Seeing them there… I just smiled.
I made a decision that made Fernando immediately understand that, from that moment on, nothing belonged to him…
And what he was about to witness would change his life forever.

Part 2 …

I didn’t scream.
I didn’t cry.

I looked at the child.
He was innocent of everything.

Then I looked at the woman.
Suddenly she avoided eye contact with me.

And in the end, I looked at my husband.

I went to the sideboard in the hall.
I took out a blue folder.
I handed it to him.

“These are the divorce papers,” I told him. “
And the deeds for the termination of your position as administrator.”

Fernando smiled contemptuously.
He read the first page.
Then the second.
Then the third.
His smile crumbled.

—What have you done?

—I haven’t taken your lover from you.
I haven’t taken your son from you.
I’ve taken away the one thing you should never have mistaken for something of your own.

I snatched the set of office keys from his hand.