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It was already 20:00hrs in San Juan, and Leonel had not answered a couple of calls and text messages. Frank called her, explaining his boss sent word that he would contact her soon and apologized for the inconvenience and absence, he was attending to matters that consumed all his time. Half an hour after she hung up the short conversation with Mr. Loman, Liliana arrived out of her working hours, bringing with her a couple of pizzas and soft drinks, plus some desserts that, according to the cook, were sent by Mr. Vos as an apology. Sofia didn't say anything, but it all seemed very strange to her. However, she didn't know exactly what Leonel's work routines were like, the exact things he was dedicated to, she didn't know the details of his specific tasks. Food plans at Larry's school? In other schools or NGOs? Sale of the articles he saw that time when he invited her to dinner? Coordination of companies, management of shares, assets, protocol acts, commitments with personalities, inv
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"Thank you for waiting," Sofia said to Raymond after she had asked his permission to go and change. She was not so foolish as not to notice the looks he gave her as soon as she approached. Raymond rose from the furniture to politely greet her in the living room, where he made himself comfortable while waiting for the teacher. He sat back down when she did. Sofia in a single-seater and he in the three-seater armchair. "Okay, Raymond, tell me, what's going on? What are you doing in San Juan?" "Nothing's going on, Sofia. I know it may seem strange for you to travel back here, but I needed to do a few things here on the island. As you may have noticed, I work together with Leonel. You will likely see me often when it comes to his business." "Okay, it's fine, although I don't understand much, you manage at your own pace. Where is he?""He's busy." Ray avoided the pressure of his jaw. She stared at him. "He tightened the security in this house, then you come... Why all this? And why
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Tamara Green was sitting on her large bed with silk sheets, dressed in gold from head to toe, a delicate, well-tailored dress by a renowned designer. She had her cell phone. And just written to Detective Raymond St. John, whom she had saved under another name in her contacts, without getting any response. She was crazy to talk to him, especially that night. When Gael, who was in front of her, stopped his movements in front of the full-length mirror, she slyly stretched backward, as if leaning on the mattress, so she could move her phone a little away from her body, downplaying whatever she was doing with the device. The idea was that Gael wouldn't notice how urgently she wanted to communicate with someone. Gael looked at her for a moment but then continued to adjust his black suit jacket and bow tie. The bruises on his face could still be seen, and after suffering a severe nose injury his brain and everything he put into it made him feel in top condition. He stretched his hand bac
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(Albany. That same morning.) "Sir..." Frank spoke under the doorway of his boss's room. The nurse had just finished injecting Leonel's first medication of the day when Frank Loman arrived. Mark had left that morning; he had to return to his work as soon as possible and not raise suspicions or misunderstandings among his colleagues; it was not certain who collaborated not with Gael within the police department. Leonel felt less and less pain; he trusted in what the doctor told him, that he would soon heal almost completely; the operation on his left arm was a success, and soon he could leave the confinement and return to work and travels (for Leonel, the latter was the important thing). The businessman could no longer stand the quiet hours, even if he dedicated them to his office work from his apartment. And that day would be a busy one, he had to receive reports about Gael and his wife, Tamara, since they would be celebrating the lady's birthday, the Greens and the Cliffs togethe
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Sofia avoided sighing. If it wasn't for Liam, she wouldn't have remembered the outing she promised him, but now she didn't want to add more people to the ride. "Well... We'll see tomorrow. I think so, but no promises. I saw in the weather forecast that it might rain, so I don't want to risk getting wet and cold." "Mom, you're not going to get sick again, are you?" Raymond made a question mark with his face as he took the last sips of his soda. Another stifled sigh. She smiled a somewhat feigned gesture as she noticed the detective's interest in what her son said. "Easy, honey." She looked inside the house and made eye contact with Liliana. The woman seemed to give a sort of little jump when she saw her being requested, hurrying to appear at the table in the pool area. "Yes, Miss Sullivan?" Sofia almost burst out laughing. Now she avoided shaking her head. "Liliana, Liam has already finished eating and I would like him to go and get sleep." "I'll help her with that right away
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Raymond swallowed thickly again and looked at her squarely. "You're not wrong. I have known Leonel for many years," he said. "He has achieved a lot, maybe not working for the best businessman in history, but his business is legitimate. However, Leonel Vos is an ambitious guy and has stopped seeing life as a simple place. It's very difficult for you to get that simplicity you are looking for with someone like him. It's like that, I'm not lying to you." He shrugged to remark on the little torch of words he had just thrown, feeling how a black blanket covered his back, touched, and pressed. Sofia remained serious thinking about that speech, but she gasped when heard a noise coming from inside the house. The woman looked over and saw what sounded like a new visitor. "She's this way. Follow me, please. This way you can surprise her," Sofia heard Liliana say to the newcomer. The teacher focused her eyes. Raymond looked back, his back was to the house, and his face changed completely wh
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The teacher stopped breathing. Her wide-open, watery eyes were a representation of her brain working at full speed. "What did you just say?" she asked in a whisper. Raymond was speechless, he had to act fast. "Sofia, it's not what you think." "You were talking to Gael's wife. You spoke to... Tamara? You said, "he's your husband". It was Tamara Green, "Tamara de Cliff," they call her, press call like that, I know her name.""Sofia, no..." He took a step toward her, but the woman pulled away, throwing her arms to the side so as not to be touched by him. "Who are you?" She began to gasp. "Who are you?!" "Sofia," he growled, the situation was getting out of control. "Did you work for those people? Do you collaborate with them? The things you just said to that woman... Leonel told me that she is not trustworthy and that she is even worse than Gael. Why were you talking to her?" Liliana was very alarmed when she entered the house and saw the discussion. Dolores was behind her, as
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Leonel was no longer in his bed, he moved to his living room. Leaning back on the three-seater seat, wearing a white flannel and pajama pants, still wearing his sling, he had the big TV screen on watching the entertainment channel, where he watched the red carpet of the big celebration, the birthday of Cliff's "princess" Green, as he had named her several years ago. Frank accompanied him and monitored his boss's informants through his cell phone, people who would be present at the party and who would shed information on everything that was going on or at least, on any irregularities that would point to Leonel. The businessman wanted to handle the situation in a jocular way. He sent out for pizzas, even though the doctor ordered him to eat lightly. He longed to see Gael's face all beaten up, to find out in the front row what he had to tell the press when one of them asked him what the hell had happened to him, while he ate, in the tranquility of his home and his refuge, a succulent
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Leonel and Sofia were in a part of the gear of the San Juan house, near the pool area. It was daytime, almost lunchtime. Both of them stood, hugging, enjoying the quietness they needed. She took her cheek off Leonel's chest to look at him, caress him, and let him caress her. "Are you feeling well?" she asked, worried. They had operated on him again; his internal stitches had been compromised, and she wanted to be careful not to hurt him. He smiled and denied it at the same time. "That's for me to ask you." He lightly caressed his girlfriend's left shoulder; she was wearing a short-sleeved blouse, and the dressing of her wound could be seen through the fabric. "Are you sure you don't need one of these?" He moved his injured arm a little, talking to her about the sling he was wearing again. "Your friend's wife told me it's not necessary." "Great. If Pilar says so, it must be so; it means you will heal soon." "Yes, she's very good at what she does, I'm glad you contacted that nur
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"Baby, look at me! LOOK AT ME! Sofia, don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes, baby, keep looking at me... Hey, what are you doing? What are you doing?!" "We're local police, let us help. We have to take her immediately to the hospital," one of the officers announced in English, trying to get Leonel to let the authority that managed to get there do their job since the ambulance hadn't yet arrived and had to act fast. Leonel took his girlfriend in his arms, he wouldn't let that man touch her. He ran to the patrol car, his truck was further away. They opened the back door, he got in with her, the officer who spoke to him got in front of the steering wheel, a colleague of his in the other front seat, and they sped off with sirens blaring, while the co-pilot radiated the situation, calling for backup. Dolores, who was still in the street, was crying inconsolably, hugging Liam, placing her face against his chest with the intention of not letting him hear, or listen. Other policeme
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"I'm sorry, officer, you can't make me get into any car, I haven't committed any crime." From the vehicle stationed behind, the back door opened. "Cut the crap, Sofia, and get in the car. Let's go." One step back, stiffening, holding her child tighter, the teacher could feel the sulfur stink emanating from the voice of Gael Cliff himself, who had spoken to her. "What are you doing here? No, no! Help!" She wanted to take advantage of the fact people were recording, shouting for help as a way of making them see that these guys were bad and wanted to harm them. "Help me, help us, please! Help! They want to kidnap us!" "Mom, Mom, what's wrong?" Liam's whimpering touched Sofia's heart, it made her angry at the discomfort of living through that dreadful moment. Her little boy was so scared. "It's going to be ok, honey. Leo and his people are coming for us; nothing bad is going to happen to us." "My dear son, wouldn't you like to see what I have for you in the van?" "Don't say a wor
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Dolores approached Leonel a few minutes after Liliana cleaned the broken glass from the cup he threw on the floor. "Is it true what that article says?" Leonel turned his face to look at her "Excuse me?" "Sofia told me everything and I know it couldn't have been you who did that atrocity with that girl, but are you involved?" Leonel looked at her as if she had grown three heads. "Are you saying that I had her killed?" She looked at him with apprehension and doubt but also boldness and determination. "You aren't a meek dove," Leonel straightened up, "you have your past. All that money you show now must not have been earned in a good way and now this..." Leonel stood up from the chair, and Dolores took a step back. He stopped in his tracks when he saw the gesture. "Dolores, but what...?" "I called the police." Leonel stopped breathing. "What?" She felt a pressure in her chest. "I dialed the Interpol numbers and told them you were here. The numbers are listed in the articl
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"Sofia, can I talk to you for a moment?" The teacher nodded to the principal of the school where she worked, then followed him into his office. "Sit down, please." She obeyed. "I'm so glad you came today. I understand you will no longer be attending the event with the mayor." «What?». Sofia looked at her cell phone screen, she had a missed call from Leonel. «So we won't be going to the event; he was surely calling me to tell me and giving classes I didn't answer him.» She made a mental note to call her boyfriend after that reunion. "Yes, well, I couldn't miss this last day of classes. Besides, I've made arrangements with some students in the higher grades to continue online classes to prepare them for next year's tests." "Are these classes private, or are they on the school's account?" She frowned. "Aren't they part of the academic curriculum?" "No, Sofia. If you're going to teach off-site, you'll have to charge the students separately." She was very surprised by the way the
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Dolores found out every detail the next morning, her younger sister thought it was a good idea to tell everything. Dolores didn't like what was happening. She always accepted Sofia's decisions despite refuting them, but this time, she wanted to be more attentive. Leonel talked to Adam in the pool area. Sitting around one of the tables and under an umbrella, totally alone, taking advantage of the fact that Liam was in class and Sofia was working right there, the businessman was able to find out the health status of his lawyer's assistant through a phone call. Lawyer Adam Coney's worker had a severe blow to her head, doctors were keeping her sedated while she recovered from her injury, so she could not issue a statement yet. However, Adam filed the complaint with the emphasis of immediately finding the culprits of that attack, linking the assault to the Elizabeth Cord case, having the evidence in his hands of her attendance at that hearing which someone—they didn't know if it was Eli
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It was a cool night, clear skies in that part of San Juan. The water was warm thanks to the pool system. Leonel had been swimming for a few minutes. It was a little difficult at first, but he found the perfect trick to do it without his arm. Now his feet were the only limbs submerged in the water. Wearing only a shorty-type swimsuit, he ingested some black soda with ice in a short glass. For the first time, he felt good. And the confirmation of this was given by the simple fact of being there with a group of people he could call Family. He thought of his mother. Living in the United States, south of Albany, she was the only blood family he had left. He had visited her little lately, although Frank helped him to make sure she lacked for nothing. He thought about bringing her to Puerto Rico, introducing her to Sofia, that she would also meet Liam and they would spend some time together in that beautiful place. While his longings and thoughts about it were shaping new plans, his cel
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Lawyer Adam Coney's assistant arrived at his apartment on the outskirts of the Big Apple's largest Latino neighborhood. It was already late at night, she was carrying a huge fatigue, high heels that she was crazy to throw over any part of her apartment, and folders in her hand, along with a leather briefcase. Dressed in office attire, although with a slight dishevelment of her hair thanks to the cold that barely covered the long coat and the few beers on top ingested at the bar in the corner of the buffet, she lamented once again because that nice housing complex used magnetic cards for the doors, missing very much some keys as she fought with the system failure. About to launch another expletive, the young girl bent down a bit to set the gear on the floor so she could perform the task of unlocking her home with both hands. As she straightened up, a sudden push slammed her against the door. She cried out urgently, but no one would hear her, because the force of the gloved hand si
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On the plane, the couple talked about Liam and the decision to live together. Leonel agreed to everything the little boy's mother proposed. It was not the best idea to sleep in the same room when they arrived. They wanted first to explain to Liam how the situation would be from now on, to see if he would accept it, but without stopping spending time together inside the house, investing more time between them as a new couple that longed to settle down in the middle of chaos and fear, with outings, in family life, now that Dolores was there and that the others seemed to join that nice circle. So it was done, all accomplished, and in a couple of days, which were work days for the teacher at the school, as well as school days for the child (these being the last school days of the year), they began to make room for Christmas; it was not yet December, but it was so close, that guided by traditions, they began to decorate the house. They had the time of their lives, as never before. Therap
