Chapter 051

The Business of Family

While Carlos stood before his glass windows observing the beauty of the skyscrapers, his phone buzzed, and he read the message from Isabelle: "The meeting with the principal went as well as could be. We need to talk. Don't be late for dinner."

Carlos sighed and ran a hand through his salt-and-pepper mane. All day he had been contemplating the meeting with the twins' principal. He should have attended the meeting, and yet a crisis that fell in his lap regarding a prime customer had him tied up in his office. Once again.

Rap, rap, sounded from his door, and his secretary said, "Mr. Fernandez? The board is waiting for you in the conference room."

Carlos adjusted his tie. He brushed off thoughts of his family.

He went into the conference room to find the prattle dying, all the eyes turning to him with a mix of anticipation and wariness on the faces of the board members.

"Ladies and gentlemen," he said, the bass voice cutting through the murmur of conversation. "The