“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