Episode 3

I kept walking for I don't know how long, the only thing I knew was that I wanted to be as far away from Cesar and Susana as possible...

The wounds on my body were hurting more and more, my cheeks were swollen from the slaps Cesar gave me, and my fingers were throbbing with pain, blood dripping from them...

My feet wouldn't stop trembling, my mind filled with bad memories, my whole life had become a real hell...

A hell from which I see no way out, I don't know what awaits me from now on... I don't have a single dollar in my hands, the only family I had was Susana and my uncles, it's obvious they won't help me.

They will take Susana and Cesar's side. And what guarantees me that they are not also behind all of this to take everything my parents left me...

If I recall correctly, it was my uncle Fernando who introduced me to Cesar, at that party when I was only sixteen years old, back then I didn't pay attention to Fernando despite his insistence to try to make me fall in love...

I just wanted to focus on my studies, so that when I turned eighteen, I could take charge of all the businesses my parents left...

But for some strange reason, I never could take control of the companies, my uncle always found an excuse not to give me the power, then Cesar started getting into my life so much that I had no time for anything other than him...

Now I regret not being much smarter and more intelligent, for not realizing the trap they were all setting for me...

I also made the grave mistake of distancing myself from my friends, people who were trying to open my eyes, but I was so blindly in love that I preferred to push each one of them away...

I preferred to put Cesar above all of them... Now all that's left for me is to cry and possibly sleep on the streets...

"Marcela!"

"Marcela!.."

I heard a familiar voice calling me from behind, I quickly turned to see who it was, and upon seeing Lili running towards me, a smile appeared on my lips...

Lili used to be my best friend before my relationship with Cesar started, she was one of the people who advised me not to fall so intensely for Cesar...

At first, I thought she was only doing it to annoy me, but then Cesar started planting foolish ideas in my mind, Cesar managed to make me think that Lili was after him...

I felt so jealous that I humiliated Lili in front of many people, I also ended our friendship for many years...

"Oh my God, Marcela!... What happened to you?..."

I couldn't answer Lili's question, I just threw myself onto her shoulder and started crying bitterly...

I cried so much that everything started to get dark inside my head, in just a second I lost all control of my body and lost consciousness in Lili's arms...

"Help!!!"

"Help!!!"

That was the only thing I could hear as I fell into the deepest sleep; however, while I was unconscious, I remembered all the moments I lived with my parents...

Both of them appeared in my dreams, giving me the strength I needed to keep moving forward... It all felt so real that tears started streaming down my eyes...

When I opened my eyes, I woke up in a panic, my hands tightly gripping the edge of the white sheets covering my body...

"Marcela, are you okay?..." Lili asked, holding my shoulders so that I wouldn't scream again...

I stared at the room's window like an idiot, for a long time.

The sun of a new day entered through the room's window, it was a beautiful day, birds were singing cheerfully, the voices of people below could be heard peacefully...

After a long time, I looked at Lili, but this time with a cold gaze, the sweet, loving woman with an enormous heart had died the previous night...

"When can I leave this hospital?..." I asked Lili...

"Tomorrow you will be able to leave the hospital."

"Marce, tell me what happened... Did that son of a bitch do something to you?" Lili asked furiously.

"Cesar and Susana are lovers and they have taken everything my parents have left me."

Lili was astonished by what I just told her, she let go of my hands and took several steps back, collapsing onto the couch behind her.

"I have nowhere to go, I'm on the streets now," I said, tears streaming down my cheeks as I finished speaking.

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