Episode 15

Evelyn blinked, biting her lips. She couldn't bear to suffer alone any longer with a secret kept under lock and key.

"It's true. Something is definitely happening to me, but unfortunately, I can't tell you."

Marcelo looked at her sadly.

"Evelyn, don't suffer alone. I can see in your eyes that you are hurting. Please, open up to me. Let's go inside and talk?"

Marcelo desperately wanted to help Evelyn.

"Let's talk here. The house is very dusty, and my feet are already sore, I don't want to get the flu."

They sit on the small concrete bench at the entrance of the door and continue talking.

On the other side of town, Dereck was arriving at the home of Adriano, his assistant.

He got out of the car, pondering his charming allure, and rang the doorbell.

The gate was quickly opened, and Dereck entered.

"Mr. Norton, what are you doing at my house?"

Adriano was very surprised. He had not gone to the office because he had a bad flu.

"Are you sick? And what about this drink? Adriano, are you faking illness to get out of work?"

Dereck approaches him, intimidating him with a threatening look.

"Mr. Norton, I am physically ill, but the drinks are to treat another kind of illness..."

"What are you doing, Adriano?" Dereck grabs the collar of his shirt, his somber face staring fixedly at the frightened assistant.

"I'm sick with love, Mr. Norton."

Adriano speaks shyly.

Dereck can't help himself and lets out a loud laugh.

"Lovesick? You must be crazy. I've never seen anything like it."

"But Mr. Norton, only those who fall in love and are not reciprocated get lovesick. Of course you wouldn't understand that."

"Adriano, this is ridiculous. Lovesick? I'm never going to get that disease."

Dereck laughs again at his assistant.

"Mr. Norton, you shouldn't say that. Have you forgotten that you are married? And what if, by any chance, you fall in love with Miss Evelyn? And she doesn't feel the same way about you? It's very hard to happen, but it's not impossible."

Adriano bravely faced his boss.

At the same moment, Dereck swallows hard, remembering Evelyn.

"What are you talking about? I don't run the risk of falling in love with that woman."

He walked away from Adriano, looking at the drinks on the table.

"Can you imagine, Mr. Norton? Your wife dating another man, kissing and making love all night long."

Adriano realized that Dereck changed completely when the subject was about Evelyn.

"It will not matter to me," he says coldly, walking to the door. "Don't drink anymore. I want you at the office early tomorrow."

He turned and left without another word.

"He's changing! In another time, if I had said that, he would have beaten me up and fired me."

Adriano breathed a sigh of relief as he watched him go.

Dereck goes to his apartment.

Upon arriving in the room, Adriano's words, which were insignificant to him, hammered permanently in his head.

"Me? Fall in love with the secretary? Never..."

He laughed at himself. But then he remembered seeing Evelyn driving off with a man.

He paces back and forth. Curiosity was bothering him.

He called her, but Evelyn's cell phone was turned off. Even without justification or reason, he called without hesitation.

"Why turn off your cell phone? Shameless woman... I can't believe that even though she's married, she's with another man."

He throws the phone on the bed in anger.

"I know what to do. I'm going to call the Sullivan mansion." Quickly he picks up the phone again.

"Hello. The housekeeper speaking."

"Laura, is Evelyn home yet?" he asked abruptly, taking the housekeeper by surprise.

"She has not arrived yet, Mr. Norton."

Dereck clenched his fists in anger, a darkly furious look on his face as he listened to the maid.

"All right, Laura." He hung up after uttering the housekeeper's name.

At Evelyn's small house, she and Marcelo are talking normally. The tension between them had subsided.

"You're not really going to tell me what's going on? I'm very worried. Evelyn, I've known you for many years, I care about you a lot, please, open up to me."

He hugs the redhead tightly. Evelyn starts to cry on his shoulder.

Evelyn tells Marcelo everything about her forced marriage to a stranger.

"I can't believe this, Evelyn. How could you let this scoundrel blackmail you like this?"

Marcelo gets up indignantly at the stranger, Evelyn's husband.

"Evelyn, even though he used what happened at your old job, you shouldn't have given in to his provocations. I'm going after this lawyer Alexandre Fonseca, he'll have to tell me who your mysterious husband is."

"Marcelo, calm down. A year will pass quickly. I'm already close to completing a month of marriage. When this marriage is over, each will go their own way."

"I'll talk to this lawyer tomorrow."

Marcelo was upset.

"Come on, I'll drop you off at the mansion that your monster husband forced you to live in. But this is not going to stay like this."

"Marcelo, don't do anything that could hurt me. We don't know who this man is. You can already tell he's not kidding. I hate him with every fiber of my being."

Evelyn says seriously, feeling sad.

***This work has been signed with NovelToon, and piracy such as reprinting without permission is strictly prohibited.***

***Download NovelToon to enjoy a better reading experience!***