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2024-10-29 19:42:56In the evening, Melissa was on the balcony of the penthouse wearing her pink robe, with a cup of hot milk in her hand, listening to the music coming from the living room, "By My Side" by INXS. Just like the lyrics, Melissa wished Josias was on her side. How much she missed him!
"I love you, Josias Rocha." Melissa murmurs before taking a sip.
Meanwhile, as if they were connected by thought, Josias was driving to Lagoon City listening to the same song on the car's tape player.
"I love you, Melissa Campos." He declares smiling.
Josias lets himself be lulled by the enveloping music. He is pleased with the outcome of his visit to Angela. She and the child they are expecting will never enjoy the glory and wealth that Josias has battled to have.
During his moment of relaxation, Josias makes a turn on the BR 101 and comes across an unusual situation.
There were two heavy trucks parallel on the road, one trying to overtake the other. The truck that w
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Since the accident was closer to the capital, Angela learned the story in front of the others.She was doing laundry in the living room while listening to the song "Love to Hate You" by Erasure when the music is interrupted by the announcer."We regret the interruption of our programming for urgent news: a Fiat Tempra has been found crashed on the side of the BR 101 highway, on the outskirts of Viana. Firefighters didn't find the occupants, but the driver's license was left behind... and the driver's license belonged to Josias Rocha, the businessman who owns Rocha Constructions."Angela's eyes widen and she interrupts the household chore.What? Josias was in a car accident? And the body was not found?"The road police and the ambulance paramedics have made a round around the thicket in search of the businessman, as they deduced that Josias crawled for help, but nothing so far."Angela begins to think fast. If Josias died before returning to
Building My Life Chapter 1175 Painful News
João Paulo is using Josias's studio to do his homework. The Portuguese teacher has been demanding after realizing that he has an aptitude for Letters."I hope to become a renowned writer or journalist to make up for all the extra work the teacher applies to me." João Paulo grumbles while solving syntax and semantics exercises.To help him concentrate, he put his walkman headphones in his ears. The radio station was playing "You're in Love" by Wilson Phillips.Until the announcer makes the same interruption as earlier this morning, "We regret the interruption of our programming to announce urgent news: a crashed red Fiat Tempra was found on the banks of the BR 101 highway. The fire department did not find the occupants, only the driver's documents. The documents belonged to Josias Rocha, the owner of Rocha Constructions.João Paulo immediately gets up and rushes to the living room, where Melissa was having tea with Dora, Elza, and Vani
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Vania returns to Rocha Constructions. Shirley is serving Carmen her afternoon snack."We can't live without your buttery cookies, Shirley." Carmen praises her."Why, it's not that much either, my dear." Shirley can barely contain herself with pride."Tiago told me that it's the company that pays you for all the ingredients." Carmen pours herself some lemongrass tea."Yes, at first I did it at my own expense, but Josias decided to be generous..."The mention of Josias makes Vania turn pale. The two ladies notice her."Vania, what happened?" Carmen asks with her cup in hand."Ladies...I was in the Rocha penthouse when João Paulo informed us that Josias was in an automobile accident.""Oh, but is he okay?" Shirley asks her."We don't know." Vania sits down on the coffee-colored couch, "The paramedics from the ambulance plus the highway police couldn't find Josias... only his driver's license...""Oh my God!" C
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Melissa is now awake, still lying in bed, staring at the ceiling without saying anything. Her face expresses no emotion whatsoever, it is as if she is hypnotized. Dora is sitting on the bed next to her, holding her hand."Have faith in God, dear. Everything is going to be all right. Josias will be found and returned home."Melissa does not respond.The door opens and Simeon enters worriedly, "Daughter! I came running as soon as I heard. How are you?"Why does Simeon keep asking absurd questions? Melissa is catatonic in bed and he still asks how she is?Dora realizes the ridiculousness and answers for her, "Our daughter is heartbroken, dear."Simeon takes Dora's hand and pulls his wife close to the dressing table, "Any news?""No, the afternoon news just repeated what they said in the morning.""Tiago said we need to contact the police to identify the car to confirm the documents found," Simeon speaks in a lower tone.Dor
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Beto is having a drink at the Crystal Blue bar. Adrian shows up and meets his client by coincidence."Rough day, buddy?" Adrian greets him."Just a drink to strengthen me." Beto replies, "Tough day is being for someone else.""Yeah, everyone I know is talking about the idiot's death," Adrian speaks with a psychotic smile.Kevin frowns and walks away from the bar so Adrian doesn't order any drinks."I didn't know you hated Josias to this extent." Beto finishes swallowing his drink."The guy has been a rock in my shoe for nine years." Adrian begins the litany again, "Since 1982, when he accused my father of being one of the underlings of that loan shark who terrorized Rainbow Garden. Strangely, my father has forgiven him and holds him in high esteem. He prefers him as a son to me.""Gee, I'm sorry." Beto opines. Without knowing the whole story, that is all he can say."Now my father is mourning the imbecile instead of making peac
Building My Life Chapter 1179 Farm of Hotel?
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Building My Life Chapter 1180 Spoiled Country Girl
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Building My Life Chapter 1181 Are You Enjoying the Tragedy?
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Josias visits the Rocha Hotel since he didn’t have a day off for the staff. In the management room, Eugenio gathered David, Benjamin, and Sybil. “Why is that mere cook present at this meeting?” David asked disparagingly. “Because that’s how our boss ordered it,” Eugenio replied dryly. “I didn’t say anything and didn’t call this meeting, so if you’ll excuse me...” Benjamin and Sybil were horrified to see David leaving the meeting just like that. However, when he opened the door, David came face to face with his father. “David, where do you think you’re going?” “DAD!” David exclaimed, extremely surprised. “I didn’t know you were coming!” “Didn’t Eugenio tell you I was coming?” Josias asked with a scowl. David understood who the ‘boss’ was. Benjamin and Sybil felt vindicated. Josias sat down at the desk, taking Eugenio’s seat, while the manager remained humbly standing. “Very well,” Josias began the meeting in a formal tone, “I’m here just to make things crystal clear. First
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Melissa and Mary visit the Mountain Café.“A guava juice for me, Mr. Mountain!” Mary requested, smiling sweetly.“Of course, my princess!” Rodrigo replied, thinking Mary was very adorable. “Neil will make a delicious cup for you.”“Thank you. But the princess is Carol,” Mary responded, striking a serious pose.Melissa and Rodrigo laughed heartily. Mary is something else...“Rod, how has it been managing the café in your father’s absence?” Melissa asked seriously.Rodrigo served a baked chicken pastry with ketchup to Mary. “I'm getting by, Melissa. Josias was here earlier, more concerned about my loss than his own, as always. Isn’t he supposed to be resting?”Melissa nodded. “My husband is like that: he only relaxes when all of us are relaxed.”“An impossible mission because of certain people.”Neilton approached with the glass. “Who ordered a guava juice?”“I DID!” Mary grabbed the glass and went to a table.Melissa leaned forward, “Neil, Rod, how are Daryl and Diane? Behaving?”“Cont
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At João Paulo’s house, he and Josias were about to have a significant conversation.“Walter, do you want to go with your mom to the kitchen?” João Paulo asked, looking at Helen. “I think she made some walnut cake.”“It was carrot cake,” Sandra replied, already getting up from the couch.“You got it.” Helen appeared and picked up Walter in her arms. “Let’s let Dad and Uncle Josias talk.”“Bye, Uncle!” Walter waved goodbye to Josias.“Bye-bye, I want a piece later!” Josias chuckled.Once alone with João Paulo, Josias became serious. “Don’t let anything or anyone ruin this family scenario, little brother.”“I’m fine. No one wants to ruin anything,” João Paulo replied casually.“Well, I hope David hasn’t caused you any trouble.”“He probably doesn’t even know I exist, man.” João Paulo shrugged.“But I stopped by Café Montanha and found out that the Vasquez family has replaced the Mountain family as the ‘annoying people.’”João Paulo sighed in disappointment. “Yeah. They—”The doorbell ran
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Josias visits Café Montanha for a coffee and finds Rodrigo there. “Rod, how have you been?” Rodrigo is taken aback. “How am I? You’re the one who suffered a horrific loss recently!” “But you also lost your father. We’re in the same situation,” Josias explained as he sat down on a stool. “I’m okay, Josias. Life has a way of cheering me up. For example, I’m back at the diner after Thierry decided to take his place at the supermarket.” Rodrigo smiled. “What about the photography studio?” Josias smiled back. “It’s still going to operate, and Thierry will make periodic visits. But he’s going to appoint one of the staff to manage the studio.” Rodrigo served a pizza pastry to Josias. “Thank you. Well, I hope everything is alright between you two. I need to visit Rosemary and meet Jean Luc — is that the name of the baby?” “Yes, the name of the supermarket heir. Meanwhile, Frank will be here or somewhere else.” Josias interjected, “If Frank wants to work at Rocha Constructions, count
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Chapter 3144 Benjamin Requests a Transfer
At the Rocha Mansion, Josias receives a visit from Benjamin. “How have you been, Ben? Any news about your parents?” The two embrace. “Actually, that’s what I want to talk about.” Benjamin scratches the back of his neck. The embrace breaks. “Let’s go to my office.” The two gentlemen enter Josias’s imposing office. “Any problems with Adolfo?” Josias asks, becoming serious. “Not yet, but I hope not to have any,” Benjamin replies with some sadness. “You know, Josias, what happened with your father made me think about my family, about how important it is for all of us to be together in the final moments.” “That’s true. João Paulo can tell you that better than I can.” “I think you can say it too. Vernon was the father you never had.” Benjamin clears his throat. “So, I’ve been looking into some hotels and realized there’s a demand at the Rocha Hotel in Victoria.” Josias looks at Benjamin, understanding where he’s going with this. “You want to go to Victoria to be close to your pare
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Someone rings the doorbell at João Paulo’s house. The homeowner goes to answer after taking a shower and putting on clean clothes. But when he opened the door, João Paulo felt like slamming it in the visitor’s face. “Don’t be rude!” Erasmo exclaimed. “What do you want, you old bore?” João Paulo shot back. Erasmo barged into João Paulo’s foyer. “The mourning is over. Let’s pick up where we left off.” “Are you crazy? Who decides how long mourning lasts? We just got back from the trip!” “Not exactly, it’s been a day. Life goes on, my friend!” Erasmo replied mockingly. João Paulo remained serious. “But I don’t want to continue living this way, where fights and intrigues are the order of the day. Mr. Vasquez, you have a business to run, and I have a family to raise.” “But you found time to slap my son-in-law when he was here defending his family, didn’t you?” “Alan was extremely rude, but that was some time ago.” João Paulo frowned. “I don’t feel the same anger as before.” “So a
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At the Vasquez Mansion, Alan could hardly believe that the people were thinking about more intrigues and disputes. “Guys, don’t you understand that I even forgot the reason I slapped Uncle João Paulo?” “Ridiculous!” Erasmo gestured. “You just maintained respect because it was a difficult occasion. But now, the mourning is OVER!” “Do you think João Paulo will rest, dear?” Sofia asked, sitting next to him. Alan shook his head. “If Uncle João Paulo doesn’t want to rest, then he is truly despicable. But my dad is back in town. He wouldn’t dare to do that.” The news should have been uplifting, but the members of the Vasquez family merely exchanged silent glances. With Josias present, it’s quite likely that he will put a stop to their fighting. Alan turned to Olivia. “In the meantime, we should celebrate the recovery of my dear mother-in-law!” Olivia and Sofia smiled awkwardly because of the secret they were keeping. “That’s right, let’s celebrate life!” Erasmo wrapped his arm arou
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Chapter 3140 Let’s Request a Transfer
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