Before the end of office work that day, Aloida knocked on Lexandro’s office door.
“Come in,” she heard him say after her three knocks. So, she opened the door and went inside.
“Aloida, remember, tomorrow, we are going to our village to meet my family,” Lexandro told her as she stood in front of him.
“I won’t forget. I will wait for you tomorrow. I have got to go now. I will be meeting Mariel. She arrived this afternoon,” she told him. He stood up and approached her.
“Aloida, I won’t mention to them about your daughter tomorrow. We need to get married first, before they should know about her,” Lexandro said. He held her shoulders and looked at her with an unspoken apology in his eyes.
Aloida stiffened. She gave him that half-smile that never reached her eyes. She felt heaviness in her
