Narrated by Paige:A few weeks have passed, and I've been staying calm in Brazil, keeping in touch with my assistant at the company. Fortunately, she does her job very well, and I hardly need to be physically present.Lucas has been visiting me daily. He's a very good man. However, I can't love him. I care about him a lot, but I can't see him as a romantic partner.Tabatha knows about this, and she understands. Lucas is also aware that I don't see him in a romantic way. He respects that, and even though he says he loves me, I know and have realized over time of getting to know him that he has never been able to forget that woman from his past. The love he feels for her is still there, but he's too hurt by what she did, and he has his reasons. I can't deny that.Sarah sent me a message saying she has something really important to tell me and that she'll call me when she's with Riley. Right now, Lucas is arriving as usual with something to eat. If I keep this up, I'll end up rolling thr
Narration by Lucas:When I hear the voice of one of Paige's friends, I have to admit that it takes me back in time. That voice feels somewhat familiar, but it can't be true, it can't be her.I deny it within myself and tell myself to stop thinking about things that are not and will never be possible.I listen as they tell her that Paige's ex-husband won't be a father and that he's looking for her to be happy with her. What man wouldn't do that for the kind of woman she is? He would be blind not to pursue her after being freed from the commitment of a baby that wasn't even his.Seeing Paige's lack of reaction, I step in front of the screen. I recognize Sarah immediately, but not the other girl, although she bears a resemblance to that woman, I haven't been able to stop thinking about, albeit not in a positive way. I stay frozen for a few moments, not knowing how to react. The question "Could it be her?" crosses my mind. Of course not, I answer myself.I embrace Paige, and both of us fa
Narrated by Paige:It has been a few days since I found out that Mason is not the father of that woman's pregnancy, if you can even call her that.As for me, I'm still in Brazil with no intentions of searching for him. My emotional stability has been hard-won, and I'm not about to throw away all my progress and run into Mason's arms.Thanks to Sarah, I've learned that Mason has been insisting on finding out about me, but my friend hasn't given him any hints on how to locate me. That was my decision. I believe it's best for us to be apart for now. He needs to sort out his thoughts, and I feel at peace with my decision, which is what I want for my pregnancy.Moreover, I have a very important matter to attend to here, and that is Lucas. Since that day, he has been restless and even distant. It's not that I want him around all the time, but I had become accustomed to his sweetness and fulfilling my cravings. And I'm not the only one worried about him—Tabatha is too, even more than me."He
Two weeks later… Narrated by Mason:It has been two weeks, and I am becoming more desperate about my situation. Paige still hasn't come to talk to me, and I miss her increasingly.Sarah doesn't give me any information about her, and neither does Ethan, making me even more desperate as the days go by. I can't even send her a message; I have no way to contact her, and that drives me crazy, or rather, it's driving me insane.My parents can see my desperation, and they are trying to find a way to help me locate her, but they haven't had any success, just like me. I must admit that I have hired a private investigator to gather information about her, but I haven't been lucky with that either.According to what my mother told me, she has tried to reach out to her, as she used to do through Simba, but she hasn't been able to make contact. If she does, she only talks to her baby through video, even though the baby is no longer a baby.The investigator informed me that she is not in this count
Mason's Narration:I don't know how long I've been sitting here without reacting. My secretary comes in to check on me and takes my hand to get my attention, as I have a lost gaze."Are you going to let her go? That's crazy, for sure. He's been distressed for months because he couldn't be with her, and now he lets her go as if it were nothing. How crazy!" she tells me, shaking her head.My secretary is absolutely right, but she doesn't know everything that Paige hid from me. Damn it, without her, I'm nothing. I get up to look for her, but she's already gone. My phone rings, and it's a call from my mother, so I pause my search for Paige.I have to go see them and tell them they're going to be grandparents, that it's actually true, but with Paige. I answer the call and say, "I'm coming to see you. We need to talk about something important and urgent." I end the call without giving her a chance to respond or tell me the reason for her call.My secretary nods before I say anything, and sh
Paige narrates. When I return from Mason's office, I find my friends waiting for Riley. She's supposed to be on her way to Sarah's house. Naturally, she doesn't know that Lucas is here. She's coming to see me, so I feel nervous about lying to her. I want to talk to her, let her know that I support her and that she's not to blame for anything that happened during those years when she lost her baby.Lucas is also nervous, and it's evident. I look at him and say, "Don't worry, just tell her everything, express your feelings, and let her know that you're not mad at her so that she doesn't keep blaming herself, as I think she's been doing." I take his hand.He hugs me and thanks me for the support I'm giving him. Just then, Mason arrives. I didn't expect to see him, not today, at least. I imagined he would be furious with me for hiding the pregnancy from him, so I'm unsure how to react. We go to Ethan's office, and I'm amazed by everything he tells me. While I also have feelings for him,
Riley narrates: I am stunned to see Lucas here. When I disappeared, I never imagined I would see him again. That part of my life was in the past. Who could have imagined that by going to another country, I would find him once more? I never suspected something like this could happen.When he calls me by my name, I feel immense fear. My life, the life I built when I came here, has fallen apart. My friends will no longer want anything to do with me, and the only person who has been by my side doesn't have much time left to live.I've never been one to talk much about it, not even to my friends, so I fear that now they know I'm the villain who ruined Lucas' life, they will hate me. I overheard them talking about that once. It made me hide my past because I fear they won't understand what I did.As I talk to Lucas, I am determined to tell him that it no longer makes sense to dwell on the past. Rehashing the painful topic won't change anything. I didn't expect him to already know everythin
Mason narrates:It has been a week during which I have seen Paige every day, bringing her a little something each day to win her back. I know the details she loves because I know her better than I know myself.I truly regret everything I have done in my life. If I could turn back time, I would have left Peyton earlier and focused on falling in love and following the feelings that were growing for my then-wife.They say you learn from your mistakes, and I think I had a hard fall to understand that I didn't love Peyton. I only loved the image she projected, and my true love is Paige.In the end, she decided to stay at Sarah's house, and I don't blame her. As she told me, "that households too many memories that I don't know if I'm ready to face."She's absolutely right, which is why I invited her to dinner. I want to create new moments and memories in her mind. I want us to build a new story filled with beautiful memories, as if we were just starting out.I have planned a dinner at home,