Chapter 27. Envy? No!

Murilo

Lavinia spoke with fluttering eyelashes and charm, as she added faces and mouths to her lines as if she were in a stage scene.

"I'm asking how you are!”

"Everything's fine here " I replied succinctly and didn't return the question either because I didn't want to be exchanging pleasantries when I didn't feel up to it.

"I'm glad that everything is fine with you, Murilo. I am also happy to be with Aquiles, we get along very well, and we have several plans for the future, don't we, sweetheart? " he spoke, visibly intent on making the subject profitable, as if I were interested.

"Lots of plans, indeed! " Aquiles jokes.

I looked at them both with displeasure, before my cousin and his "current" girlfriend decided to tell me what these plans were, and they finally parted from each other and Aquiles walked over to his chair and sat down again.

"I'll let you get on with your work " Lavinia eventually said, when she noticed the