It was never love.

With all our allies, we begin the brutal hunt. No evidence of a crime will put my uncle and Anabela in jail. The best I can do is kill them both in a way that looks like an accident.

Then we'll start eliminating the rest of the traitors around us. We will hunt down the gangsters who have allied themselves with them. We invade properties, pull families out of their homes, and kill our target.

Surround all those who sold Andreia to my family. So that she will never again experience the horror of her first life. I threw the faces that abused Andreia, one by one, into a shallow grave.

Andreia, magnificent as always, rose from the ashes and made her mark on the world alongside my elders. I checked the screen of her cell phone to see the interviews she was giving to television stations. The certainty in her eyes as she answered everyone's questions.

His face alone makes my body burn.

Benedicto next to me is worried about this manhunt because he knows the government won't keep quiet, especially since they are being targeted by the international media.

I don't care what they try to do to me, as long as Andreia is safe. I've become a sea of blood in the upscale neighborhoods of the capital, where bodies have been found in garbage dumps.

The press reports an increase in the activities of the mercenaries who took the blame for the extermination. The government is terrified, without knowing where the killing is coming from. The police searched everywhere for the culprits and detained the families of the criminals.

They were trying to find the cause of this extermination, the motives that led to the murder of several gangsters throughout the state.

Because they thought they were at war, they had no idea that I was behind it all. The president is busy invading neighboring territories and circumventing his country's sanctions.

The population, tired of so much insecurity, wanted to protest by the thousands, only to be repressed by the police with total violence. My uncle was careful not to get caught and left his partner to die.

The same happened to Anabela's parents, who publicly announced Andreia's origins live at the announcement of the new pharmaceutical research facilities.

Ruthlessly attacking the woman whose life they destroyed by putting her on

on my side.

Nothing has shaken Andreia's head, which is driven mad by her coolness. She looks into the faces of those who humiliate her, full of pride and arrogance.

Finally, I managed to find Andreia's brothers, her sister swore that it was all her father's and my grandfather's plan and begged me to let her live. I let her go after cutting off her finger as a reminder of her promise.

Your brother fought to escape death by blaming everyone for his mistakes and returning everything he stole from Andreia to spare your life. I let him suffer for a few days before releasing him with nothing.

Now, Andreia's father, when he was captured, showed no sign of remorse. Because of the promise he had made to Andreia's mother, he took her to talk to the man who had ruined her life before killing her.

Calmly, she walked into the filthy industrial warehouse where my men, covered in blood, provided security.

The sight of her former lover tied to a chair with barbed wire made her feel sick and she had to retreat. When he looked at her, he was visibly angry and wanted to squeeze her throat, but Benedicto hit him in the stomach with a baseball bat, causing her to panic.

"STOP! " The tearful woman cried. " Please, stop!"

"Mother-in-law, they're only following my orders to protect you."

"Even so..." She watched his face. "This is too cruel."

"Don't be a hypocrite, Isabel! " The man said, full of arrogance.

She felt sad and asked everyone to stop talking alone.

I refused to leave, but she remained adamant that she wanted to speak to him alone.

I stayed close enough to hear her inside so I could break in if I was in danger.

"Isabel."

"I'm sorry for everything."

"DON'T APOLOGIZE, IT DISGUSTS ME EVEN MORE! THAT PITIFUL FACE WHEN I TRIED TO KILL YOU SEVERAL TIMES."

"I know I did something unforgivable by keeping the child I told you to get rid of. I couldn't kill our baby, it was the only proof that we loved each other."

HE SCREAMS.

" Do you think I loved you? It's the same as back then, it was so easy to fool you, I just wanted an adventure before I took my real wife. Think about it, Isabel! Who would love a poor girl? Naive as in the past."

" DON'T TRY TO LIE TO ME!"

"Is your head so sick that you can't remember what I told you? Have you forgotten that night?"

You heard the sound of her vomiting.

" Isabel, I fucked your psychologist so that he would always be in my hands, and discarded him when he was no longer needed."

" LIES! LIES!"

She screams her heart out.

"Why did you come to me? Did you think I would ask for forgiveness? Did you think I would beg to stay with you? " He laughed spitefully. " She's so desperate because of the guilt she's built up in her sick head over a man who never wanted her."

I looked through a crack in the door and she was lying on the floor crying.

"My only wish was to kill you and your despicable daughter."

I lost patience to go in, but Andreia pushed the door open and burst in with a gun. I couldn't let her father's blood stain her hands, so I grabbed the gun and shot him instead.

She punched me in the face several times without stopping, screaming with immense bitterness that I had robbed her of the satisfaction of killing.

Her mother screamed that I was a murderer, and I accepted her fury without moving. I took them back to the mansion as soon as they calmed down.

I spent the night in the office, remembering the way Andreia's face twisted into embers as she walked in. The look on someone's face as if they were ready to give their soul to hell just for the pleasure of killing.

Does she have the same hatred for me?