CHAPTER 107

OLIVIA.

Hot, it was very, very hot that morning in early March.

The months fly by, you don't realize it. And things are happening and passing as if everything was a long corridor that we had to walk down.

The end of the year was a good celebration. For obvious reasons, we preferred to stay at home. Our adrenaline level was already sky high and Carl was not ready to "jump-jump for his life", as he put it. So, we invited his cousin to the apartment, who came with her husband, and a little black box that I didn't see until after the gunshot.

The ring... I still can't believe it.

Carl has told me how he got it, without any shame, managing very well that philosophy of no secrets, although I know we'll always keep for each other some little thing we don't want to say or tell.

But there he was, hugging me from behind as we watched some beautiful fireworks that some neighbors launched outside the entire building.

We watched them from the largest window in the living room, Carl and I, his cous