His body felt pain as if a 48-wheeled cart had passed over him and crushed every bone of him. But Saverio was still smiling and walking with his shoulders back and his chest firm and pretending that everything was going well.
In recent years, he had taken on the most difficult missions and had suffered the worst injuries, and he had even been almost blinded once, and he had endured all these sufferings just so that he could buy a magnificent palace and live like a nobleman. He had promised himself to distance himself from his miserable past life.
He walked up the stairs of the dilapidated building where he lived and when he finally reached his apartment, he inserted the key into the door and entered the house and threw himself on the broken couch in the hall and sighed in relief.
He looked at the wall in front of him and its peeling paint that gave it an appearance similar to the skin of a patient and thought to himself, will he soon find a similar appearance? What was the use of getting rich, but having to spend all his money on medicine?
No, he shouldn't have allowed such thoughts to enter his mind. He continued to work hard and stay strong and one day he entered his palace and it was then that he sent a letter to his unfaithful love Geovanny and informing him to come and see that he was no longer the miserable creature he once was.
Remembering Geovanny, a mixture of longing and loathing rose within him, and he asked himself why he fell in love with that vile creature, who treated him like a slave and when he had no use for him, called him a worthless wretch and threw him away.
He clenched his teeth in anger and whispered:
"Wait for me, my dear. This time I will make you a slave and put a golden collar around your neck."
