“Please don’t leave me alone!” he pleaded.
She gathered the few strength that still remained, now she was breathing hard.
“You’re not alone, you have Jodie. Promise me that you will always protect her and that you will respect the Law. Promise me that you will make her a just person, an honest person … the baby and I will watch over you from up there, we will wait for you together. Promise,” she repeated.
“I promise you, I promise you, but don’t leave me. Don’t leave me, please … nurse … nurse!”
Suddenly, Judas realized that he no longer wanted anything. A dull pain had plunged him into an abyss made of confused memories and guilt, until it was completely annihilated. Jodie had stopped eating and talking, all she did was keep staring at him in silence, with that perpetually sad express
