Chapter 76: 16 Crazy loose

CELESTE

The woman with the knife ran so fast that she left the church. I knelt next to the nun who couldn't seem to find any air while she pressed the wound on her neck, everything was soaked with blood, this woman was bleeding to death because of a crazy woman who was on the loose.

"Squeeze it," I told her, also pressing her to prevent her from continuing to bleed, but she had already turned pale, her eyes beginning to wander through the sky, "hey, hey!" look at me... Don't close your eyes! DO NOT CLOSE YOUR EYES!" I screamed, entering into despair.

She murmured something but I couldn't hear her, her eyes were something I will never forget when they stared at nothing completely open and she stopped moving.

"No..." I whispered.

"Come, Celeste," Angelo said, trying to separate me from her side, but he refused to leave her.

"No, call an ambulance!" I said, unable to get over the shock of seeing her die right under my nose. I had seen her little, in fact I didn't know her at all, but there was no one in the place who could speak ill of her, of all the nuns I had met here. , was the kindest; She always walked with a sweet smile.

"Celeste is dead," Angelo said, now pulling me to the side so that I would stop touching her corpse and then he hugged me when I collapsed on her chest without stopping crying, feeling that I was the culprit, why? Because we had moved the cave of a poisonous snake and it had gone outside to kill everyone in its path looking for a way out when in reality it was me it was looking for...

Angelo didn't let go of me, he held me in place comforting me until I came out of my shock and regained my sanity, he gave me some water, helped me clean the blood off and made sure I was sitting up before going to talk with the police and forensic team that had arrived to analyze the crime scene and remove the body.

Freddy was also with them, the killer had escaped, our plan to discover her hideout and just catch her had gone to shit, now she could be anywhere and she wouldn't come back here because she knew we were looking for her.

They called for reinforcements, they had displaced all the city's police officers and had ordered a curfew so that no one left their homes or opened them to strangers. We were locked in the church, I was in one of the main offices, I looked at a coffee maker and got up to see if I could make some coffee, I really needed something to calm my nerves.

I was about to plug in the coffee maker when I heard the door open, I turned around just to see Angelo come in and close the door, he took off his bulletproof vest and left it on the table.

"Are you OK? "She asked.

I nodded, I was calmer than before, although the image of the bleeding nun still came to my mind again and again. Before I may have become indifferent to death, but now that I had had a baby, I felt that I had somehow become more sensitive.

I was grateful that Angelo had behaved more condescendingly towards me, at least I had seen some changes in his attitude.

"Where is Freddy?" I asked.

"He's outside with the patrols finishing giving his statement," Angelo said and took a seat on the corner furniture. He will come in a moment, but he asked me that he will let you have his phone number.

He showed me the phone in his hand, I frowned slightly confused.

"So that?" I asked for.

Suddenly the phone in his hand rang and he explained:

"For you to attend this video call, he said you would have 10 minutes."

I blinked a couple of times and took it with trembling hands, when I slid the button on the screen and answered it I couldn't see anything.

"Hello?" I asked.

"Mother."

My little William's voice resounded from the other side, and then the image of my little one with gray eyes appeared, his hair seemed to have grown, it almost covered his eyelids, my eyes filled with tears and I let myself fall on the furniture feeling that The excitement and tranquility of seeing him again completely intoxicated me.

"William, my love, are you okay?" I whispered.

"Yes, Mommy," he whispered and seemed slightly distracted as he ate what looked like a carrot.

"How are they treating you?" I asked for.

He started talking to me about how he had been playing a lot with other kids at school and that they gave him pasta with chicken for lunch and that it was delicious. He told me that he was sleeping very well and that he missed me too much. I also told him how much I missed him. and that soon we would be together again.

At one point Angelo moved, capturing my attention behind the phone, I had really forgotten that he was there with me at the other end of the furniture, he had been with a slight smile, his eyes seemed bright as he listened to our conversation, I had to remember that this was his son; his only son that he always wanted but I deprived him of knowing him.

"Who's there with you?" William asked when he realized that I was distracted for a moment and looked at the screen again, I opened my mouth but couldn't articulate any words.

What was I going to tell him? That he was he with who? With his father?

When I looked back at Angelo, he seemed slightly interested.

"I can see?" Angelo asked and something in his voice sounded more like a plea than a question.

I swallowed heavily, but in the end, I nodded and Angelo approached.