Santuary of love

(B2: Hiana) Chapter 1

I'm going to share it with you in three chapters of the new book. After that, I expect to finish with de book cover and do more of the translation to start publishing in a separated book 

Enjoy your reading. 

With Love

Cristyal Crast

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Chapter 1

       “Can you explain why the hell you didn't go to the emergency room earlier? How many hours since the accident, five, eight, maybe ten...? How can you be so bad at being a patient?” Adriana could kill Veronica at that moment. They love each other with madness, she was her soul sister for life. Adoptive family or not... they gave problems and headaches just like blood relatives.  

        “Almost twelve hours, the reason to have been waiting is in one of your beds. I can address several issues while you recompose me, but before we go out of the Sanctuary we had to be prepared to apply for the custody of the child without any problems. Armatos is speaking with the lawyers now to facilitate the transfer and the paperwork. The application will have no problem with being approved. But I worried about the state of mind of the child. Luz is with her and has not left her alone at any time.

        “She is the best medicine, that’s why I call her. What I did not expect is that you came in as a broken doll. What the hell happened?”  

        “Only to me could be logical or a good idea, start to run through the mountain crying. It happens because of a runny nose and a lot of fury in my heart. You know me. It was a thing of a crazy instant, I swear.” Adriana had doubted what she would find in her sister, they had said on the phone it was a big emergency. Armatos had warned her that Veronica would need medical care in a bad way, but she never imagined that one broken wrist, ribs not broken but they were very beaten, and an ankle dislocated were part of that assistance. Veronica would hate the next weeks.

        “You are going to have to rest, even when you don't want to. You cannot put weight on that ankle for at least three days, and with all that rest you will be uncomfortable for a couple of weeks. You would suffer from swelling when you a***e it. The ribs are not chipped by a miracle, but the bruises will keep you company for several weeks. I'm going to give you pain medication, especially so you can sleep. Nothing can be done about it, just don’t go picking heavy stuff. However, your wrist is to worry about it. The open wound must be under observation; plaster cannot be placed for the injured bone. The wound looks like a big dog bite, but I had never seen such a clean that at the same time with the heat that is radiating. It could become infected. The antibiotic cream and pill will help. But I do not want to think that there is a bacterium on it. We would do some tests, and after a few radiographs, the decision of what to do could be made. Really from what you told me there must have been some tear in the skin and tendons. The area is red and hot, but healing. If not because I know you would not lie to me, I could say it has several days of healing on it.” Veronica observed the wound and agreed with Adriana, a few hours ago, Derek had cleaned a piece of twisted meat without form. The fear in his gaze was one of the reasons why she had observed the wound carefully. 

        “Everything will be fine. When you are going to give the realis papers to Hiana?” Veronica was liking the red skin and the healthy pink tissue was healing in a way that she had never seeing.

        “Depends on what you decide to do about the baby.” A deep sigh settled in the room. “Before arriving, the girl had been offered the opportunity to abort it.” 

        “I would like to know who was the i***t who thinks is a good idea to hurt her again.” Veronica let out a deep breath. Armatos was supposed to be working on the case. But it wasn't enough, it would never be enough. “Luz is the only one who will be able to reach her.” Both women share a look and a small smile on their lips. Their little sister was so wonderful. She had grown so much.

       “She is going to need us at full capacity,” Adriana said in a low voice. She was worried. One was hurt, the other was walking inside her nightmares, so she could help a little girl.    

        “Yes...” Veronica's answer, thee silence after it left the room full of anguish. Both were opening an old wound in the soul of their sister Luz. The important thing at that moment was not to lose Hiana. Luz knew very well that she was not alone, she had the whole family and the children she had adopted. Now Hiana was another story, the little girl had been abandoned by her mother in the hospital at her birth, supposedly with AIDS. The girl had given a positive result, but the fear of many to the illness had prevented her could be adopted. The last home she had been in, was a foster home for troubled teens. How does a girl with good grades and good behavior was put there? It was to worry and talk a lot about the system.

        “They got your crutches. Derek 's going to put them in the car, but for now, you stay in the wheelchair. Sweetheart, you can take her now, there is not much more I can do. Derek nodded and looked at Veronica for approval. She nodded without knowing very well what was happening with Derek, but now she had to put her attention on Hiana and Luz, both of them would be needing her. Derek could wait a bit.   

        “I DO NOT KNOW WHO THE f**k YOU ALL BELIEVED ARE! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO STOP ME OF SEEING HIANA...!” Veronica heard the screams before she got into the room, she looked at Derek in search of an answer, but he just shrugged his shoulders. He was at loss of what had happened. 

        “Armatos... Reymund... what happens?” The silence in the room was automatic. 

        “Veronica, let me present you mister Aviles, he is a social worker with the case of Hiana.” Veronica nodded and she waits for the explanation of what the problem was. “I was explaining to the mister Aviles the situation in which we are. The judge of instance has signed the provisional custody to Luz. Hiana requested for no man in her room. I was having problems trying to make him understand this. Luz is supporting this request of the child. If you have any female companion, she can come to interview the young lady, this was the only viable option at this time.” Reymund look like he was at the last of his patient.   

        “Then Mr. Aviles, do we have in your office someone of the female gender who can speak with Hiana in your place?” 

        “I don't know who you think you are, but they can't stop me from talking to Hiana.” Veronica gives him a smile, Armatos opened his eyes at seeing it. That was not good.   

        “Mr. Aviles, I'm going, to be honest with you. At the moment, I am not at one hundred percent of my mental, emotional, and physical state to be able to work with you. But let me explain to you something and to all those who are here as witnesses, Hiana has suffered at the hands of a man. Which puts her in a situation of tension in the company of men. The doctor agrees with this exclusion of gender until the young girl is stable. I imagine that your interest is that Hiana will recover as soon as possible to be able to proceed with the legal matters tied to these violations.” Armatos ask himself how no one was running. Veronica smiled friendly, but there was something in it to put some doubt in the man who didn’t understand who she was. “On the question of who we are... These gentlemen that you are screaming at, are Hiana the lawyers against the family host, and against the state. The gentleman who is behind me is a private detective that works in the Sanctuary, in charge of search and collect all the documents relating to the case. And my dear sir... I am your worst nightmare, if you lied, held her in that hell you will pay. Now I will thank you for leaving the room before I file charges against you for violating the peace of each of these fine gentlemen.” The smile had disappeared in the middle of the speech. Veronica was looking directly at him with the desire of taking his head off. 

        “This is not going to stay like this. You can’t do wherever you want. I’m not going to let you.” The rest of what he said was lost in the murmur announcing his departure. 

        “Oops... I forgot to tell him that he will not be able to touch any document of the case since it is evidence. Armatos, be sure to be on the way to stop him from taking anything we need. Reymund, please prepare everything for the arrival of Hiana to the home. On this occasion, I can’t help a lot. Three days off, my doctor orders.” Armatos was on the point of saying something, but the look was diverted to Derek. A complete conversation took place in seconds without saying a word. Something move on Veronica skin, there was something important in that look. “You two should see me today in the afternoon, there is a lot of what we should talk. Not forgetting that recurring image of Derek in the woods...”   

       Both men nodded and none knew yet what they would say to the woman who seemed to have become a time bomb. Derek didn't know what to say, 

He hoped they didn't ask him anything, because there wasn't much, he could say without getting into trouble. He tried to stay away from all that drama, but the truth was that the monster who had to transform the lives of the girl in a nightmare should not continue in the world alive. If he had to face the world looking at every damned little detail, without importance of how legal or illegal it was, for the girl, it was worth the pain to survive the hell of it...

        “Derek all is going to be okay; we are not going to leave her and you alone...” Veronica's words reaffirmed his initial observation, there was one woman who looked too well into his soul. Just what he wanted. He looks directly to Armatos and in silence he begs to not be questioned by her.