Miss Bala 2: Locked Up Feelings

Part 4: How is it possible?

"Mmmhh" *coughs*
Moaning painful sounds coming from Gloria. As she gains consciousness she feels she's been tied up to a chair. Her hands arr toed at the back. She is in a room, but it seems familiar.
At the moment she does not try to fugure out why it seems familiar. She grew up here so she knew a few places. She was trying to untie her hands but the knot was just to good.

Out of the dark there comes a person to the front. The body looks so familiar. The shape, the hair, his eyes...
"Lino?" Gloria said in disbelief.
He did not talk to her, he kept quite so Gloria could process what's happening.
"How? What... Why... Lino, I can't handle this. How?"
Lino stretches his hand out to her face, and wipes of a tear from Gloria's cheek. "I remeber these eyes. Your crying eyes from when you pulled the trigger." He grabbes her harshly, squeezing her cheeks. "You betrayed me Gloria!" He shouted.
"I never died that night, Chivo got to me and took me to a hospital." He removes his shirt from the shoukder where Gloria shit him, "This is your doing. Every day when I see it I think of you. I wished to find you so I could kill you, but I could not find you. But it seems you found ny little brother." "Who is your brother, Lino?"
"The boy you hurt in the street. He said you had skills. Where djd you learn that from?"

Gloria is taking long to process what is happening. Lino never told her that he had a little brother.
"I did not know he was your brother, he disrespected me by hin and his friends grabbing my ass, dis he tell you that? I guess he didn't." Lino lets go of her face and sits on the chair in front of her.
Gloria continues, "After what happened here I went for self defence classes. Hoping I can protect myself from it happening again."

Lino is silenced by her words. He does not know what to respond. A part of him wants to kill Gloria, but another wants to let her live. He stands. He unties Gloria's hands and gives her water just before he leaves the room.
Not lockkng the door behind him. Gloria peaks out and see it's the same house as where Isobella was murderd. There are armed men around the house, like there always were. There is alot of new faces here.
I sneak walk out of my room, with my goal to go to the main house. When a cartel dealer stoppeď me with a gun pointed at me.
"Kill me, I can't do this again.", Gloria pleads.
As he loads the magazine and lowered the safety, Lino saw this. "Stop! If anyone gets to kill someone it is me. Bring her to me!" , he said from the porch on the main house.

"Chula, do you have a death wish. They would kill you if I did not stop them. They don't know you."
"I'd rather let them do it. I can't be put through the same pain, Lino. I don't want to relive everything.", Gloria replied.

Lino's eyes went soft. He looked at her with pity. He took her to his room. There was no man of his crew near the room. It was only the two of them.