Serena also had a place in this story.

The next day I am waiting for the visit of my children and Carlos, I was much better than what happened to me the night before, because to tell the truth, all I did was detach myself for a second from the earthly plane to put myself in peace with mine, my prayers had taken effect and I really thanked the one above for having given me the opportunity to talk to my parents, even if it had only been a dream, I felt it very real, in other times someone would have told me an experience like this and to tell the truth I wouldn't have believed it, it was too incredible, but I lived it and felt it and that's what counts.

Visiting time has come, the door to my room opens, my children come dressed in black, their faces are sad and their shine dulls, Camille brings with her a brown chest with a gold ribbon, at that moment I knew that They were my father's ashes, that completely breaks my heart, but I was going to stay with the image of the night before and with the peace and happiness that I felt.

The two of them throw themselves towards me and hug me, Camille begins to cry and her sobs were drowning in my chest, her tears wet my skin, although I wanted to tell her not to cry anymore, I knew that I had needed this for a long time, even since the beginning. moment in which she discovered her preferences, and that out of selfishness not even I understood her.

Santiago just stayed there, clinging to me, they spent a minute glued to my chest, there were the 4 of us, my two children, my father on the chest and I, but we were all against the world, and a person who was bad in our lives, It wasn't going to stop us from continuing, we had ourselves to be happy.

Our moment was interrupted by Carlos, who clumsily opens the door and falls flat on his face in front of us from a somersault, my children, despite their sadness, cannot help but laugh.

“Carlos! By God, what happened to you?” I also tell him with a little laugh, during all the tragedy, something funny had happened.

“I don't know, my ankle turned around and I fell, you can laugh, I would have done it too” Carlos's cheeks were flushed, my children didn't stop laughing, and well, the cold ice broke for the next hour we try not to talk sadly about my father, assume he wouldn't want me to.”

A nurse enters my room, her face is not the best, that's when I understood that it was another bad news, but I couldn't imagine what.

“Mrs. Amanda, what a shame to interrupt you, but the doctor sent me to ask you something” she timidly approaches me.”

“Of course, tell me” I was expecting the worst now.”

“It's that the girl who came in the same day with you, I think her name is Serena.”

“Yes, she came in with me”.

“Do you know any relative? What happens is that she was brain dead due to all her sufferings, we need the order of a relative so that she can die with dignity, because for her there is nothing else to do” she freezes me with what she just told me, regardless of the fact that Serena had caused me harm, deep down in my heart I wanted her to survive so that she could claim her life, and so she could be happy with a better person, I was not going to accuse her of the kidnapping.

“No, as far as I know she has no family, her mother died, she has no one, however, let me find out what we can do and, in an hour, we will tell you, is that enough time?”

“Yes, Mrs. Amanda, take the time you want, we did not find any information with your DNA in the database either, so legally if you want, we can disconnect you, if you do not give the authorization they will wait a few days, they will disconnect you for protocol and will be taken with an unrecognized corpse, quite possibly to a common grave.”

“No please, how so? Don't give me an hour, come back in an hour, we'll see what we can solve.”

The nurse comes out of my room, I didn't quite get over the news from my father when I was already receiving Serena's, it was logical that she was practically dead, but they had to do it formally, so without further ado, together with Carlos we made an inquiry Quickly through the network about Serena, but we found nothing, it seems she only had her mother and was a service employee of a family, which I imagine has already opened replaced by another and will not be very interested in her.

“Carlos, what will we do? We can't let them just throw her like an animal into a common grave with more corpses” I tell her anguished; I didn't like that idea at all

“Amanda, you're too good, you shouldn't be worrying about her, she hurt you a lot, it's her fault that you're here now, we can't do anything.

“It is not like that, we should not act like the others, we will make a burial for her, maybe we will not go, but we will pay in a funeral home for a space in a holy field with her marked tombstone, maybe one day I will visit her”.

“It's okay Amanda” Carlos approaches and kisses me, I thought it was the best thing I could do with her, overall, she was just a puppet of Christopher, she was mean to me, but she made him blind because of ambition, such Maybe her mistake was having met a man like my ex-husband, who without scruples didn't care about damaging everything he took, only with the intention of being able to satisfy his own personal desires, and thus corrupt everything that was around him. step, he really wanted them to stop him, because he was the one who murdered Serena. And if my kidnapping wasn't reason enough for him to be put in prison, having taken that girl's life was.

The nurse returned and I gave her the authorization to disconnect her and die with dignity, then in a couple of hours, a funeral home paid by me was doing her thing for Serena's obsequies, she was finally going to rest, although it should not have been her end Now he was paying with his own life for the consequences of his actions.