Chapter 7

Isabella

Mr. Ashgar left, leaving me standing there with a formal gesture of farewell in the middle of my living room. My heart was racing; everything was so strange and too good to be true that I needed a reality check. I called my brothers in Mexico and when I told them everything that was currently happening, they were stunned, intrigued, and worried, just like me. "It was too good to be true," Julio asked if he wasn't one of those sheikhs who had their own staff to make people disappear, as they had seen in the news a few months ago. Luis was somewhat impressed by the salary and benefits, but he thought the same way. It was like winning the lottery unexpectedly.

"But you've already signed, and there's no turning back now. It's better to tread carefully with that kind of people, Isa. You have to be very careful. I don't want to wake up one morning and not hear from you," Julio said, and I let out a long sigh.

"But we have to see the bright side," Luis said. We all looked at each ot