Allyce wasn’t in the mood to talk much either.
She just nodded and kept quiet.
Victorino hesitated and spoke, “I’m sorry, I didn’t know you weren’t Alonzo’s real mother, I thought you would be happy with the test results but I trust in the character of the gentleman.”
Although Severo had just threatened him and told him to lie and say that the ID was false, I could vaguely understand that Severo was doing it for Allyce.
Even he, a man with little social life, very slow to feelings and to the human condition, sensed that Severo cared about Allyce.
He was also moved by this.
However, his medical ethics prevented him from lying.
He was not Severo and would not be swayed by Allyce’s emotions.
He was Victorino, and the principles of a doctor were more important to him than anything else.
“Yes, I trust his character too.” Allyce smiled, just a faraway smile.
Victorino turned to leave and then, as if remembering something, turned to her and said: “If the gentleman is unwell, please call me again.
Allyce nodded: “Yes”.
Victorino was a very decent man.
Therefore, the identification report could not have been falsified.
She, like Victorino, believed that Severo was not one to beat around the bush, and she knew that Severo had a lot of self-control.
But then, any defence paled in the face of the facts.
Allyce froze in the corridor and heard a thud from upstairs.
I was breaking things again.
Bad temper.
But she did not want to disturb him.
It wasn’t long before the creak of the door opening came from upstairs.
It was followed by a “ding, ding, ding” of footsteps coming down the stairs.
“Allyce, let’s talk about this.”
Severo sounded a little anxious.
“Agreed”.
Allyce sat still, she also needed to talk to Severo.
Severo stood in front of her: “I have not touched another woman”.
Allyce looked at him, “Well, I believe you”.
She believed that he really loved her.
Allyce just looked at him for a moment and then quickly lowered her eyes again. Severo’s long body was in front of her, and he should have been more imposing than Allyce, but somehow he felt that Allyce’s state frightened him a little.
He squatted down in front of Allyce and squeezed her arms with both hands, “Look at me!”
In his haste, Severo failed to notice the wound on Allyce’s arm and accidentally pinched it.
Allyce hissed in pain and Severo quickly withdrew his hand as if he had been electrocuted.
“Sorry, I …” Severus looked at her with a hard frown, wanting to reach out and touch her, but worried about hurting her again.
Allyce, who could least afford to see him like that, said with her eyes downcast, “You don’t squat, you sit on the couch.”
“Agreed”.
Severo got up and sat down opposite her.
There was silence in the air.
Neither of them spoke immediately.
Allyce pursed her lips and said, “I want to go back to the flat for a while”.
Severo snorted and looked up sharply, a black storm gathering rapidly in his eyes, “No!”.
Allyce took a deep breath, “Listen to me”.
Don’t tell me there is something wrong with Victorino’s test results. You’ve known him longer and you should know how important a doctor’s ethics are to him. So I want to separate from you for a while, you can also take this time to investigate this matter.
While I understood everything Allyce was saying, it was barbaric that he agreed to part with her.
Severo’s tone was a little stronger: “I will get to the bottom of it, but I will not accept a separation.
“It’s only a temporary separation. She was not prepared to accept Severo having a child with another woman.
Even if Severo did it for her and left Alonzo alone, it would still weigh on her conscience.
A child is innocent and every parent has his or her own responsibilities.
Besides, Severo liked children, didn’t he? …
“Not even for now.” Severo grimaced, as if refusing to speak at all.
Allyce knew her temper, but she was still a little angry.
“Severo, this is no time for tantrums! Can we go on living together and pretend we don’t know about Alonzo’s existence and live in peace with each other? That’s not going to happen!”
“What do I care about him West, that’s all …”
Severo suddenly fell silent, looking at Allyce’s reddened eyes, with a slightly altered expression: “Okay …”.
He paused before saying, “The talk is only temporary, I’ll pick you up and bring you back when the time comes, don’t cry”.
…
Allyce re-entered the flat
The flat they had lent Senona the last time, the one Desiderio had arranged for her to live in.
Allyce moved alone into the house she had lived in with Severo two years ago.
When he took the suitcase out of the chalet, Severo was in the study and did not come out.
He had one hand and it was a bit difficult for him to carry it.
Although he had apparently accepted a temporary separation, he was still angry with her.
Otherwise, I would not have let her carry her things alone.
Allyce smiled to herself.
What could she do without a temporary separation?
Quietly accepting that Severo had a child outside, she couldn’t do that.
A bodyguard approached: “Madam, I will help you to the car”.
Allyce shook her head, “No, I can do it myself”.
As he lifted his luggage into the boot of the car, he turned his head towards the floor-to-ceiling windows on the first floor.
Only there was no trace of Severo.
First floor.
Severo stood at the corner of the floor-to-ceiling window and watched Allyce, who had refused the bodyguard’s offer to help her, struggle to lift the suitcase into the boot alone, gritting her teeth angrily.
Allyce, that stupid woman, wouldn’t let them do it, so they wouldn’t do it?
When he saw that Allyce was about to turn away, Severo rushed to his side and hid.
It wasn’t until he heard the sound of a car that he got up.
…
Allyce spent a day and a half cleaning the flat.
When he went to take out the rubbish from downstairs, he met someone unexpected.
“Allyce?”
Allyce heard someone calling her name and looked up to see Senona, who was also carrying a rubbish bag.
It was already summer and Senona was wearing a loose white cotton dress and her plain face had no trace of make-up, making her look a little more genuinely innocent.
Allyce finished assessing her and asked: “What are you doing here?