His frustration is present, seeing that the message was from the music school. The teacher was sick and classes were canceled. "Great." Evie mutters, leaving her phone on the table. "What was it?" Felippa does not expect Evangeline to offer the cell phone. She herself picks up and reads the received message. "Ah... how annoying. At least your nights are free for now. What are you doing today?” "Practice. There is nothing better to do.” Evangeline holds her cell phone and leaves the restaurant without waiting for her friend. The elevator leaves her on the roof, where she goes directly to the minibar and holds the bottle that was with less liquid. That’s the one Alec had served for him when talked. "I’m alone." she grumbles, looking at the bottle. "What bad can happen?” Once the bottle -obviously- does not answer it, Evangeline removes the lid and turns the hot liquid right into her mouth. She grimaces and contemplates not drinking again. [...] The insistent ringing of t
She walked up to the short man in a suit, smiling and laughing at him. After some hugs and conversations near the ear, Felippa turned in the direction of the limousine and motioned to the other two women. Evie left the car first and helped Audrey then. The place was big and noisy. As Felippa and Audrey walked among the people, swaying in the rhythm of the music they played, Evangeline looked around with disdain. Her influence on classical music from an early age made her hate exactly where she was. "What a burial face!" Audrey yells at Evangeline as soon as they sit down at a table. "Hey?” The blonde pulls the mango of a waiter who passed by and asks him to bring his best and most expensive drinks. And a bottle of water. "I won’t wait for drinks. I want to dance!” Felippa leaves the table, making Audrey sigh relieved. She was eager to be alone with Evangeline. "Hey!" she pushes the redhead with her shoulder. " You don’t like ballads, do you?” "Is it that obvious?” "Ot
Drawing strength from where she never imagined she would, Evangeline raises her knee and hits Eric’s intimate parts. The moment he walks away, to complain about the aggression suffered, Evie closes her hand in fist and hits a wrong punch in his face. Without shaking with that and holding her intimate parts, Eric pushes her, walks away and shouting how slutty she is. Sitting on the floor, seeking her dignity, Evangeline cries. She feels that she is in that room again, with her clothes torn. "Hey! Evangeline?" Audrey, who was also looking for the bathroom, almost stumbles on the redheaded girl sitting on the floor. "Are you crying? What happened?” Although she tries to speak, despair takes over her body and she feels that an anxiety crisis is happening. Audrey also notices, then quickly grabs her by the arm and uses all her strength to take her away from all those people. After a few minutes searching, they enter the area reserved for smokers. "Leave." Audrey says, looking at the
The test was positive, obviously. Amid the tears, I told my mother what had happened. She cursed me bitch down. He said that I deserved all the pain the world was able to cause me and that now I would know what it was like to have life destroyed by a baby out of time. I let her go and looked for the one person I should be looking for at that moment. Eric. He did even worse than my mother. He said I wanted his money and was using the pregnancy for that. That since I had the courage to have sex with three different men on the same night and act like it was no big deal, it could have happened to other people as well. Eric kicked me out and told me never to look for him again." "I lost the baby, two weeks after graduation." Evie says, drying her face again. She had not stopped crying since the mention of Eric’s name. "It was painful, since the child was almost formed, but I believe it was deliverance. I can’t imagine what my life would be like today if that pregnancy had paid off.”
Alec hadn’t been able to pay attention at work all day. While investors and directors talked and expounded their ideas for an upcoming job, Alec only thought of ways he would torture the man who nearly hurt Evangeline. And standing in front of the bar where Diego and his gang were dealing, his thoughts remained the same. Alec couldn’t take his eyes off the door, where two men talked and shared a marijuana cigarette. It had been an hour that he was there and Diego had not yet appeared. Alec’s phone beeped, informing a new message. Hopeful that it was Evangeline, he looked quickly. Upon reading his older sister’s name, Alec rolled his eyes and almost gave up on opening the message. Upon seeing the image of Evangeline, trapping her rebellious red hair in a high ponytail, Alec smiles. Before he could question his sister, what she was doing with Evangeline, Howard hits her arm. "He arrived." informs, making Alec look quickly at the door. "Let’s go?” "Wait a minute.” Alec watches D
"She’s the woman your son is in love with. Do you really want to contest her presence?” "Alec is in surgery." finally says. "He..." Blake looks again in the direction of Evangeline. "How much does she know?” "Everything.” "Wow... Alec really... well. He got into a mess with our enemies on the north side." Evie looks at the conversation, hearing the word north. "With a single shot, he killed the Colombian, but before that bastard died, he shot Alec twice.” "My God! Has he been there long?” "It must be more than two hours." Blake comments, looking at the Rolex watch on his wrist. "No one comes to tell me about his condition.” Audrey hugs her father and pulls him to sit. Evie slowly walks away and looks for the hospital cafeteria. Upon finding her, she goes to the counter and asks for coffee and tea. While waiting, Evie sits on the bench and notices a man sitting at a table behind the counter. She then abandons the bench and goes to him. "Is it my fault?" asks suddenly, causi
It was the first time she looked at Alec, without having to look away out of shame from some phrase said by him. After a week without seeing him, Evie had noticed that Alec was growing a beard and had some gaps on the side. On his neck, there were three birthmarks, which looked like the three marias stars. Alec only had tattoos on his arms and none seemed to have any meaning, as they were just random drawings. A little below the figure he had tattooed, was a band, protecting the wound that had been made by one of the bullets. Evie found herself caressing Alec’s straight hair and pulling some strands from his forehead. His fingers slipped across his face and a sideways smile sprouted from his lips. "Shit, Alec." Evie murmurs, still caressing him. "I can’t believe this is happening.” She wasn’t just talking about him getting into a mess and being hospitalized. Ever since Audrey told about Alec being shot, Evangeline’s heart was beating out of control. When the doctor informed him
As soon as she finishes packing up, Evie holds the chair and pushes Alec out of the room and consecutively out of the hospital. Howard, who was waiting in the car, quickly approaches, seeing the two leave. "Leave it to me." he says to Evangeline, occupying himself in pushing the chair to the car. He lightly hits Alec’s shoulder and squeezes him. "What a fright, brother. Don’t do that anymore.” "No one can talk about it.” After helping Alec sit in the back seat, Evie occupies the empty seat next to Howard. "How’s business?" Howard looks sideways at Evangeline, who just nods in denial. Alec frowns and faces the two interchangeably. "What was that?” "The doctor asked for at least another week away from his..." she looks sideways at Alec. "professional activities.” "What? This is absurd! I’m..." in an attempt to get closer to the front seats, Alec ends up feeling pain in the belly points. "Oh...” "Great. We can see that.” He snorts and settles down, this time more calmly.
"Today is five years since the great fire that destroyed the old Baker family factory in New York. In addition to some bodies that were unrecognizable due to fire, the bodies of Paul and Jonah Baker were found. At the time of the incident, the only heiress of the family, Davine Baker, who was hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic, was released and put her mouth on the world, saying that her father was the mastermind for the death of former city magnate Blake Castello. Since then, our press has been searching for the Castello family, but none of them have been seen more. With the exception of Dominique, former Castello and also former Harris, who travels the world and makes clicks to each country. All the other family members disappeared, as if there were no more. Where did they..." The television is turned off suddenly and the girl looks back furious. "Hey! I was watching.” "It’s time for school, Allegra. You shouldn’t be seeing information about New York.” The girl rolls her e
"I am not available at the moment, leave your message and I will return soon." That electronic message that sounded every time Alec called Evangeline’s phone was making him extremely angry. He had tried to contact her several times throughout the day, but she had not returned her messages or phone calls. At the end of the day, Alec decided to personally go look for her. He began by visiting the places he knew she frequented, but no one seemed to have seen her or Allegra. Not even in the taco food truck she loved to go to. Alec became increasingly concerned and decided to go to Evangeline’s house. He knocked on the door several times, but got no answer. He started playing the intercom several times, but still, no one answered. "Shit!" He grunts, banging his foot on the balcony floor. "Alec? ls everything okay?” "Felippa!" Alec hurries to her and holds her by the shoulders, which leaves her alarmed, by the state of agony. “Do you know where Evangeline is? I’ve been calling
Evangeline woke up that Saturday with a strange feeling in her chest. She had agreed with Allegra that that day would be only two of them, where they could do whatever they wanted. The little one chose to go to a park, where they spent the day in complete harmony. They walked through the grass, fed the ducks they had in the lake, had a picnic and lay on the cloth, facing the shape of the clouds. When the afternoon was falling, Allegra wanted to have an ice cream before going. As soon as she asks for two ice cream, Evangeline realizes she only has a single fifty dollar bill in her purse. "I’ll go around the corner and change and be right back.” Mother and daughter sit on the bench next to the cart, enjoying the strawberry ice cream. Suddenly a large black van stops before them and opens the door, showing two hooded and armed men. They jump out of the van quickly, frightening them both. Evangeline quickly raises her arms, trembling all over. "You can take everything." she says
"What was so urgent that you filled me with calls?" Alec asks Howard when the driver walks into his mansion office. "In fact, I took courage and proposed to Evangeline in marriage.” "Really, boss? Did you give up the ring that’s been in storage for ten years?” "It is..." he smiles passionately, as if he were not a violent mobster. "but do not tell her about it. I do not want to look like a soft man.” Howard laughs, almost forgetting the reason that led him there. "I would never do that. Anyway...” "You can talk. Don’t bullshit.” "First, as you asked me, I found Leah’s whereabouts. Evangeline’s mother.” "So what?” "She really is dead." Alec sighs deeply. "It’s been a few years since it happened. Looks like she was prostituting herself to get money for drugs. One of these days, she overdosed in a cheap motel room and a maid found her. At least she was carrying papers and managed to get a proper burial.” "It’s... less bad. But that’s not all you have to talk about.” "
The two lovers spent the entire dinner facing each other like two fools. They managed to eat with only one hand, because they could not uncouple the other. As they leave the restaurant, Alec decides to stop by an ice cream shop and take Allegra’s favorite candy. Halfway there, he receives a message from Howard, informing him that he needs to talk to him urgently. "Does it bother you if we see each other tomorrow?" Alec asks, dropping his cell phone. “I think he has some business problem. Many missed calls from Howard and a message wanting to talk urgently.” "All right. I think telling Allegra the news alone will be better for her head. Especially with chocolate ice cream.” Alec stops by Evangeline’s condo and they say goodbye there. After a kiss full of vows of love, Evie abandons the car and walks towards her best friend’s house. "Hi, Felps." she greets the woman, who was sitting on her balcony. When looking at her house, she is strange because everything is off. "Is Alle
When the conversation with Jude ended and they decided everything about Evangeline’s new job, the redhead left the school building, feeling nostalgic. She had her head in the clouds, thinking about everything that was happening in her life, which she did not even notice in the car and the man standing before her. Alec had to give her a whistle to stop and notice her presence. "Love!" Evie spins in the small jump she used and hurries to hug him. "What longing.” "A month to move in was too much. Don’t you think?” "No." she murmurs, scraping her lips into his. "This made my longing for you, make me climb the walls.” "Don’t talk like that... even more leaning on me like that.” The reaction Evangeline caused in Alec’s body was instantaneous. As she felt the volume in the middle of her beloved’s legs, she laughed and moved away a little. "Sorry!” "Ah, come on." he holds it in his hand and pulls it to his arms again. "Later we solve it, for now, we go to dinner. You have a l
As soon as he landed in New York, Alec went to his company headquarters, where he would meet with his partner, Paul Baker. For Paul, it would just be a routine meeting to discuss whether the merger between the two families was successful. The two mobsters sat in a dark, well"protected room at a meeting to discuss business. They looked at each other intensely before they started talking. "So, how are things in our territories?" Alec asks, opening some buttons of his jacket. "All right, all right. We’re expanding our operations and we’ve been bringing more money into the business.” "That’s good. I heard our rivals are causing problems again. What’s the situation?” "Yes, they are meddling in our business. But don’t worry, we have trusted men taking care of it. They won’t cause any more problems.” If there was one thing Paul Baker was good at, it was solving problems. Mostly using violence. "Great. But you know I’m a busy man, and I need to make sure that everything is unde
When the moving truck stopped in front of Evangeline’s house, she came down and helped Allegra do the same, ready to give instructions where she wanted things to be placed. Before he even opened the door, his phone started vibrating in his pocket. It was more than one of several messages from Alec. The last one was audio. "It doesn’t make any sense for you not to stay at my house. Audrey already pissed me off, asking me what I’d done to make you not want to live with us." Evie rolls her eyes and puts her phone away again, finally opening the door. She decides to keep watching everything outside. Allegra sat on the curb, watching some random videos on the internet. "Evangeline?" She turns and finds Howard coming down from a car. "You’re here!” "He told you to come here? I won’t live in the mansion! Alec is impossible.” Howard laughs and shakes his head in negative. "Not really. Today is my day off. I came..." the driver looks sideways at Felippa’s house. "Felippa called me
Alec’s cell phone alarm was set to wake up every day at seven in the morning. And as it was Sunday, hearing that noise, Evangeline grumbled for him to hang up and continue to sleep. Since his phone had been in his pants pocket, which was lying on the floor of his room, Alec had to get up to go there. When he opened his eye and sat down, he noticed a small figure beside the door, looking towards them with a lot of curiosity. "Evie?" Alec calls, pushing her slowly. "Evangeline?” "What do you want, Alec? Can’t find your phone?” "I think you’d better sit down.” Sleepily, the redhead lifts her body up and yawns, staring at Alec. As he stared forward, she followed his gaze and found Allegra there. "Daughter!" Evangeline gets up quickly and goes to the confused girl. "Hi... I..." she looks at Alec. "Get dressed! Come with me, Allegra.” Evangeline holds the girl’s arm and leads her to the room. "I can explain." she says, looking at her daughter. "What?” The woman blinks