From the moment I arrived at the company, until my lunch time I went through four meetings with some partners. I admit to having worked most of the time in automatic mode, just answering what they asked me, approving with my head for some new projects.My thoughts were too far from that company. Too far from Seattle. In the same direction in which the woman I loved was. It was a relief to have received a call to calm my nerves."Sad, one of my contacts in Georgia saw you leaving the airport. "It was Sawyer on the phone."Who was she with?”" With a lady and a young boy.”"boy? "I asked with a frown.. "Discover the name and degree of kinship.”"Of course, sir.”I left my cell phone on the table, leaning forward, holding my jaw with one hand. I tried to calm my nerves. He should be just a relative. A friend. Mother's boyfriend. It shouldn't be anyone who caused me any risk.For a moment it crossed my mind that maybe she traveled so fast to meet only that boy I didn't even know. Although
"Is everything okay? "Elide asked, finishing his glass of wine.“No.”"You should ignore her a little. It always works.”" Ignoring her is not part of my plans, Elide.”"I just meant that the more you show interest and suffocate her, the more distant she will want to stay. "She leaned towards me. "Hey, tell me how you're feeling.”"I don't know what I should feel.”"Sadness, maybe.”"I'm not sad. I think I did something right. I let her go. I could just stop her. I could not have said that... "I stopped talking. I had forgotten to tell Elide a little detail. I didn't say I had kicked Becca out of my house."What did you say to her? "Your eyes widened. "did you say you loved her?”"Don't make a scandal." I spoke calmly, still restless at not seeing any more signs of any emails on my cell phone."So what did you say?”Again everything that happened crossed my mind, making me embark on a new daydream. I remembered Becca waking me up with her light steps on tiptoe. His red sweater falling
I confess that since we entered the restaurant for lunch, even though I was on a time for an afternoon snack, I didn’t feel hungry at all. All the emails Friederich sent me removed exactly 10% of my hunger.Raphael and my mother ate like two truck drivers, as if they had been days without eating something of good quality. I laughed with that situation, giving light forks on my steak, when I received a new email.Friederich had gone out for lunch with a friend. Another woman. I felt a pain in the deepest part of my belly. All my muscles contracted, I felt my eyes widen."Is there a problem, Becca? "Rapaly asked, touching my hand. "My goodness! You're cold. What happened? "Your hand had risen to my face."I have problems at work. My boss wants me to solve some things. "I lied, still staring at my cell phone screen."You came to rest. Leave these problems for later.”“ Okay. "I said, leaving my cell phone in the center of the table.“I'll be back soon. "My mother said suddenly, getting u
"You know I wouldn't let my best employee travel without proper comfort." said Jack, and I couldn't help but smile. " By the way, I'm glad you called me. I already thought something had happened to the flight. You never know.”"I completely forgot to call. I'm sorry.”"Don't apologize. Just have fun. Tomorrow I will send you an email with two new places for Miss Swan's party. Analyze it calmly and call her. "He said it in a professional way.I couldn't forget to still work, even though I called it a vacation. Maybe it was Friederich's vacation. Or maybe from myself, who could use a new personality in Georgia without guilt.It wasn't like my life in Seattle was full of deprivation. My master never stopped me from anything, as long as we were out of four walls. However, I think I molded myself so much to be just his, that I got lost myself.Being back to my state was like loosening a leash of a wild animal. It wasn't truly free, but it was still a little more comfortable. Because that s
When I hung up the call, I noticed that my mother was pressing my shoulders with a slight excitement. I turned to look into the space between the front seats, and found her with a malicious expression on her face."You didn't tell me that you called your boss, who paid for your first-class trip, by name. "She smiled, moving her eyebrows. I laughed when she started imitating my voice in a squeaky tone. "Jack that, Jack that. Thank you, Jack. Of course, Jack. Jokes with Jack. Jack, Jack, and Jack.”"Mom, for God's sake, he himself demanded this kind of treatment," I explained, because even Raphael was laughing at my mother's tone of voice. "He is dear to all the employees. Besides, part of his team is made up of women, so he acquired an affectionate way of treating all of us. It doesn't mean that he has any interest in me.”"Do you have an interest in him?”"No, mom. I haven't been involved with anyone in... like, years.”“ Liar.”I closed my expression."It's serious. I haven't been ou
I opened the door of the apartment, and I had to push to be able to enter, feeling a weight against the wood larger than normal. As soon as I entered, irritated at having to kick the door to open it, I found my mother complaining quietly, holding it in her own head. It didn't take me long to connect the stitches."Dre you listening behind the door? "I restrained a laugh. "Ah, mom, for God's sake. At this age?”"Yes, and you slammed the door on my head. "She grumbled, rubbing her forehead. "It wasn't necessarily listening behind the door, because I was innocently picking up the bags that Raphael left at the entrance, so I noticed that you were standing near the elevator and I ended up hearing one or two words.”I crossed my arms, arching an eyebrow.“One or two? I know.”"Maybe I heard that you agreed to go out together, even after you told me to stop talking about men with you. But now I understand everything.”I frowned."You understand everything? I just really wanted not to think a
"Mom, do you think Dad made me a monster?”My mother leaned over to see my face, because my head was slightly lowered. She seemed outraged.“Rebecca, who said that about you? You would never be a monster, especially because of your father. That has nothing to do with it. You are two totally different people.”" But do you say that because you are my mother, or because you really don't believe that I would do anything intentionally to put me in danger?”My mother was in doubt, looking more and more annoyed with the direction to which the subject was taking. Well, she didn't want to have that conversation, but I had said to end the damn subject about men long before it came up. The problem was that she didn't want to listen to me."I want to know exactly what you could have done to put yourself in danger, daughter.”I gestured with my shoulders, holding my gaze on my hands on my lap."I may have looked for men who did not respect me at all, or for men with complicated and obscure lives,
"Don't say that, daughter," my mother asked, caressing my hair again. "I'm sure you two can solve this situation if you talk right. Maybe he may be confused by the way everything took, but if he really feels something for you, then it won't end like that.”I swallowed it dry. It wouldn't be good to mention that maybe I didn't want anything to be solved myself. Because Fred might have expected me to be like any young and passionate woman. But I wasn't. I didn't know what I really felt, if it was really love, but I didn't want to give it up either. The way he made me feel."I'm confused, mom," I confessed again. "As long as I don't solve this mess inside my head, I'll never be able to make anything else work. Fred doesn't deserve someone like me."You really don't deserve it, because you are wonderful," said my mother, smiling.I stared at her, without any courage."It's not for that, mom. Remember that I was the one who ruined everything.”"And he was mature enough to admit the mistake