CHAPTER 5

Santiago couldn't control his heartbeat, what was wrong? He had only met Luciana yesterday and he was already crazy about it.

—How small the world is, don't you think? — Luciana said, breaking the silence, he looked at her for a moment and then looked back at the road.

-I think so. —He said smiling, she was staring at him and that made him blush.

—I think one way or another she was going to meet you.

—Yes, it was our destiny — Luciana blushed when she heard it and decided to look out the window. Santiago couldn't help but smile when he saw her out of the corner of his eye. She took a deep breath and spoke again.

"How is Princess Emily?" — Santiago couldn't help but look at her with great intensity, because of the loving and truly interested way he asked about her daughter.

"Angry because she didn't bring her with me," he said, laughing as he remembered her daughter with her arms crossed, angry because she didn't go with her father.

—Do you always take it everywhere with you? He—he really wanted to know. Santiago nodded his head.

—Yes, since her mother left her with me I have always tried to hang out with her, a babysitter went with me. In my office she had the crib and everything she needed for a six-month-old baby. As she grew older, I better organized a room for her, a bed for her naps, her toys, I want to make the most of it, since in a couple of years she will start school. — Luciana could feel the love with which Santiago spoke about her little daughter and something in her heart warmed. She wanted to ask him about Emily's mother, but she didn't know if she was going to sound too nosy, especially when she had only known him a day, at which point Santiago laughed, which made Luciana frown.

—What are you laughing at? —She asked confused.

—I know you want to ask—she was surprised to hear it.

-So? — Santiago nodded, without erasing the beautiful smile that he had on his face.

"Yes, you would have seen the look on your face, you would have realized it," he said, amused. Then his smile faded and he became very serious. — When I was at university I met Emma, she was very beautiful and sweet — she smiled bitterly — Or so I thought, I fell in love even though when we were dating she started to behave very bossy and controlling, and I, like a fool in love, found her justified, my family didn't want her, so they made me choose, her or my family, I chose her, I proposed marriage and my family stopped talking to me, thank heaven my grandfather had left his inheritance to me, so I became independent and created my company. Emma is a very irritating woman. She started yelling at my employees and treating them badly. We always argued about that and the excessive way she spent money. I tried to make her see that what she was doing was wrong. He really loved her and didn't want to lose her - Luciana listened very attentively and saw many feelings pass through Santiago's face, the truth is she didn't understand how someone could be so open with a person she had practically just met. — But everything got worse when she became pregnant, while I was filled with happiness, she became hysterical, she did not want children and lose her figure, she did not want to have to give up parties, trips, she said that she was not born to have children or raise them — Santiago sighed remembering those difficult moments in his personal life — I tried to make her see that I would be with her at all times, that we would be a family. To which she replied that she should stop living in fairy tales and wake up, that now a baby only came to cry, and that there would no longer be intimacy, she said that she was going to have an abortion, because she simply did not want to be a mother — Luciana I couldn't believe that a woman could say such cruel things. — I cried, I'm not going to deny it to you, I felt devastated, I couldn't believe that I had married such a cold and cruel woman, I called Saúl and he came to see me, he was my support and he gave me the idea of offering Emma money in exchange for the baby to be born. She is a materialistic woman, so she accepted, I offered her not only many millions, I also told her she could have surgery after the baby, so that she would not have children and if she wanted something aesthetic and she accepted. But she is so greedy that before Emily was born she wanted double the money and several properties that she had and also the divorce, it hurt me and in loneliness I cried again, I couldn't believe that all that was happening to me, but I really loved myself. daughter from the minute I realized her existence, so I accepted, because I would simply give everything I have for my princess, but I did it with one condition, that I had to be with us for the first six months of the baby's life. , my plan was that if she came by with the baby maybe she would fall in love with her, that in the end I would want a family by my side. But it didn't work, he stayed for six months, but he never showed love to Emily, I yelled at her just being a little newborn, of course she had surgery to avoid having children in addition to having cosmetic surgery, for her Emy was irritating, she couldn't stand my princess and that was the extent of my love for her, but the last straw she shed the glass was in which she brought men into the house when I was not there, I discovered it because when Emm was five months old when she left her naked for a while in the crib and she had just bathed because of her my daughter got sick, the housekeeper told me She called worried, I ran to the house, I asked her about the lady and she simply didn't say anything, I didn't know why, but I simply sensed it and an unknown anger emanated from me, when I got home the first thing I did was go to the room that we had shared a few months ago, but that she had taken care of taking me out, I found her having sex, I beat him out of my house and I told her many things, I took the agreement with everything she had asked me for Emily, I had it since she asked me for it, I gave it to her and gave her half an hour to leave the house. I didn't want to see her anymore, I took my little girl in her arms and went with her to the children's hospital. When we left there I took her to the house and there was no sign of Emma anywhere, I was about to fire the housekeeper for not informing me what was happening while I was gone, but the woman really needed the job and she knew what was happening. She was Emma to her, so she assumed he had threatened her and not just her but the entire staff. I decided to move house, it was a giant mansion, I bought it on Emma's whim, but the truth is it never felt like my home. Arriving at a new house was breathing, I'm not going to lie to you that there were nights when I cried and I really missed her, I really loved her, but they were few, after that, I knew how to adjust my life and I managed to get ahead with a little princess. — Luciana had not realized that she had tears on her cheeks, but Santiago did, so she pulled over to the side of the road and very delicately wiped away his tears. Their gaze was intense. —You don't have to cry.

-Sorry, I did not realize. You are a great man Santiago, and a great father, what you did for your daughter speaks very well of you and let me tell you that your wife is a damn witch who does not deserve to live on the same planet as Emily — Santiago smiled when he heard her, his hands They were still on her cheeks.

—Ex-wife, we divorced her a few days after she left the house and after that I never saw her or heard from her again. —She said with a shrug. At that moment a great connection grew even more in them, Santiago looked at Luciana's full lips and wanted to try them, he was sure that they would be sweet and not only that, he knew that he could become addicted to them.

On her side, Luciana began to get nervous, Santiago's gaze towards her was burning her, he unconsciously ran his tongue over her lips, he followed the movement with her eyes, and she could notice how they were They went dark almost immediately. When Santiago thought that he couldn't take it anymore and that he had to kiss her or die right there, her cell phone flooded the room, with a sigh and one last look he turned away from her. She answered when she saw that it was Saúl.

—Is something wrong that they have been left behind? — His friend asked, worried about him, Santiago looked at Luciana and smiled.

—No, nothing's wrong, I thought it made sense that I overstepped something, but I was wrong, don't worry Saúl, I know where we're going, we're almost there.

—Well, friend, I'll wait for you. — When he cut her off, his gaze was still on Luciana.

"Sorry about what happened a moment ago," he decided to break the silence.

—Don't worry, nothing happened. I also have to thank you for trusting me, we are practically strangers and yet you have told me very important things about your life and Emy. — Santiago looked at her without removing the smile from her face.

—You inspired confidence in me, seeing how you treated my daughter speaks highly of you, and not only will we work together, but we will be godparents and we have to organize a big wedding, so let's go — Luciana gave him a sincere smile, one that It had been a long time since he had given unless it was his family, Santiago was amazed by that smile to which he reciprocated, and then turned on the car and caught up with his friends.