Episode 17

Rodrigo looks at his brother and angrily says:

—"You and Grandpa will regret trusting this woman, you will end up getting hurt again for trusting another woman, this wife of yours is worse than your ex who left you at the altar to be with your best friend, but don't say I didn't warn you."

—"Maybe I should be wary of you, since you feel the need to accuse Grace, if you weren't my brother, I would believe that you want to see me suffer."

Robert and Rodrigo's grandfather enters the mansion with Camile and she immediately runs to hug Robert, who is very happy to see her.

—"Gosh, Robert, you almost died and how would I live without you?"—Camile said, still hugging him.

—"Camile, always exaggerating, what are you doing here? I thought you were still in Africa."

—"My volunteer work there is over, so I didn't think twice and came straight here, I stopped by the company to see you and Grandpa told me everything that happened, if I had known you were in a coma I would have come sooner," Camile said, while holding Robert's hands.

Grace looked at Robert jealously, seeing another woman talking to him so affectionately made her quite irritated, but she didn't know if Camile was family, so she preferred to wait to be introduced.

Rodrigo notices that his sister-in-law was jealous and then decides to take advantage of this situation that happened at the perfect time.

Camile was a beautiful woman and had a good heart, Robert was in love with her, who was his best friend since childhood, but Camile, never wanted to have a relationship with her friend, she liked him, but she knew that he would only stay with her for a while, so as not to lose the friendship, she decided to hide what she felt for her friend.

Camile hugs Rodrigo and then looks at Grace and asks:

—"Hello, I suppose you're his nurse, aren't you?"

—"No, Camile, this is Grace, my wife," Robert said calmly.

Camile looks at her best friend and then asks how he got married, if he really loved her.

He just changed the subject and Camile soon understood why and went to the kitchen where the butler was and Edgar was very fond of Camile, she always did Robert good when he lost his parents younger, it was Camile who took sweets to Robert every day, the two always had a pure and unique bond of friendship.

—"Camile, how you've changed, the last time I saw you, you were a young girl, now you've become a woman," Edgar said, receiving her hug.

Meanwhile, in the living room, Grace was looking at Robert, soon he says:

—"What time is your mother coming?"

—"Now you have a voice? I thought you were mute when your friend asked you about me."

—"Grace, are you jealous of Camile?"

—"I didn't say anything about that, I was just intrigued, you defend me from everyone, you seem to care about me, but you didn't tell your friend about us being married, do you like her by any chance?"

—"I am married to you, I did not deceive you, I defend you because I know you are not lying, but I already told you Grace, I do not know how to deal with love, I will do everything so that you and our baby have everything what you need and I will be the best father, but do not demand from me, something that I cannot give you without feeling it."

Grace leaves the room and goes to the bedroom, enters the bathroom, turns on the shower and starts to cry, she knew that falling in love with him so quickly could be dangerous, but it was not in her plans to love him, she was angry with herself for feeling alone this love she had for him.

—"What did they do to you, to make you run so far from love? Who hurt you to the point of not being able to feel or show it?" Grace asked herself, thinking about Robert.

She only managed to realize that she felt love for Robert, when she spent months taking care of him, feeling the anguish that he might wake up or not, all this uncertainty, which left her vulnerable.

She ends up leaving the bathroom and as she opens the door, Robert was waiting for her.

She walks past him pretending not to notice him there, he soon touches her arm which makes her stop then he pulls her, making her sit on his lap, not the wheelchair.

—"You don't need to be jealous of Camile, she's my best friend, I've known her since I was a boy and we've never had anything, it won't be now that that will change, but I can't lie to you, I have to be honest, I'm not willing to let myself get carried away by love."

—"I can't believe it's letting go, but you seem to insist on not wanting to feel, is love that painful for you? It seems like you abhor this feeling, so pure, so sincere."

—"Grace, among so many men in this world, why love me?" he asked, as she stared at him, sitting on his lap.

—"And why not love you? I can't forget your kisses, your body, your voice for a moment, you seem like my addiction and I feel crazy, at the same time I'm scared, you seem to have done everything so that I would walk away from you," she said, and then her husband kissed her, leaving her confused, because when they felt that spark, everything seemed different.

Robert stopped the kiss and whispered in her ear:

—"You're going to drive me crazy, Grace."

She takes off his shirt, kisses his neck and then pulls down Robert's pants, still kissing him.

To be continued...

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