Tiago scorns the idea of Adrian resigning from Silva Constructions. "You're not leaving here, boy. We haven't had enough of you yet.""You wouldn't want me here if it weren't for my father. I have been working as an office boy for a year now and have been a janitor in my spare time. I don't feel that I will have professional growth. You can't force me to stay in a company where I am not happy.Tiago stands in front of Adrian and speaks in a low, threatening tone, "Oh, yes we can! As I said, you will only leave as soon as we get tired of playing with you. Even more so now that you have just admitted that you want to tarnish Silva Constructions' reputation because of the repressed homosexual passion you feel for Josias."Adrian's face turns red and he doesn't shy away. "Stop repeating that nonsense! My hatred for Josias has no ulterior motives!"Romualdo clarifies, "He says he wants Josias in jail only because his father went because of our friend."

Josias visits Moacyr. The two of them are sitting on a sofa each.Josias apologizes to Moacyr for not coming earlier, "Melissa forgot to give me the message, Mr. Barbosa.""That's okay, she must have her mind full of problems."Josias heaves a sigh: "So Adrian came here at his office hours to hassle you.""He said he was going to resign."Josias chuckles. "Romualdo and Tiago refused. They said they haven't screwed Adrian enough yet."Moacyr has a serious expression. "Josias, I know you respect me as a father.""Of that, you have no doubt.""So I'd like to ask you a favor.""Maybe two.""Let Adrian go."Josias takes a deep breath. If it were up to him, Adrian would never have come in. "You know that for me Adrian would be gone, especially after learning that he's been flirting with my fiancée.""I asked Mr. Silva to employ Adrian so that he would stop living irresponsibly. It seems that he has

Vera looks for Beto to find out how yesterday's conversation was."Big bro, how was the conversation with—" Vera is shocked to see a punch mark between Beto's cheek and nose, "Hey, what happened?"Beto disguises, "I slammed the closet door in my face, that mark was left."Vera becomes suspicious. "Are you sure a fight didn't happen at Harold Freire's house?"Beto keeps concealing it. "No, little sister, there was nothing like that. Wallace showed up, we confronted him and he promised not to do it again. He guaranteed that he loves you and that he's going to marry you."Vera sighs in relief. "Whew! You don't know how relieved I am! For a moment I thought I was about to make the worst mistake of my life!"Beto frets, his eyes showing pity. "Little sis, if you still realize that it's not worth it to marry Wallace, don't insist. No one here is forcing you into anything."Vera smiles sweetly, "You can rest assured, bro, I can take ca

Natalia looks for Wallace in the warehouse, but he is too busy unloading a truckload of soybean oil cans. Vera is checking the invoices, but when she sees her rival she frowns and strides over to her."What are you doing here? You're disturbing the workplace!"Natalia behaves debauched. "Is this a workplace? If you don't speak up, I would never know!"Vera doesn't shy away. "If you've come to talk to Wally, you can forget. He's already asked me for forgiveness."Natalia pretends she wasn't impacted by the information and tries to disguise it, "You look ridiculous with that nickname the other one gave him."Vera is puzzled. "And how can you have an opinion about that? By 'the other' do you mean Pamela?""You don't remember me, right? Of course not, with so many people who took your mask off that day in the hospital. I was there."Vera's eyes widen, she remembers the day Melissa and her friends accused her of stealing Wallace from Pamel

At the construction site, Josias is talking to Uelton about the same subject. "At this hour Melissa is talking to your mother."Uélton is crestfallen. "Poor little mother. She's expecting a dream wedding, just like yours."Josias calms him with his hand on Uélton's shoulder, "But, there's still time to stop it. I've always wondered about the way things turned out.""It was a stroke of bad luck for all of us that Wallace was robbed. Pamela could have broken it up without that."Josias frowned. "I still can't get over that coincidence that Wallace stayed with Vera while Pamela was dancing with Beto. The couples were switched.""What does Seu Teodoro say about it?""He doesn't talk about it, he huffs and puffs, and he gets nervous, so I don't insist."Maybe you're not the right person to insist." Uélton smiles lightly and changes the subject, "Hey, we know about the loan shark."Josias sighs in relief. "Phew,