
Adriano's vehicle continued to slump, then crashed and rolled several times. The black sedan stopped when it hit a large rock a few meters from the bottom of the ravine. Adriano felt an excruciating pain all over his body. That made him numb. Even his vision became completely dark. Adriano even felt his body now so light. He was floating, not bound by gravity. The same thing that has been felt a few years ago. It seemed, that beautiful man was now on his way to the brink of death.
However, slowly the darkness that Adriano felt vanished and turned into a bright light. The atmosphere around him was so quiet as well as peaceful. Adriano ventured to open her eyes and look around. There was nothing there, other than white. The man did not know where he was at the time.
“Wake, Stupid! It's not time for you to die!” the jolt that Adriano heard from someone, made the man instantly startled. His voice was so familiar in Adriano's hearing that seemed to be in disbelief, when the fierce face of Matteo was suddenly in front of him.
“Ka-you?” hiss Adriano with an incomprehensible look. He looked at both of his palms, then flipped through them with an irregular roar of breath. In Adriano's mind, maybe he was already in the afterlife.
“Why are you so careless? Really stupid!” matteo is upset. The man even hit Adriano's foot with his will.
“Hei!” Adriano who did not accept, immediately rose and then reciprocated Matteo's treatment by encouraging him.
However, the gray-eyed handsome man before him was unshakable at all. Matteo remained standing, even smiling mockingly at the head of Tigre Nero. “It turns out, Adriano D’Angelo is a loser! You don't deserve to be with Miaku!” ledek Matteo again.
“Close your mouth! Mia is my wife now! Miabella is also my son!” Adriano pointed his index finger straight at Matteo.
Instead of being angry, Matteo chuckled amusedly at Adriano's reply. “Then why are you still here? Go quickly! Don't make Miaku regret for choosing you!” he said, pointing at Adriano's face.
“Kutitipkan Mia and also Miabella to you! Remember, don't make me regret that decision!” matteo's voice sounded so heavy and deep. After that, he walked closer and closer
Adriano, then pushed him hard until Adriano was thrown. He felt his body being sucked in by something that made the man fall into an endless white hole. In the end, Adriano suddenly jerked when he saw himself back again to the place where he was wedged by the body of a car that had been rattled. His body was bound by a stuck seatbelt.
Little by little, Adriano's consciousness recovered. He saw that the vehicle was in an inverted position, as well as himself. Adriano also tried to open the seatbelt with difficulty.
The pain is back. But Adriano did not care. Back then, there were only the shadows of Mia and Miabella in his mind. Adriano will not let the criminals touch the two most valuable people in his life.
Sweat mixed with blood kept dripping from his head. Grimacing in pain, Adriano expended all his strength to break the stuck seatbelt, until he finally managed to escape.
His body is now free from the black belt. He fell into the windshield of the car. As powerful as he could, he crawled out. He ignored the incision wound that was back open. Blood seeped from between the pores of the cloth wrapped around his hands.
Adriano continued to crawl and stand away from the car that had smelled of gasoline. There were also sparks coming from the engine, adding to the possibility that the car would soon explode.
The blue-eyed man immediately moved and dodged as quickly as possible. He stayed away from the shapeless vehicle, and fell silent in a place he thought was safe. Just as he was behind a thicket growing among the boulders, the car finally exploded.
Adriano immediately ran while protecting his head from flying debris. He kept walking down the steep slope, then climbed it. Again no matter all the pain, or the blood that continues to flow more and more. Adriano didn't want to stop, let alone give up. In her mind at that time, she just wanted to contact Mia to tell her beloved wife, that she was okay.
Troubled, Adriano finally reached the edge of the highway. He grabbed the guardrail and jumped right at the moment a vehicle passed. Ford's car looks old, just like the driver. He was a grandfather in glasses. His whole hair and beard were bleached. The old man pulled over the vehicle and stopped right in front of Adriano who was silent on the side of the road.
That lovely guy looks so awful. He was bare-chested, as his shirt was worn to smash the injured hand. Adriano also doesn't wear footwear. The only thing he had at the time, was only a cross-robed gold necklace Miranda had given him. The object looked shiny on the neck of the beautiful man who was injured.
“Oh my God! Are you alright?” the old man asked after getting out of his vehicle.
“You can call after I take you to the hospital,” the man said.
“No, no, no!” Adriano refused quite emphatically. For now, he does not want his enemies to know that he is alive. It would be safer for Adriano and his little family, if he pretended to be dead. “Please, don't take me to the hospital. I need a phone. Public phone,” his insistence in between the ringisan because of enduring pain due to wounds all over the body.
“Why?” the old man did not understand.
“Many people are trying to hunt me down. It is better if I am not seen in public places,” Adriano replied in fluent English. He tried to convince the old man to help him.
In the end, the man nodded and agreed to Adriano's request. “Alright, I'll take you to the nearest pay phone,” he said. “My name is Edward, by the way,” he introduced himself while helping to get Adriano's tall body into his old car.
“I’m Adriano,” reply the blue-eyed man. During the trip, there was no more conversation between them until the car stopped at a gas station. There is a public telephone that is still maintained and can operate in the area of the gas station. “Can I borrow your penny money? I have to call someone."
“Just use. No need to borrow,” Edward immediately reached into his pants pocket and gave some coins to Adriano.
“Thank you,” Adriano received it and rushed out of the vehicle towards the pay phone, which was not far from her in a staggering step. Edward watched the man from the car.
Shaking, Adriano's fingers dialed Coco's phone number. But Matteo's friend did not lift him up. Many times Adriano tried to call back. However, Coco still did not answer the call from him.
Afterward, Adriano was forced to send a message through the voice box that would be read by Coco, when the curly-haired man opened his phone. After the cue from the operator, Adriano sends a voicemail with slow intonation, “Tell Mia that I'm fine. I accidentally didn't kill Thomas Bolton for accidentally putting a tracking device on his body. I put the little tool in Thomas' hair. He won't realize that. I just wanted to find out who the network behind him was, "finished sending the voice message, Adriano then put the phone handle in place and turned around. Losing a lot of blood made the man a little dazed and weak. In his step towards Edward's car, Adriano finally fell. Luckily, the old man immediately ran towards Adriano and helped her up.
“Don't take me to the hospital,” Adriano's pinta half-conscious. His sight had already begun to twitch by then.
Edward's eyes sparkled as a brilliant idea flashed through his mind. “No, Son. I won't force you. However, your injuries must be treated. I know someone who is as professional as a doctor,” he said excitedly. Edward painstakingly leads Adriano, who is about to faint, back into the car. The old man then took him to a place that was foreign to the Italian man.
“There was a son of my brother. He is young, but very talented,” said Edward proudly.
However, Adriano did not chim. As he continued to strengthen himself, his pair of eyes stared out the car window and observed the signboard. “Hedged Forest?” muttered.
“Yes, this is a national park area, the largest nature reserve in the UK. My niece is one of the postal guards as well as being a veterinarian here,” said Edward with a big smile.
“Veticist? Why did you take me to the vet?” adriano asked in astonishment as he scrunched his forehead.
“Didn't you just say you wanted to hide. So, I'll just bring you here. You can hide and heal your wounds in this place" explained Edward. "Don't worry. My granddaughter is highly trained. He has been used to operate on forest cats and other animals and care for him until he recovers,” said Edward again still seen sumringah.
“Aduh, dangr” Adriano cringes in horror. Either because of holding back the pain or because of the explanation of the old man he just knew.
Edward looked at her. The old man looked curious about Adriano's attitude. While continuing to drive his antique car, he asked, "Do you have a problem with that? I just want to help you, but I'm confused where to take you" she said.
"Ah, no. Its okay. Thank you," Adriano said. He then fell silent, until Edward stopped his car in front of a wooden house.