When faced with this harsh reality, the disagreement he had months ago with his old girlfriend came to mind. Then she started to ask herself if the person behind the wheel of that black car was not her. In a way, threatening him for having abandoned her and, moreover, denouncing the aggressions suffered. Not counting the hypothesis that she was jealous when he saw her in the constant company of another woman.

 Sophia couldn't even imagine how correct her conclusions were, in fact she was in danger of life, but not only her but also her friend, because in Brenda's sick mind they had already become lovers. It created their false expectations, when in reality what existed between the two was just a strong friendship that united them. Even though from Sofia there was a certain amount of passion, but Lana was still innocent about it.  Because she proved to be averse to such a relationship and Sofia preferred to hide her interest from her in order to avoid breaking up in the companionship, she acquired in her.

Throughout that week they worked hard, one managing their restaurants and the other a decoration company. It was a sunny summer morning, the secretary communicates the decorator of the presence of a supposed client who wanted to hire her services, and she is soon attended to. Without personally knowing the gym teacher or having any idea of ​​the risk she was taking from that moment on. It was available to the client to provide its services.

Using a false name, with great skill she says she bought a property that needed to undergo a new decoration. She then provides the address where they would meet so that the decorator could assess the place and budget the costs. That same afternoon Lana makes a brief visit to Sophia's restaurant. And, after having lunch in the pleasant company of her friend.

She goes to the meeting with the alleged client, in order to evaluate her property. The place was privileged and did not raise any suspicions of risks, although only the two women were there at that moment. The building was new and looked unoccupied, there was no living soul around. It was located close to other condominiums, all of which were already inhabited and on the banks of a busy avenue.

With the keys to the apartment, Brenda goes up with the decorator to the fifth floor. Enter and show the empty environment, without any furniture, the appearance of the place should be modified by the professional who without wasting time made use of his material to create a design compatible with the wide space. While walking around the place and designing the best way to apply a new look to the apartment, the false client, in another room, prepared him for an unpleasant surprise.

After making her notes and being ready to return to her office, intending to join the other employees and carry out the new project with them, she was still absent-mindedly gathering her material, when she felt a strong blow at the height of the skull, falling soon afterwards. completely fainted. The violent blow received was made with a thick piece of wood used in the constructions. causing instantaneous and lethal cerebral hemorrhage, leading to immediate death, wearing gloves to hide the fingerprints.

Brenda commits the barbaric murder against that innocent and hurries away. Wearing black clothes and shoes, a cap over her head and sunglasses, all in order to avoid being recognized by any spectator who might be watching everything. The decorator's car was parked for several hours at the same spot until curious people passing by decided to go and find out what it was about.

After checking all the land around and finding nothing, they went up and searched all the free rooms of the newly built buildings, but nothing was found, but the apartments still needed to be checked, but these were under lock and key. They then called the police and a group of investigators were sent to gather information and try to solve the mystery.

 The military also supported the investigations, the construction company responsible for the project sent a team to open all the apartments and after an exhaustive search around the perimeter the decorator's body was located, Lana was lying face down in a pool of blood. The experts assessed the place, concluding that the crime had been committed a few hours ago and that the victim would have been hit in the back in a moment of distraction. Since, due to the characteristics found, she did not try to avoid the death blow, so the victim did not notice the arrival of the aggressor.

 The crime did not prove to have been a robbery or sexual abuse as the victim had not been raped and her belongings were still in place. Nothing was taken and his personal documents facilitated his identification and were able to locate relatives who communicated the fact to family and friends, among them Sophia. It was already night, when the cell phone rang insistently. Awakening in the businesswoman the curiosity to know the reason for such urgency. After answering the call and knowing why he insisted.

 He fainted, falling on the living room carpet, remaining unconscious until he came to himself, an hour later. Lana body was handed over to family members and kept hidden in the Santo chapel. Augustine, in the neighborhood where she lived. Dozens of people mourned his tragic death, including employees, friends and family, as well as many customers to whom he provided various services.

After all, she was one of the most respected decorators. While everyone mourned the loss of their friend, daughter and professional, Brenda stayed at the gym. He carried out his work as if he knew nothing about it, but nothing goes unnoticed before the gleaming eyes of fate. And he saw the great cowardice of how she made use of that innocent life and determined that in the near future she would pay for the terrible harm done. Lana was buried twenty-four hours after being found dead in that apartment with her skull crushed by a heavy blow.

The lives of people who knew her and enjoyed her friendship continued. But the months didn’t heal the pain of losing her, it just helped to overcome her absence. The killer continued to run her business, teaching at the gym located next to Sophia's restaurant, pretending not to give a damn, even turning her back on watching her pass, all in order not to raise suspicions of the crime committed.

A plot from the beyond put Luiza and Brenda on the same path, they met at a mutual friend's birthday party. They were introduced and became close friends, when they revealed their sexual options and, thus, the affinity grew even more, and in a few weeks, they were already dating. The relationship between the two became more and more intense, to the point that there were no more secrets from both parties with regard to the present, as the past was of little interest. However, it would have been better for Brenda if she knew that Luiza knew Sophia and that they had a troubled relationship.

But how they chose the anonymity of what they once lived with other people. Giving little importance to these facts. Everything remained obscure and would later turn into a huge snowball that would roll over the two lovers. Almost a year after having committed the barbaric crime against her rival, Brenda could no longer bear to keep that terrible secret to herself. So, she decided to reveal everything to the one she learned to trust blindly, in a frank conversation with her girlfriend she exposes her secret:

   — I need to tell you a very serious secret

   — I didn't know you had such serious secrets

   — Yeah, but I have, and I can't keep them just for myself anymore, I need to let someone know and I just trust to share them with you

   — Well, we agreed that our past would be left behind and that nothing we did before would matter in our present, but if it bothers you so much and you really need to share it with me, come on, tell me what it is about

 It wouldn't be easy for her to talk about something so monstrous, she was afraid that Luiza would react negatively when she heard the truth about her mistake, but she knew that sooner or later she would end up discovering everything and if she had to know the whole story that was transmitted. in his own words, then he overcame fear and expectations, putting his worst moment in life on clean plates:

    — I committed a crime in the past, before we met

    — How, like, a crime? You caused someone great harm, incalculable damage that you can no longer repair, was that it? Now, who in this world has never done any kind of evil to another person? Forget it!

    — No, you don't understand, I killed someone!

    — What?

    — Please calm down, it was a moment of weakness!

    — Are you telling me that you have committed a heinous crime.

That you have taken someone else's life, and come with this weakness?

    — That's right, I killed for love!

    — Did you kill for love? You are crazy? Nobody who loves commits such evil, this concept of love is insanity without limits!

    — She took from me someone I loved, it was not fair to let this go unnoticed, I needed to take revenge on this betrayal!

    — You, perhaps, did not realize that the person who chose to exchange you for her was the one who committed the betrayal and not the one who was killed unjustly. And that if she chose to leave it was because the love, she felt was over and she certainly had her reasons for giving up to be by her side?

    — I know that, I should have punished them both, but I didn't have the courage, because the passion I still felt was tremendous, so I just took the rival out of the way

     — Jesus Christ, so you make a mistake like that and still speak naturally that you could have done something worse?

     — And what would you do in my place, let someone come and steal the person you love without taking action against them?

     — If the person, I was in love with decided to leave my life, it's because love ended and nothing,  I would do would change that. So, the best thing would be to let her go and live with whoever she thought was best. I would never take a horrible attitude like that, after all, I don't have a murderous instinct!

     — I don't consider myself a murderer by tendency, it was just a casual necessity, a self-defense!

     — Casual need to commit a crime? Are you crazy for good?

     — Try to understand me, my love, it was a moment of extreme anguish, I did not think about the situation and ended up committing this act that I am very ashamed of today, I am very sorry and my conscience accuses me day and night!

     — Oh, and do you have conscience? Please don't come with your ironies, I just told you that because I believed you would be able to understand me

     — But I understand you! I understand that I fell in love with a murderer capable of killing me, in case I falter!

     — You know what, I see it was a mistake to try to vent with you!

     — This is not an outburst, Brenda, it is the confession of a barbaric crime and without any foundation! I shouldn't have spoken to me, but to the police, you deserve to be arrested, like a murderer!

The two women were unable to reach an understanding and the relationship was shaken. Luiza was indignant to learn of the crime committed by Brenda and was unable to forgive her, spending several days away until looking for her again to better understand the situation. And, above all, to know who would have been the victim.  Interested in getting along with his girlfriend. Brenda reveals the name of the person against whom she committed such barbarity. And Luiza refrained from showing such surprise.  She knew that it was the woman with whom Sophia was related and for whom she also disliked. But not at that point, and she was perplexed.

Weeks passed after their conversation and I was thinking about how to act in the face of that revelation. Finally, he decided to look for Sophia and reveal the whole truth about what really happened to Luiza, causing her a huge revolt and a desire for revenge, upon being aware of the barbarities committed by Brenda against her friend.

Sophia does not waste time reporting the criminal to the police. Counting on the important testimony of Luiza convinces the delegate responsible for investigating the case of the veracity of the facts, who immediately orders the arrest of that murderer. Brenda was at work when she was approached by the police. All those present passed by what happened, because they considered her to be an honest and dignified woman, after all, she was a very well-known professional.

After being detained and, despite the efforts made by the lawyer in trying to reverse the situation, she remained imprisoned and at the disposal of the justice. With the case cleared up and justice done, Sophia is relieved and Luiza regains her friendship, but fate had new plans in mind for both. The various disillusions in life made him decide to abandon old habits and desires, confining himself to religiosity, holding on to solid faith in a God he did not know before. As a Pentecostal evangelical learned that to live alongside her Creator. She needed to undergo a profound inner transformation. In the constant visits made to the church little by little she made many friendships with the new brothers.

  And this contributed immensely so that her monotonous life was filled and the emptiness no longer made her a daily victim of loneliness. On one of these visits, only temple met Luís Otávio, an evangelist pastor, a widower, with whom he started a beautiful friendship and ended up dating. The couple's union was soon accepted by all the brothers who congregated there, as they were very fond of the couple.

After a short period of courtship, they decided to get married and the whole Christian community cooperated so that the marriage bond took place in the middle of a big party, where several churches got together to celebrate together. In a short time that old woman who, despite countless failed attempts, could not be happy.

 She seemed to have found the peace and happiness she dreamed of, and with a man, which seemed impossible to her. She did not hide her tragic past from her husband, she made it a point to reveal her entire history to him well before marriage and was well understood. Months later she was already part of the group of women in the evangelical community and, being the wife of a pastor respected by all, she was also seen in a respectful way.

I had never experienced such importance as a human being or even as a woman. His fears, frustrations and old mistakes were left behind, including his homosexual involvement, of which he was very sad. In the new life she won alongside the one with whom she swore allegiance and in the company of her new friends, she felt perfectly fulfilled, especially with the arrival of Luciana, the couple's first daughter. Two years passed and were given the mission of leaving everything behind and going into the unknown as missionaries, they were sent to another state and there they worked hard to win souls for Christ.

In the years that followed, they won even more respect and admiration from their superiors. And to all the places where they were sent as representatives of Christ. As well as the church he created. They were a financially successful couple and this eventually led them into a situation that would lead them to be perfect to act as spokesmen for the gospel. They went to evangelize in small villages, small towns in the northeastern interior. Striving to convince its inhabitants about a living God who loved them to the point of giving the life of their only son on a cross.

So that everyone could have a chance to repent of their sins and be saved. Receiving from him the opportunity to be called children, through repentance and recognition of such a sublime sacrifice. In addition to being an excellent minister of the gospel, an exemplary father and husband, Otávio also became a renowned writer. Publishing several biblical works and commentaries on various themes of the Holy Scriptures.

 Receiving the deserved public recognition. Everything seemed to be going smoothly and without any major problems, but it was really lucky for this woman to have a hard time in the insane life that fate had in store for her. On a Friday afternoon, while returning from a brief trip to a distant city several kilometers from where he pastored. Place where I would have gone to be the rapporteur at a very important congress.

 Otávio, due to the tiredness of the hours of lecture and the dark road on which he followed home at dawn. Accompanied by his wife and only five-year-old daughter, he fell asleep at the wheel. And he lost direction and rolled the car on the high road, sleeping on the wheel for a few seconds, leaving the road and falling down the bank.  

In the serious accident, father and daughter died, only Sophia escapes with her life and is rescued by other drivers who were passing by and taken to a nearby hospital, but unconscious. Upon awakening from a two-day coma, she was unaware of what would have happened to her husband and little Luciana. Pedro family and close friends were present to comfort her.  As soon as they became aware of the accident, the police were able to locate them by the victims' personal documents and cell phone phonebook.

They kept secrets about the real situation for several days, despite her constant inquiries about the health of her daughter and husband, all in order to avoid a shock that would further compromise her physical weakness. Because he was quite ill, due to serious injuries caused by the accident. But it would be impossible to keep secrecy about the truth of the facts for a long time, since their absence was notorious and she started to ask the reason for that whole mystery. He insisted on whether his family members were well or would have been seriously injured after the accident.

And without further excuses they were forced to reveal the truth about what had happened. And it shook her deeply, it was yet another great loss in her life. But, always strong as a rock in the face of the countless tests that fate decided to submit to him, after bitter days he decided to lift his head and move on, exchanging sadness for hope. He did not admit that such a tragedy prevented him from walking towards the future as a winner.

He constantly visited the tombs where the remains of the greatest loves of his life lay, the most loving man who had the chance to know and love. With whom he shared dreams and achieved many conquests, among them daughter Luciana, fruit of that relationship. He put flowers there, red roses, as a way of declaring his love forever. Both were buried in his hometown, where he resumed the routine he had before in religious life and working in the new restaurant