So I must sacrifice myself.
I sat across from him, holding the hot cup with both hands.
It burned… but it helped keep my head cool.
“Alright,” I said. “Give me time to think.”
“Think about what?” he muttered, already glued to his phone again. “You resign, work your notice period, and that’s it. Case closed.”
At that moment I understood everything.
He truly believed I would do exactly what he said.
Because I’m his wife.
Because “that’s how things are done.”
Because his mother comes before everything.
I smiled.
A sweet smile.
“Of course, darling. It will be exactly the way you want.”
He didn’t even notice the irony.
At the office I couldn’t concentrate.
I attended meetings, talked about strategies and campaigns… but one sentence kept echoing in my mind:
“Your career can wait.”
“Gabriela, are you okay?” my deputy Mariana asked. “You look very pale today.”
“Family matters,” I replied.
By the end of the day I had a plan.
It wasn’t particularly noble.
But it was… absolutely fair.
If Alejandro wanted to play a game where my opinion didn’t matter…
