Chapter 36

Valeria hadn't slept all night. She was had taken a seat by the window of her bedroom and there she sat, trying all she could to break the boy's fever. At some point, it had broken but only for a few hours as he slept and once he woke, he had cried unceasingly throughout the night and the very next morning, his fever returned with greater intensity. Drugs, a cold bathe, a lukewarm bath, an antiseptic bathe, a bleach bathe, she had tried anything and everything she could lay hands on from the internet that she felt was relatively safe. None worked and some minutes to the first night of dawn, Valeria made up her mind. It was 5:08AM and Nick could be heard snoring from the living room, the TV was on and the neighbours had come to borrow a trowel some minutes ago. Pete was already wake and on his laptop once again, drafting out the details of their loot that seemed endless. His eyes red and ringed from staying awake most of the night just as Valeria had, but for an entirely different pur