CHAPTER 53

Days later...

Rúbia receives the bishop at her home, as she had called him to confess. It had been years since her parents' death, when she had put spirituality aside. “God has disappointed me more than once”, he had said in his last confession and, without knowing what to say, he had just given a standard answer: “They are the mysteries of God..., very cliché I know, but they are the only one’s words I learned to answer the most complex questions..., excuse me”

Sitting in the living room, the bishop, for a few minutes, is finally called to go up and they talk in private.

Five days later...

Rúbia receives delegate Torres, head of the Romântica central police station, who she herself placed in the position after dismissing the previous one.

A few days after the meeting with the police chief, she sent for a lawyer she had met before, in France, and also had a private meeting with him.

After a few more days, she had a meeting with the three of them together that lasted more than two ho