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casually. Hector didn´t bother to answer. He was still
looking at the girl. “I don´t get it. You haven´t played one hand.
You haven´t come here for no good reason. I imagine, judging by
your appearance, you´ve done the same thing all your life. Maybe .
. .”
    “Put a lid on it.” Hector interrupted him.
“My motives are my affair and I´m not going to share them with
you.”
    “ How can talking with me hurt you? When
everything´s said and done, we´re in the same boat. Why don´t you
want to talk?”
    “ Because what you think doesn´t interest
me. Bother the other two with your verbal rubbish if you want,
leave me out of it. Why don´t you hassle the girl for a while? You like her,
don´t you?”
    Was it that obvious? Alvaro didn´t think so.
And yet Hector had picked it up, which meant he was a shrewd
observer. That wasn´t good news. And it didn´t seem possible to get
him to talk about himself, which was even worse. Alvaro felt
confused. Why would a person who took such little interest in his
own appearance be sitting at this table? He wasn´t a street bum,
that was for sure. Alvaro had seen plenty of homeless people at the
hospital and Hector wasn´t like any of them. He had a few things in
common with that poor herd of humanity but there was a glint in his
eye that set him apart. He was hiding something. And he didn´t know
why, but Alvaro suspected that fierce determination lay behind his
dirty façade. Hector knew very well what he was doing there and
nothing else bothered him. That was the reason for his impenetrable
indifference.
    The girl was the key! Hector had hardly taken
his eyes off her since she´d appeared. What did she want here?
Everyone knew who she was, so it wasn´t her identity that had
captured Hector´s attention. Maybe it was the fact that she was
only a girl with this strange pet beside her. Alvaro remembered
that it had been suggested that his host would be a woman, but he
hadn´t expected running into a sweet little thing like this. Still,
even allowing for that, Hector´s interest in her was hard to
understand.
    He looked at him again. He was still
looking at her, at her hands to be precise. She was building a
castle now, or was it a house? Alvaro began to watch what she was
doing carefully. And the more he looked the more amazed he became.
The shadow coming off the blocks changed when she touched them and
returned to its original position when she took her hand away. It
was very strange. And watching that underlined the peril of
touching her.
    Dante´s voice boomed across the table, almost
as if he´d forgotten for a second where he was. “You´re up to
something, sweetie. You´re little girl act doesn´t fool me.”
    “You´re a liar.” Judith said, collecting the
chips. “If you think I´ve done something, prove it or shut up.”
    Dante smashed his fist onto the table. “I
don´t think it, I´m convinced. And I don´t have to prove it to
you.”
    Alvaro stood up and walked towards Dante.
“Get a hold on your tongue my friend or you´ll pay the
consequences.”
    Dante had gone too far. To intimidate a
pregnant woman like this was simply too much for Alvaro. He could
do and say what he liked in his own corrupt world where his money
no doubt demanded obedience from those around him, but he wasn´t
going to get away with treating Judith like this here.
    “What do you think you´re doing, Doc?” Dante
asked. “What happened to this friendly chatty fellow of a few
minutes ago? It would seem the princess over there has really got
to you.”
    “Don´t start crying every time you lose. Be a
man for once in your life. If she´s played better than you, accept
it!”
    Judith´s soft, weak voice interrupted them.
“The girl wouldn´t have allowed me to cheat.”
    “There, see!” Alvaro said, even though he
knew she was lying. The girl had done nothing when he´d been
cheating.
    “You weren´t following the game, Doc.” Dante
informed him, ignoring Judith. “But I was. And I´m