“Alessandro”I was sitting in a dark room in my apartment. I couldn’t look at my bed without remembering the incredible night I had with Catarina, feeling despair take over me knowing that it had been a huge lie. How could she do this to me? I was consumed by the pain of that woman’s betrayal.Ever since that party years ago, the day my parents died, I hadn’t gotten involved with anyone, I said I wouldn’t fall in love after being abandoned by that woman. But then I let Catarina into my life and so quickly, in fact I didn’t let her, she simply arrived and took up all the space. And she was the snake that struck and completely devastated me.I was in heaven today and suddenly I was pulled into hell. When the hacker called me saying that only Patrício, Mari and I were going, because he already knew where the information had been leaked, I couldn’t imagine that it had been precisely her, the woman I was in love with.When I read those emails I felt like a steamroller was going over me. I

I was completely lost, not knowing what to do. Mel left early, insisted on taking Pedro to daycare and Lygia insisted on spending the day with me. I thought it was great, she is a wonderful person, she gave me a lot of advice and said that no evil lasts forever.Mel left in the morning and told me not to do anything, that she would talk to her father and that at night we would decide what to do. But I was bothered by this, I was already taking up too much of the Lascurans.Lygia and I had lunch and she told me about her children and grandchildren, none of them lived in Porto Paraíso and they lived too far away for her to see them every week. She told me she was very happy to be able to take care of Pedro.In the afternoon she went to the market and then she would pick Pedro up. She told me to rest, but I took the opportunity to call my parents. I was going to tell them what had happened and that I would be coming home.The intercom rang and the doorman told me that an employee from th

“Alessandro”Yesterday I came to work with a violent hangover and was in no mood for anything. Mariana, Alencar, Patrício and Rick spent the day defending Catarina, saying they couldn't believe she would send those emails and betray me like that. They scolded me for not listening to her and were now waiting for news from the audit to see what they would find out.Mariana had gone to the finance department to get the documents that were supposedly going to be checked. When she got there, Junqueira called me indignantly, spewing a bunch of nonsense in my ear, but I was too tired to pay attention, I just told him to hand everything over to Mariana if he didn't want to lose his job.Mariana took the documents and took them to the audit department to analyze. I told Alencar that it was nonsense, since the documents were there and Junqueira had handed them over, Celeste hadn't leaked the information. Alencar warned me that since he already had a copy of everything, it would be best to compa

“Alessandro”I was completely shocked when Hector handed me a glass of brandy.- Drink it, it will calm you down. And after you calm down, tell me what happened. – Hector spoke very seriously and picked up the phone. – Maurício, I released Miss Catarina for the rest of the day. Thank you.Hector hung up the phone, sat in front of me and drank with me. After three shots I finally managed to say:- I screwed up everything, Hector. I ruined my only chance of being happy. I love this woman and I screwed up everything, I made her hate me.Hector took another sip of brandy and said softly:- Since when are you a defeatist who gives up on things at the first closed door?I looked at him as if five more heads had grown on his neck, it seemed like he didn't understand that Catarina hated me.- I'm going to call Patrício to meet him and the three of us are going to get drunk at my house. - He said, standing up. - Give me the keys to your car.As I was handing him the keys to my car, Heitor call

I looked at everyone in that room without understanding anything. In addition to me and my boss, Mr. Maurício, Melissa and Mr. Martinez, there were Alessandro, Patrício, Rick, Mari and Alencar.What was this? I looked at Mel and she shrugged, she was as confused as I was. Mr. Martinez pulled out the chair, indicating that I should sit next to Alessandro. Was he messing with me?I was already imagining that this was just another trap by Alessandro to get to talk to me. Of course he wouldn't buy the system. But I would be professional and do my best there, at least my boss could evaluate my performance.- Catarina, please, I know you're a great professional and can handle this. – Heitor said as if he had read my mind. – I asked for your presence because you worked at the Mellendez Group and you're familiar with the problem they're facing now.- Of course, sir. In whatever way I can help. – I sat down and acted professionally.Mr. Maurício started the presentation of the software and I g