Todos los capítulos de Bound by blood and silk: Capítulo 61 - Capítulo 63

RayénNobody moved while the speakers hissed.Lautaro stood with his gun pointed at the ceiling, as if he could shoot a voice. I watched his face, and it was like watching a house burn from the inside. The windows were still lit. Everything behind them was going."Eleven years," he said, very quietly. "I pulled you out of a burning car.""You did." Carlos's voice crackled through the hold, tired, almost gentle. "And I've hated that for eleven years. A man shouldn't owe his life to someone he's been told to betray. It makes the work harder.""Told by who?"Silence. Then, "The ship sails in twenty minutes. Beltrán wants you alive, patrón, and the señora too. That's more than I could promise anyone else. Please don't make me change my mind."The speakers clicked off. Mateo began to laugh, a thin, cracked sound that turned into a cough."I told you," he rasped. "I told Elías. I said it before they put me in the box. He's not a soldier, he's a leash. Beltrán holds the other end."I knelt a

RayénI didn't take his hand.I looked at Osvaldo's thick, tired fingers, the same fingers that had once tied my shoes when I was four, and I felt Lautaro's weight dragging at my arms, his blood warm against my wrist in the cold. Then I did the only thing I could think of. I let go of the crossbeam.The tide took us. It was going out, slow and black, and it slid us along the pilings and out under the far edge of the pier, into the fog."Niña!" Osvaldo's voice cracked across the water. "Rayén!"The first shot came a heartbeat later. It splashed wide and left. The second was wider. I kicked with everything I had, one arm hooked under Lautaro's chin to keep his face up, and the dock lamp swung toward us, and I waited for the bullet that would finish it.It never came.The lantern went out. I heard a rifle butt hit wood, and Osvaldo's voice roared over the harbor, hoarse and furious."Gone! The sea took them! Hold your fire, you fools, you can't hit a ghost!"I didn't understand. I still