Episode 17

Mel remains silent for a while. In reality, she didn't know what decision to make.

"My dear, have you made up your mind? Look, I don't want to pressure you. But I don't want to be in this hidden situation... Let's do this... You have until Saturday to give me an answer. When is your idiot boyfriend coming back?"

Dennis clenches his fists, arguing about Mel's boyfriend.

She blinks, not knowing how Dennis would react to learning that Carlos is coming back.

"Mel? Are you listening to me?" He firmly holds her hand.

"Yes, I am... Carlos will be here on Friday."

"What?" Dennis gets up worried. "We can't wait any longer. You need to tell me your decision now."

He paced back and forth, taking heavy steps inside the office.

"I need time! Please, trust me. I'll wait for him to arrive, and at the latest on Saturday or Sunday I'll break up with him."

"What? Are you telling me that he will arrive on Friday, will definitely want to make love to you, and only on Saturday or Sunday will you break up with him? Please, Mel, open your eyes. You need to break up with him today. I don't want him to touch you."

"Don't pressure me, Dennis." Mel didn't know what to do. "And yesterday, by any chance, were you with her?" Mel was also curious.

Dennis immediately coughs.

"I... I was... But it's not what you're thinking..."

He tries to justify himself.

"Did you sleep with her, Dennis?" Mel asks, upset.

"I did, my love. But I could only do it because I was thinking about you. Mel, don't laugh, but I couldn't get it up for her. It was only after I thought about you on top of me, enjoying it, that my d*ck got hard."

"I don't want to know, Dennis. I didn't like knowing that... You shouldn't have been with her." Mel's face turns red with anger.

"What did you want me to do? You said 'no' to me, I went home and stayed there drinking and thinking about you. I even forgot to have dinner with her."

He sits on the floor, leaning against Mel's legs.

"Don't be upset, beautiful." He looks at Mel with melancholic eyes.

"All right! But I don't want to know about you two doing that again."

Dennis kisses her thighs.

"Thank you for forgiving me... Now we need to get ready because Steven is coming back."

"I want to see you tonight!" Dennis says, getting up from the floor.

Mel cleans the couch and then washes up in the bathroom.

"I'm going, see you later!" she says with a smile after getting ready.

"All right, beautiful!" Dennis gives her a quick kiss. "Love, don't forget to get the meeting room ready."

Mel stares at him and, with a seductive look, says, "Am I your love?"

"My love, the woman of my life," he replies with eyes shining with happiness and a broad smile of joy.

As they start working, Amanda has just arrived at the dinner table at her father's house.

"Good morning, Dad!"

"Good morning, daughter! Is it really true that you're getting married to Dennis in thirty days?"

Marcelo Fox was a bankrupt businessman. But he was getting back on his feet again thanks to Dennis' help.

"Yes, Dad. In a month I will be the owner of the entire Connor group alongside Dennis."

Amanda smiles happily.

"Wonderful, daughter. You've been engaged for a while now, and he hadn't decided to get married... But now, the wait is over."

"It's true, Dad. I also don't know what came over him, I confess I was surprised. But finally, all that fortune will be mine."

Marcelo looks at his daughter in surprise. Sometimes, his daughter's attitudes scared him.

"What do you plan to do after you marry him?"

"I don't know yet. But I don't want to be married for long. I run the risk of getting pregnant. And a child is the only thing I don't want right now. I hate children. Dennis wants to have lots of children with me, but unbeknownst to him, he won't have any."

Amanda lets out a loud laugh.

"I need to leave in a little while. Don't wait for me for lunch."

"Amanda, where are you going in such a hurry?"

"Dad, I'm old enough to go wherever I want without needing your permission."

Marcelo blinks, offended.

"Amanda, I'm your father, talk to me properly."

"Talk to you properly? Dad, you have no right to tell me anything. Thanks to me, your company is getting back on its feet. If I hadn't talked to Dennis and persuaded him to invest the three million dollars, your company would have been in ashes a long time ago."

"Marcelo, leave Amanda alone."

Luiza, Marcelo's wife and Amanda's stepmother, arrives in the dining room upon hearing the argument from the kitchen.

Marcelo falls silent and Amanda goes back to her room. Half an hour later she leaves for a hospital.

All the people who were there are amazed by the model's beauty. Some crazed fans suffocated her with so many questions and photos, but Arthur, who had just arrived, approached the small group, pulled Amanda away, and took her to his doctor's office.

"What a suffocating experience, Arthur! What insufferable people... Sweaty people wanting to hug me and take pictures with me."

She exclaims with her hands on her hips.

"Well, Amanda. They're your fans. I'll need to learn to deal with it... But tell me, what are you doing here? Don't tell me you're sick?"

"No, my friend... I'm here because I'm finding Dennis quite different... Can you tell me if he has another woman? Arthur, please, in the name of our friendship and what we lived in the past before I met Dennis, tell me something."

Amanda was Arthur's girlfriend before she was introduced to Dennis. Amanda quickly saw in Dennis the opportunity to have everything money could buy.

"Amanda, firstly, we're not that close for you to come to my office. Second, I would never tell a secret about Dennis, even if he had told me something, and lastly, what happened between us is in the past and I have no feelings for you. I respect my brother too much, and please don't show up here again unless you're sick. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to make some rounds in the ward."

Arthur leaves, leaving Amanda completely alone.

"Who does he think he is? How can he say those things and just leave like that? What an arrogant man."

She gets up and goes to the other exit of the hospital.

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