His eyes darkened and he saluted as Leopoldo had asked.
It wasn’t that you didn’t intend to talk, it was that you didn’t want to talk.
Mariana wanted to tell the man that she was willing to talk to Leopoldo in the car. But once he walked through the door, she didn’t want to say a word to him.
Mariana did not know why.
-Mariana…
Leopoldo looked at the woman and wanted to go ahead. But without waiting for him to go ahead, Mariana panicked and wanted to go up, without giving Leopoldo any chance.
Both of them, it seems, are very rusty.
-Mr. Durán, I’m tired,” Mariana said simply and climbed up in panic.
Seeing Mariana’s panicked look, Leopoldo’s heart skipped a beat. For a moment, his heart was lost.
Mariana was the first woman to try to get away from him.
Only when the woman came upstairs did Leopoldo’s gaze fall on Alonso.
-Where did the lady go?
-She went to see Sofia,” Alonso stood in front of Leopoldo and said in a few words.
Sofia, the woman who had married Rafael. Now that the two had divorced, Sofia was pregnant with a child and was planning to leave town, so she met with Mariana for the last time.
Leopoldo paused and then spoke.
-What did they say?
Mariana was a person who valued love and loyalty, and it was no wonder she behaved like that.
-The lady gave Sofia a sum of money, but Sofia did not receive it.
Alonso saw that Mariana had given Sofia a check, but it was not very clear to him what they had talked about.
Besides, Mariana did not want him to follow her.
-¿Y? -Leopoldo nodded and asked.
Alonso’s gaze fell on Leopoldo and then he said:
-The lady told me not to follow her or else she would not forgive me – Alonso looked at the man and relayed the message word for word.
He was not afraid that Mariana would embarrass him, he just had to let Leopoldo know.
Mariana, in fact, really hated it when someone followed her.
-I know.
Leopoldo wasn’t too surprised by this sort of thing.
Given Mariana’s current state, it was impossible for Leopoldo not to send someone to follow her. At that moment, Mariana especially needed someone by her side in case something went wrong.
Leopoldo was not restricting her freedom, but keeping her safe.
But Mariana, it seemed, did not appreciate it.
-Mr. Durán, what I want to say is if someone can follow the lady so that she can accept him more easily.
Alonso’s words were not without merit, and it was likely that Mariana was referring to precisely that.
Leopoldo paused and looked at him.
-Is there anyone more suitable than you?
Alonso’s ability was known to Leopoldo, and there was no one more worthy of his trust than this man. Alonso was speechless for a moment, not knowing whether he should be glad or saddened.
Mariana was sitting alone on her bed, contemplating something alone.
Only when there was a knock on the door did she come to her senses.
She thought it was Leopoldo and tried to pretend to be asleep.
-Madam, your medicine is ready.
It was the family nanny.
Mariana’s eyes filled with confusion at his words.
-Medicine, what medicine?
She wasn’t sick, why did she need to take medicine? And where did that medicine come from and why did she need to drink it?
Mariana looked at the other party with an expression of disbelief in her eyes.
-This is the tonic medicine prescribed by Señor Durán, he ordered me to boil it and bring it to you.
The nanny smiled as she brought up the medicine, still happy in the bottom of her heart that Mariana had such a good husband.
Mr. Durán was truly in love with Mariana.
When the nanny handed the medicine to Mariana, she threw it on the floor in disgust, her eyes full of hatred and discontent.
What medicine? She didn’t even need it.
-Who told you to boil it? Go and give it to him,” Mariana resisted.
Her mind was a whirlwind, she felt she had become an instrument for Leopoldo to have children. The way the man saw her would always be only as a tool to make a baby.
As for loving or not loving, it was simply impossible to say.
-Madam, what is wrong with you?
The nanny looked at Mariana’s appearance and panicked.
After so long with the Durán family, it was the first time she had seen Mariana so angry.
It seemed that Mariana really hated drinking medicine.
-Get out, get out! -Mariana glared angrily and fiercely at the other party with a slight snarl.
She didn’t want to see her anymore.
-Madam, you…
The nanny hurried to clean up the debris accumulated on the floor, not understanding what exactly she had done wrong to make Mariana so angry. Mariana looked viciously at the other party and didn’t say a word.
Now no one understood the uneasiness and irritation inside her.
-What’s going on? -The butler rushed in when he heard the commotion.
It was just a delivery of medicine, why is this happening?
-I… I don’t know.
The nanny looked at the housekeeper with resignation, disbelief written in her eyes. She thought over and over again about what she had said earlier, and couldn’t make sense of it.
She wasn’t sure what had happened to the lady.
-Out, out.
The housekeeper’s heart followed the panic and she hurried to tell the nanny to get out.
The nanny turned around and approached Leopoldo. Leopoldo’s eyes were serious as he stared coldly at the scene before him.
-What’s going on?
His gaze was fixed on Mariana, puzzled.
The housekeeper and the nanny looked at each other, not knowing how to speak.
Could they say that Mariana had somehow spilled her medicine? No, no, Mariana was Leopoldo’s treasure, to say that would be asking for death.
-The lady…
-I don’t want to take any medicine, I don’t want anyone to send it to me either,” Mariana glanced away and said coldly. She could not eat and did not want to eat.
Leopoldo was always going AWOL and giving her all kinds of medication.
She was upset with this man, very upset.
-You go down first,” Leopoldo looked at the woman and spoke coldly. It was said that women were prone to sensitivity and suspicion once they were pregnant, and Mariana was probably in that phase.
Leopoldo’s heart softened.
-Mariana, what’s wrong with you?
Leopoldo did not even show a hint of displeasure at seeing such a scene.
He was more concerned about Mariana’s emotions than about the spilled medicine.
-I’m fine, nothing is wrong,” Mariana looked at him coldly and said in a bad mood. She simply did not want to drink the medicine, and she did not need to drink it at all.
Leopoldo could not always feel that he could force everything that was good for her on her.
To act like that was to impose things on her.
-Don’t get angry if you don’t want to drink the medicine,” Leopoldo looked at the woman and said patiently.
Mariana looked at the man and was a little stunned for a moment. When Leopoldo acted like this, she felt like she was dreaming, but she didn’t know how she was going to wake up.
Seeing Mariana’s dazed look, Leopoldo became a little nervous.