Force MicroService to await until RabbitMQ publishes a message , using Cote - node.js

Question

I have a an API-GATEWAY MicroService that manages the entire show , and one of the services is called QueueService.
Here is the API-Gateway
const express = require('express')
const bodyParser = require('body-parser')
const cote = require('cote')
const cors = require('cors');
const app = express()
app.use(bodyParser.json())
app.use(cors());
app.post('/queue-msg', async (req, res, next) => {
let { from, to } = req.body;
const payload = {
from, to
}
const queue = await queueRequester.send({ type: 'create-queue-message', payload })
res.status(200).send({ "message-sent": true, queue });
});
This is thq QueueService :
const cote = require('cote')
const queueProducer = require('./utils/queueProducer');
const queueName = 'pathfinderqueue';
const queueResponder = new cote.Responder({ name: 'queue responder', key: 'deliveries' })
queueResponder.on('*', req => req.type && console.log(req))
const deliveries = []
let idCounter = 0
queueResponder.on('create-queue-message', req => {
async function makeRequest() {
console.log('Got a message from API-GATEWAY!');
let { payload } = req; // get From & To
queueProducer.publishToQueue(queueName, payload); // Publish to Rabbit
const queue = { id: idCounter++, status: 'pending' } // Set the ID
deliveries.push(queue)
return Promise.resolve(queue)
}
const response = makeRequest();
return response;
})
However every time that API-Gateway publishes a message from the React client to the QueueService , the QueueService doesn't awaits in the on event , and sends back a
"message-sent": true
to the client.
How can we force QueueService to await ?