Chapter 7
Thahir and Omer reached the place where Carla should be, but nothing. They searched and nearby found her bag and a pool of blood along with a piece of her white dress. Omer picked Raquel up in the car, where she was waiting for news during the shooting, so she could page Carla or see where her signal was. Omer's men started looking when they saw Hassun and his men.
Hassun had a head wound with fresh blood and a white cloth bandage around his head, and he was walking around pointing his gun in all directions and shouting names and threats at Carla. From afar, Thahir and his friends were looking at Hassun, Raquel says that Carla was there, but nobody sees her anywhere. Raquel laughs and looking at Thahir said:
- That broken head is Carla's thing.
Omer turns to Raquel in astonishment, and without understanding asks how she knows about that/
- Well she broke his head and she did the dressing, and laughed a lot. I know Carla and she wouldn't leave anyone bleeding, even an enemy.
Omer still doesn't understand, and once again says out loud:
- I don't understand! Because she's going to help an enemy...
Thahir enters the subject and says:
- Lord, when you meet this woman you will understand, I'm alive because she saved me in one way or another... She fed me after so many days and healed me using papaya, don't ask me how or why but I know that worked... Another thing, we only left because she found the exit, a bigger crack between the stone wall that she climbed before and went to see where to exit and by her beep that she was going to call Raquel. Look Raquel, I don't know you, but she spoke and prayed for you the whole time we were arrested, we have to find her quickly, her life is in danger, yesterday Hassun was going to take her to her bed by force. I know what she did, because I was blindfolded and with a bag over my head, but I heard the sound of moaning and vomiting in jets, then a doctor from Hassun came and they put her on IV therapy, you know we were in the same basement one kind of dungeon she in the cleanest part next to the door and I in the back part where all the dirt was because it looks like several others were there. She took the serum needle out of her arm when she saw that the doctor wouldn't return until the next day, to tell the truth she pulled it out without mercy, took that needle and managed to open the handcuffs that had been in my hands for days. But I remember her saying that she needed to find you within twenty-four hours, otherwise she would die from the poison. But that you knew what you had to do and how to do it...
- When did you last see Carla, and tell us how she was? Rachel was asking.
- Pale, very cold and sticky sweat, weak, I thought it was due to the night on the run and all our running around, but when she said she was almost out of strength, that's when I left her hidden under a night in a tree and went to attack Hassun's men and we met. Raquel looks at him and explained that they had little time to find her before the worst happens, that they needed to get those henchmen and Hassun out of that area so they could look for Carla.
Then, a big shooting started, where they forced the men in black and Hassun to run to another place and thus pushing them out of the forest; Omer, Thahir and Raquel started looking everywhere for Carla, a lot of running, a lot of agony. he was desperate to find his daughter, it took him twenty-five years to find her, he couldn't lose her now.
- Search everything, under each stone until you find my daughter. For God's sake.
And so they all continued looking, and found nothing, Omer already thinking that they were wrong about Carla's location, heard Raquel screaming:
- She's here, we're on top of her, see the beep I'm practically on top of her, but I don't see anything. That's when something fell on top of Raquel. It was the ring she'd given Carla on her graduation day, and when she looked up, right there in the last huge, thick branches lay Carla.
- I found her, look there... My God! How did this girl get up there? She is terrified of heights.
- Carla!
- Carla! Raquel screamed
But no answer came, which made Thahir imagine she was passed out, taking off her shoes and shirt he was already preparing to climb the big tree. Thahir started to climb the tree, looking down it was more than fifteen meters high, in the last thick branches he found the small woman in her white dress lying under the branch, her legs and arms as if hugged to the branch, she seemed to be sleeping peacefully. He approached very slowly so as not to frighten her and run the risk of falling, and saw her lifting her face very pale and haggard, she seemed exhausted in her strength, she with her almost lifeless eyes looking straight at him when Thahir spoke:
- Carla, listen to me, we need to get down from here you need to be medicated and get that poison out of your body, Raquel is downstairs waiting for you to take care of you, and her father is also with her.
- Thahir, I have no more strength; if you let go of me now I'll fall, now my strength is completely gone.
- Carla, nothing's over. It's not long and we'll all be home, come and I'll carry you and we'll go down there safe and sound. But you're going to have to hug me from the front, your legs wrapped around my waist and your arms around my neck as I carry you downhill.
Then he took Carla who was sitting on the branch on her back, helped her to adjust herself a little backwards, to the starting point of the descent, he sat down, placed her on his lap looking into her eyes, fitted her into his body, positioning himself. He smelled that perfume again, the scent of soft lavender, it was intoxicating, it made him float in his emotions, but he put it out of his mind, told her to hold on tight and trust him and started the climb.
It was a difficult and time-consuming descent, but it came to an end. Placing Carla on the floor, where he heard her saying:
- Raquel, I managed to find you...
- Carla, wake up...you can't sleep. You have to fight the poison in your body, Raquel said as she examined Carla.
Omer cried while watching that scene. Until months ago, he didn't even know about that girl's existence, it took him twenty-five years to find his daughter and now he was losing her before his eyes at a blatant speed. He didn't know what to do or how to help her.
Raquel then took a deep breath and said:
- Somebody gives me a knife.
Omer took his dagger out of his clothes, and handed it to Raquel and saw her taking it and talking seriously with her without even looking at him.
- In the name of the Father and the Holy Spirit, may he protect you, keep you and may he bring you to me at the right time. My girl, you can handle this pain, I'll be waiting for you to always wake up by your side. And so she swung the dagger and slashed one of Carla's wrists.
Omer screamed calling her crazy, tried to hold Raquel, he was horrified there was a lot of blood coming out of Carla's wrist, he was mad with rage at what she did to his daughter, that's when Thahir intervened, holding King Omer was saying:
- Calm down, my lord, she's a doctor, she should know what she's doing, besides Carla herself, said that Raquel was the only one who could save her, besides knowing what she should do and how. , but I can tell you that I've seen your daughter do things I would never imagine.
Raquel interrupted the conversation and said:
- Take her to the car, there is little time now. You know Omer, if I could I would give my life for hers, so trust me.
Carla was unconscious, she had a large piece of fabric wrapped around her very tight wrist, which prevented a lot of blood from coming out, but everyone noticed as blood flowed, which when it came out was a reddish, almost black tone. Thahir carried Carla, with care. like a precious cargo, he never felt this way for anyone, his heart cried with sadness seeing her unconscious in his arms, he would give anything and more to see her well and healthy. The moments in the forest holding hands and that kiss when he said goodbye to her in the forest made him realize that he had a very great feeling for her.
Arriving at the palace, several employees came running to check how King Omer was doing, seeing Thahir among them, hearing several questions about how he was doing, and he did not answer anything, running as quickly as possible with Carla in his arms, going straight to the ward of the children of the king, they only went to the palace because, in addition to more security for Carla, the doctor herself insisted that she needed her in a room and not in a hospital.
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