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
Natalia looks for Wallace in the warehouse, but he is too busy unloading a truckload of soybean oil cans. Vera is checking the invoices, but when she sees her rival she frowns and strides over to her."What are you doing here? You're disturbing the workplace!"Natalia behaves debauched. "Is this a workplace? If you don't speak up, I would never know!"Vera doesn't shy away. "If you've come to talk to Wally, you can forget. He's already asked me for forgiveness."Natalia pretends she wasn't impacted by the information and tries to disguise it, "You look ridiculous with that nickname the other one gave him."Vera is puzzled. "And how can you have an opinion about that? By 'the other' do you mean Pamela?""You don't remember me, right? Of course not, with so many people who took your mask off that day in the hospital. I was there."Vera's eyes widen, she remembers the day Melissa and her friends accused her of stealing Wallace from Pamel
Adrian reacts angrily when he learns that it was Moacyr who asked him to be fired. Moacyr doesn't show any fear of his son."Son, if I continue to have these fits of anger, the one who will go six feet under will be you."Adrian repeats the question in a furious tone, "Did you once again talk to Josias and ask them to fire me?"Moacyr narrows his eyes. "I thought I was doing you a favor! Didn't you ask for your resignation and they refused?"Adrian continues with his paranoia, "Yes, but by you meddling in this matter, it only makes it more obvious that Josias wants to steal you from me!"Moacyr finishes drinking his tea and places the cup on the coffee table. "Son, stop being absurd.""Yes, it was absurd last year that you said you would rather have Josias as a son."Moacyr apologizes, "I didn't mean it, and even if I wanted to, that would be impossible. You are my son, you have my blood," he sighs, "Unfortunately, since that conversa
At the construction site, Josias is talking to Uelton about the same subject. "At this hour Melissa is talking to your mother."Uélton is crestfallen. "Poor little mother. She's expecting a dream wedding, just like yours."Josias calms him with his hand on Uélton's shoulder, "But, there's still time to stop it. I've always wondered about the way things turned out.""It was a stroke of bad luck for all of us that Wallace was robbed. Pamela could have broken it up without that."Josias frowned. "I still can't get over that coincidence that Wallace stayed with Vera while Pamela was dancing with Beto. The couples were switched.""What does Seu Teodoro say about it?""He doesn't talk about it, he huffs and puffs, and he gets nervous, so I don't insist."Maybe you're not the right person to insist." Uélton smiles lightly and changes the subject, "Hey, we know about the loan shark."Josias sighs in relief. "Phew,