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The woman was possessed by the sudden and almost uncontrollable desire to flee from the car when she heard him say that; the air left her for endless minutes, her chest tightened, a tremor dominated each of her limbs, her saliva became her own enemy, suffocating her.

A tremulous breath escaped her lips.

"I-I... Maximiliano..."

The man closed his eyes, as if he were as restless as she was; he was not very talented with women, in fact, his late wife and he had ended up married because of the circumstances, and because the woman had shamelessly intruded on him, but with Amelia everything was so different that more than once he had felt like a teenager trying to conquer someone.

"Amelia, you need to know something".

"No," the woman blurted out, playing with her fingers. "What y-you heard is nothing".

Maximiliano slowed down the car, feeling a pressure in his chest.

"Amelia, I'm sure of what I heard".

The woman thought of something quickly, she would not allow herself to be exposed.

"She's