Page 86 of Stronger Than Fate
“Dali, are you okay?” Lolo asked.
When I reacted, I looked at them and, without stopping looking through the window, sat back down.
“Excuse me, I thought I saw someone I know.”
“Who?” Henry asked again, with a furrowed brow.
My brothers and I looked at him surprised by his authoritative voice.
“Dali, we know you better than anyone,” Bastián said, and his comment seemed to be directed straight at Henry, “something is worrying you.”
“It’s just that…I thought I saw Sol across the street, watching us,” I said.
“Where?” my brothers asked simultaneously as they looked out the window, and Henry rushed out of the restaurant without saying a word.
“Where did he go?” Lolo asked.
“I don’t know,” I answered, looking through the window trying to locate him.
“I suppose he went out to check if it was her,” Bastián said.
I was getting up from my chair to go look for him when he came back into the restaurant. His expression showed his concern, and I regretted mentioning Sol.
“Dalina, it worries me that this girl is hanging around you,” he said, running his hand through his hair in exasperation.
My brothers looked at him in confusion. I suppose that, like me, they thought Henry was overreacting.
As usual, I was wrong.
“I agree with Henry,” Bastián said. “If it really was her, why was she watching us and then ran away?”
I looked at Lolo hoping to have someone on my side.
I was wrong about that too.
“Don’t look at me, I’m with them,” said the traitor.
“Dalina, you need to understand that this girl isn’t behaving properly. I’m sure she’s plotting something,” Henry pointed out, his mouth becoming a tense line.
“I must have seen wrong, she’s traveling,” I stated.
“How do you know she’s traveling?” he asked, frowning at me.
“Because I went to her apartment several times and the doorman told me.”
“Did you go alone?” he continued probing.
“Yes.”
“You can’t go alone. We’re dealing with a woman who has lied to hurt you; we don’t know what else she might do.”
My brothers were watching us without blinking, but it seemed that Henry’s arguments and his exaggerated concern were convincing them like nothing said before.
“I’m not going to argue about this again,” I stated.
“What do you two think?” he asked, looking at my brothers.
“We agree with you,” Lolo said. “It’s hard for us to imagine Sol acting this way, but it’s obvious she’s gone crazy.”
