Episode 17

Upon returning to the restaurant, I recount everything that transpired at my husband's company.

Lucas: Is he going to bring your son so he can apologize to you?

Leandro: No, of course… Edgar is just trying to help so Zayn can let go of his grudge against me and accept me back as his father.

Lucas: Okay, but it's a baseless grudge from what you just told me.

Leandro: Exactly! To this day, I still don't understand why he wanted nothing to do with me.

My phone starts ringing.

An unknown number is calling, but when I answer, the person on the other side is no stranger.

📲 Eduardo: Hello! Leandro?!

📲 Leandro: What do you want? How did you get my number?

📲 Eduardo: Your husband called me from my house. It was registered here.

📲 Leandro: What do you want?

📲 Eduardo: Zayn got in touch with me, saying he'd like to see us tonight.

📲 Leandro: My husband tried to contact him and couldn't get through; how did you suddenly manage something like that?

📲 Eduardo: It wasn't sudden, Zayn approached me over a year ago, you were even there.

📲 Leandro: And why didn't you tell Edgar?

📲 Eduardo: Because he's a stranger to me, but you're not, you're my ex-husband.

📲 Leandro: Is it true that Zayn really wants to see me again?

📲 Eduardo: I'm not lying, now you know if you want to show up here.

📲 Leandro: What time?

📲 Eduardo: 7 pm, at the house where we spent the best moments of our marriage.

📲 Leandro: Bye, Eduardo.

When I hang up, my friend is full of things to say to me, as I left the call on speakerphone.

Luca: Are you going? Because I would go there looking all fine and powerful to show that jerk what he lost, I mean, you're on top now, you need to use this to show Eduardo that you've moved on, don't you?

Leandro: Of course I have, I don't even worry about that anymore.

Luca: Want to do even better? Take Edgar with you.

Leandro: Wouldn't that be strange? I don't even know how I'm going to face Zayn, he might not like it.

Luca: If he doesn't like it, it's his problem.

Leandro: How can it not be? I'm trying to win back my son, not lose him.

Luca: Do you want to lose an ungrateful son who wanted nothing to do with you or a husband who has already shown that he's head over heels for you?

Leandro: I know, I know. You're right, and if I had to choose, I'd choose my husband.

Luca: So go and take him with you.

Leandro: What if he doesn't accept?

Luca: Leandro, your husband was jealous of you, I saw the way he looked at me with those monster eyes of his, thinking I could be a threat, little does he know I'm quite heterosexual.

Leandro: You?

Luca: Okay, I'm not, but I'm also passive, so it could never happen between us.

Leandro: How do you know that I...?

Luca: Look at him, that man doesn't bend that way.

I start laughing.

Leandro: You're unbelievable.

Luca: You're the one who needs to be unbelievable, stand your ground, and show them that you're not the same person they disregarded.

Leandro: Leave it to me.

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