His blood ran cold.
He looked ahead and Juana was gone. He ran as fast as he could to find Juana and ask her the meaning behind the note.He ran all the way from the 3rd floor to the entrance of the hospital but she was nowhere to be found.He took a moment to catch his breath and then suddenly someone called him from behind.
It was Juana. She was just standing there leaning against the walls ,crossing her arms.
Amadeo asked,"What did you mean by giving me this note?Who are you talking about?Who are you referring to by this 'HER' ?"
Juana tilted her head, smiling."Well, you tell me.."
Amadeo's patience snapped. He closed the distance between them in two strides, gripping her wrist tightly. "I don't have time for your games, Juana."
She sighed dramatically, looking down at his hand on her wrist. "So rough," she murmured. "You might want to be careful, Amadeo. You're starting to act like him."
Him.
Cecil.
Juana smirked, but there was something dark in her eyes, something almost… pleased. "You never understand simple things," she whispered."It's not fun if I tell you everything.Find the truth", she said,turning on her heel."If you are ready for it".
and then she was gone once again,leaving Amadeo in a daze.
When Amadeo came out of daze he remembered Elle was alone in the cabin. So he rushed to see if she was okay or if she needed anything.
Amadeo went up to the 3rd floor ,there was chaos everywhere.He couldn't understand what's going on, so he asked a nurse. But what the nurse told him made him feel like the earth was shattering.
The nurse said,"The patient in room 301 is missing,we couldn't find her anywhere.Her name is ElleFontaine".
He ran towards the room 301.The condition of the room was terrifying.There were glasses shattered everywhere ,pillows and bed sheets lying on the floor and curtains pulled out.
He barely had a moment to process before another sound caught his attention. A distant click of a cane tip striking the floor.
His head snapped up just in time to see Cecil.He was limping, his right leg was in plaster.His face was bruised.He was trying flicking his lighter to light his cigarette.
He was standing at the far end of the corridor, back partially turned, the flame of the lighter casting an eerie glow on his face.
"Cecil?"
Cecil didn't answer immediately. Instead, he exhaled a slow breath, flicking the lighter closed. Darkness swallowed him once again.He slowly turned to Amadeo and kept staring at him for some time.
Then he spoke. "You shouldn't have come here, Amadeo.You were always a busy body,weren't you?"
Something about his voice was different. Colder.
"What happened to your leg and face?", Amadeo asked raising his eye brows.
But this simple question made Cecil's face go pale like a sheet of paper.His face screamed that he didn't want to say anything about it.
To Amadeo it felt really odd but he didn't probe him any further about this because he had many other questions to ask him.But he wasn't sure how to ask because he wasn't sure if Juana and Cecil were in it together or not.So he decided to take a slow approach in stead of directly asking about Elle
"You disappeared," Amadeo said, voice steady. "No one knew where you were."
A low chuckle. "That's because I didn't want to be found."
Seeing Cecil snicker made it very clear that it was all a joke to him and this realization made him snap.
Amadeo's stomach twisted. "What are you up to now?Where is she?"
Cecil's smile was all teeth. "You still don't get it, do you?"
Amadeo's hands balled into fists. "I swear, if you—"
"You think I took her?" Cecil cut him off, shaking his head. "No, no, no… As you can see I can barely walk how will I take to anywhere?someone else got to her first."
Amadeo's breath hitched. "Who?"
Cecil stepped closer, his voice barely a whisper. "The real mastermind."
A sick feeling settled in Amadeo's gut. "Who are you talking about?"
Cecil only smirked, taking another step back. "Be careful who you trust, Amadeo.What you see might not always be the truth.It's a deadly game."
And then, like a shadow slipping through the cracks, Cecil vanished once again, leaving only silence and a note that made Amadeo's heart pound with a single, damning sentence.
"It's a game!!??Our life is a game?"
What does that even mean?He doesn't know but he knows one thing for sure,Cecil won't give him the answer to his questions or rather he can't.