Antonio's POV

My eyes took a harsh whip around the room. Around me, each of my soldiers avoided eye contact, their shoulders hunched and eyes diverted at anything else but me.

I had stepped out of the medical wing and summoned them into my study so that I would be filled in on everything that had happened ever since I lost consciousness. Standing at the forefront, I stabbed my attention on Marco.

"Marco," I said, my voice calmer than the situation deserved, "fill me in. I need to know. Has Carlos been found?"

He didn't answer for a long time, and that silence itself served as an answer even as...