CHAPTER 73

NELLY

I hold back a laugh as I watch Hordellis Bragança explain the difference between a good man and a rubbish boy to Cassandra, inevitably the latter looks to me for help, and I'm forced to interfere, reinforcing to my babies' grandmother that Cassandra can't just hit her his ex-lover's wife's door and say she's expecting the guy's baby. It would be cruel.

However, the Bragança matriarch disagrees and waves her hand at me in pure disdain.

" We women need to unite, warning that poor woman of the treacherous snake she keeps indoors won't do any harm." argues, and I cannot disagree. Alice, on the other hand, said that she would prefer not to hear about a betrayal from her lover's mouth.

It's a good point, too.

Anyway, it's an unnecessary discussion now that Cassandra has started going out with Octávio, my former psychologist.

I mean, she keeps saying they're just friends, but I don't miss the twinkle in her eye when she mentions his name.

Kiara just laughs and brags that she never fel