Chapter 34. Abandonment

Virgínia

I knew he had the money to do this, and a lot of it. He was a powerful businessman, a partner in a million-dollar company, not to mention his fortune, a family heirloom.

What a mess I had gotten myself into, I thought with disgust.

"Feeling better? " he asked, after long minutes of uncontrollable crying.

"Yes," That was all I could say.

"I understand that you are feeling abandoned, Virginia. But I want to make it clear that you are not alone "

Murilo spoke, staring me straight in the eyes and passing on a message even more important than his own words: he was telling the truth.

I felt that his words were not just spoken as a way to comfort me and that he meant what he said. But the memory of him with Lavinia in the nightclub and again today in my store hurt too much.

It was no use lying to myself when the truth was stamped on my heart. I liked Murilo from the first minute I saw him raise his arm and enter a di