Chapter 17: Gift box

I watch him go and I don't stop him.

Who could stop Santiago? No one.

He is a complete stranger, who at the same time has seen from me, in a couple of hours, things that no one has determined in years. I came with the intention of forgetting a man and, instead, I managed to tattoo him in my mind with indelible ink.

Now I regret not having stayed at home and suffering the need to play him in silence. I'm not ready for someone to take over my insides. As a woman who has been used to selling her body for years, I cannot be surprised that others generally only want that from me. The contract that I give to my clients is specific: no love affairs, no commitments, no calls or trying to reach me under any circumstances just because he wants to see me again. I do not usually repeat clients, unless we reach a higher level of economic understanding than expected and that the way of behaving inside the room is passable. In this situation, part of me, Thea, who wants to loc