chapter 10

Helen narrates.

I was grateful to Dylan for everything he had done for my mother. I was very surprised that he had decorated the room with his own hands, which made me think he was a good man and not like I had thought at first, that's why I had kissed him, I wanted to thank him in some way for what he was doing with us.

But that kiss, that kiss that I had given her had left the most delicious nectar impregnated on my lips. The entire day that he was not with me I kept thinking about him, about his deep gaze, about his gestures and even about his tears, those tears that he had shed in regret for what Marina had done.

She had no doubt that Dylan had not been the perpetrator of the atrocities her sister had committed. Dylan loved me and wanted to protect me, he felt it in his eyes, he felt it in his kisses. But… and Alexander? I loved Alejandro, he had been my boyfriend since I was a child and I had plans to go with him very soon.

That day I had convinced him to leave the clinic, promis