Some Truths

Diana

I begin to respond by continuing the story so that there is no doubt about what happened, I do not intend to return to this subject.

— After that birthday, Stefano's punishments became worse and worse, the longer the bruise marks remained, the longer she was stuck at home without seeing anyone. Finding Carlos was a day in paradise, I ended up getting pregnant with him at twenty-one, I imagined that the child was Stefano's. It was the first pregnancy he…. – I stammer a little – that he let me have.

"If I hadn't watched the first few hours he spent torturing that son of a puttana, I would have personally used him in hell."

I smile squeezing his hand, having his help make him pay the way he wanted was our best work as a team.

— I went into labor after a beating by Stefano, when I woke up the doctors said the baby had died. Another year passed and on the same date we returned to Ortega's house, he spent hours comforting me when I told the story he said that my husband's bad seed