Simeon approaches his son-in-law and pats his shoulder. "I'm glad you got the message. Everything worked out, dear son-in-law! Your wife gave you a wonderful baby!"
Josias feels watery eyes. "I hope my son doesn't hate me for not being there."
Elza quickly corrects him: "No, son, don't think that way! You won't be absentee like Tony Rocha. You came running here as soon as you heard, that's what matters."
The obstetrician leaves the room taking off his mask, happy to bring another baby into the world.
"Doctor, I am the child's father." Josias addresses him. "I can see him?"
"Yes you can, but the nurses are in the process of cutting the umbilical cord and giving it a bath to clean him." The obstetrician responds, "Enjoy it while your wife is still awake, we will give her something to rest."
Josias enters the room. In fact, the nurses have already cut the umbilical cord and are in a corner gently cleaning the baby, who manifests from time to ti
Josias takes the glass of water and drinks. Flávia delights in the way Josias drinks water, taking the glass with a serious and sexy look, slowly raising the glass to his mouth and his Adam's apple rising and falling as he swallows the sips.Flávia forgets that she wandered the entire hospital looking for him on behalf of Elza.Uélton approaches, thinking that Flávia is excited to see him. "Hello, maid! I didn't know you were missing me!"Flavia wakes up from the dream where she was naked in the bed of the master suite being possessed by Josias while Melissa was away at some charity event with the boring Elza and Elisa. "Huh? Oh, it's you, you annoying."Josias quenches his thirst and hands the plastic cup back. "Thank you, Flavia. Why did you keep the uniform?""Elisa made me," Flavia growls."You're funny. When you should wear the uniform, you wear a baby-doll; when you should wear regular clothes, you wear the
On Sunday, Pamela was comfortably watching television sitting upside down on the sofa, still in her socks and warm clothes, as the night was cold. Beto approaches and sits beside her giving her a blanket."Aren't you going to your sister's wedding?" Pamela dares to ask."You know damn well I don't agree to this marriage, dear." Beto leans against her, putting his left arm around her, "Rosemary is sleeping.""Although I hate Vera, I think you should go. She'll think I influenced you."Beto kisses his wife's forehead. "Let her say what she wants. I've already demonstrated my opinion."Pamela is still unsure whether or not she will tell her husband what she found out about the plan. But something inside her stops her. Pamela is afraid to confirm that Beto is also part of the plan.It's because the coexistence as husband and wife has made Pamela increasingly fall in love with Beto and gradually forget about Wallace. She hasn't even been thinking
Wallace pretends he doesn't understand what's going on. He had invited Adrian to appear at the wedding just to tease Vera. And he got it; since Vera is paralyzed on the way out of the Church, allowing the rice to enter her open mouth.Adrian continues to face Vera with the greatest contempt in the universe. This scoundrel woman was scheduled to be married to his client and had decided to lose her virginity to another man!"Honey, shall we? The car is waiting for us." Wallace pulls Vera by the arm.The two of them had rented a car since Wallace didn't have his yet. Vera goes catatonic to her car and forgets to say goodbye to everyone.Harold approaches Isabel. "Do you understand what happened now?""She looks like she had a stroke stopped at the entrance." Isabel comments with a slightly mocking tone, "Her mouth dropped open and she swallowed a lot of raw rice."Wallace approaches, smiling, to say goodbye to his parents. "Mom, Dad, I'll call
Pamela is nursing Rosemary, but her face shows unease. Beto dusts off the bookshelf in the living room listening to "We Build This City" by Starship, but the song doesn't cheer his wife up."Is something bothering you, dear? Do you want me to turn the music down?"Pamela shakes her head. "No, love, just a weird feeling."Beto approaches her. "You're thinking about Wallace; if he's alright."Pamela smiles awkwardly. "Sounds crazy, doesn't it? He must be having his romantic moment with Vera and I'm here worried if he's having a bad time. Better stop thinking about it before you think I'm still in love with him."Beto sits down beside her. "But, you told me before we were married that you still are."Pamela looks at him honestly: "However, I'm feeling something for you too, Beto. A feeling is growing in my heart. Part of me says I should forget about the old loves that are having other wives and focus on the hunky hubby I have."Beto chu
The police showed up at the motel fifteen minutes later, the car screeching as it parked anyway. Violence against women is not an easy subject in Lagoon City.Even more so when it comes to a husband who thinks he has the right to force into his wife just because they are married!Vera is sitting on the couch in the motel lobby, drinking a glass of sugar water with trembling hands. The chambermaid is still beside her, terribly worried.The motel manager, a man in his forties, introduces himself to the deputy who appears to be in charge. "Officer, this way! This is the bride, she came in with her newlywed husband and we gave them the keys to room 54. They were happy and beaming. Suddenly we got a complaint from the couple in room 52, who heard screams and noises of aggression. When we went to check, the lady was already leaving the room, screaming for help and with a red face."The assistant police officer approaches Vera and checks the assault on her face.
Teodoro still feels entitled to be surprised by what Vera has just said. Wasn't it so obvious that this was going to happen?Vera senses this and already reprimands him: "Don't you dare feel surprised or offended, you bastard! You knew everything and didn't tell me! Why did you allow me to continue with the plan, why?"Teodoro narrows his eyes. "What do you mean? I was begging you to cancel the wedding all the time!""But you didn't tell me the real reason! That's why I didn't want to cancel the wedding! How could I guess?" Vera walks in circles through the lobby, "All this time I was thinking I was under control; when actually Wallace was laughing at me behind my back!"Teodoro is distressed. "Daughter, I didn't have the heart to tell you because I knew that if I told you, you would break up with Wallace and he would run to Pamela. Besides, Wallace made me swear I wouldn't tell you anything, so he wouldn't tell Pamela and Josias that he was beaten by Bet
Isabel puts the bag of bread on the table and pulls out a chair to sit on. Harold and Uélton remain standing."A cardiac arrest, to Seu Teodoro?" Harold questions in surprise."They say it's because of yesterday's wedding," Isabel explains."Has he been to the hospital yet?" Uélton asks."Yes, they found him early in the morning. Poor old man, he must have passed out at night, with no one around, or early in the morning." Isabel chooses a loaf of bread to butter.Harold joins his wife for breakfast. "I hope that's what it was. Otherwise, he can't survive if he suffered this stoppage last night."Uélton decides not to have breakfast now. "Excuse me, guys. I need to see if Josias is aware of this already!"Uélton leaves the house in a rush. Isabel and Harold have coffee in a funereal atmosphere.********************************************************Pamela and Beto are having breakfast happily
Beto is desperate, not understanding the news. "Pam, don't play with stuff like that, please!" Pamela feels her husband's pain and anguish. Her eyes water: "I'm not kidding, my love! They called from Teodoro's building, one of the tenants found your phone number in your father's calendar. He was lying in the middle of the lobby and the radio was still on." "How absurd, so no one knows how long he was passed out!" Beto yells desperately, "And he was seeing a cardiologist, dieting, trying not to stress—" Beto chokes on the words. 'Don't get stressed'. He stares at Vera. "Did you visit him yesterday?" Vera is on the verge of passing out, she is leaning against the wall for support. "Yes." The answer came out in a whisper. Pamela is disgusted with her sister-in-law. "What were you doing in your father's building? Aren't you supposed to be on your honeymoon with your husband? You went there to rub your wedding in your poor father's face?" "