Episode 12

Marcela narrates.

Cesar's penetrating gaze frightened me, but now was not the time to give up. I wanted to know if Fabian Wlod really killed his brother to take everything that was rightfully his.

Oh, God! I don't want to imagine if that were true. I would truly be the most foolish woman to have ever existed in the entire universe. For years, I saw the murderer of my parents as if they were my own parents.

"I want to talk to you alone," I said to Fabian Wlod coldly.

"Who are you to come and give orders to Fabian Wlod?" Cesar responded, drawing a small line across his lips.

I wanted to say that I was the owner of everything, but that would have been foolish of me, since I now have nothing.

"I'm not talking to you, so stay out of it," I told Cesar.

However, he didn't like my words at all. He walked away from Fabian Wlod and angrily approached where I was standing.

Out of survival instinct, I walked backwards, trying to distance myself from him. I know how violently Cesar reacts, and I don't want to experience again what he and Susana did to me that night.

"Stop, Cesar!" Fabian ordered before Cesar could reach me.

Cesar stopped and turned to look at his lover, obedient like a good dog. That made me feel a little relieved, as I swear I was terrified as Cesar got closer and closer to me.

"Leave the office, leave me alone with her," Fabian said, pointing at the door.

Cesar clenched his hand tightly and, like a faithful servant, obeyed his boss's order. When I saw Cesar leave Fabian Wlod's office, I approached the desk again, placed my hands on it, and looked attentively at the man on the other side.

"Why did you do it?" I asked him sorrowfully.

I thought Fabian Wlod's reaction to my question would be one of regret, but his response left me frozen.

"For everything your father had..."

"I also planned your death, but your stupid mother protected you with her body, so the only descendant of them survived to ruin all my plans..."

The words that came out of Fabian Wlod's mouth were so macabre that my legs began to tremble. I felt my eyes welling up with salty water about to be shed on my cheeks.

I squeezed my hands tightly, mercilessly digging my nails into my palms. I didn't want to shed a single tear in front of my parents' murderer again.

"Marcelita, all these years I made you in my image and likeness...a foolish woman incapable of surviving in a world full of garbage! I made you useless," Fabian said, walking slowly towards me.

When he reached me, he put his hand on my face, even though it barely touched me, it felt as if he were suffocating me... I am a weak woman, incapable of defending myself from him or anyone else.

Just as he said, he made me useless, I can't even defend myself from him, let alone seek revenge for my parents' death and recover everything he stole from me.

"Why don't you cry like when you saw Susana having sex in your own bed with your fiance?" Fabian's words made me open my eyes in panic.

"You think I don't know what happened the night Cesar told you he didn't want to marry you?"

"Ha, ha, ha."

"You're so foolish, dear niece... Cesar has been an important piece in my plan for many years, but of course, he will be rewarded. He will soon become my future son-in-law with benefits that no other man could ever have."

I was left stunned, not knowing what to do or say. The way Fabian was saying things felt like sharp daggers breaking every part of my soul...

Throughout my life, I saw him as a father, a father whom I thought loved me with all his heart. But he only wanted to see me destroyed and dead to take everything my father had.

I couldn't bear to listen any longer to the way he had planned everything. I pushed Fabian and rushed out of his office.

As I stepped outside, I ran to the elevator. I felt suffocated, the air couldn't pass through my body. It was a horrible sensation, the one I am feeling.

As the elevator door closed, I slid down the steel wall behind me. I couldn't stop my tears from falling. The pain I felt inside my heart was too strong.

I felt like dying. Maybe the best solution to end all this pain I carry within is to end what Fabian tried to do years ago and end my life once and for all.

I have nothing to live for anymore. I have no strength left. I just want to close my eyes and be next to my parents. I brought my hands to my face, remembering everything Cesar told me the night we were supposed to get married. The image of him and Susana having sex in my own bed resurfaces with force...

Fabian's words reopened the wounds I tried to close. As the elevator doors opened again, I stood up to run out of the company...

I walked the streets until I stopped in front of a bridge. I stood there, looking down for a few seconds. The sadness blinds me.

I placed my hands on the edge of the bridge, lifted my first foot, and then placed the second.

In that moment, I remembered the accident where my parents died. The car had no brakes, my mother screamed in desperation trying to protect me.

Once again, I feel my mother's arms embracing me. I looked down at my parents under the bridge, with a huge smile on their faces, opening their arms to welcome me. Only a smile appeared on my lips as I reached out my hands to embrace them,

Releasing my hands to let myself fall from the bridge...

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