Page 59 of Amadeo
Chapter Twenty:In A Heartbeat
Gia
I just kept staring at Valencia then I turned to look at Tito.
He nodded. “There’s more to it but we don’t really have time to explain.”
“And why is that?” Amadeo asked.
“Because we have to use a window of time,” Max spoke up.
“Ok, like I know what the hell that means!” Amadeo exclaimed as he raised his arms up.
I grabbed one of his arms and pulled it down. Turning my head, I looked over at the couple that had just told us the wildest story I think I’d ever heard…outside of a fantasy book or mini series.
Valencia tried to explain, “Max came into Deacon’s room to take him away from danger. To save him.”
“Not to just save him really but to save your family from a divide that might never be healed,” Max told us.
“You mean if my father kills him,” Amadeo said.
“Exactly,” Max replied.
“So how are you going to do that?” I asked Max. “Save him, I mean?”
“Yes, I wondered about that too,” Amadeo agreed. “There are, as you know, cameras all over the property. Not just those.” He motioned to the ones Max had. “So getting off the property will be impossible.”
“I will not be taking him off the property,” Max told us.
“Ok,” I said. “But you can’t keep him down here forever.”
“I don’t plan to do that either. I will be taking him to a very distant…” Max paused to glance over at Deacon.
We all did that…looked over at him as he laid in bed.
He seemed to be sleeping peacefully.
Max studied him as if to make sure Deacon wasn’t in on this conversation. Finally, he turned his head back to me to continue, “I will take him to a different time.”
I blinked at him and my logical questions turned into stuttering blanks. I was really trying here. Trying to believe this.
Amadeo shook his head and voiced my thoughts, “I’m sorry, but I’m really having trouble with this. I mean I was never a big fan of…whatever fantasy this is.”
Valencia stared at him. “I know it’s hard. I still doubt it all when I’m at the dining table, having dinner. Or in my room. I constantly wake up in the mornings and think.Oh, that wasn’t real, it was just some dream I had.” She raised both arms and motioned around us. “But here I am again. It’s true. It’s very real. But I don’t care whether you believe any of it or not. I just want my brother to be safe.” She grabbed Tito’s hand. “I also want your family to be okay. I don’t want anyone hurt. I don’t want my brother hurt anymore than he has already been. He almost died in that plane. No one can deny that. I also don’t want to leave here. I need to stay with Tito. He is the love of my life.”
Amadeo and I stared at her and at Tito as they held hands. I understood how she felt immediately. I didn’t think about it too deeply before, but I did now. I hoped this wasn’t just a dream I was having. I hoped that all of this fantasy– as Amadeo called it– turned out to be true. For Valencia and Tito’s sake
“So this was my solution,” Max explained to us. “I waited until Deacon awoke before I took him. I needed to see if his memory was intact or not.”
I nodded my head at him then turned to Valencia. “If you believe that Max can do this. Then I am all for it. Deacon seems to be physically well enough. But he did say he was weak.”
“That’s why I am going with him.”
We all turned to where the voice had come from.
Nurse Jocelyn stood there with her hands clasped in front of her.
I went over to her. “You can’t be serious?”
