70: The One That Was Lost

Mateo has never felt more useless and onerous for others than he did that day. He felt like sinking into the pits. He was disappointed in himself that day. At that moment he was giving up. He suddenly felt tired – exhausted. Never in his life did he ever want to give in – but at that moment, he wanted to give up. He wanted to yell out to Aldo that he won – that Mateo was surrendering. That, Mateo Nixon failed. He failed his family. He failed his people. He failed his friends. He failed his friends. But most of all, he failed himself.

~A Few Hours Ago~

Jeremy had to be sedated. He was hurting himself. The minute he learned that his wife has been captured by his blood-thirst father – he couldn’t help himself. He forgot about his injuries. He forgot that he is supposed to be healing. All he could think about was his wife – the love of his life. When Jeremy first came back to the country, his motive was to help Aldo’s enemies get to him, for killing his mother, but when he found Blaire –