“You don’t understand,” she said at first, her eyes moist. “Things got complicated… I did come to feel something for you.”
Julian left a photo on the table where she appeared laughing with Mauricio, taken just two weeks earlier.
—It looks very complicated, yes.
Then she changed. She dried her tears and finally showed the real face he had never wanted to see.
—You’re going to regret this. I get half of everything.
“No,” he replied. “It’s your turn to leave.”
—The scriptures!
—Corrected.
-My family…!
—In sixty days they must return every penny of the loan or they will enter into legal collection.
Adriana looked at him with a mixture of fury and panic.
—Were you pretending all this time?
Julian stood up.
—No. I was paying attention the whole time.
She left the house three days later.
Weeks later, Julián went to see Adriana’s parents. Not for revenge. For closure.
