At 8:05 they knocked on the door. On camera I saw two municipal police officers.
—Mariana Torres? —asked one—. Your husband reported that you left him outside your home.
I barely opened.
—My husband? How curious. Last night he told me that he had just married another woman.
I showed them the message. The senior policeman read it silently. The young man bit his mouth so as not to laugh.
—If the property is in your name, ma’am, we cannot force you to let it in.
—It’s in my name.
—Document everything.
By noon he already had his things in boxes: shirts, shoes, falsely expensive watches, perfumes, cables, papers, a console and books that he never opened. All labeled. Not out of affection. By strategy.
At two o’clock the entire circus arrived: Raúl with dark glasses, Fernanda in a white beach dress, Doña Lupita —her mother— crying as if she were coming to a funeral, and her sister Patricia recording with her cell phone.
—You can’t run my son like a dog —Doña Lupita shouted.
—I didn’t run it —I responded—. I packed it.
Raúl tried to enter.
—This is also my house.
—It never was.
Fernanda, pale, whispered:
—Did you cancel the cards?
Raúl glared at her.
—Shut up.
Then I understood something: their honeymoon was over before it began.
And while they were carrying boxes under the sun, with the neighbors leaning behind the curtains, Raúl received a call that changed his face completely.
I couldn’t believe what was about to happen…
PART 2
Raúl took a few steps away to answer, but we managed to hear Fernanda’s altered voice on the other side.
—How did they reject the hotel charge? Raúl, they want to charge us for everything right now!
He turned to look at me with hatred.
—Are you happy?