Chapter 32

• Maximiliano had always hated his father, even though he hadn't known him very well, and the memories he had about him were too vague to pay attention to; his mother had always told him that he had to forgive to heal, but it was impossible for him to forgive a man who had abandoned him to his fate. His grandfather had always hated the man his daughter had married, and that was why he had always thought of leaving him in misery, so that he could learn a lesson, but he had never been so cruel, and perhaps, the incapacity not being able to be really cruel, had been inherited by his grandson, who was looking at the floor in a lost way.
• Dylan was sleeping, his grandfather wasn't there, Amelia was in another room in that house, they didn't usually spend any time together, only when his grandfather was there, and he found himself observing absolute nothingness, immersing himself in memories, thoughts, emotions. He had cried three times, breaking down and then coming together again, not even all the gold he had grown up with around him had been enough to prevent his childhood from being dark and stormy, always plagued by pain, by that feeling of abandonment that he did not leave, that up to that point in his life he felt that he was not freed and that he would not be freed; he had promised himself that when his child was born, he would be the most present and caring father in the world, he had promised himself not to let Dylan suffer any abandonment.
• The pain inside him was intense and suffocating, especially since he had to deal with that hell alone, he knew that her mother was sick of hearing it; he felt that he was almost completely over the death of his wife, which he would never get over, it was Dylan asking why everyone had a mom except him, but the little boy had gone much further, asking if Amelia was his "new mother" , that had broken his heart, he had dodged the child's question, because seeing Dylan's emotion at having "a mother figure" in his life was too much to want to break it like that, he knew how children were, they always got excited quickly, hewas beginning to think all that was a bad idea.