章節 39: WHO ARE YOU REALLY?

— They were all in the meeting room of the main hospital of the capital city when they arrived with the DNA results. The anticipation of knowing the results was mainly noticeable on the faces of Amaranta and Javier. Javier Santamarina's voice resonated so strongly and at the same time with such tenderness that Esmeralda Santamarina had never heard him or seen him with a face as sad as the one he was showing right now.

—"Amaranta, now I can no longer hide anything from you, I am not your father, but when I found out that your mother disappeared I felt that it was my obligation to take care of you, I don't really know who your father is. At that time I asked your mother who he was, but Mónica never wanted to tell me, I only know that he is a man who comes from a prominent and very rich family, and that for some reason perhaps they separated him from your mother.

Your mother received a letter telling her that she could find him in the city where she met him, and for that reason she went to look for him, but he never returned from that trip. Since then, I have never seen Monica again or heard from her. At the time, only you were left with your grandmother, for that reason I went to see your grandmother and tell her that I was your father and I began to send them money for your education, food and for you to dress well, but I returned all the money to your grandmother.

—"Javier, you are a bastard, how could you do this to me, how could you go through the streets picking up nobody's children, look what you have caused, look how you have made Ana suffer by making her think that she had a sister later, look how far "I came because of the hatred I felt when I thought that you had a lover and an adult daughter." — She said, How crazy, Esmeralda Santamarina.

—"Shut up, woman, if you don't know, don't get involved in my life," Javier threatened Esmeralda.

— Amaranta responded to both of them bluntly, "based on the explanation you just gave me, Mr. Santamarina, although you sound like a man devoted to my mother, I am not her daughter nor do I want to have anything to do with her family, so "I ask you to please stop interfering with my life from now on, do not come closer to me, much less to my grandmother."

— When Javier noticed that Izan Marsans did not abandon him at any time, he became angrier, clenched his fists and said "Amaranta, you can't have a rich man as a girlfriend. I don't want them to follow in the same footsteps as your mother, I don't want them to follow." "You end up like Monica."

— Izan responded, "we are not dating"

"could you say that in the future?" Javier refuted

— Amaranta was the one who answered "I can be Mr. Marsan's girlfriend if he asked me, since it is a matter of two, I am free to decide my own life, not to mention that you, Mr. Santamarina, are nothing of me, and you have no right to decide, give an opinion or prohibit anything that deals with me".

—"Let's stop talking about us, Mr. Santamarina, what happened to his wife" said Amaranta.

—"I will not oppose the punishment that has to be given to Esmeralda, I fully understand that what she did deserves punishment, because it is a crime, she tried to kill your grandmother, I cannot help save a criminal"

— Esmeralda was totally stunned, because she could not believe Javier's words, after having been married for more than 15 years, he was leaving her abandoned to her fate, now she was really seeing what kind of cruel man he was, and how devoted all these years it was towards Mónica Cid and her bastard.

At this point, she had nothing to lose, so she would play his last card.

—"Amaranta, I want to have a private conversation with my husband, you can leave us alone, we need to talk" Esmeralda alluded.

—"I have absolutely nothing to talk to you about" Javier answers.

—"Did you forget what happened 18 years ago, well, I think you've forgotten the time when we were drunk, right?" After those words said by Esmeralda, Javier shot me a sullen, almost murderous look. After seeing Izan and Amaranta for a moment, Javier asked them to leave him alone for a moment with his wife.

Izan Marsans agreed, "You only have five minutes." They left, but remained at the door of this compound, after a couple of minutes he ran to Javier screaming and very upset he began to say stuttering "she… she. She jumped out of the window!"

— Everyone was really confused and surprised at the same time, wondering what had happened in no time, since they had not been alone for more than two minutes, so immediately. Izan Marsans grabbed him by the neck and asked him, "what did you say to him, what did you do to him?" Well, he was sure that it wasn't just any accident…

—"Esmeralda's only said that it was impossible for her to go to prison and that she could not allow Ana to go through the shame of having a convicted mother, and without further ado she jumped out of the window."

— Izan Marsans was not completely convinced of what Javier was telling him, even when he saw that Javier was crying.

Seas and repeated over and over again that he was to blame for not having been close to her to stop her and hold her down so she wouldn't jump out of the window, he regrets having left them alone.

— After about 20 minutes Javier had the courage to call his daughter and tell her what had happened, it was then that Ana, realizing what had happened, quickly went to the hospital where she found her mother's body still lying on the floor. The floor wrapped in a pool of blood. Ana's head began to spin when she heard that terrible news and as the events had happened, she just turned and threw herself into ÓSCAR's arms.

*-Amaranta's grandmother woke up that night, when she was more conscious she proceeded to tell her what had happened and why they had delayed the hope of her waking up, she also told her that she had taken a DNA test and the result They had found that Javier Santamarina was not their father.

—"Amaranta. What did he say, who is your father, does he know where Monica is?"

—"No, he only told me that my father was from a rich family and that is why my mother had suffered a lot." To which grandmother responded, "Now I understand why it is not surprising that when I kept the things that your mother left among her belongings, I found a very expensive looking watch"

— Amaranta, thought that, if she had that watch in her possession at this moment, it would help her greatly to know who it belonged to, because if it was expensive it would not be difficult to know who bought it, and that way she could find her father. Biological, maybe it could help him find his mother and find out if she is alive or dead.

—"Grandma, don't stress any more, we'll talk after all this, now just rest, recover, which is the most important thing so that you get much better quickly," Amaranta told Grandma Mary.

— Amaranta was now sure that everything that happened to her in her past life was just a misfortune well planned by Javier Santamarina, being able to meet her mother, what she did not know was that her mother was no longer in the town when she was to look for her, now only she and her grandmother were there.

She manipulated her in the worst way, and she took her away so she could have her by her side, thinking that if at any time Mónica Cid appeared, she would use Amaranta herself as bait to bring her to her side.

What a sinister, grotesque and despicable man, Amaranta was sure that Javier Santamarina was hiding much more than what she told him a moment ago.

She couldn't plan everything that happened at that time alone, there have to be more people involved in everything that happened, the main thing is to know what really happened to her mother.

She will never forgive herself for abandoning her grandmother. She still remembers all those afternoons when Mary was waiting at the entrance to the town, sitting on a high rock, to see her daughter return, the one who never returned.

Now she is back and will do everything possible to find out who was guilty of destroying her little family.

Only death can stop me, and I think that not even that will do it, because it has already given me an opportunity to return… — Amaranta thought to herself.