Chapter IX

IX

• That night your scent seeped into my very bones... I suffered through hell, sensing your desire, knowing you needed a man between your legs to make you scream with pleasure, and I couldn't have you. — Without taking her eyes off her, Secundina puts her hands to her face in shame.

• Your desire reached me up here, believe me, having you in the basement and not being able to make you my wife is a torment.
  • Don't make things up, I can't do that to a man," she says with shame.

—Why don't you believe my words? Why don't you trust yourself?

—Because they've never told me.

• There's always a first time, take my word for it.
• No…I don’t know.

—Why is it so hard to believe?

—It's obvious I'm ugly. I'm too ugly to attract the attention of a man like you. Handsome, with money, you're a catch. It's better to tell me you want sex and that's it. That way we can avoid this whole circus about you liking me and all that lies.

—What? —not believing what he hears.

—That way I can avoid falling in love and not suffer when I see you in the arms of another girl worthy of you or when you tell me it was just for fun.

• I have many flaws, but I'm not lying. I like you. I've had strong feelings for you since that night you hit me. I haven't felt that way in ages, and I'm not going to let your insecurities hurt me.

—Oh please! Men never get hurt.

"I'm not like the men you're used to. I'm not just anyone. You'll find out in due time." He leaves the room defeated before closing the door. "I hope this doesn't interfere with your professionalism."

"Of course not," she pushes the door open for him. He's speechless when he sees Emilia.

• And what was all that about?

—Adult things.

• Okay, I'm an adult, you're going to tell me what happened between you two? — Darío and Emilia cross their arms.

"You," he points to the girl. "I don't owe you any explanations." "We'll talk later."

"I already noticed, grown-up stuff," Emilia continued to glare at the older man. "By the way, Elena's arriving tomorrow morning."

• That's true, I forgot to tell you that my niece is arriving tomorrow.

—Elena? Emi, since when do you talk to them?

• Since we arrived at your house, I answered a video call and since then we talk and play together online.
• You already know what youth are like these days: “social networks”

—Great! My baby is coming tomorrow. I'm telling you right now that you'll be sharing a room.

—Don't worry, I'll sleep with my mom.

• "No!" — at the same time the brothers even cross their arms at the same time.
• Oops!

Elian's passion

"Your mother must sleep alone. She's a grown woman, you're a child. You're going to share a room," he says firmly. In response, Emilia clings to Elian's neck, and for this action, he has to hug her. "Huh?"

are you OK?

"Yes," she says, letting go of the eldest and leaving with Darío. "This is what it feels like to have an uncle and a dad."

—You can ask my daughter that tomorrow.

—How I'm going to suffer when we get back home.

—You're not going to suffer.

—Of course, my dream is finally coming true. I should have known that dreams don't last forever.

—Share that dream with me.

—I always asked my mom for a normal family, dad, mom, siblings, a dog, for a fleeting moment I'll have everything, even if it hurts when I wake up and everything's gone.

• I'll try to convince your mother to stay with us. My house is big." He looks at Elian and looks down at the girl. "Sometimes your mother overreacts to people, especially men, and my brother can be impulsive sometimes...the two of them are a bad combination."
• What happens is that she scares men away, I suppose it's her defense mechanism, that's how your father left her.

—With all due respect to the dogs, he's a damn dog, he should never have done that to my mom, she's not bad, she's noble, a bit dizzy, insecure but noble.

—That's what low self-esteem and lack of self-love do. I hope you're not the same.

• My mom is doing a good job in that regard.
• You explain.

—It's a lie that "if you don't love yourself you can't love anyone else" she knows how to love and a lot, what I'm getting at is that she sets an example so that people don't be like her.

• I hope you're right, do you want to go for a k-free?

—Oh yes! I want, I want, I'll get my wallet.

• I invite, I pay.
• I join you, we must let my friend's tantrum pass.

—Cell phone, I should go for that one, as a member of the new generation I should make posts hahaha.

—I really need to catch up, I don't understand anything.

—Ma, ma, maaaaaaa —he enters without knocking—. Ma, I'm going to get a k-free

do you want one?

—No thanks, say hi to Angela for me.

—Huh? Yeah, sure, I'll give him your regards. Okay, don't forget your masks.

For the teenager that afternoon was one of the best she has had since she was conscious, they arrived almost at night with pizza in hand, Secundina was already waiting for her angrily, she scolded her for having lied to her, again she and Elián began to argue, without knowing that they were being recorded by her, like a cat with slippers she left the room and sent the video to her friend.