CHAPTER 45
THE ASSISTANT
Two days later, we were still in Portugal putting the pieces together, both the broken fragments of our lives and the clues from Cássio Novo’s business dealings. At least Elsa had received medical treatment now. A contact of Priest’s had arranged a room in a private hospital, and today, she’d undergone the operation to fix her femoral malunion. They’d had to perform an osteotomy—which effectively meant rebreaking her leg—and insert a rod into the bone’s medullary cavity. She’d stay in the facility for another week at least, and then she’d start the long road to recovery. Three months for the bone to heal, followed by physio and a gradual return to normal life.
Whatever that was.
Brax had offered all of us a place to stay—me, Meera, and Elsa—but we’d made no dec
