Episode 2

"MATILDE I'm so nervous" damn, I know it's an arranged marriage "but he is incredibly handsome" I had never seen IGNACIO DE SANTIS in my life.

LUCRECIA: wow, did you already forget about poor Tadeo? - didn't you say he was the perfect man? - just by seeing Ignacio, you forgot him - cousin, let me remind you that I saw Ignacio De Santis before you did - I met him in that restaurant years ago.

MATILDE: I approach her and hug her - I love you like a sister - but I don't like the way you talk to me - Tadeo is the perfect man - he is a gentleman - loving - respectful - but he loves you - he never looked at me as a woman - he was just my platonic love - it's true that you saw Ignacio in a restaurant and found him handsome - but nothing ever happened between you - he has never looked at you as a woman - so I'm not taking anything away from you.

LUCRECIA: (damn, I should never have fallen in love with Tadeo - but I also don't want you to be happy and now you're going to marry the man I want for myself - I hate you AURORA - I hate you - I hope my gift to your future husband makes him think) forgive my attitude, sister - because to me, you are my sister, not my cousin - I hope you are very happy with your new life - I hope you and your husband come to love each other immensely - come on, the groom is waiting for you - my uncle arrives and takes her away (damn it, a thousand times damn it - I swear you won't be happy with the man I love and want for myself - I will do something to separate them).

IGNACIO: I am at the altar, waiting for my future wife - I see her coming and she is so beautiful - she looks like an angel - I hope we can make our marriage work.

MATILDE: the priest declares us husband and wife - Ignacio wastes no time and takes control of my lips - we exit the church to the reception - I am so nervous, my husband won't stop kissing me - embrace me, anyone would think we are deeply in love - my heart wants to burst out of my chest.

IGNACIO: to my surprise, my wife allows me to kiss and hold her - either she is very hypocritical and wants to charm me as the note I received yesterday said, or she truly wants this marriage to work.

"FLASH"

NOTE: don't marry Miss Messino - she has a lover named Tadeo for many years - she only wants more power and money - she is a used woman - not as pure as they made you believe.

Flash ends

LUCRECIA: (damn it, they got married and seem very much in love - why does that idiot have everything I deserve? - I hate her - damn it, a thousand times damn it).

IGNACIO: why that face, Mrs. De Santis?

MATILDE: I am very tired - I swear, if I keep wearing these heels, they will have to amputate my feet.

IGNACIO: not while I am here - I carry my wife in front of everyone's gaze and we leave - she only hides her face in my chest - we arrive at a hotel, we will spend tonight here - we enter the suite and I lower her from my arms - I hug her from behind and start kissing her neck - she just goes along with it (it surprises me, she is very astute - let's see how far she's willing to go) I unzip her dress and let it fall - she is left in underwear only - she tries to cover herself and I don't allow it - I undress in front of her - I approach her to finish undressing her - after having kissed every inch of her body, I prepare to enter her - but I am surprised by what I hear.

MATILDE: please be careful - I have never been with a man intimately.

IGNACIO: are you serious - then why would you be with me?

MATILDE: I won't tell you that I love you - because we don't know each other - but I am sure of one thing, you are my husband and you will be until the last day of my life - I always said that the day I got married, it would be for a lifetime - you are a handsome man - besides, it is my duty as your wife - I only ask that you never fail me.

IGNACIO: (hearing her speak fills my chest with joy) I start entering her carefully until we become one - we make love until we are exhausted - thank you for giving yourself to me.

MATILDE: you have nothing to thank me for - fuck, this was incredible, I can't believe what I was missing out on - if I had known it felt like this, I wouldn't have waited 26 years.

IGNACIO: don't say that, I'll get very jealous - from today on, you are mine - my wife until death do us part - I want this marriage to work - that's why - I get out of bed and search in my pants for the note - look, this note arrived yesterday.

MATILDE: I read it - I hope I'm wrong, but my cousin sent this note - before the wedding, she mentioned Tadeo to me - he was my platonic love, I won't deny it - but he fell in love with my cousin, and we have only been good friends - thank you for showing me this - I know that our lives see many things - but I hope that LUCRECIA doesn't want to betray me.

IGNACIO: I like your spirit, woman - let's take a shower - (this is how my story with my beloved Matilde begins - the woman who came to bring life to my life)

"TWO MONTHS LATER"

"SEÑOR MESSINO" daughter, what does this scene mean?

LUCRECIA: yes, sister, what are we celebrating today - are you getting a divorce?

IGNACIO: what are you talking about, LUCRECIA - my wife and I will never get a divorce - we will be together until death do us part.

MATILDE: that's right, my love - family - father - husband - cousin, I am pleased to announce this important news for me - I am going to be a mother.

IGNACIO: WHAT DID YOU SAY, MY LOVE?

MATILDE: we are going to be parents.

IGNACIO: I go to my wife - I embrace and kiss her - thank you, my love - I love you.

MATILDE: I love you too - well, I love you all.

"SEÑOR MESSINO" congratulations, I'm going to have my first grandchild.

LUCRECIA: (I clench my fists - damn it - I hate you, a child - that child won't be born) congratulations - you don't know how happy I am - let's toast to such excellent news.

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