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Cecilia
- Don't worry about a thing, Lu, tomorrow you will stay at home with your mother and take care of Melina.
- But what about Mr. Bernardino?
I had to give Luana a tranquilizer because she had a strong anxiety attack, crying and thinking about what could have happened if I hadn't come to pick her up. She only calmed down after taking the tranquilizer prescribed by the doctor, the first time I saw her having a crisis was when she learned that Caetano was still looking for her. For all intents and purposes, Luana was abandoned by her family because of the shame of her being a drug addict, but this was just a story invented by Tomas to bring Luana safely to Brazil. Even without knowing it, Tomas was protecting his sister from the monster that caused all her problems.
- You can leave it to me, I know I've already said this a bunch of times, but I'll say it again, and you should tell me what that wretch Caetano did to you!
- Ceci, you're absolutely right, I should tell you, but now that you're married to my brother you understand how impulsive Tomas is. As soon as he finds out what Caetano did to me he's going to want to go back to Italy at once and settle accounts with him, I don't want that! It's better to stay the way it is so that nobody gets hurt, besides, nothing will change what happened if I tell Mama and Tomás what happened, I'll just make them feel bad for not protecting me, don't insist on that, I know you're right but I prefer silence than to see the one I love suffer.
He understood that it was difficult for Luana to tell him everything that happened to her but Tomás felt that something bad had happened to his sister.
- I won't insist anymore, now rest, I'll wait for your brother. Tomorrow stay home, Melina will really enjoy your company.
I gave her a hug and waited until she slept before leaving the room, when Luana gives in to the effect of the medicine I go to Melina's room to watch over her sleep since she was born my life has changed in such a good way. I never imagined that having a baby who would depend on me for care and love would be so wonderful, now as before I cannot understand why a mother abandons her child as my mother did to me. Being the mother of my little one I could understand so many things and I also learned that there is a pure and beautiful love, greater than any evil that can exist in this world.
- Mommy loves you, my pretty one!
I kiss the delicate little face of my little girl feeling all the best feelings in the world, I finally had someone to love without fear. Dario was the only person who for a long time nurtured such deep feelings but I noticed that he did not share the same feelings, he is a man unable to love and sacrifice himself for those who love him, Thomas told me that the order given by Dario was to take me to the main brothel in the center of the capital if it were not for my husband I would surely already be dead or full of hate and resentment in the heart.
I picked up a book to read while waiting for Tomás to arrive, normally he always comes home late but I like to wait for him to know if he is going to arrive well, I thought that I would only be able to love Dario but with time and living together I saw that it is possible to love again, Tomás is a good man, honest, caring above all accepted my story and my past without ever referring to what happened before we met, he could have any woman he wanted but he wanted me and everything that came with it.
- Baby, I'm home!
I ended up falling asleep on the sofa waiting for Tomás, he seemed tired but even so he didn't want to let me go to bed alone, it's something that has become routine because every night I wait for him, when Tomás arrives he carries me to the bedroom on his lap as if this act were a sacred ritual for him.
- You know you don't have to do that!
- I know I don't have to but I like it, remember when you were pregnant? It was wonderful to see the growth of our little girl just by feeling the weight that her body acquired, don't understand that I'm saying that at that time I was fat but that I could see that our little girl was no longer just a dream but a reality in our lives.
Tomas kissed me with all the love he felt for me and I responded with the same intensity, because now I knew what love was between a man and a woman living next to him. It was difficult at first because I was still very attached to Dario, but thanks to the dedication and patience of Tomas, I was able to move forward at his side.
- Cecilia, I need you to know that I love you, everything I do is just to see you happy, my love!
- I know that, but I'm so sorry when you walk out the door of our house because I don't know if you'll come back to us. I wouldn't know how to live without you, Tomas!
Every day that went by his job became more dangerous, I know well that the Albertini Mafia has many enemies and it's hard to be okay knowing that my husband is in the middle of it.
- Ceci, you know that it is my obligation as my father's heir, that's why I was so happy when we heard that you were expecting our little girl, she will be my heir but she won't have to take on the heavy burden that I had in case something happens to me. Because of my father's early death I had to be initiated very young but that won't happen with our little girl, she will grow up happy away from all the shit I have to deal with.
Tomás took on his father's responsibilities at a very early age, so I didn't want to have to give this responsibility to the child growing in my womb while everyone else discreetly hoped for a boy, Tomás confessed to me that he had a preference for a girl so that she wouldn't have to go through everything that he went through.
- I am happy for all that I have, but I would be much happier if I didn't have to leave without being sure that he will come back to me!
- I can't change who I am and my responsibilities but I promise you that I will do everything in my power to always come back to you and our daughter.
At that moment I wanted to believe that my husband would keep his promise but having lived by his side for the past year I know that unfortunately it doesn't depend on him, and as much as I fight against this bad feeling that has settled in my heart I know that sooner or later something bad will happen to my Tomás.
Dario
I woke up that morning feeling a feeling so bad that I never felt before, when I sent Tomas to take Cecilia I always imagined that I could go on without her but every damn day of this last year it became harder not to smell her smell, not to talk to her or even to be beside her that I realized the need I had to have her all to myself. Now there was no way to go back in time preventing my actions against my toy, everything was over even I was destroyed by knowing that I would never see her again.
I ended up staying at the mansion waking up in the room that was once hers trying to somehow smell her perfume on those pillows but there was nothing else there that reminded me of my Cecilia. I see that it is already over 09:00 in the morning, noticing several missed calls on my phone, some from my mother, from Caetano but the one that leaves me on alert was from my father, old Albertini never called me. I return only the call from Caetano that as soon as I heard my voice on the other end of the line I start talking without pause.
Caetano
Sir, your wife went into labor during the early hours of the morning but there was a complication at the time of delivery. We have no further information because they are still trying to save the life of the child and your wife!
Dario
Give me the address of the hospital by text message, I am leaving here now.
There was a car at the mansion, an old model that luckily was still running, when I arrived at the hospital everyone was looking as bad as possible as if something very bad was happening to Nina and the child but I couldn't feel anything but the great emptiness in my chest. Nothing made sense to me after I knew Cecilia was dead, I know I shouldn't care but unfortunately I'm feeling her death more than I want to and should.
- Thank God you have arrived, my son! Nina and her son are not well at all, I don't know what will happen.
My mother was distraught next to Nina's mother who couldn't stop crying, while she couldn't feel anything while remaining with the same serious posture as always. Without answering my mother, I went toward my father who was the only one apart from Caetano and me who didn't seem desperate.
- What's the complication?
- Your wife's blood pressure is high, did you know that? The doctor said that Nina wasn't coming to her scheduled appointments, she should have had follow-up care but she didn't worry about it, from what the doctor said because Nina already had a history of heart disease in the family the follow-up care should be done in a closer way!
- She never mentioned any of this to me, Dad, as I understand it, was her pregnancy a risk?
We didn't have a husband and wife relationship in the matter of talking about the pregnancy so intimately, I would ask how the baby was doing just out of obligation always getting the same answer "the baby is doing fine" when in reality this was not happening.
- By the looks of it, yes! But let's wait for the doctor's return with some news, it won't do much good to keep thinking that your wife was inconsequential and that you were irresponsible for not following up on her pregnancy.
To be quite honest, I never wanted the wedding nor this child, but both were necessary for my position to be maintained. To think that Cecilia died because I had to get rid of her because of this damned marriage, I hate the choice I made. Everyone was apprehensive for news when the doctor appeared some time later bringing information about the child and Nina.
- I imagine that you are the family of Nina Albertini, well her health condition is very delicate and while we were delivering the baby we noticed that she was not dilated enough to have a normal delivery so we opted for a cesarean section but Nina's pressure rose very fast and we did the procedures indicated in this situation and managed to reverse the serious condition in which she and the child were. Nina is in the hospital under observation as well as the boy who was born strong but we thought it was better to keep him hospitalized as well. Congratulations on the birth of the child!
As much as I tried to show joy or relief, I couldn't feel anything at all about that news, I just stood there watching my mother coming to hug me, happy that her first grandchild was born healthy, Nina's parents equally happy, and my father greeting them with a serious smile on his face.
- Let's get out of here, Caetano! What needed my attention has already been solved, we still have to deal with that pending matter with the traitors.
- Yes, sir!
Caetano knew that he didn't care a bit about all this clowning about happy and fulfilled families. That's why he's already prepared to go out with me, the mafia for me always comes first.
- Where are you going, boy? My daughter has just won her first child and you are leaving just like that!
- I have more important commitments than to stay on top of your daughter, besides, the child is fine and so is she. I see no reason to stay here, now if you'll excuse me I have more serious matters to attend to!
I left without giving any kind of satisfaction to my father-in-law, all I needed at the moment was to have unnecessary worries about Nina and this boy she gave birth to, I don't care about her or this boy.