“Chief Ximena; I introduce you to the new carver. His name is Leonel; he is the best of the Sena Institute in jewelry; he graduated with honors; he will be one of the ones in charge of the new jewelry collection for this season.” “Hello Leonel, It's nice to meet you; I hope you shine.” I look into the eyes of this young man, who appears to be full of dreams and illusions. Despite his trembling, he must be terrified of his boss, which is me. He even answers me stammeringly, “Yes, ma'am, it is an honor for me to work in your company, which is undoubtedly one of the best in the world.” “Excellent, Leonel; I hope you are as good at designing as you are at flattering.” “Mrs. Ximena, look, I brought some prototypes; look at them.” He handed me a catalog with some beautiful jewelry glued to some cardboard sheets. “Wow, they are very beautiful; you really deserve your title.” “Not only that, Mrs. Ximena, at the Sena, they also give us business training, and I have many innovative ideas;
From crying so much, I fell asleep; it could be a reaction of my body to avoid the pain. When I woke up, I threw my arm to feel my husband's chest, and my hand only grabbed a pillow.“Is it possible that my beloved husband did not sleep next to me? Could it be that he slept with that beautiful slut?” I wondered, swallowing my tears, reaching to hear the sound of my cell phone, where I saw the time, which taught me that not much time had passed; actually, I only fell asleep for a few minutes; unless I lasted twenty-four hours asleep, I would have woken up the next day. I hurried to answer the jewelry designer, Leonel, who greeted me with exaltation.“Boss, I'm glad you answered!”“Hello, I didn't hear the phone; you're not going to tell me you're going to quit.” I mention that because that would be the only thing missing to make up for my disappointment.“No, ma'am, apparently our lunch inspired me; that made me fo
Angelo pulls me up on his shoulder like a sack of potatoes while I kick and scream like crazy, no matter that I show my small underwear. I yell to my bodyguards to help me, and apparently they are stuck with a piece of blood sausage because they remain motionless looking at the floor. “Let me go, Angelo; don't be bold,” I demand when he puts me down to try to push me into his car. “Please behave; you've embarrassed me enough tonight,” he mutters to me, clenching his fists, and this doesn't stop me from yelling at him. “Hit me, that's all you're missing, you filthy pig; I knew you were hiding your true personality.” His look transformed as if he were possessed, and he grabbed me by my waist and pulled me into the car. “Let's go to the house.” He ordered his driver, and while he grabbed my hands to prevent me from scratching his beautiful face, now the possessed one is me, who attacks him like a beast using my claws and teeth. I bite him, considering receiving a blow to make him let
The next morning, thirsty for water but satiated with pleasure, the two bodies got up to bathe, dress, and have breakfast. Everything was flowing so well that you could smell the spring fragrance. It was as if the rainbow had come out after the storm, entertaining us with its colors and making us forget the storm like a little boy who, after making mischief, enraptures us with his tender face. “Love, please, let's not fight again; promise me,” Angelo tells her while he caresses her hair, combing it with his fingers, which sit in a soft slide. “I'll try not to do it; it's complicated; you can't ask a tiger to be vegan, and you too; you sure broke that poor man's jaw,” answers Ximena while she puts a piece of melon in Angelo's mouth. “That's an important point; please, my love, I don't want you to talk to that guy again; he's very dangerous.” “He's going to be a jewelry designer; he's going to decorate me to death with glitter.” “No, my love, what happens is that Max is my competiti
The disappointment of finding out that the man I fell in love with was my sister ate me up. There would have been a thread of probability if he were with any other woman, even with another, but not with my only sister, Ximena, who technically was my only family. I cannot stand this feeling, which is as if I had a swarm of crabs that ate me up inside. I just want to fall asleep, wake up in her arms, and know that I am not the most forbidden man. Likewise, I wish this were a cruel nightmare, and I even pray to have a chance. Likewise, I have my altar with figures of several saints, to whom I ask a lot of counting, and they don't even blink while I cry. I don't know how so much is attributed to an object. I question how there can be a just Creator if he made me with a heart that occasionally insists on standing still; that seems to be my enemy. That must be why I do not deserve to have a love with this striking organ that surely would not support so much emotional load. Although I must
“Something happened to my little sister, Angelo; please come with me to see what happened to her.”“Let's go tomorrow; I'm exhausted, and besides, she told you she was going to sleep.”“Don't contradict me; I know her, I know something happened to her, and I even have a feeling that if you don't come with me, I'll go alone.”“Well, love, let's go; it's ok.”“No, don't worry; it's better to stay sleeping, Mr. Tired, first, than married.”“Just because he's married doesn't mean he's a submissive who has to do whatever you want at whatever time you want; if you're like that, go with the gourmet escorts.”Ximena, harassed by the presentiment that was kicking the back of her head, that her little sister could be suffering a heart attack, she imagined her lying there suffering without being able to move. She did not even answer her cell phone, or it could be that she found her like a frozen statue, that would be better not to think about it, it is bad to attract misfortune because it comes.
A few days went by, and they were so busy with the wedding preparations, the university, work, and the task of giving each other love in different ways, that they hardly slept. They had to postpone the gym, since their energy was diverted in marital affairs, that is to say to give it like rabbits, like a rag picker, etcetera. Until one morning, the cell phone interrupted them again. This time it was their friend Liz, who greeted them in this way, “Friend, what did you do, lies, I can imagine what tasty things you spend your time doing, friend. So as not to take your time, I call you to invite you to my father's hotel in the Virgin Islands, so that together we can make you stop being virgins.” “My friend, it's a good plan. Wait, I'll check with Angelo.” With one hand, she covers the cell phone to ask her husband, and he answers her what she didn't expect: “No love, I can't, I have some business to attend to, maybe I'll drop by later, although I don't think so, as always I'm like I'm
“Thank you very much, Don Missal. I promise to come very soon to visit you properly.”“I am counting on that, Ximena; please take care of yourself. If it can be of any help, I heard that General Suarez is obsessed with capturing that guy; it is said that he has him in his sights. Maybe that man can help you with something. In any case, don't talk to him about me; we don't want each other either. Although I just remembered that there is a man who can be of great help to you; he works in his mine; that man who is in charge of his affairs with the government, Don Molina, is the man your real father trusts; he knows half the country. Talk to him as a first step.”“I didn't know that; thank you very much. In that case, we are going back to the mine.” Ximena said goodbye to Don Missal without knowing that it was the last time she would see him.“Goodbye, my child.”“See you later, Don Missal; please take care of yourself and stop being in bad places.”In a matter of minutes, they returned t
“Angelo, I will kill your children first, then your sister-in-law, then you, although I will take my time with everyone.” The old man took a rusty poker and went to the prisoners' cage. “Sir, we are informed that Alexandros took another route; it is possible that he went wrong. Or he kind of stole the money.” A henchman arrives to inform him.“That can't be possible, and if it is, we will look for his mother, and we will apply five hundred bullets to make that rat come out of his hiding place.” Giuseppe spat on the ground and almost dropped his box of teeth.“Besides, there is something very strange; the lookouts on the road report many cars in the sector. More than usual, it is possible that it is a rescue; it would be better, sir, if you were eliminated quickly, and we leave.” The assistant lowered his head as he spoke to him.“Nonsense, that doesn't mean anything. Besides, I have been waiting for this moment for years; I am going to savor it; I will be delighted; it will be a spec
“I thank you very much for this last favor.”“Do not worry and remember it very well; I can't have friendships with a snitch. Although your grandfather also helped, the old man sold the castle and the little that was left.”“Yes, José Luis, I know; he told me that he feels very guilty about everything that happened with Ximena; he knows that he will have to pay for that when he dies.”“Angelo, enough with the sermons; we must concentrate on the operation; they shouldn't have called the police; it complicates everything.”“I didn't do it, it was up to her and Detective Das; I would have preferred something from us.”“It might be better; Max's father, whose real name is Giuseppe Latin, has more money than all of us together, therefore more men and means.”“I am confident that we will succeed, as we always do.”“Of course, Angelo, we make it, or we die, either way, for the hole we drive.”“It may happen, but at least I'll take Giuseppe with me; I'll send him to meet Max.”“At least the c
Fire trucks arrive on the scene, making their way through the curious and opportunists. The police cordon off the scene and search for witnesses to the tragedy.“Detective, a wounded soldier. He says that some very suspicious subjects were going to leave a car on the front sidewalk, and that a comrade went to stop them, and the driver shot him, so they returned fire, and that caused that terrible explosion.” A policeman informed his superior.“I knew they were going to attack Ximena. And as usual, my boss didn't listen to me.”“Detective, they took a lot of precautions, and that's why they doubled the guard.” The officer left to help the firefighters remove debris.Ximena emerged from the chaos, filthy and disoriented, accompanied by escorts.“Mrs. Ximena, are you hurt?”“Detective Das, what happened? Do you know anything about Angelo?” Ximena greeted her, hugging her detective.“It seems they were planning to blow this building sky-high to silence her. As for Angelo, I assumed he was
“I need a way out; I have to go see him.” I have repeated these words many times, every day during these weeks, and I receive the same answers, although today a doctor answers me something different.“Mrs. Ximena, you know that it is something very complex because the gentleman is in another hospital since he was more injured. On the other hand, you still require special care, and although I have news for you, you are going to get out of here.” The doctor with the face of a kindly old man purses his lips to give a dramatic pause or to wait for my answer, but I just make a puzzled grimace, so he goes on, “Yes, as you can hear, we are going to get out.”“Explain me better; I notice something strange in the way you say it.” While I speak, the old man moves his mouth between fake smiles and sucker punches.“Mrs. Ximena, the judge who is handling your case demands that you be interrogated; that's what we are going to do, and it could be that your husband is also required; suddenly you will
“Where am I? Who am I?” I have asked these questions several times. Until suddenly my consciousness becomes clear, and the memories hit me all of a sudden. I look around me; it takes me a while to realize that I am in a hospital, in a first-aid room, and the smell of anesthesia raises my blood pressure. The doctors surround me with syringes, perhaps with painkillers, although they inject them in the serum, and I think I manage to ask for Angelo and my children before falling asleep.I have no hands, no feet, no face, or anything. It seems to me that I am a painting on a wall contemplating the horizon, but suddenly I am also someone who observes the painting. I detail that it is a canvas of my life and that it was painted with tears and smiles. I see it and I see me, both screens at the same time, until a blue energy shakes us and my eyes see a great light. Furthermore, as I turn my head and observe people dressed in white and blue, I hear, “We are going to intubate her.”It is a proce
“Calm down, my children; it won't be long now until we get to Bogotá.” Ximena consoled her children and herself.The long trip was coming to an end. She arrived at the central terminal; she went downstairs normally; the freezing city air calmed her; she breathed in the aroma of progress; and she prepared to leave to board the cabs. Everything seemed perfect until she saw a man who, upon seeing her, called someone on the phone.“I'm going to get caught.” These words escaped her, and she turned around, raised her children, and walked quickly. But, rather than running to avoid suspicion, she turned her head to see that the man was following her, accompanied by two others dressed in black. She calculated that her best strategy was to return to the fleet under the pretext that she had forgotten her luggage, so she could go back to the unloading area. But instead of looking for a non-existent suitcase, she marched quickly towards the exit of the buses, crossed the avenue, walked a few meter
“How is it that such a pretty young lady with such a pair of little angels walks around this region so full of dangers?”“I was visiting my grandfather; he lives in the mountains.”“It's good to go back to the country, to know the roots; besides, as an old man, you don't know when you will see your loved one for the last time; tell me, I haven't seen my daughter for a long time.”“And that, is it, that you are angry?”“No, miss, it's just that some criminals killed her. And she had two granddaughters who were taken by an uncle who refused to allow me to see them. It was very difficult; that's why I went to the country with my wife until she died. Now all I have left are memories of my life—of what I did, what I didn't do, and what could have been. Although the truth is that I'm not from around here, I'm retracing my steps. I know that the bone is breathing down my neck; although I'm still afraid of the uncertainty of the afterlife, I also long for it because this body no longer respon
“We are going to finish off even the sow's nest.” Angelo closed his black jacket, lowered his balaclava cap to cover his face, and jumped from the helicopter held by a rope. When he touched the ground, he landed with both legs, running straight ahead with the gun. He imagined he was diving from a very high pool; he didn't even turn to see if his men were following him. He neutralized a couple of guards and, little by little, his adrenaline went down as his sadness increased.“Sir, we went all over the place, and there is no trace of a woman and two children.” The mercenary Can-Can informed him, turning his head and looking for any threat.“It can't be possible; this is the place.” Angelo kicked a table to calm his mixed feelings.“My lord is not wrong; look here; we found this dog in a hiding place.” Jose Luis came in and pushed Diego to the floor.“Damn rat! What did you do with my wife and children?” Angelo lifted Diego by the neck while he was shaking. It was hard to understand wha
“Okay, Angelo, I'll tell you.” Emily cleared her throat, her voice almost unable to come out because those strong hands were choking her. “I made a mistake in proposing that question to you.”“Please forgive me; I didn't want to go to these extremes; it's just that I'm very worried.” Angelo whispered, letting go of her neck, “I know she's in danger; besides, I'm having the same symptoms as when she was pregnant with my twins; I hope it's just my psychosis.”“Angelo, I understand you. Hold on; I'll calm down, or I'll end up in an ambulance.” Emily exhaled, speaking fast, took a deep breath, mentally repeating the mantras that helped her calm down, and continued, “Please don't tell her that I was the gossip rat.”“You can tell her that I made you; although you will have to come with me, we must plan a way to rescue her.” Angelo picked up the hamburger again to eat it.“I remember when Ximena found me after we were separated because we were adopted by different families. She took me to e