chapter 18

Helen narrates.

Seeing Dylan like that completely devastated me, and even more so seeing the way he had treated me. His red eyes were about to cry, his hopeless cold gaze and his veins marked by rage, it hurt and hurt a lot.

By the time I got to the house, I lay down on the couch crying, wondering where he was and how he felt at that moment. I cried wondering why it was so difficult for him to understand that she loved him like this. It's just that, without the need for him to walk, I accepted it that way and I had shown it to him.

I turned on my mobile, which I hadn't turned on since I arrived in Dublin, because I wanted to have peace and not remember my father and the decision he had to make about Alejandro. And despite the fact that by that time I had already made my decision, I had to clarify the whole situation with him; I hoped he would understand, that I had fallen in love with the man who had bought me, even if it sounded absurd, it was true, and I wasn't going to leave his si