Episode 10

"James! But... what's going on? Oh, my God! Edward! What are you doing?" Kate screams and runs to the door, but all she can see is James getting into the elevator.

She is torn between going after James and seeking an explanation or seeking help for Edward.

Her vocation for medicine speaks louder and Kate asks for help and rescues Edward.

Meanwhile, heartbroken, James decides to go and see his mother instead of leaving.

"James, what happened, you're so messy and you let me see your hand."

Immediately Sara notices James' bruised knuckles, she has always been a caring mother.

James swallows some of his anger, he had never felt such pain. He takes his mother's hand and kisses it, then lays his head on her lap in silence.

Noticing that her son didn't look well, Sara stroked his hair, saying:

"Son, what have you done? How's Kate?"

"I don't want to talk about Kate, Mom."

"You had a fight, did you? Kate is still young, son. She's still understanding your feelings. Be a man for her, be understanding, listen to her..."

"Mom!" James raises his voice and immediately regrets it "I'm sorry, I'm not having a good day. I don't want to talk about Kate, I want to talk about you. I want to say that it's all very unfair, that it's unfair for me to lose you. I haven't always been a good son, but it's too soon for you to leave."

He always tried to stay in a good mood around Sara and appear to be handling the situation well, but at that moment his emotions were running high. In fact, he wanted to get Kate off his chest, say how disappointed he was and ask if it was normal for disappointment to hurt so much.

But instead, he decided to tell her how much he loved her.

"Could it be that these doctors are wrong, that there really is no solution?"

"Son, my lungs don't work anymore, nor do my kidneys. If it weren't for these devices, I wouldn't be talking to you. Every day I feel weaker and I'm only here because I'm stubborn. Nothing can fight the bacteria in my body, it's killing me little by little."

James closed his eyes, thinking what a bastard he was, his mother was dying and he only wanted her now to give him emotional support.

"I'm sorry, Mom. I just wanted to say that I love you once again."

"I love you too, you naughty boy. Now are you going to tell me why your hands are hurt?"

"Is that right? Ah... I decided to train in boxing this morning."

"You have to buy a better glove. Has Kate seen it? She'll be worried and you can't worry her too much."

"Kate doesn't worry about me, she... I'm not going to worry Kate."

James stayed with his mother for a while and then left.

While he was there, Kate was tending to Edward's wounds, who had already woken up.

"What did you do? Why did you fight? You already have a respected career in medicine, Edward! What will people say if they find out you were fighting with another man in your office?" Kate said, unabashedly, she wasn't at all comfortable with the situation.

"I didn't fight with anyone, it was your lying husband who showed up here and hit me. You can see he wasn't hurt at all."

"Edward, James trains in boxing and other fights, you don't stand a chance against him. You're a nerd. Of course, in a fight James would do much better than you."

"Do you think I'm lying?"

"No, but..." you said the cameras were off, didn't you?

"Yes..." Edward says and turns away, trying to hide his face as he lies "I watched you grow up, after your parents died you were sheltered in my house. We looked after you. Do you believe the man you've just met more than me?"

"I'm sorry, Edward. You're like an older brother."

Edward turned to her, his eyebrows knitted together, clearly annoyed by what Kate had said. For a long time, yes, he was like an older brother to her, but as time passed and Kate grew into an admirable and beautiful woman, he began to see her with different eyes.

Not noticing Edward's annoyance, Kate says:

"But... I've never seen James out of control like that and Sara never told me that he could be violent. What happened when he got here?"

"You fainted, you know, so I gave you first aid. I was here, examining you, because I didn't know what could have happened and he arrived." Edward says, hiding the fact that he's seen the pregnancy test "I think you've misunderstood, he didn't even hear me and he's already attacking me. He wasn't even careful with you, it was his fault you fell out of bed and he pushed you, making you hurt yourself. Are you sure he's not dangerous?"

Kate nods in the negative and leaves the office, leaving Edward alone.

After all the events, she could go and visit Sara.

"Honey, what happened to you?" at that moment the equipment detected Sara's heartbeat accelerating.

"Calm down, calm down... it was just an accident. The floor was wet, I slipped and fell on some things"

Kate sits down and strokes Sara's hair, trying to calm her down.

"It wasn't James, was it? I brought up my son, he couldn't do anything against you!"

"No, it was Sara!"

"But his hands were hurt... he..."

"Has he been here?" Kate asks, frowning, believing that he had left.

"He had been and seemed very upset about something. Something is making him suffer. His hands were bruised and he said he'd been boxing, but I didn't really believe him..."

"It was actually boxing, Sara. I saw him training, he woke up very early and went to train. And if he'd punched me to hurt my hands, my face would have been purple and not just a bump on my forehead."

Sara thought for a moment and calmed down, Kate was right, Kate's injuries didn't match up with an assault by James.

"Ah, my dear. You two scare me as if you were still two naughty kids!" Sara slaps Kate's hand and she smiles at her.

"Mrs. Sara, I tried to come to see you before, believe me, I wanted to tell you the news as soon as I got the results. But look." Kate says, placing the test in Sara's hands.

"Oh, thank God!" Sara says, thrilled. "How long? How long?"

"Three weeks! It's so short, isn't it? But I'm already feeling terribly nauseous! Can you believe it?"

"Of course! It's going to be a boy, like James. When I was pregnant, I would get sick of anything, my belly grew quickly and I would walk around all bloated and vomiting everywhere. Boys do that to us, child! They even give us a hard time about our tummies."

Kate smiles and then hugs Sara.

"I'll come here every day and you'll follow every change, I promise."

"Oh, I'm sure you'll be an incredible mother to my grandson. Kate, open the first drawer and take out the little card I left there."

Kate picks it up and Sara says:

"Darling, this is the contact of someone I trust, my lawyer. I want you to call him here tonight and ask James to come too. I want you both to be part of this conversation."

Kate looked suspiciously at that card, but carrying out Sara's request, she called Sara's lawyer.

After the visit, Kate decided to go home and try to talk to James.

When he arrived, he was in his room, getting ready, trying on a tie while looking at himself in the mirror.

"James, are you... are you going out?" Kate says, coming closer.

James doesn't look at her and continues getting ready:

"Have I ever owed you any satisfaction?"

Kate senses the hostility, but decides not to comment.

"Your mother wants you to go to the hospital tonight, she says she has something important to say."

"Have you manipulated her yet again? I already know what you're going to say,"Take good care of Kate, James, she's a poor thing."Poor thing... I know you're not a poor thing, Kate, now I can see through your good girl mask."

"Look, I don't understand anything anymore. What have I done to you?"

"What have you done to me? Are you going to act like you don't understand? I saw you making out with Edward... you fooled me too, congratulations. I thought you were a different woman, but in the end, you were just another tramp who wanted to get into my bed."

Kate couldn't help herself and went over to him, she pulled his shirt, making him turn towards her and slapped him, but just as her hand was about to hit him in the face, he held it back.

"Your theater is good, but you can't fool me anymore. I'm going out and don't expect me tonight, I'm spending the night with Miranda."

James lets go of her and pushes past her.

Despite her suspicions, James never told her when he was with Miranda.

"Miranda..." she says, her hands trembling.

"Yes, what's the problem? It's never been a secret that she's my girlfriend."

"But yesterday," you said that..."you said that she wouldn't be with us."

"You know what, I just wanted to have sex. When a man wants to have sex, he'll say anything. And Miranda won't be between us, she'll be by my side, soon." James says coldly and walks away, leaving Kate heartbroken.

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