Chapter 42

• Claudia
• "It's up to you whether you want to stick to your original plan or show your claws and fight for what you know is yours," Cassandra says. "I know for a fact that it's not Fernando, that man is crazy about you. He brought that woman back into his house because he felt guilty about what happened. The fact that he settled for the police report and didn't uncover the truth on his own is what's destroying him while he suffers from your absence. I'm not saying you should go and offer to be his lover, no, that's not what I want because then I would personally rip your ovaries out. I only advise you to think clearly about what you really want and not let yourself be guided by impulses or emotions. It's not always good to react without thinking first, or maybe in your case it was the best, but think about how many days you've been away from him and how much you've missed him," she pauses to take a sip of the amber liquid. "What you feel is clearly love, and no matter how short the time you spent with him was, love is a strange and capricious force that loves to complicate things so that those who love each other fight and earn the right to love and be happy," she continues.
• "It's easy for you to say when you have a perfect life, but Isabella has told me the same thing and I suppose before you had what you have now, you also went through difficult situations," I point out. "But I don't know how to go back. I don't have a strong character like yours, nor am I as imposing as any of you," I add.