Page 75 of Love Again

Vítor put both his hands on my face and ran his thumbs up and down my cheeks. I wanted to lean into his touch so badly, but I was too afraid.

"When I met Dri, he told me he had a son. He introduced me to Mateus when we'd been together a couple of months and he knew we were serious about each other. It was love at first babble for me because Mateus was the most adorable child I'd ever seen. That was the day I became a dad.

"When Dri died, Mateus helped me sort out the paperwork in the office. It was something we did together to be closer to each other and Dri. Mateus came across a birth certificate. His birth certificate. There was a name for the mother, but no name for the father.

"We were both in shock because we didn't know what it all meant. We went to the registry office, and after going through all the hoops, we found out that the name on the birth certificate was of Dri's sister. I didn't know much about her, only that she'd committed suicide. She suffered from depression. I only knew this because Dri told me once when he got drunk after Mateus' fifth birthday. He never mentioned it again, so I figured it was a painful memory he wanted to forget.

"Mateus didn't believe me when I said I'd had no idea. I still don't know why Dri didn't tell me he was raising his nephew as his son. You see, Dri was bisexual, something he told me when we met. He'd been with women before, so I'd assumed Mateus was the fruit of a previous relationship."

"I understand that's why you couldn't forgive me for keeping from you that I knew who you were. I lied, too."

"Tiago, why did you go to Porto?"

I gasped. How did he know I'd been to Porto?