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Concentrated on her new job, Lia had been since she started a week ago. As a beginner, she was tasked with bathing the animals from Monday to Friday and walking a few dogs twice a week. It was a great job for her, going in at ten in the morning and leaving at five in the afternoon. She was loving it because the animals were good company and sometimes they seemed to want to communicate with her at all costs.

When she got her first paycheck, she would go back to the animal shelter where she left her three kittens and beg Magdalena to take them back so she could buy them food.

“Lia, there's someone waiting for you at reception. The receptionist came quickly to warn her.

"Thanks, I'm on my way." — the girl finished drying a little black poodle puppy and went over to see who it was. — Mag! What a surprise!

- Hi daughter. Sorry to bother you, but I need your help today. - The worried face made Lia anxious.

- Clear. But did something happen?

- No no. I'm going to have to stay late at work today, could you pick me up? — Magdalena asked referring to the car she had and that allowed Lia to drive it whenever she needed to. One of the things she had before losing her mother was the license she managed to get before her death but which she never had the opportunity to use before.

Then Lia remembered Lázzaro, he was Magdalena's boss and if she went to his house, at least from the front, the memories still vivid in her mind would set her on fire more than they had been doing during all the days since she left that morning from his house with tremendous difficulty walking. Everything that was said, and felt, she wanted to forget, however it was becoming almost impossible since she could only think and dream about that man.

- So you can? If I can't, I'll find a way. — the lady called her attention.

- Of course I can. But what time? He tried to dismiss the sordid thoughts that the memories of that night brought to him.

"I think by midnight I've finished everything."

“Want some help?” When I leave I can go there. If Senhor Bartholomeu doesn't think it's bad. She swallowed hard as she pronounced his name having to sound so formal.

“Actually, I will. After you left, Nadia seems to have gotten worse, she was already slow at work, now she's leaving almost everything to me. I can not take it anymore. — he complains.

"And how much work is this Mag?" Doesn't he live alone in that house? When I was there, everything was always neat and organized.

“He's moving. Lia felt more surprised than ever. A bad feeling seizing the heart.

- Where?!

“To a house near the center. I don't know why, but he doesn't seem well lately, I'm so worried about that boy that I hardly sleep. I've known him since he was young and I know there's something he doesn't want anyone to know, something tells me.

— Something tells me that too... — Lia murmured in a low voice and then, after talking to Mrs. Fabree for three more minutes, they said goodbye until half past five.

The rest of the day, the young woman who already found it difficult not to think about Lázzaro, was made impossible after Magdalena's revelations. Anyway, the work was over, he left everything organized, said goodbye to the pets and punched the clock. He started walking towards the house where he lived, after a quick shower and putting on some simple clothes, he took his car out of the garage, a gray Corolla 2005 and started towards the Bartholomeu mansion.

As soon as she arrived, she parked the vehicle and started walking towards the large gate, the chauffeur was in front and let her in, then rang the bell waiting more than five minutes to be answered. When the door was opened, the surprise in both looks was inevitable, Lia and Lázzaro tried at that moment not to show what they felt when they saw each other again.

- Hey. - she said with heavy breathing but trying at all costs to control.

— Hi, Lia. " What a voice... What a body... What a man!"

The girl started to try to fight herself from thinking any nonsense at that moment, even more so when he had his shirt open, showing his healed abdomen. Then she tried to take it to the side that Lázzaro didn't even remember that night anymore while she kept mulling over every second of it every day.

- In between. he said, stepping aside. The labored breathing trying to be hidden.

- OK. He bit his bottom lip and walked in. "Where's Mag?" I came to help you today. She asked me to come because she had a lot of work to do and would be leaving late. In fact, she just wanted me to come and get her but I offered to come earlier and get her some work done and maybe cut down on some work and…” Lázzaro stepped forward and cupped her face, stroking it. the cheek with a thumb.

- No problem. You are not prohibited from coming here. It is and always will be welcome wherever I may be living. She slowly removed his hand from her face, taking a step back.

If he only knew how I dream of repeating every touch, every sensation, every detail of that night... If he knew that I yearn for him every second after that day, he certainly wouldn't touch me or look at me, so that's enough for me. stay on fire.

Little did Lia know that he was already hard and that he remembered that night all the time. Considering even the best of your life.

“I'm going to find Mag. She ran towards the kitchen.

The weeks were no different for the man who lived without hope. It would always be unforgettable those hours that lived intense moments and full of passion, pleasure and chemistry. He could never pretend it didn't happen, that he was the first man in Lia Hamilton's life, the heat of her body in his arms, his tongue roaming over her skin, the moans of pleasure, the mind-blowing ecstasy.

I was almost going crazy, I couldn't think of anything else but Lia. She even made him forget about his illness for those days, which made him remember her promise that night to pretend that she loved him to the point that love was able to heal him. Perhaps his soul had been healed with Lia's arrival in his life, but it only remained for him to discover that himself.

When he thought he was getting over that day, she comes and knocks on the door of his house and since everyone was very busy with moving things, he was the one who had to open it. When touching that face, it was necessary to close my eyes in order to control the immense desire to kiss her and commit madness with her in any corner of the house.

Two hours later, Lia along with a whole moving team finished packing everything. Magdalena was giving orders to everyone and directing where and how they should keep the household items. Nadia was also there and looked angrily at Lia who ignored her as much as possible.

- Ready? asked the brunette.

- Thank God. Now yes. She sighed in relief.

"Shall we go then?" — Lia asked, anxious to get away from Lázzaro before going to the bedroom to remember even more what happened two weeks ago.

"Come on, wait for me outside." I'm just going to change and get my purse. The girl nodded and walked to the front yard.

She was leaning against a chestnut tree when she heard murmurs in the distance, she was never eavesdropping but she recognized Nadia's voice and on impulse she moved closer to listen more. He had a problem with this woman and he wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to discover something about her that would make her disappear from Lázzaro's life.

"Hayden shut the fuck up!" Nadia was on the phone. "She's here! I don't fucking know!" Could they be referring to Lia? "I've already poured the entire bottle into the perfume. I've also changed the cigarettes and whiskey liquid." He whispered that phrase very low. "I'll give you the address of the new house and you pour it into his bedroom paint buckets."

"Lia?" I'm ready to go. she heard Magdalena calling her and she ran back to the front of the house, her heart desperate in confusion.

What was the strangest conversation between Nadia and Hayden? What did she pour into Lazzaro's perfume? Cigarettes? And what would he pour into the paint on the new house, precisely on his room?

Lia didn't know what was going on, but she was sure of one thing: she would find out as soon as possible, even if that meant pretending to be friends with Hayden.