Chapter 35

LUCAS

Why were women so difficult? Sometimes they were deliberately obtuse, even when they know that what you were telling them was for their own good and that you only wanted what’s best for them. That you only wanted to protect them.

“I forbid you from seeing, Armando ever again!”

“And I forbid you from running my life!” Sienna yelled, slamming her little chubby hands on my desk. “I am not a child. I am over twenty-one now!”

“He’s only using you to get to me,” I said, slowly losing my patience. “Why can’t you see that, patata?”

“You think that someone like him won’t want me because I am fat, right?”

“I didn’t say that, sorellina-”

“You didn’t have to,” she uttered, her lips trembling. “The fact that you still call me potato tells me everything I need to know.”

“I’ve always called you that.” Dios Mio give me strength?