72. Cancellation

That night, Mr. Alex did not sleep well. Some fragments of a dream kept him awake several times: his first meeting with his wife, when he, the son of a rich businessman, fell in love with Emma, an ordinary girl from an ordinary family.

The opposition of his parents made Alex love her in silence. Not daring to be open. Only when they were alone together, on infrequent occasions, did he declare it. It was painful to remember.

Then, they were finally forced to agree when Emma became pregnant with Lucas. Alex threatened to leave home, even at the risk of being dropped from the family's list of heirs. This decision finally made his parents realize that as long as their son was happy, it didn't matter which family he married into.

In the second part of the dream, Alex seems to be visited by his wife. Emma, who was very beautiful in her old age, said that love should not be manipulated. Let it grow properly—without force and without signs called caste.

The following day, it became clear that