13

“C13”

“FUCK!” a loud curse snapped Heart out of her trance in front of the television. That’s what she heard after the door violently swung open, revealing Lux.

“What the f*** is that?” he angrily demanded from his friend, abandoning the visitors he had been talking with a while back.

“I don’t know. Lola Carmen supposedly issued the statement,” Vandros replied.

“Turn that off!” he insisted, gesturing fiercely at the TV, his mestizo face turning red.

She recognized Lux’s anger; he wasn’t the type to get mad like this unless provoked, similar to the incident four years ago with Franco and Diana.

Lux glanced at her, and his expression softened. She saw compassion in Lux’s eyes, causing her entire system to melt. She wasn’t crying; she was just stunned and unable to react to what she saw on the TV.

Someone was trying to ruin her, and she didn’t know who. Diana was the only one capable of such deception, as that woman orchestrated everything that happened to her before. Diana might pret