Odete Silva assinou to his letter of missão with as many to tremer violently, feeling the cold paper on the point of the pen caneta. There is the imposing rear door of the Garza family’s mansion, located in the elite neighborhood of Lomas de Chapultepec, without looking back. Minutes later, sitting on the frozen bench and leaving the Chabacano subway station, with the pulsating heart of the City of Mexico, the open envelope was kneaded. Once again, I felt a tear that ran down my face and ripped the pregnancy test in 82 tiny pieces that no one could ever put back together. On that miserable day, she fervently believed that she was completely in the world.

The story that culminated in the metro bank began months before. The mansão dos Garza was a bastion of power and ostentation. Don Alejandro Garza, or implacable patriarch, commanded his vast empire of tequila exportation with a iron mão, without space for the least human error and, much less, for sentiments. His oldest son, Diego, was his exact copy: cold, calculating and always focused on millionaire profits. However, Mateo Garza was different. At the age of 23, he had a surname that opened all the doors of Mexico, except the door that he most wanted to open: to his own emotional freedom. Instead of analyzing bandage charts, Mateo took refuge in his immense home library, looking for something that would give meaning to his privileged, more oca, life.

It was exactly the same carvalved library that Odete saw for the first time. She is 22 years old, her dark hair imprisoned in a modest coke, an impeccable uniform that smells of burning and the hardness of life. Morava in the humble neighborhood of Iztapalapa, drove 2 buses and 1 meter every day at dawn, and worked for 15 years to support her aunt. The short dialogues about books quickly evolve. As weeks will turn into months, and as conversations in the library will become furtive encounters in the backyard, always after 10 at night, when the rest of the opulent mansion is no longer asleep. Only Nana Rosa, the governess whom Mateo raised, knew about romance. He saw the light of the rapacious eyes, but remained silent for Virgin of Guadalupe, fearing a tragedy that would be different from social classes.

A tragedy didn’t take long. On a cold night, Mateo decided that he would propose. Buy 1 discreet ring with your own bags. However, Don Alejandro demanded that Mateo travel to Madrid the following day to sign a vital contract. Mateo agreed, planning to do so or requesting that he return. But fate was cruel. Under a torrential rainwater on the European roads, the car in which Mateo was traveling skidded violently. The metal to be removed was the last thing that was heard before disappearing into a deep coma.

In Mexico, Diego and Don Alejandro decided to mitigate the severity of the accident. Only 1 cold note was planted during our days. When Odete saw the news on his old telephone, he ran in panic to the patriarch’s desk. She was blocked by Diego, who looked with deep anger and shot the cruelest lie in the world: “He doesn’t resist. My arm is dead. Turn to clean.”

O world of Odete desabou. She fainted in the corridor and was taken to a public supersized hospital, where the doctor revealed that she was 6 weeks pregnant. Genuinely moved by the desire that the late father’s last name was lost, Odete returned home to tell the truth. Don Alejandro’s response was monstrous. Sidelined by 2 implacable lawyers, he destroyed the tribunais and robbed the children if they ever opened their mouths. Forced and terrified, Odete was killed and destroyed the 82 pieces of the pregnancy test for the train station’s box. Or filho would be just from it.

What Odete didn’t know was that, thousands of kilometers away, Mateo’s heart continued to beat. Exactly 5 years later, Mateo’s eyes opened in a white hospital room. Diego lay on the bed and, with an icy, calculating smile, whispered a lie that would reveal the fate of everyone: “A business? She sold herself for 1 check the next day after your accident and ran away with another homem.” A silent fury began to be born in Mateo’s heart, but in truth it was hidden in the poor streets of the city. It could not be proven that it was ready to happen…

PART 2

Mateo Garza’s rehabilitation was a slow and agonizing torture that lasted exactly 6 months. His body was fragile, but his mind was a turbulence of confusion and pain. Diego’s lie about Odete’s supposed abandonment poisoned his thoughts, transforming the genuine love he felt into a profound magic. When he finally received his discharge and returned to a luxurious mansion in Lomas de Chapultepec, at the age of 28, Mateo was a ghost inside his own house. He walked through marble corridors supported by a flare, feeling the empty echo of the extravagant walls. Don Alejandro treated his return as just a commercial transaction that had just happened, while Doña Elena, her mother, barely bothered to organize a superficial display of boas-vindas to maintain appearances for Mexican high society.

The only person who really cared for Mateo was Nana Rosa. However, the governor was terrified of Diego’s constant threats, fearing that she would lose her 30-year job and end up in misery. Therefore, keep your lips sealed whenever Mateo wonders if Odete has left at least 1 letter, 1 bill, 1 explanation. “As people wordless, my child. Rest,” was all that Rosa managed to say, swallowing up the guilt that was eating away at her insides.

Almost 1 year after he woke up from a coma, fate intervened relentlessly. On a chaotic Saturday, Mateo drives his car through congested traffic from a small street, very long from his comfort zone. Suddenly, a small plastic ball rolled off the road. Mateo worked hard, his heart skipped a beat. 1 small boy run to recover or jump, alheio ao perigo. Mateo got out of the car quickly, leaning on his bengal, with the intention of reprimanding the child for his own sake. But when a 5-year-old boy raises his face, he bleeds from Mateo Gelou. My child has exactly the same five eyes that he has not seen in all his hands. The same shoulder is slightly arched on the right side. Or the same involuntary gesture of destroying the head.

“Leo! Come back here!” The strident cry of a woman is short or dejected. Odete emerged to run, pushing his little arm and instinctively placing himself behind his body, like a lion protecting its young. When she raised her eyes to apologize to the driver, her face completely disappeared. Mateo was dead, alive, just 2 meters away. The crash was so brutal that the bag of mercenaries that the security guard fell, throwing oranges onto the asphalt he left behind.

“Matthew?” She whispered, loudly, as if she were waiting to see an apparition of the Day of the Dead.

O boy, clinging to mãe’s calças, olhou from Mateo to Odete. “Mom, what is this sir?”

To reveal the unrolling of a cement bench on the street, under the relentless sun. Thus truths told for 5 long years were spilled like incandescent lava. Odete told about the fainting, about pregnancy, about the day she returned to her home and was arrested by Don Alejandro and 2 lawyers who wanted to start the case in which she lost her precious surname Garza. He recounted Diego’s cold words, guaranteeing that Mateo had died in the hospital in Madrid. Mateo, like most out of pure rage, revealed in a late version that he had told his family to remember his coma. After realizing that he has spent 5 years in the life of his son, he has transformed his sadness into untamed anger.

Naquela same night, a tame in Lomas de Chapultepec trembling with the alicerces. Mateo invaded the covered desk in the dark, where Don Alejandro and Diego toasted with tequila to more than 1 quarter of record profits. Mateo atirou 1 heavy glass flake against the wall, stilhaçando o silencio.

“Vocês roubaram-me o meu filho!” O roar of Mateo echoou hairs runners. “He told me that she was dead! And then he told me that she was an interesting prostitute!”

Diego smiled with scorn, crossing his arms. “Let’s say that it was necessary to protect the empire, irmãozinho. A person in Iztapalapa with a bastard would devalue our assets, stain our alliances. You should thank us.”

Don Alejandro rose up, with a threatening posture that terrified businessmen all over the world. “You come out through that back door of that lower-class woman, Mateo, I’m retiring from you. As you tell me, as your inheritance, as your company’s achievements. You’re done with 0.”

Mateo olhou para las caras daqueles 2 monstros como los quais partilhava o sangue. With a lethal calm, put my hand in my purse, throw away the keys of the luxury car, the unlimited cards of credit and the gold watch that I left behind. Everything fell onto the wooden table with a loud noise. “You can deceive yourself like your empire of blood and lies. My name belongs to me, and you will build my true family without the longe of your rotten.”

When Mateo headed along the coast and walked through the marble corridor for the last time, he found Nana Rosa through the back doors. She kept a small travel bag and tin or uniform folded in her arms. “It’s been 30 years to cleanse your family from this family, my child,” said a young woman, with tears of freedom in our eyes. “No more clean.”

The following years have proven the maxim that true wealth is not measured in bank accounts. Mateo começou do zero. He rented a small building in the industrial zone and founded his own logistics company. The first 6 months were brutish, working 15 hours a day, eating cheap sandwiches and sleeping on top of a torn sofa without a desk to save money. But every Saturday, around 9 a.m., he was on the beach to play soccer with Leo. Odete observed for a long time, a distrust and through a new betrayal to give way to a deep admiration. Mateo didn’t force anything. He provoked his love with actions, with a constant presence, with an absolute refusal to desist.

The moment in which everything healed happened one night in which Leo had a perilous peak of high fever. Eram 3 days manhã. When Odete, desperate, agreed to go look for medicine, she found Mateo already sitting next to the child’s bed, applying wet cloths to the child’s head, with eyes filled with pure concern and dedication. Nessa silent dawn, Odete embrace the coasts, forgiving nothing that the Garza family has done, but freeing Mateo two sins of his surname.

Barely 4 years after his dramatic departure, Mateo’s modest company now has 32 people in its team of officials and solid contracts throughout Latin America. They bought a house with 2 rooms with a closet and a safe bathroom, where the walls had traces of wax pencils and the soup flooded the kitchen.

The poetic justice of life does not spare Garza. Don Alejandro suffered a devastating attack and was completely isolated, without anyone in the corporate world that loved him so much shedding a single tear. Diego Mergulhou led a series of corruption and escape scandals to Europe to avoid prison, leaving the vast mansion of Chapultepec empty and rotten in its skeleton.

On a bright Sunday afternoon, Mateo watched Jane in his new room. Not a small garden, Leo, now 9 years old, was trying to teach old Nana Rosa to kick a ball. See you closer to Mateo, resting with your children in your own round belly with 6 months of your second pregnancy – this time, a girl. Mateo gently touched his wife’s belly, feeling a slight shock from the child who was on his way. Ele puxou Odete for 1 calm and deep beijo, smiling against her lips. The family that he built by hand, without millionaire inheritances and without toxic ties, was there, unbreakable, proving to the universe that lies can destroy an empire of lies, but they will never be able to demolish the love forged in absolute truth.