriend and her new lover feel guilty for the rest of their days. However, Vicki seemed to ruin her plans in her attempts to escape.

As soon as they open the window, you must act as if you are very angry with me, then I will ask the kidnappers to make a truce with them. I'll hand over Lucho and they'll let you go, because I'll tell them that I don't trust you. And you will agree to leave, at that moment I will make them believe that I have confirmed my suspicions and that you are involved and accept to leave and abandon me to my fate. That's when the argument will explode. And then it will be our moment to escape.

Do you understand? - Vicki looked at Jessica with cunning and at the same time deep within her, it seemed to amuse her as she found the situation laughable and absurd, once again, because of her ex Lucho's blunders, she had to go through a bad time and solve it. During the time Jessica and Vicki were talking inside the truck, Tim, the drug dealer, looked for his girlfriend Adaly in Apartados, heading up the mountains through the páramo and took her to have lunch. They would look for Jhon tonight because they planned to teach Lucho a lesson through his girlfriend Vicki. When meeting Adaly, she reproached him for having a smell of cigarettes and alcohol and asked to go eat at that restaurant in Santo Domingo, via Sierra Nevada, that she liked so much. Tim kindly accepted, Tim didn't care if he was seen driving a large truck or if the police would intercept him because Mérida is a city of agricultural production and trucks with large cattle or cattle loads always crossed the páramo towards the interior of New York. Tim and his girlfriend Adaly arrived at the restaurant. After ordering beef fillet and enjoying their dishes, Tim walked towards the cash register, he thought about robbing the place but remembered that he had two hostages inside the truck. And it wouldn't be prudent. Instead, he asked the cashier for help to talk to the waiter named Claudio Duque, a skinny and thin young man who Tim had often seen when he spied on Vicki and Lucho, Claudio was a close friend of Vicki's. Having Vicki as a hostage somehow sealed that trinket of life that Lucho had left in debts when he disappeared with Tim's drugs. Tim was allowed to pass and walked to the kitchen where Claudio was, looking for the dishes to serve. Claudio was carrying two plates of pasticho in both hands when he came face to face with Tim. He looked at him confused and with a respectful look. However, when Tim stood in front of him without giving way, he understood that the man was in the kitchen to deliver a message.

I need to talk to you, it's about your friend Vicki - Tim said. Tim told him the news that she had been kidnapped from her house, and Claudio suddenly felt confused and anxious, feeling that he should immediately protect her.

I will make superhuman efforts to save her, and I think I will succeed - he said calmly and firmly. Then he looked at Tim with meditative eyes and added - But Lucho has been too dishonest and selfish to answer for her. So if you need to make Lucho suffer, you shouldn't do it through Vicki.

She asked me to give you this. - Tim handed Claudio a little note that seemed to be an old invoice where it was written "FEED LÚA."

Do you know what it means? Who is Lúa? - Tim wants to know.

Oh yes, Lúa is Vicki's dog, I go down to feed her when I finish work.

I want the money tomorrow at midnight. In the Mucubají lagoon -Tim said dryly.

At midnight? - Claudio said as if he were considering checking his mental agenda, and meeting with a criminal was a routine thing-. It's impossible for me, I have a shift at work starting at 11pm tomorrow.

See you at 10:55, Claudio confirmed.

I want the money by that time. He left the kitchen, then found Adaly in the restaurant, he observed Adaly's body as if it were an exquisite delight for his manhood and represented a guarantee of his worth. He left the restaurant, his waist bordering his girlfriend's body against his own, holding her with one hand. Once inside the truck, he took the wheel and continued with their journey.