<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #80FF80">Carlos Delgado</span></span></span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o793/Galvin_Fugazi/75418b36-82bd-4b2f-bdff-d44eb7e2deaf_zpsb78abdde.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Carlos continued to stroke Lea's hair even long after she fell asleep again. The lie about her son had come easily from his lips, it wasn't a lie she would remember in the morning. Now he knew what she was going through every night, seeing her husband and her son being shot night after night would make the strongest person suffer. And Lea had never been a strong person, she was a sensible woman. He wondered if he was right with his second thought too. That the police had needed too long to arrive and that she became an officer to do it better. It would explain why killing someone had turned her into a wreck. If becoming an officer to save lives was her motivation, then taking a life must have looked a lot worser than it had been. Why had she never told him? If he had known he would have treated her differently, they all would have treated her differently. But maybe Lea had a problem with trusting someone with the truth. He remembered her words she had told him yesterday. That nobody was keeping promises. Maybe that was Lea's true problem, that she had tried to get over it all alone. That she had not trusted his promises. He would have to win her trust...but before he could win her trust he had to win her friendship again. Which would require that she wanted his help and which would mean that she no longer feared and hated him. But that seemed like a long way.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"I will go that way with you, Lea. We will be together and our love will make you forget about the love you lost and about the baby you lost. You will remember them, but your love will be with me and our kids. I promise you that, my love"</span><br/><br/>He murmured those words so long until they were like a mantra to him. Like a promise that he would never forget. And then he fell back into a restless sleep, the heat from Lea's feverish body waking him up now and then.</div>