Melissa drinks a cup of tea to relax.
Josias enters and finds her worried, holding the saucer. "My love, do you want to talk about what happened?"
Melissa takes a deep breath. "I think I deserve an explanation. You want me to stay home as a housewife and you're going to trust my company with someone who worked for the loan shark."
Josias approaches. "He won't do you any harm."
"Something inside me says he won't do me any harm either." She faces him, "He swore he never intended to break into the office, machine gun all the men and rape me. That, again, was stuff from your paranoid head."
Josias smiles, "Then I am right to have him with me."
However, Melissa is insistent. "But, I feel like there's a piece that's not fitting."
Josias turns away from Melissa and grabs another cup for himself. He tries to explain part of the truth: "He threatened to denigrate Silva Constructions by accusing us of killing his boss."
Melissa reacts in
Moacyr is fearful of Adrian questioning him about Josias having said about José Augusto's death. The father doesn't know if he should reveal this to his son."Adrian, you're getting paranoid! Any day now, and you're still going to kill me!"Adrian replies, hallucinating: "Josias is the one who wants to kill you! He's always trying to involve you in his problems with the loan shark. So, he didn't tell you anything?"Does it help if I tell you he didn't? You'll think I'm lying anyway.""Then why don't you just tell me the truth? You see, father, how Josias has managed to turn you against me?"That's far from the truth!" Moacyr pleads in a cracking voice, "My son, if you really want us to be at peace, let's stop fighting over Josias."Adrian stands up. "If you promise never to see that bastard again, I promise."Moacyr looks at him disappointed. "That's not going to happen. The more you behave like this, the more I become attached
Josias gets in the lobby and approaches the counter. Teodoro is solving a crossword puzzle.The song of the day is 'Boys do fall in love' by Robin Gibb.Josias approaches and greets him: "As always, you are carefree with your crossword puzzle.Teodoro raises his head. "Josias! How are you, son?"Josias jokes, "Are you willing to hear something new? Although it may not be news to you."Teodoro giggles. "One of these days you'll kill my heart with so much bombshell news.Josias laughs, too, then speaks solemnly. "Did you know that this place, Happiness Slum, belongs to the Bento family?"Teodoro is dumbfounded. Obviously, he didn't know.******************************************************Melissa takes a deep breath and shows she is not intimidated by Adrian's bizarre questions. "What's this all about? Now you've become friends with the loan shark and you want to get justice?"Adrian continues angrily. "I don't g
Tiago scorns the idea of Adrian resigning from Silva Constructions. "You're not leaving here, boy. We haven't had enough of you yet.""You wouldn't want me here if it weren't for my father. I have been working as an office boy for a year now and have been a janitor in my spare time. I don't feel that I will have professional growth. You can't force me to stay in a company where I am not happy.Tiago stands in front of Adrian and speaks in a low, threatening tone, "Oh, yes we can! As I said, you will only leave as soon as we get tired of playing with you. Even more so now that you have just admitted that you want to tarnish Silva Constructions' reputation because of the repressed homosexual passion you feel for Josias."Adrian's face turns red and he doesn't shy away. "Stop repeating that nonsense! My hatred for Josias has no ulterior motives!"Romualdo clarifies, "He says he wants Josias in jail only because his father went because of our friend."
Harold and Isabel are on the couch watching television. There is a knock on the door so loud that both of them are startled.Harold jokes, "They're trying to take me to the grave before my time, woman."Isabel giggled. "Well, they won't succeed; you're still pretty young."Isabel gets up and attends to Teodoro and Beto. Both of them are frowning and go inside without waiting for an invitation. Harold also stands up, amazed by their presence."Seu Teodoro? What happened, why do you come into my house like that?"Teodoro replies angrily, "Where is your son Wallace?""He is in the bathroom, he is visiting us. Can I help you with something?"Beto responds with another question, "Has Wallace ever told you that he was flirting with another girl in front of my sister?"Harold and Isabel react in shock. Behind them, Uélton appears coming out of the room."There must be a misunderstanding." Harold tries to say.Teod
Josias visits Moacyr. The two of them are sitting on a sofa each.Josias apologizes to Moacyr for not coming earlier, "Melissa forgot to give me the message, Mr. Barbosa.""That's okay, she must have her mind full of problems."Josias heaves a sigh: "So Adrian came here at his office hours to hassle you.""He said he was going to resign."Josias chuckles. "Romualdo and Tiago refused. They said they haven't screwed Adrian enough yet."Moacyr has a serious expression. "Josias, I know you respect me as a father.""Of that, you have no doubt.""So I'd like to ask you a favor.""Maybe two.""Let Adrian go."Josias takes a deep breath. If it were up to him, Adrian would never have come in. "You know that for me Adrian would be gone, especially after learning that he's been flirting with my fiancée.""I asked Mr. Silva to employ Adrian so that he would stop living irresponsibly. It seems that he has
Teodoro and Beto take Wallace into the office and close the door. Teodoro sits in the upholstered chair while the younger men stand."Well then, let's hear what you have to tell us." Teodoro starts the conversation."It's very simple." Wallace announces nonchalantly, "Since I intend to no longer disrespect Vera, this is where we will live after the wedding."Teodoro bounces back in his chair and has his hand on his chest.Beto asks sarcastically, "Do you want to continue living in rent right here?"Wallace replies debauchedly, "Don't be for that! Let's renew the contract or make a new one with the proper updates."Teodoro sneers: "Are you completely out of your mind? I thought my daughter deserved a better place!""I think I made it very clear what kind of treatment your daughter deserves. She's bound to me now, she's mine and I have the right to do whatever I want with her!"Beto is outraged. "Again with this sexist talk?"
Vera looks for Beto to find out how yesterday's conversation was."Big bro, how was the conversation with—" Vera is shocked to see a punch mark between Beto's cheek and nose, "Hey, what happened?"Beto disguises, "I slammed the closet door in my face, that mark was left."Vera becomes suspicious. "Are you sure a fight didn't happen at Harold Freire's house?"Beto keeps concealing it. "No, little sister, there was nothing like that. Wallace showed up, we confronted him and he promised not to do it again. He guaranteed that he loves you and that he's going to marry you."Vera sighs in relief. "Whew! You don't know how relieved I am! For a moment I thought I was about to make the worst mistake of my life!"Beto frets, his eyes showing pity. "Little sis, if you still realize that it's not worth it to marry Wallace, don't insist. No one here is forcing you into anything."Vera smiles sweetly, "You can rest assured, bro, I can take ca
Igor is stunned, talking with Tiago and Josias about what Melissa said."Didn't you guys tell her that the loan shark's death was ordered by us?"Tiago puts his index finger to his mouth. "Schi! Keep your voice down, any moment Adrian might hear us."Josias confirms, "No, Igor, we haven't told Melissa. She feels like she's going to faint just hearing the hypothesis from Adrian's mouth. That's why I didn't have the courage.""Adrian is being fired today, at least." Tiago shrugs, unconcerned.Igor smiles, "Well, here I am in case he wants to make trouble."The door of his room unexpectedly opens and Adrian enters, with a victorious countenance. "Ah, the Gossip Marys are here! I've come to say goodbye to this company I should never have joined!"Tiago doesn't miss the chance to ridicule him, "You couldn't bear to leave without saying goodbye to Josias, your male, right?"Adrian retorts exploding, "Look, I can punch you now, you ba