PENÉLOPE For the first time, Apolo Asker was facing me. I hadn’t imagined him as tall as Ulises and Bastian. I had pictured him as a fat, mustachioed man, but he was a tall, gray-haired man, not fat but not thin either. He wore a suit but didn’t pair it with a tie like Bastian did when pretending to be Ulises. I remembered when I asked Ulises about his parents and when I would meet them, but he had refused to let me see them. What was the real reason behind my husband's refusal? Was he trying to prevent me from knowing his father was a mobster? What kind of relationship did he have with his parents? I didn’t know, and no one knew if he would ever wake up. I had to act as naturally as possible and try to figure out what was happening here. "Oh, wow, what a surprise, Mr. Asker." I greet

