Chapter 61

(Renata Valentini)

I can't stop crying, it's been a day since I found out that I am pregnant by the man who abandoned me and who is also most likely already married to another woman.

It took me a week to accept that I was really abandoned. For seven long days, I called every five minutes, stopping only when the female voice on the line said that the number dialed did not exist. This was like a bucket of cold water in my head that insisted that he would come back, that he would explain himself and that we would continue together.

At work, Sophie disappeared the day after the discussion in the boardroom. I asked Lucas, and he replied that she went back to her country with her husband. At lunchtime, without wanting to, I overheard some girls gossiping that the current president (Lucas) was having an affair with Sophie and that this was why he was so angry, because his mistress had left. I was shocked, I would never have imagined that a woman as gentle as she was would be capable of betra