I continued, "Poor Tania, dying so tragically. Don't you fear that in the dead of night, she'll come back to haunt you and ask why her mother abandoned her?"
Sherry's pupils shrank and for a moment, panic flashed across her face. "Hector, what are you implying?" she asked. "Isn't this just a ploy to make me come back to you? Do you really need to make up such absurd lies? If Tania knew how you were made up such a story, she wouldn't want such a cruel father."
You can never wake someone who pretends to sleep. If she had even the slightest bit of maternal responsibility, she would have come back home after so many days to check on our daughter, who had been left alone. But she hadn't. All of her attention was focused on Colin.
I didn't want to argue with her anymore. I stepped past her, walked to the door and pulled out the divorce papers from my bag and said, "Sign it. Once you do, you can 'play' with him wherever you want."
Sherry glanced at the divorce papers and her expression changed slightly. She softened her tone, speaking to me patiently, "Alright, alright. I'll buy Tania a Barbie doll set later. She'll love it! Don't be so rude to me about this, okay?"