PORTIA was hiding behind the wall while listening to the conversation of her Tita Ricky and the other man she didn't know.
"Rafael, I'm not taking care of her because I wanted to heal from my niece's death. That was a different story!"
"Then why do you keep on adopting girls her age? Ricky, please! Stop fooling me—"
"I am not!"
"Ricky!"
"Rafael, Portia is different, okay? I can feel a deep connection with her and I don't know why I like her. She gives me the feeling of being a parent, something that is very rare to me. She makes me happy, Rafael."
Portia felt something was touching her heart as she heard the sincerity in Ricky's voice.
"Alright, yes… I don't really know her, I don't know how she was raised by her parents. Hell! I don't even know who her parents are, but I want her t
