don't let me go

episode 2

Episode 2

As Ariel continued talking about terms and

conditions, Mia felt a deep, dark hole forming in

her chest, threatening to swallow her whole.

The air became dense and hard to breathe in

that room that she once considered her refuge.

Her heart ached witha real physical intensity,

her soul hurt as she listened to Ariel talk about

divorce as if he were discussing the weather, as

if the last two years together meant nothing.

Her dreams crumbled with every word that

came out of his lips.

They had shared two years of apparent perfect

happiness, where he had protected her every

second from any pain or worry, where he had

avoided making her suffer with almost

obsessive care. Why was he now inflicting the

greatest pain of all?

"You... don't you love me anymore?" The

question came out as a broken whisper, laden

with all the anguish that threatened to drown

her.

Ariel did not directly answer that question, his

eyes darkened as he simply questioned with a

calculated coldness:

"Mia, why do you take the divorce petition in

Such a dramatic way and not in the same

pragmatic way that you took it when I asked you

to be my wife? You accepted it with surprising

ease when you barely knew me, as if it were just

another transaction."

Mia recalled with painful clarity that crucial

afternoon when Ariel appeared unexpectedly at

the modest house of her parents, who did not

accept her as a true Conde after she showed up

at their house claiming to be the daughter they

had lost so long ago.

She had been lost as a five-year-old child, was

adopted by good parents who died two years

ago, it was then that Mia went to the house of

her real parents because she had barely learned

that she belonged to the Condes.

However, when she arrived and said she was

their daughter, they rejected her because, it

turned out, years after Mia was lost, they found

a girl identical to Mia and claimed that she was

their lost daughter.

Nino Conde performed particular DNA tests

which came back positive, and happiness

returned to the Conde family.

But it turned out that Mia also carried part of

their blood, which left them perplexed, because

they had only had one daughter. The family did

not accept her because she was a newcomer,

although the grandmother allowed her to stay,

everyone showed her contempt because they

swore that she was an impostor who had pulled

strings to make the tests come back positive.

Mia earned more contempt from the Condes

when she decided to accept Ariel Rodriguez's

marriage proposal, that day they hated and

despised her with all their being.

Ariel Rodriguez had treated her with a lot of love

all this time, he had been an excellent husband.

If Mia wanted him to bring down the moon, he

would bring it down for her, if Mia wanted

anything impossible, he would do the

impossible to give it to her. However, right now

he was behaving so coldly that her heart ached

because of his attitude.

"Ariel.."

"Please, don't make this more difficult. Accept

the divorce, accept the conditions and let's end

this"

Mia's chest constricted, as she did not expect

him to break her in this way.

She, apparently showed a fragility, but she was

stronger than Ariel thought.

Mia was not going to beg, she was not going to

beg Ariel to stay with her for her son. So, she

dropped the paper that was inside her pocket,

and gathering all the strength that characterized

her, she stood up and said.

"Okay, I'll give you a divorce." Without further

ado, she turned around and set out to leave, but

walked so clumsy that she tripped on a piece of

furniture.

It was so abrupt that even the furniture moved,

which caught Ariel's attention, who immediately

got up to help her, but she refused to be

touched.

Ariel stood still while he watched her leave.When he saw her walking lame, he hurried to

approach her, because he knew that she could

not climb the stairs.

"Don't touch me! | can do it myself" she said,

however, when trying to raise her leg on the first

step, she felt the lump in her thigh.

Mia cried, more than for the internal pain of the

heart.

Ariel grabbed her in his arms and carried her to

the bedroom, where he laid her down gently and

went for the medicine cabinet to heal her.

Upon returning, he saw Mia crying, but she held

back her tears and looked away.

Ariel settled down next to her, began to applyointment gently, trying not to hurt her.

"Ariel, why do you want to get divorced?" Ariel

did not answer, he continued applying the

cream on Mia's leg. "Have | been a bad wife?

Have I not taken good care of you?"

She wanted to understand why he had so

suddenly decided to divorce her, if every day she

saw him happy.

"You have been a good wife," said Ariel. "The

reasons for the divorce have nothing to do with

that."

"Then? What's going on?" She thought that

maybe the Rodriguezes were bankrupt and he

did not want to drag her to ruin.

Ariel had always taken care of her, so much so

that she thought her marriage would be eternal,

however, now he had asked her for a divorce.

"Are you sick? Are you going to die? Do you have

any terminal illness?" Her question frustrated

Ariel.

Actually, he was sick, he had diabetes, but it

was not that he was going to die at that

moment. But the reason for his divorce was

because Zoe had returned.Zoe was the woman Ariel really loved, the

woman he married Mia for. Zoe was identical to

Mia, and that was why, when she abandoned

him for no reason, Ariel decided to marry the

sister, since she was identical and reminded

him of Zoe.

Even the way Ariel always treated Mia was

because he saw her as Zoe. Mia Conde was just

a substitute healing his wounded heart.