Uncle Fernando?
Nilson, Nicolas, Diego, all the men in the room froze?
This guy is actually Carlos’ Uncle Fernando?
Yes, he was Victor’s fourth favorite son, rumored to have died in a plane crash, Fernando Aguayo.
Carlos and Matthew, though not blood relatives, grew up in the Aguayo family and have spent more than a decade with Fernando….
Nilson looked at the man tied to the stool in front of him, and yes, at first glance, Carlos and this man bore a resemblance, and looking closer, not so much, what they did resemble was the aura emanating from them….
This time, Carlos’s eyes could not hide the same shock….
-Uncle Fernando, how can it be you?
Fernando looked at Nicolas, an intense hatred surged in his eyes, making Nicolas endure a moment of doubt….
They had met for the first time, there was no injustice, why was he looking at him with that face?
Fernando ignored his confusion and looked at Carlos, the hatred in his eyes quickly faded and a slight warmth emerged.
-Carlos, your phrase ‘uncle Fernando’ makes me feel a longing kinship. In the blink of an eye, you are already a mature adult…..
He looked at Nicolas and then Carlos and asked:
-Or the descendants of my Aguayo family, right?
Carlos nodded.
-Of course.
Fernando smiled with satisfaction.
-A scumbag like Nicolas doesn’t deserve to be your father.
-Who are you to say that!
Nicolas stepped forward at once, exasperated, and was held back by Nilson.
-Mr. Nicolas, calm down….
Fernando was even more indifferent, staring at Nicolas’ agitated struggles, crunching the stool on the floor, his long, narrow eyes alight with hatred and rage.
-For the fact that you caused Patricia’s death to be in vain, for the fact that you prevented my brother from having his favorite person for the rest of his life, for the fact that you ruined my life!!!!
Patricia…
Why are you talking about Patricia…
Nicolas looked at him and froze….
Carlos frowned, knowing everything when he was sure that the man in front of him was really uncle Fernando, and sighed deeply to himself as he looked at the string wrapped around Fernando’s body, his hand clenched into a fist before finally putting it in his pants pocket.
-I’m sorry, Uncle Fernando, I can’t let you go for a while.
Fernando took a deep breath to calm his agitation and nodded half-heartedly, in a kindly tone.
-It’s all right, find a stool to sit on, it’s been more than ten years since I’ve seen you and now I can’t bring you water.
Carlos obediently pulled a stool and sat down in front of him, Mateo looked at him, a warm smile appeared again on his face.
-Since I heard you had gone to Salamonsa, I knew we were destined to meet.
Carlos’ heart was heavy.
-Uncle Fernando, why are you so bitter?
Fernando’s smile widened and he burst out laughing:
-It’s a headache for me to have such a smart nephew….. You see me and understand everything, but I haven’t said anything yet…. Where do you want me to pour my belly full of words?
The witty tone of his voice made Carlos also let out a chuckle.
-You tell me.
Fernando was silent for a long time, the smile on his face dissipated and he spoke slowly with a somewhat heavy tone:
-So I’ll start before you were born, more than thirty years ago Mateo returned to Salamentro with a pregnant Patricia, I fell in love with her at first sight just like your father, but it was very painful to stand in the way of her being with Mateo….
What…
Nicolas is shocked that I also adore Patricia…
Fernando looked at Carlos, his eyes warm and his mouth curved with some touches of happiness…
-I really love and adore her, so much that I disregard the fact that she is my brother’s wife, so much that, apart from her, no one can look at her more than once, so much that I cannot control it, that kind of frantic emotion, you must understand….
Carlos nodded, yes he did understand, since the day he had determined that he had to be the girl, his emotions had been so rampant, wanting her, not being able to control it, let alone wanting to control it, wanting to be with her at all times….
-When you were five, I overheard that Mateo and Patricia were not having sex and that Tomas was a test tube baby, I got excited, it turned out she didn’t love Mateo, and I speculated if Mateo had threatened her to keep her around, and in turn, I confessed my love to Patricia and told her I could take her with me, not wanting to, Patricia rejected me harshly, telling me flat out that she would always be Mateo’s wife and telling me to drop dead….
The smile at the corner of Fernando’s lips turned bitter, and Nicolas took a step back at her words, about to fall over if not for Nilson’s support, his mind echoing what he had just heard:
Tomas was an IVF baby, Matthew never touched Patricia….
Fernando was lost in the past, Woody said:
-My pride and conceit, not being willing to be rejected by her just like that, I began to shamelessly show my love for Patricia, and to be at loggerheads with your father, and that’s precisely why Grandpa hated Patricia so much, and at the time, Tomas and you hated me too, didn’t you?
Carlos frowned slightly and nodded his head.
He was wise by nature, and from a very young age he could see that uncle Fernando was stubborn, and that his bothering his mother was very unpleasant for him, and that’s why, after he was able to do so, although he knew that uncle Fernando might still be alive, he didn’t want to look for him, and only believed that, in reality, he was dead….
Fernando continued:
-Patricia was in her 15 years in Salamentro when suddenly she vomited blood and died, I could not accept the fact, I repented, if my not entanglement could have recovered her, I would have moved away from her….
At that moment, Fernando’s eyes reddened, and he looked up stubbornly, holding back tears….
-Patricia died and I left everything with the Aguayo family and traveled far away. I had a plane crash and everyone thought I was dead, but I didn’t and I rolled around Salamonsa….
They all listened in silence to Matthew’s story, hearing the intense sadness in each of his words, knowing that he really loved Patricia….
-Nobody knows, the half month that Patricia returned to Salamonsa, I followed her to Ode Nation, I couldn’t get into Salamonsa, but I knew it was her hometown, and after several turns, I finally blended in, only to realize that there was still a reason why she had died there…-….
Having said this, Fernando looked at Nicolas, and his eyes once again brimmed with such intense hatred that he would have pounced on him and thrown him to the ground had he not been tied to a stool.
-You bastard, you failed Patricia, you don’t deserve her! It was not you who forced her to drink the poison that would not allow her to leave Salamonsa, but you forced her to become disillusioned before she chose to leave!
She loved you so much, she saved her life for you, do you think she didn’t come back with the slightest expectation of you? But you are already married with children! You bastard, you don’t deserve her love!
Fernando roared, hissing…