Doña Emilia looked at Lía for a few more seconds and then turned her attention to her grandson.

“Do me a favor, turn around and ask for all those papers to be thrown back at once, we still have time to annul this absurd marriage," the woman said firmly without taking her eyes off her grandson.

For a moment, Marcos remained silent, his grandmother took that as a hesitation on his part and smiled to herself.

“If you are ashamed to do it yourself, I will do it for you, after all I am your grandmother and I have the right to look after your interests and those of our family," she said complacently, while looking at Lia with a poorly simulated expression of mockery.

The young woman felt her heart pounding hard in her chest as she listened to the lady's words, and especially when she saw Marcos' excessive passivity, she also feared that she would end up retracting her decision, because after all that marriage took place in an untimely manner, she spoke.

“Your grandmother is right Marcos, we