Something inside Josias says that he cannot tell what happened to anyone who knows him. He feels that he has already told too many people: Teodoro, Uélton, Wallace, Melissa, Romualdo, Dora, and Simeon, even the enemy Pamela knows what happened. The more people who know, the more chances that the moneylender will find out.
This, of course, was going on in Josias's troubled mind. Because there was no chance that anyone in the Bento family would be related to anyone in Rainbow Garden. But, it was fear that made Josias not reason clearly.
For Josias, it was Tiago's insistence that made him afraid to tell. Josias shakes his head, terrified....