Chapter fifty-one

— Is Gonzalo having an affair with a mobster’s wife? – I still couldn’t digest what I saw with my own eyes.

— Heloise Caliento – he said – is this the same woman your father saw the day he sent you to Brasília?

— Absolutely,– I replied, swallowing hard.

— from the information I have, she took money from her own husband and offered it to Gonzalo so that he could save beta gonsales from bankruptcy.

— In exchange for what? – I asked, but I was afraid of the answer.

— Of love, company,– he replied dryly, as if it didn’t matter.

— Or with the condition that Gonzalo separates from my mother – I affirmed – as she couldn’t, she sent that letter telling everything.

— So your mother knows about the betrayals?

— Even before me, – I whispered. – Two women submitting themselves to humiliation for what? Love?

— The world of women is too complicated for my head, Luke – he said – the question is not why, but what the consequences will be. Because if Gonzalo was able to subject you to that punishment