chapter 42

Joy returned to Demetrio's body. He felt again the hope to live and to fight, not only for being beautiful or not, it was more than that, it was society, a society that would surely humiliate him until he was tired, he had already experienced it the day before with just a few curious children looking at him, and definitely for the Italian, who was a man sensitive to events, for all the pain he had gone through, it was too much to bear.

The doctor told him that after the operation he would be bandaged for a few weeks, and that he could not go out in the sunlight, plus a lot of rest; something that would delay Evangelina's wedding again, and it was something that Anderson did not want to tolerate, he did not want to continue living and sleeping with Laureti without being married, in the time before she was very conservative, and there was still a little of that fear or respect left in her.

They left the office happy. Eva had a hard time convincing Demetrio to get married first and then