She was convinced that he would never love her, that if she had married it was because she had become pregnant with Christian, her only male heir. Something very important in his family was the continuity of the surname.

She knew that her husband had more than a thousand defects, after having been with him at her cousin's wedding without knowing who he was. She had given herself to him for the first time and really remembered what it had been like. She wasn't sure if it had really happened or not, so when she realized she was pregnant and came to tell him, she overheard the conversation in which...