Episode 11

Narrator: Once Leandro's flight arrived, he turned on his phone while he was in the car on the way to his mother's house. He noticed that he had several missed calls from his wife's security guard.

Leandro: 📱 (calling Alexa)

Alexa: 📱 Leandro

Leandro: 📱 Are you okay? Alexa, I have several missed calls from Carlos. Did something happen?

Alexa: 📱 No, calm down, everything is fine...

Leandro: 📱 Are you sure? Did something happen to you? Don't lie to me...

Alexa: 📱 Yes, Leandro, everything is fine.

Leandro: 📱 -smiles- upon hearing her calling him, Well then, if I invite you to dinner, will you accept the invitation?

Alexa: 📱without realizing he was in the same country as her Of course, I will. Can you pick me up?

Leandro: 📱 Haha, no, I won't be able to pick you up. I'm running late, actually.

Alexa: 📱 I figured, you're just a few kilometers away, right? Goodbye, I'm leaving the office now.

Leandro: 📱 Alright, sweetheart, wait for me a little bit longer then... Goodbye. -hangs up-

Alexa: Another crazy person!! -leaving the office-

On the other hand, Leandro talks to Carlos...

Bodyguard: 📱 As you hear, Mr. Benjamin and Mrs. Alexa had a confrontation, and as my duty, I defended her from him.

Leandro: 📱 What? With Benjamin? My cousin? I don't understand.

Bodyguard: 📱 Sir, from what I understood, he was claiming that she is married to you!

Leandro: 📱 That's impossible!! -I don't understand anything- Well, don't say anything to Alexa that I'm here.

Steven: What happened with Alexa and Benjamin?

Leandro: I don't know! It seems like they know each other from before!! 😠

Steven: And why does it bother you!!

Leandro: I don't like at all what I'm imagining.

Steven: What are you thinking?

Leandro: Nothing, forget it!!

They arrived at Aldanic's house...

Service: good evening sir... Welcome to your home.

Leandro: thank you thank you, my mother where is she?

Service: the lady is with Mrs. Fernanda at the club where the ceremony will take place.

Leandro: -looking at steven- please assign a guest chalet for my friend.

Service: Yes, sir, I took him right away, come with me, young man.

Narrator: Steven left following the lady who was going to show him the villa where he was going to stay while Leandro went up to his room.

Leandro: -entering the room and observing all the change that Alexa gave him-.

I've been here for a week and I'm already out of room, but it smells so delicious... -takes a deep breath-

Well, I see there's no room for my shoes, she smiled.

After a few minutes, Alexa arrived and Leandro was in the room with the lights off.

Alexa: -walking into the room- Nobody mentioned that Leandro was here.

Narrator: Alexa was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't notice Leandro's presence in the room... She took off her shoes and started to remove her dress, but just as she was about to grab a towel to cover herself, Leandro spoke.

Leandro: I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. She entered the room and I longed so much to have her in front of me again that when I saw her, I was speechless. I felt like my heart wanted to jump out of my mouth. It was crazy... But then she started changing in front of me and I didn't even know if I wanted to say that I was there because I knew she would stop and kick me out of the room.

Leandro: Hi, honey. Did you miss me? -approaching-

Alexa: -startled- Leandro?? What are you doing here? -quickly covering herself with the towel-

Leandro: -smiling- I missed you and I wanted to come see you. 😏😏

Alexa: You scared me!! Don't do that to me again...

Leandro: Why were you so scared? What's wrong, Alexa?

Alexa: -nervous- It's nothing I can talk about. -not looking at him-

Leandro: Hmm, will you tell me what happened at the office today?

Alexa: -avoiding the topic- Nothing happened, I just worked like usual... Oh no, I hope he doesn't find out.

Leandro: Alright, let me change the question... How do you know Benjamin? And why did he claim that you're married to me? No lies... -serious-

Alexa: Leandro, I -silence-

Leandro: I'll order dinner and you can tell me everything, because I really need to know where I stand with you.

After a while, they took separate showers and dinner had arrived.

Leandro: You still haven't started talking... We won't leave this room until there's an explanation, Alexa... Although, to be honest, if you're here, I don't mind being locked up!

Alexa: -sighs- Fine, I'll tell you... Benjamin studied where I studied when I was in middle school, and that's where we met. We became boyfriend and girlfriend, but we were quite young. Then, some pretty unpleasant things happened.

Leandro: What things? Please don't leave anything out.

Alexa: -starts crying- My father passed away when I turned 18. Then it turns out that the bank shows up in front of me, showing me that my father had mortgaged the vineyard. All those so-called friends of my father distanced themselves from me as if I had some contagious disease. Benjamin disappeared and then reappeared when I was about to be evicted from my house. He came back telling me that we had to end our formal relationship because his parents didn't allow him to have me as his girlfriend. It was horrible for me, but nevertheless, he asked me to be his lover and said he would help me if I agreed to be his mistress.

Leandro: -angry- And did you? 😠

Alexa: Of course not, I kicked him out of my house, and two days after that, I went to central California. I got several jobs, working different shifts until I got the job at your company. You already know the rest. I never had any contact with him again. Supposedly, he tried to find me until today, when he finally located me at the company.

Leandro: Do you still love him?

Alexa: No!!

Leandro: Are you sure?

Alexa: That was more than 6 years ago. The only thing I feel for him now is pity for how little of a man he was to me.

Leandro: -looking at her- Alright, I understand then! I won't allow him or anyone else to hurt you again, Alexa. And one more thing... You're not alone anymore. You have me and my mother, who loves you like her own daughter. -he hugs her while she cries on his chest-

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