2. The perfect plan

"Please don't kill me. I beg you. My mom is in a very serious condition. I swear I didn't see anything.

Hearing the voices, Ruben grabs her arm, points to her side, as he warns her.

"You make the slightest noise and you're going to go with the little girl." Walk and dissemble!

Both men quickly leave the room where Elena still lies between life and death. The nurse who enters, seeing that well of blood under the stretcher, cries out in despair. The hubbub of doctors running down the corridor causes anguish for patients' relatives. Doctors make efforts to save the young mother's life.

Ruben and Amanda enter one of the unoccupied rooms.

"Here," Pablo points out, who is devising a plan to stop Ruben from shutting up the beautiful girl.

"Your time has come, Mommy. He whispers in her ear. Amanda trembles in anguish. He kneels down to implore the indolent killer.

"No! Out of pity don't do it, my mother only has me.

"Calm down, that girl can be of use to us, don't you realize that she's very similar to Elena." She can prevent the boss from eliminating you.

Ruben stares at her, he hadn't noticed that detail, when he received the cut on his face a year ago, he lost visibility in his left eye.

"You're right, this bitch is just like that one.

"Let me talk to her. You go to the checkpoint to see how you solve the baby thing.

"It's all right. "Before leaving the room, he puts on his reversible jacket on the other side to avoid being recognized by anyone.

Pablo tries to calm the young woman, who cries and can't contain herself.

"Let me go, I beg of you. My mother's doctor is calling, she's very sick.

"I can't, Amanda. She is surprised to see that he still remembers her name. "Ruben is relentless, you know that. You'd better stick with the plan. I can help you if you help me. You understand? She nods. "Tell me what your mother has?"

Between sobs and hiccups, the young woman tells him about her mother's plight. He listens to her attentively, as he arranges in his head a plan where everyone will benefit, everyone including her.

"Listen to what I'm going to propose, please." Your mother needs a transplant, the girl who just died may be the donor. I know the owner of the hospital, just one phone call and he will have no problem performing the operation, of course if both the donor and your mother are compatible. "Although that sounded far-fetched, Amanda knows it's her chance to save her mother's life.

"Tell me what I should do?"

"First calm you down, second give me some information about your mother, and third do what she asks. She nods a second time, she has no choice. He had to choose between dying or saving his mother and saving himself.

"I'll do whatever you ask."

While Amanda gives him the information about his mother, Pablo makes the calls he needs to make. In minutes everything seems to go by quickly and as if by magic the plan begins to work perfectly. The compatibility test between Elena and Veronica is positive. Veronica is immediately hospitalized and the operation begins.

The doctor disconnects Elena, by orders from above, both women enter the operating rooms and as in a fictional series they operate simultaneously on both women. Ruben, meanwhile, returns to the room, it will soon be dark and they must bring news to the boss.

"Did you manage to convince her?" Pablo nods, "The baby is in perfect condition.

"I've done my part, now it's your turn to do yours." You must go and look for the baby as if you were its mother. No one knows about Elena's death, except the three of us and the nurse we'll take care of later. You will have to go to the room, take the bag that Elena was carrying and use her documents, then you will go with Rubén to pick up the child. You'll go out together, I'll wait for you in the car. I don't want to make mistakes, Amanda. Your mother is alive because of me. Oh, don't worry about her, I've already left a nurse in charge who will take care of her personally.

Accompanied by Ruben, she went to the checkpoint. He had already done his part, giving the nurse on duty a good paycheck.

"Here," the nurse handed the child in her arms.

Amanda had to turn her face away so as not to be recognized by the same nurse who hours before, received the medicine for her mother from her hands. That was something incredible, to see how that same woman was able to receive money and deliver that baby without caring about its fate.

"Walk," Reuben ordered again.

"May I ask you for just one favor?"

"A favor?" Do you think it's not enough that he left you alive? I'm not really interested in pleasing you in anything.

"It's just passing by the room where my mother is and seeing how she is.

"Pablo already told you it's fine, and the boss is waiting for us."

The baby began to cry, it had been three hours since he had been fed.

"He must be hungry."

"And what do you expect me to do?" Move and let's get in the car.

The girl walked to where he was leading her, trying to calm the baby's crying so as not to arouse suspicion, while she also screamed in pain inside without being able to say goodbye to her mother. He got in the car.

"What's wrong, why are you crying?" Pablo asked, upset.

"He must be hungry." She answered.

"Well, and what should we do to make him shut up?"

"Feed him, we need to buy him some food."

"Go to Ruben's pharmacy, buy baby drink and a bottle.

"Don't with me, Pablo. You go.

"I didn't kill the mother, so move," Ruben got out of the car, fired up.

Minutes later he returned. He brought the powdered milk and the bottle, while he uncorked a bottle of water to take a drink.

"I need water to make the formula!" She replied.

Ruben glared at her, handed her the half-finished bottle, and she prepared the bottle. He gave it to drink, the baby desperately began to take it.

"Already my love, everything is going to be all right," she said, kissing one of the foreheads of the little angel in her arms.

Pablo observes from the rearview mirror the sweetness of that beautiful woman, although she was physically equal to Elena, he could never compare her to Amanda.

Amanda is full of confused emotions and feelings. He must have been happy for his mother's life, but the fear of what he had to face now paralyzed her completely, not to mention that he had witnessed the death of that woman and now complicit in the kidnapping of a baby. Her life had changed in fractions of a second without her imagining all that was yet to happen to her.

The beautiful girl couldn't stop thinking about how Pablo had solved everything with just a couple of pieces. Who was he and even worse what he was involved in? The answer seemed obvious, but she also couldn't deny to herself that this little man inevitably attracted.

Life is like a chessboard where the pieces move from above, only she was just a pawn.