Chapter 17MATEO SLUMPED IN HIS seat as the airplane taxied at Galeão International Airport. Amazing! I’m going to make the wedding if the plane does not crash. Then he crossed himself. He didn’t like flying. He tried to set his fear aside and think about seeing his family and enjoying the festivities. As much as he disliked flying, he had always liked weddings and the celebrations that followed. Camila, his cousin on his mother’s side, would be there along with many other single, pretty girls.
Sophia is marrying an army captain. My father sounded none too pleased. There will be many military officers. The girls like them. Mierda, he thought. His thoughts were interrupted when the engines became loud and the plane thrust forward. For seconds, he thought of nothing and gripped the armrests.
