STELA GOMES After I promised Mrs. Abigail that I would never speak of what we were about to discuss, she began to tell me her story. "Ivan, as I've mentioned before, was a completely different man from who he is today. He adored his father, and they were inseparable, sharing a father-son relationship that many of our friends envied." "But everything changed because of a woman who entered my son's life. He fell madly in love with her, and after a few months, they got engaged. I never liked that woman. She was fake, and I could see it in her, but Ivan didn't listen. He just dismissed it as a mother's jealousy." "I wish I had protected my son from the disappointment she caused him. One day, he went to surprise her, and when he arrived in front of her apartment, he saw her getting into a c

