Blue looked over at Shanna, as if wanting the information to be a secret.
Seeing this, Uriel spoke to the nurse. “Shanna, could you give us a few minutes alone?”
Shanna smiled, then stood. “Sure thing.”
Both Blue and Uriel watched her walk out and close the door. Uriel turned his gaze to Blue when he heard the man sigh in relief. His eyes no longer looked lost and uncertain, like they did the night they met.
“Are you done acting the part?” Uriel asked.
Blue stared at him for a few minutes, then spoke. “How did you figure it out?”
Uriel shrugged his shoulders. “Lucky guess.”
“You can’t tell Khray, not until I figure things out.”
“He’s the one who hired me, but you’re also my client. However, I need to let my partners know what’s going on. Speaking of which, why are you pretending to have lost your memory?”
“You don’t remember me, do you?”
“We’ve met before?” Uriel looked at Blue, not recalling the man from his memories. “I don’t recall meeting you.”
Blue chuckled. “It was over thirty years ago. I was five when you saved my life.” A sad expression crossed his face. “The first time you saw me, I was in a car accident. I was with my parents and brother who died on the spot. Granted then I did have a bit of memory loss, but you I never forgot. It's weird how life works.”
As Blue spoke, Uriel remembered an incident where he was standing on top of the bridge and saw an accident happen. Instantly he flew down and tried to save the family, but the only one who was alive was a little boy. Uriel had gotten him to the hospital and handed him over to the doctors and nurses. The boy woke up and begged him not to leave.
To soothe the child, Uriel told the kid he’d return and to stay put and that he’d be back once the doctors looked after him. However, not long after he’d left the hospital, he was taken to the higher realms by Dio’s forces and imprisoned.
“I’m sorry I never came back. I had personal things to deal with.”
Blue nodded. “You’re an angel, aren’t you?” Uriel went to deny it, but Blue spoke up. “I saw your wings when you rescued me. I won’t tell anyone. I’ve kept it a secret until now, so you don’t have to worry. I did research on your kind, but there wasn't much to go on, so I sort of filled in the blanks with my own imagination.”
“What did you come up with?” Uriel asked after a few minutes.
"Angels are good and look out for humanity whether people are good or bad."
Uriel didn't correct him, not wanting to shatter the man's image of his kind. The truth was there were good and bad people in all living existence. “Since you’ve figured out my secret, tell me yours. Who’s trying to kill you?”
“My uncle,” Blue sighed. “The same person who killed my parents.”
“Why?”
“Because he’s afraid of what I know. He’s trying to silence me,” he explained. “I know what Khray hired you to do. I was listening the night in the hospital, and I need you to keep doing it a bit longer until I can figure out what to do next. My uncle is a dangerous man, and he will stop at nothing to kill me. I just can't understand why he waited until now to take action, he knew who I was even after I changed my name. After you left me at the hospital when I was five, he changed my name and sent me into foster care.”
“If Blue isn’t your real name, what is it?”
“Vincenzo LaCava.”
Uriel’s eyes widened at hearing the last name LaCava. “You’re related to Benito LaCava, the boss of the LaCava Enterprise.”
“You’ve heard of him, I take it.”
“You can say that.”
Five years ago, Uriel had a run-in with Benito LaCava that didn’t end well for the other man. Benito's life was embedded in the underground, and Uriel was working a bodyguard case that put him in Benito's focus. His job wasn't always doubling as a celebrity; sometimes it could get dangerous.
“I chopped off his left pinky.”
“What? How? When?”
