A few more days pass. Josias and Melissa so far don't know what happened between Pamela and Wallace. Uélton, of course, knew; but he didn't want to tell his friends so as not to spoil his happiness.After all, he and their parents are enough to worry about. Wallace had shown up at their house feeling entitled to complain. But what he got was to be slapped again by his father."Now you got it, huh?" Harold asks in a sarcastic tone, "From a shy, religious boy to a violent shameless woman bully?""You do not understand my situation!" Wallace insists on justifying himself, "I love Pamela, I need to have her with me! How is she going to love me if she still has lustful thoughts about Josias?""We already told you what you have to do about it!" Isabel cries impatiently, "Quit that whore, come back home, and pick another more decent and honorable girl to date!""I don't want another woman, I want Pamela!" Wallace raves fiercely, scaring everyone, "

Beto smiles at Raymond and Pamela, more at his daughter than at his father, and promises to take care of her. "Wallace works at the warehouse, unloading goods that arrive on trucks. He hardly passes through here. That day was an exception.""A bad exception," Raymond says, "I never got to talk seriously with him because I was away from my daughter. God knows what would be about my daughter if I didn't show up..." Raymond feels a lump in his throat."Don't worry, sir, unless Wallace wants to lose his job and go to jail, he won't do it again."Reassured, Raymond kisses his daughter's face as if she were a little girl of five years. Pamela doesn't complain and says goodbye to her father.When he leaves, Pamela turns to Beto and smiles satisfactorily at what she sees. The tall, sturdy head of the warehouse attracts her. She had long wanted to have him as her second entertainment option while she was married to Wallace. But, now that there's not going to be a