CHAPTER 15

The current behavior of a human being often has to do with what the past made him consume. ”Hortência thought, every time she noticed the emptiness in Rúbia's eyes.

From a young age, Rúbia began to act more with her reason than with her heart. However, there was a reason for this attitude. Few stopped to think about him, moreover, he was there, deeply rooted in her, as if manipulating her thoughts and suffocating the qualities and expressions of her heart. And, in this war, it was clear that feelings were slowly losing ground.

Losing three loves in a single day is similar to looking at yourself and suddenly realizing that you are missing limbs. That young girl, just seventeen years old, had lost the mobility of all emotions and gained the worst loneliness. What life could give her, from that day on, would be nothing more than prosthetics.

Days after the tragedy, upon noticing that the teenager was behaving as if nothing had happened, the family's trusted housekeeper took her to a psyc