Estefano had done for Helena what he never expected to do for any woman. He agreed to take in her sister. He didn't want a teenager hanging around him, messing up his life, and even more, disrupting his privacy with his wife. But Helena asked him with tears in her eyes to take in the girl after their father died of a sudden heart attack. Otherwise, Potira would be married off to a 50-year-old man. The girl with the indigenous name was only 15 years old. And Helena didn't want her sister to suffer the abuse she herself had suffered at the hands of her late husband. She knew Estefano wouldn't like having someone else in the house. But Potira was quiet and could stay in a more distant room. The new house was being painted and had space for everyone. She wouldn't abandon her sister to her own
