Chapter 3

              SCANDAL 

    Back in her house, Mary didn't say a word about the incident, Adolfo, was perplexed! He was sure that Mary was going to make a scandal, to shout... But, Mary remained silent. 

    Every time Adolfo wanted to bring up the subject, Mary would leave the room to go to another, and this more and more disconcerted Adolfo: Why does she avoid talking about what she saw? Adolfo was completely overwhelmed by his wife's silence. 

He decided to have her followed by a professional, unfortunately for him the detective he had hired was the father of a child whose life Mary had saved by paying the full cost of spinal surgery. When the detective saw the woman in the photo Adolfo gave him for surveillance, his mind was clouded. He owed his son's life to this woman, he would never dare harm her. 

    He returned home and spoke about it with his wife, who contacted Mary very quickly. 

who asked to meet the detective. 

She told him what is going on between her husband and her best friend. The detective was furious and didn't decide to help Mary. Adolfo was going to pay dearly for his betrayal. 

   Once out of Mary's office, he called a friend of his, a journalist in a tabloid newspaper, the most popular in the whole region. They met in a small bistro not far from Adolfo's place of work. And both of them decided to punish the two traitors. The hunt began. 

Adolfo was convinced that the detective he had hired would tell him something about his wife, but he was telling him that his wife was not seeing anyone. But, in secret, he followed Adolfo and took pictures of him and Hailen, even in very indecent states. When he was sure he had irrefutable proof: videos and photos, he went to show them to Mary and waited for her authorization to give them to the journalist. Mary could not contain her anger and disappointment, tears were streaming from her eyes, she realized that her husband, the man to whom she had given her heart, the father of her daughter and her best friend had been laughing at her during all this time without her suspecting anything. Feelings intertwined in her, then a terrible anger took place, she stared fixedly at the detective and said to him in a firm tone 

   "Mr.Jackson, these two planted the knife in my heart without any mercy, I I'll give them back their own coin. Let the bomb explode, let the scandal of the century explode. You have my permission: PUBLISH!!!!!"

    Without wasting a second, Detective Jackson calls the journalist, the appointment is made to give him all the copies of the photos and videos. 

   The next morning, on the front page of the newspaper, a headline: THE GREAT ADOLFO DOMINGO, CAUGHT IN FLAG OF ADULTERY WITH HIS WIFE'S BEST FRIEND. 

   The television channels relayed this information. As if by magic, barely a few minutes after the publication, an army of journalists was posted in front of the house and also at Hailen's. Insults rang out everywhere against Adolfo and Hailen. TV and radio commentators improvised missions to receive calls from listeners who gave their opinions on this relationship. Adolfo couldn't leave his house, he canceled all his appointments.         Mary stared at him without saying a word, tears were streaming from her eyes and went back to lock herself in one of the rooms of the house. 

     Before this scandal, she had taken care to bring her daughter to her aunt who was very fond of the little one. 

    Adolfo, seated, had sweat running down his body. He didn't know how to deal with such a scandal. His close collaborators were unable to make disappear the images of him and his lover having sex. He wondered who had done such a blow to him? He was far from imagining that his wife had decided to make them pay the price for the betrayal, and that was only beginning. The fall of the great Adolfo had begun.