Pamela couldn’t tell her family what had truly happened. To do so would mean confessing that everything, every dark moment, had sprouted from a seed she herself had planted: the plan to push Melissa and Fabrício together so she could have Josias for herself.
If her parents found out she was the one who had brought Fabrício into their lives, they wouldn’t offer comfort; they would offer blame.
Lying on her bed after a long shower, her wounds finally bandaged, Pamela came to a cold conclusion: she was, in fact, responsible for her own nightmare. She had played with fire, and now she was burned.
She hadn’t even bothered to check who Fabrício really was before throwing him at her best friend. Her obsession with removing Melissa from Josias’s path had blinded her to the monster standing rig
