Chapter 50

"Are you angry?" He asked, sitting next to me and pulling one of the plates to his lap." Did I do something wrong?

"No, Miguel. Don't worry. I had only completely forgotten about its existence," I spoke quickly, and the phrase sounded harsher than I expected. Miguel lowered his head, so I added: "No, I mean, it's not that I forgot about your existence... I didn't remember everything that had happened before. It was as if the whole situation went out of my head. I just didn't remember that you were still here at home.

"I won't take long, I'm already leaving," he said, drinking a sip of juice.

“Gone leaving? What do you mean leaving?" I asked alarmed.

"Didn't I say I needed to meet that person from the police?" He returned the question, cutting a piece of his pancake." I will leave you alone for a long time today, because I need to try to make him believe that he only knows me because we have already worked together.

“I thought you would be leaving my house, you