Episode 1

...Lorenzo narrates...

I was shot twice in the chest as I was leaving a nightclub. It was approximately two in the morning.

My escorts couldn't do anything to prevent me from being injured. We were ambushed by several heavily armed men.

One of them was an ex-military man; he was trained to execute his enemies in cold blood. I met him by chance a while back.

Without any mercy, he stood in front of me. My pistol was out of bullets; I had used them to defend myself from the other men.

I slid the gun from my hand; the light sound of it falling was quite loud to my ears. I stopped being a timid boy that everyone used and abused.

I became a murderer, a ruthless man, a scum of the earth. I let myself be carried away by the hatred I felt for my ex-wife and the man who sent me to prison for several years, only to keep my wife and my daughter.

Martin pointed his gun at me, he shot twice at my chest. There was nothing I could do; my life had come to an end.

Little by little, I fell to the ground. My hands covered the two wounds, even so, it wasn't enough to prevent my blood from spilling out.

I was losing strength, my breathing was agitated and sometimes I stopped breathing. I struggled not to close my eyes completely.

I saw the reinforcements arrive to my aid. Several black trucks parked in front of me and the men who worked for me got out of them.

The ex-military man fled in one of the red trucks. Everything was happening in slow motion, but at the same time, too fast.

I felt my life being ripped away in a second because of a mistake.

One minute is enough to remember everything I lived in my past. I heard screams around me. As I closed my eyes, I saw Cecilia getting out of one of the trucks.

My wife ran towards me. I always considered Cecilia a tool for my revenge against Paola, my ex-wife. I thought I'd never fall in love again.

I had only loved one woman so intensely. However, I realized too late that I loved Cecilia more intensely than Paola.

"Lorenzo, not you!"

"I love you!"

She reached me, falling to her knees. My eyes were slowly closing. At that moment I realized that she was the only woman I loved.

Unfortunately, it was too late. My life was taken by two gunshots. I will keep this love to myself, and with the regret of never being able to show it.

...It all started two years ago...

...Two years ago...

"Lorenzo, you are useless. I left you in charge of Lisa and look what you've done."

I lowered my gaze ashamed, I was an idiot, I didn't even know how to take care of my own daughter.

"I'm sorry, Paola, I had to go wash the dishes. I left Lisa alone for a moment. I thought nothing would happen to her."

I apologized under my breath, I never imagined that Paola was going to make a fuss just because my daughter played a prank with her makeup.

"You are so stupid that you don't understand anything!"

"Do you know how much one of these paints costs?"

"What do you know? You're just a poor devil!"

Paola started hitting me; I never do anything to stop her. She's my wife, isn't she? I would never lay a hand on her.

Besides, if one day it occurred to me to tell everyone what happens within these four walls, the most affected would be Lisa.

My little girl, she would be the one who would suffer the most. Thinking about her, I prefer to keep quiet, besides, I loved Paola intensely.

From the first moment I saw her, I knew she was the woman I was always going to be eternally in love with.

Paola has managed to overcome herself over time. She went to work as a secretary for a very important man.

After a few months she was promoted to vice president and now she has become the 8% partner of the company.

"Let's see if you learn like this..."

"Lisa, take your things, we're going to sleep at your grandmother's house."

"Paola, you can't take our daughter every time you feel like it, I exclaimed."

"No, and who is going to stop me, you? Don't make me laugh. You little man!"

Paola took Lisa by the hand and pulled her out the door. She took my daughter by the hand and then some policemen entered.

"It's him, Paola pointed at me."

The two men grabbed me without asking me anything, I was taken from my house by force.

On leaving we came across a man in a suit. He was young, tall, and looked like he had a lot of money.

"You know what to do with him, he ordered the policemen."

I was taken to a patrol car, they forced me in and closed the door. Through the window, I saw my daughter crying.

The man approached Paola and kissed her on the lips. After that, a week went by.

I was locked up in jail for a crime I didn't commit. Paola came to see me, accompanied by two lawyers.

"Hello, Lorenzo, you look terrible."

The night before, under orders from outside, two men came in and beat me violently. My eyes, like most of my face, are unrecognizable.

"Since when have you been lovers?" I asked her with a lump in my throat.

"For five years. Lisa is not your daughter. She is the daughter of my boss, or rather my partner, Javier."

I felt as if my soul had been ripped out with Paola's answer. I couldn't help but shed a few tears. My heart was broken.

For five years, I loved a girl who wasn't even my blood. To open my eyes in such a cruel way. In an instant, Paola killed the loving, humble, and kind-hearted man.

The beating they gave me last night cannot be compared to the beating Paola has just given me with her confession.

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