"Mm, don't push yourself too hard," Raquel said with her soft voice, somewhat tired and hoarse: "I want the culprit to pay for what he did to my daughter, but I don't want you to get hurt in the process... You know, I know Bia wronged you, but she deeply loved you, I, I... Maybe this person who's manipulating others' minds, might have manipulated hers too?"
"..." When Renato heard this, it was as if he had an epiphany. It was then that he thought of something...
With a slightly trembling voice, he murmured: "That supposed friend of Bia... Could he be responsible?"
"Him?" Raquel also thought about this now; he was indeed a bit suspicious to say the least. Not that he was ugly, but no matter from which angle you looked, he was inferior to Renato in every way possible: "Could it be him?"
"If it is... I've made a mistake." Renato felt a tightness in his heart. If from the beginning, Bia was manipulated...
