Severo turned his head to look at Allyce, the discontent on his face receded a little, then spoke in a cold voice, “I want to get rid of Neto”.
Allyce asked, holding back a smile, “Because he can make Alonzo laugh? So you’re jealous.
Allyce used the last half of the sentence in the affirmative.
Severo’s face sank and a grimace appeared on his face: “Am I jealous?
Allyce shook her head good-naturedly, “No you’re not, I’m jealous”.
So what if she didn’t admit it? She knew Severo was jealous anyway.
Severo saw what was going through Allyce’s mind, and with a dark look on his face, he turned and went back inside.
Only his back as he left seemed to radiate resentment.
He turned his head to look at Neto again, it was true that the men were boys.
Neto liked Alonzo and just wanted to stay longer, which was fine with him as he was thinking about not having the opportunity to approach Neto for a conversation.
…
Alonzo is still very young and after a few laps in the car he was too tired to move.
Allyce took him to wipe off his sweat and eat fruit.
Neto did the same and came up behind him, nonchalantly picking up a piece of fruit and popping it into his mouth, saying as he chewed: “It’s probably been too many years since I’ve played with toy cars, I think it’s quite fun now”.
When he finished, he turned his head to Alonzo and squeezed his eyes shut: “Alonzo, don’t you think toy cars are a lot of fun?
Alonzo’s little face was still a little red from his training as he raised his little hand and handed Neto a piece of fruit, “Piggy”.
Neto had corrected Alonzo’s correct name to “uncle” countless times since the night before, but in the end it had all failed before Neto decided to accept the fact that it was “piggy”.
Neto opened his mouth and ate the fruit that Alonzo had in his hand and then gave him another piece, “Alonzo eat it too, come on, open your mouth, ah …”.
“Ah …”
Alonzo did open his mouth and ate it.
Allyce thought she was a little jealous now too.
Alonzo finished his fruit and went to watch the cartoons.
Neto did not follow him immediately and suddenly said in a sombre tone: “Severo and I are in the same year, I am only a month younger than him and he is already married with a child and I am still alone.
At his words, it dawned on Allyce’s mind: “Still haven’t caught up with Lucila?
Allyce’s words struck Neto in the heart.
“Uh …”
I had not expected Allyce to speak so frankly.
Although he had intended to ask Allyce to help him, he felt cramped when Allyce said it so bluntly.
“Didn’t you used to be good at flirting? Couldn’t you handle a Lucila?”
Allyce sat across from him, her tone smelling of gloating.
“Sister-in-law, I’m calling you sister-in-law, you can stop teasing me like that!”. Neto scratched his hair.
Neto, who already looked like a rich young man with a touch of gangsterism, looked mildly amused as he scratched his hair in annoyance.
Allyce patiently reassured him, “That’s up to you, if they can be together they will be, there must be a reason why they haven’t been able to be together yet, don’t be distressed, it’s up to you.”
Neto sighed: “It makes some sense”.
Allyce watched Neto without saying anything.
The fact that Neto was still worried about Lucila would mean that he most likely did not know what was wrong with Severo either, or that what was wrong with Severo was not to the point of being very serious.
But in the light of the series of events that unfolded, this hypothesis does not hold water.
Xabat, Neto, you have no idea what happened to Severo …
For someone as introverted as Severo, something to hide from everyone should not be trivial.
I had been watching the news lately and had not seen any news about the LK Group, about J, about Grizzi … anything that could be related to Severo.
In other words, in the end, the problem was Severo himself.
Thinking about this, Allyce sighed and said, “Don’t be so envious of me and Severo, you know how bad tempered he is, he even divorced me last time and forced me to sign the divorce papers”.
Neto rolled his eyes in defiance of his image, “Stop joking, he loves you like an eyeball, he can’t even touch you, and he’s forcing you to get a divorce, you’re imagining it, aren’t you?”
Allyce shook her head and said seriously: “Do you think I can imagine it?
Neto’s face changed abruptly at her words.
Allyce had long known that, although Neto looked like a cynical playboy, he was extremely intelligent in his own right.
He muttered with a hard look: “That year we were in Europe, he came out of a meeting, we were about to go to dinner, we were met with a terrorist attack, he walked straight out without saying anything, leaving me the chance to escape …”.
Severo does not talk about this although he has mentioned some of the things he and Neto did to Allyce.
Hearing these things from Neto still made his heart tremble.
She knew that Neto had said those things to tell her that Severo was not like ordinary people, let alone someone who falls in and out of love.
She certainly knew that the man she loved was a committed, responsible and courageous man.
“I knew all that, he cared about us even if he didn’t say it, he was hell bent on divorcing me at the time, picking up any word that was hard to hear, he even told me not to think about his property.”
Anyone who knew Severo would have found Severo’s behaviour perverse.
Neto’s eyes widened as he looked at Allyce, and by now he understood what Allyce meant.
Allyce spoke slowly: “He kept it from all of us, from you, from me, even from Xabat.
“But how did they reconcile?” asked Neto.
“It’s a long story, but I know that even though I reconciled with him, he kept his medical condition from me. She had wondered if she was overthinking it, that he was willing to reconcile with himself, perhaps because the thing he had gone to so much trouble to hide had been taken care of.
Neto asked him: “Is there anything particularly unusual about him?
“I think he is perverse everywhere”. She really thought Severo was wicked everywhere.
“Go get Victorino, if there is something wrong with Severo’s health, Victorino must know about it”. Neto said and got up to leave.
He picked up his jacket and turned to Allyce: “I’m going to look for Victorino, then I’ll be in touch”.
With that, he strided away.
Allyce had thought about going to look for Victorino earlier, but thought she should go back to Neto, so she didn’t go.
It should now be OK for Neto to intervene.