Episode 20

Edgar and I were at the point of having sex when...

Yan: Edgar?! Your friend Evandro is here.

Edgar looked me in the eye.

Leandro: It's okay! You can go!

Edgar: Don't you dare fall asleep, okay?! I'll be right back.

Leandro: Okay!

You know that saying "Curiosity killed the cat?"

Let's assume I'm not curious, but a very thirsty man, and because I was thirsty I went to the kitchen, and because I dropped water in front of my husband's office I heard their conversation.

Evandro: Eduardo called me to say that you went to his house to have dinner with his ex, what came over you? I thought we agreed that this opportunity was perfect for Eduardo to win Leandro back and take him away from your life.

What?! He wanted to get rid of me?

Edgar: The problem is that I fell in love, I love Leandro and I don't want to get rid of this marriage anymore.

Evandro: You are a fool.

Evandro opens the door, but I'm already pretending to be in the kitchen, Edgar was lucky that I heard what he said after what that snobby friend of his said, because if it wasn't for that, I'd be at war with him right now.

Yan: Thirsty at this hour?

Leandro: A ghost at this hour?

Yan: What?

Leandro: You always appear when we least expect it.

Yan: Everything okay?

Leandro: Did you know?

Yan: Know what you're talking about?

Leandro: Did you know that your boss wanted to get rid of the marriage?

Yan looks away.

Leandro: Why would he want something like that after paying so dearly for me?

Yan: Because he was afraid.

Leandro: Afraid of what?

Yan: I don't know if I'm allowed to answer that.

I approach Yan.

Leandro: Answer me now or you're off the payroll.

Yan: Are you threatening me, sir?

Leandro: I'm sorry, okay? It's just that I'm afraid of living the same thing as before, being used and then thrown away like that out of nowhere.

Yan: Okay, I'll talk. Edgar was afraid of falling in love with you, that's why he wanted to get rid of this marriage, but…

Leandro: But what?

Yan: It's too late.

Leandro: You mean...

Yan: Yes, Edgar loves you.

Leandro: He loves me?

Yan: Yes! But he's afraid you won't feel the same way.

Leandro: What? Doesn't he realize that I love him too?

Edgar arrives at that moment.

Edgar: You what?

I turn to him.

Leandro: I love you.

Edgar, shaken, approaches me and takes me in his arms tenderly, looks me in the eye and...

Edgar: You love me?

Leandro: Yes! But you are afraid.

I turn resentful at what he was about to do to me. Edgar then squeezes my arms and puts his lips to the tip of my right ear.

Edgar: Please understand me, I was afraid of being hurt.

Edgar then turns me around and kneels in front of me.

Edgar: I beg you to forgive me.

He then lowers his head and I am heartbroken, I lift it back up.

Leandro: Don't do that.

I help him up and hug him tightly.

Leandro: Didn't you hear? I love you.

Edgar: I love you too, my love. I love you, I love you, I love you.

Yan looks at us with a genuine smile.

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