CHAPTER HUNDRED AND FOUR - LIES HIDDEN IN TRUTHS 2.

Isabella stared at the face of her longest friend and probably the only man she had ever had feelings for. He was in turmoil and she knew it. She knew how much his parents death had affected him - the guilt, the anguish and the nightmares. She had had to hold him at night through most of the nightmares, so, she knew first-hand what he had gone through. The way he scream and call his parents in his dream, and then wake up suddenly - panting, scared and drenched in his sweat. People always feared him and talked about how he was hard, unyielding and wasn't human. She knew better. She had seen the Mateo that he didn't let most people see. The Mateo that woke up in the middle of the night crying and wouldn't go back to sleep. The Mateo that had clung to her and depended on her to be able to sleep. The Mateo that was still the little boy that longed for the warmth and love of his parents. Isabella wished at this moment that she was there with him. She wanted to reach beyond t