Chapter 21

• Demetrio had been convinced that Evangelina would win the bet, because the woman was so good that he himself doubted her abilities. But at the last moment, the very shrewd woman let herself be defeated. So, the CEO was left with the immense desire to drown himself with Eva's flower.
• Eva sat at her desk, overseeing the new projects her engineers had sent her; though she tried to concentrate, her mind kept wandering back to Demetrio and the words she had said to him when she realized she had lost.
• "I hope you will keep your word and leave Santino," he said so earnestly that Eva went still, it seemed as if it hurt him a little to know she was with him as he said the words.