Episode 3

"Hello, Pato. You shouldn't have bothered to bring me breakfast. There's a food company that brings it to me every day."

"Fer, you know I don't like you calling me Pato. It sounds so tacky." The red-haired girl feigns annoyance.

"Okay, Patricia." Fernando responds curtly.

"Take a seat." Fernando adds.

Like a true gentleman, he pulls the chair next to him out so Patricia can sit down. The girl refuses to sit, placing her hand on top of her fiance's.

"But if you prefer, we can move on to dessert." The girl wraps her hands around Fernando's neck.

She tries to kiss him, but Fernando dodges her. She is annoyed, although she knows how to hide it perfectly.

"Our marriage will only be in name. There will be no sex, or anything similar. We have discussed it on other occasions and you have agreed."

Annoyed by how Fernando speaks to her, Patricia moves away from him. Trying to control the urge to tell him that everything will change when she becomes his wife.

When she becomes Mrs. Monte Mayor, she will stop pretending to be nice to Fernando. She will know that as a husband he must fulfill his marital obligations.

She wants to get pregnant as soon as possible, only then will her name as Mrs. Monte Mayor remain forever.

"In public, I will be your wife, although I would like us to be so inside our home as well."

"I would like us to have a couple of children. To see them grow, play, and above all, to see them laugh."

"Can you imagine a little version of you or me!"

"They will be beautiful, don't you think? I know you don't love me. But with time and coexistence, love can be born between you and me." With a melancholic voice, Patricia begged Fernando Monte Mayor.

Fernando frowns, he had discussed it with Patricia before. She agreed that their marriage would only be an appearance, for a year, then each would take different paths.

"I'm sorry, Patricia, but I don't love you. I don't think I ever will. My heart belongs to another woman."

"I have fought not to love her, but it is impossible." He replies seriously.

Patricia's eyes welled up, her tears falling one after another.

"You are being too cruel to me and to yourself in loving a woman who only wanted you for your last name." She exclaimed in a low voice, between sobs.

Fernando didn't have the heart to see the girl cry. He approaches Patricia and hugs her.

That was what she wanted. To look fragile in Fernando's eyes.

Every man liked to protect a fragile and defenseless woman. Fernando was no exception. A man always likes to play the superhero in the eyes of a lady.

"Fer, I love you madly. Many times I have dreamed of seeing you wake up next to me."

The girl wraps her hands around Fernando's neck, trying to kiss his lips for the second time.

"I think you should go see your psychologist. You can't feel love for a man you slept with one night."

"Well, if you even slept together." Fernando whispered, hinting that he didn't believe he had had sex with Patricia.

"To fall in love, you need time, to get to know the person, to treat them, and above all, to know their darkest side. After all that, you can say you love them." Fernando added.

"Are you calling me crazy?!" Patricia angrily asked Fernando.

"We are no longer teenagers, we are adults, with certain experiences. Don't come telling me it was love at first sight. I don't believe in that." Fernando added seriously.

"Fer... You can't humiliate me like this. Believe it or not, I love you. I love you!" Patricia insisted.

"We talked about this from the beginning. I can't love you the way you want. If you don't want us to get married, it's perfect for me. I'm calling off the wedding today." Fernando commented in a low voice.

......

...No, my love!...

..."I am Patricia Zorrilla, the only daughter of a powerful man, no macho like you is going to leave me before my wedding"...

Patricia moved away from Fernando, placing her hands between the two of them. Pretending to be hurt by him.

"I spoke with my mother about the dress I want to wear for our civil wedding. They have insisted too much that we should get married in the Church." She changes the subject abruptly.

"I have told them that not for the moment. Even so, they insist on talking to your mother and I think we should think about the possibility of also getting married in the church."

Patricia naively thought that she could pressure Fernando in that way to give in to getting married in the church as well.

She had always longed to enter the church on her father's arm, and see the envious looks of all her friends.

"This marriage is not going to work... I don't feel love for you."

"Besides, I don't remember how I ended up in the same bed as you." Fernando didn't remember anything from the night he supposedly slept with Patricia.

He only remembers going to a nightclub to drink a glass of wine, when he woke up, he was already in the same bed as Patricia.

"Fernando, you offend me!"

"What there was between you and me was magical. An unforgettable night for me and for you."

Patricia cries again with more intensity. Seeing her like that, Fernando walked away from her, walking to the office window.

Out of nowhere, Fernando remembers the girl he fell in love with five years ago. Sofia was so different from any other woman, her rebellious character, her way of speaking, and above all her beautiful smile.

Unfortunately, the bad memories ended the smile and the beautiful memories in Fernando's mind.

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