While she cleaned herself, he quickly showered and then stepped out to the balcony for a smoke.

He inhaled deeply from his cigarette and released the smoke into the air.

The night wind quickly scattered it.

As the wind blew, Raphael's thoughts wandered to his work, and then shifted to Sandra... He reflected on Olivia, and then on Elissa...

In fact, he and Elissa had a good relationship at the beginning. He didn't settle for her; she was everything he had wanted in a wife.