he awoke startled, knowing that there was someone else in that room. She sat up in bed and looked over to see Andrey leaning against the doorf

eing able to thank you

her. "I didn't do any of tha

ssa asked li

old ar

l wondering what he was getting at. Surely he would

t embarrassed her. She felt like a piece of meat in

appened to your brother and wha

I don't know

his head af

two years ago. And he promised me to repay that debt with

give you? How m

as seven thou

e was she going to get more than thirty

w her put her hand to her

pay that debt?" She as

ble to buy expensive clothes, and I always had my eye on him. I always thought that he was the most bastardized man I had ever met. He could have paid off his debt to me and redeemed the collateral. He could have given you and your mother a chance to work for your own growth, but he left you in the dark and continued to exp

listened to him with her head down and embarrassed, raised her head to

and immediately ran to the other side to say that I would pay the debt and they were furious because they would not accept that I pay the debt. This is a matter of honor between us. I also would not accept that their leader came to pay me a debt that was not his. This is humiliating. I would send the money through his brother, directing him to say that he got it from a loan shark, but he didn't give me time. He managed to reach our side, after running between showers of bullets. When he c

er and mother give

now yet?" He asked a

th her brother and mother, but

n't im

ime since he walked in,

oser pulled a piece of paper from his p

trying to get some color. And she was smiling cheerfully. Even her gray eyes were evident in the photo. She looked more beautiful than she really felt when she looked in the mirror. So that was what her mother we

o you intend

essa. I've been using it a l

sa turn

said starting to think fast

rey l

u must have more experience th

rfect nose. But she restrained herself. Maybe she could negotiate

my life doesn't belong to either of you to be sold to me. It is an injustice

ndressa. But it will be by serving me in the way and at the time I desire, in that room. However, not to be unfair of all, I will pay for your studies. That way, when I get tired of you, you will have a profession to survive on. Your mother to

rd me and believe that a diploma can rep

omfort. You won't lack anything. Many women wo

." Andressa said defiantly

u just can't leave the property." He sa

She counted eleven rooms, all with bathrooms only upstairs. And she found out that he didn't occupy any of them. Decided, she went downstairs and started to open the downstairs doors. There was a large living room with comfortable sofas and a large television on the wall. The carpet was so soft that her feet sank into it as soon as she took each step. She left the room a little forced, because she wanted to stay there watching TV, eating popcorn and snuggling on the sofa. She f

what he would do to her if she put all those clothes together and made a fire. The image of her kneeling down and getting shot in the head flashed through her mind. It wasn't a bad option. She realized that the room was abnormally too big. It had Andrey's things everywhere. It was well furnished too. There was even a television in the room. She moved closer to the bed and stood there watching the sleeping woman. She had one of her shapely le

ssa asked without botherin

very proud of you. You were his only daughter and you came out with all his charact

u know m

I know yo

red at her to

any years ago. He... I don't even remember him righ

e two who were staying with her in the kitchen. And she picked up some p

il you start your studies. There's a table over there on the balcony where it's cooler, and you can tell me

ll and tables around it. They sat down at the largest one and Carla put the potatoes on the t

when she saw that Andressa s

tato and began to work silently

don't think you should know, I'll keep it to myself. I'll keep it to myself, but not everyone will have that compass

r a moment and then went b

e? I'm not worth your life. Leave it as it is... Perhaps I wil

o know, I trust you would not turn me over to Andrey, but in any case,

e information, but I promise that never Andrey, or

ready have something to digest with the things I am going to tell you now.... You must have noticed that yo

y did you do that? Do yo

or she does and is jealous of you, and blackmailed us into only serving what she wanted or

nfluence over him? That mig

xplore the house, she just can't leave the mansion alone. Turn around and go in the back and see ho

pt locked up too and was r

your countenance and that soon you might develop depression and he agreed that it was not salable for you to be forced into

, but she stayed for a while leaning against the wall, her thoughts more agitated than ever. Her son had died a few days ago and she was enjoying a swimming pool as if nothing bad had happened? Without thinking about her daughter trapped and condemned to be a sex slave forever, trapped in a room? Andressa didn't know what to think other than that her mother deep down always thought only of herself. That everything that had happened to her unti

ls. Andressa poured herself some juice and stared at Carla, who seemed to be silently waiting for Andressa's explosio

other drinking

an eye on her needs while she was mourning in the pool. I have tried the drink, it really is very good, but I wonder where she got this recipe. The ingredients are expensive..."

a grief." Andressa said quietly, knowing that

tend to do anyt

that she is enjoying herself while her son is buried and thinks her daughter is locked up, eating what she was sending, just to make sure she stays here. And I am also

ow now. Hull the potato because they have already come looking to cook to roast

is. I saw her lying in

many times yet. Don

the potatoes while Carla began to t

s men were almost all dead outside. He then took refuge in the house and exchanged fire with the bandits. More of his father's men were alerted by someone and arrived to help. And while the shooting was going on outside, your father ran into the bedroom and was confronted with the scene that knocked him down for good. His wife had been shot in the head and one of the maids was holding the baby. Which was you. The war outside ended with many dead, but your father's men were victorious. The maid who was holding you in her arms took you and handed you to your father, who was still in shock. He held you and kissed your forehead. He knew that he could not continue to be safe and give you security in that house, for he knew that more men would come, and that they would not rest until they had killed you. He decided to take the maid who took him from his mother's entrails, after ordering them to give his mother a proper burial. He called the men who worked for him and explained that they would no longer be safe there, and that he would go to another country that he commanded, but did

we would move some of them and you would get angry. But we showed you a movie on TV, where the toys came to life when their owners were not around, and you started to believe that they changed places by themselves. Carla recounted as if she remembered something fun, with a smile on her lips, that made Andressa think they were good times. "But, there was one person, one single person, dissatisfied with all that. The maid who married your father, she couldn't see that he gave the same assistance that he gave you to her son. She only stayed away from him more, because she wanted him to grow up knowing who his real father was, and the money that your father tried to spend on the boy, making him a nursery for him with things his age, were used by her for other

you first before I attacked you. One of your men who stayed in the country after I took you for myself told me that you didn't know who she was at first, and that s

again. She died that day, with a stray gunshot wound to the fore

her.... I was an idiot

espond to your love and you wanted to

g boss

g to take everything from you, so that you can feel my suffering. Your daughter will leave here immediately with the woman she married and her own child. I don't care where you go, and I will never seek to know your whereabouts, for the day I do, I will kill all thr

if I r

ryone here. Not only your men, but every family, every man, woman,

as no way out. Actually, he didn't fear the Godfather, he just went with him, becaus

r thought for

say goodbye to her, but it will be in front of me. Some maid can pick her up for you and take ad

went to give his wife notice of these things and to

charge of the states and countries,

wrote to his men, already expecting that they would not obey because they loved him, he wrote one for you and delivered one from your mother. It seemed that he knew you would have a hard time, but the letter could not be delivered until you

with me and her son? Did she go

bring home in money wasn't enough and he died at the hands of the mob he owed. What happened in the house, was no sec

do with me? Gave

who is there in the pool. And then we find out that Thiago was not her son either, that the real mother refused to take care of him, because the father was the man that Gloria loved. And she gave the c

said in astonishment. "And does my father know what is happ

kno

ks of it he does

but he won't release his father. He keeps promising that when the time is right he will release him. He doesn't even know that his father has taken everyth

s really never kno

ut he promised he would not look fo

u even know that there was no stray bulle

he reached up to take you in her arms. But to her I was invisible. Mrs. Gloria didn't care about me. And it was as if she did things and knew that I would never tell. Who would tell such a thing to a father? And it was also me who was on the lookout when she turned her fa

"W

ess I inspire trust..

etter? Why don't yo

you will know your family name, along with your father's and mother's

't contain something I wasn't supposed to know? I...

ords are watched. They know I've always had my eye

ia didn't re

er forget that in this house no one k

Why have you been faithf

already served as an answer for Andressa. And she thou

me. Not even she will suspect that she is being punished, until I decide." Andressa said and stood up, throwing the last peeled potato into the bowl, which surprised Carla twice that day. She hadn't expecte