SINGLE MOTHER AND CEO

In the Morales Bourbon mansion, the Narrator:

-I don’t think Rafael, is that kind of person, although I’ve known him for a very short time -reflected Estefania, looking at Shayla and Sheyli.

-Well, I wouldn’t doubt it! -Sofia expressed categorically, resenting him again, rolling her eyes.

-Sofia, excuse me for getting into this discussion with mommy Estefania! I think the same as her, Rafael doesn’t look like a man who likes revenge or with hidden agendas. He seems to me to be a very sincere and honest person,” Sheyli assured.

-Well! Honestly, I wish I was wrong,” Sofia clarified, “Let’s leave this subject until here. Please, mother, call the haras, so they can send you a copy of the document and we can review it, okay? -she asked.

-Perfect! After breakfast, I’ll call you,” Estefania assured, silencing her grandchildren, who were arguing about their foals.

-Grandma! Rafael Angel wants Rafael to be our father and I don’t want him to be. He has behaved very well, but he is not our father, right, grandmother? -Rafael Enrique exclaimed forcefully, looking at his mother in a very expressive way.

-What is it, children? -They are not happy to have us. You are the center of our lives,” she said, with some sadness.

-Mommy! With a daddy we can play, run, ride horses, fish, in short, there are many things you don’t know how to do,” replied Rafael Argenis, leaving Sofia speechless and unable to utter a word, because she didn’t know how to respond to this.

-I didn’t know they felt that way! I thought you were happy to have me all to yourselves,” Sofia lamented, saddened, coming forward to kiss her children one by one.

-Mommy, don’t be like that! -Rafael Angel exclaimed, “it’s just that if Rafael becomes our daddy, we will share time with him and you.

-Besides, this way we won’t put so much pressure on you to be with us,” added Rafael Argenis, “and we’ll learn quickly how to ride a horse.

-Heh, heh, heh, heh! So that’s where this desire for Rafael to be his father comes from? – Shayla asked, smiling and amazed at the astuteness of those three little boys.

-Heh, heh, heh! -he smiled innocently, understanding what his aunt Shayla had said.

Estefania, taking charge of the situation, ordered breakfast to be served and secretly analyzed what her grandchildren had said. For, she, too, would like him to be her son-in-law. She had looked up information about him and he was a reliable man.

Once they began to eat, she concentrated and listened attentively to the explanations Shayla and Sheyli were giving about the extraordinary economic situation of the shipping company in Ciudad La Rosa.

-Talking about everything, when Rafael came, did he come alone? -Sheyli asked, pretending to be indifferent.

-No, according to what he told me he came with his friend, Reyner’s other son, Martin Elias, who by the way I didn’t see,” said Estefania.

-Do you know if he is still on the Island? -insisted Sheyli, awakening the curiosity of Shayla and Sofia, who looked at each other and smiled.

-No,” Estefania answered, “I only know that Rafael has already left the island.

-Ok! I thought maybe I could see him here. But well, it’s nothing important that I want to ask you about.

-Gemela! And what do you and Martin Elias have in common? -Shayla inquired, curiously making Sofia let out a restrained smile.

-Well, now! What happened? I can’t ask about someone,” Sheyli argued, irritated, getting up from her chair and trying to leave the dining room.

-What’s wrong, sis? -We’re just messing with you.

-Excuse me! Suddenly, it’s because I’m in those days, that I’m so sensitive,” she added.

-What days, aunt? -asked Rafael Angel, innocently.

-Hee, hee, hee! -Estefania smiled, “When she feels angry for anything,” she replied, looking at her grandson to calm his curiosity.

At the Naviera, the Narrator:

Once they had finished breakfast, the three of them moved towards the Naviera’s headquarters, where they found the Directors and the rest of the shareholders gathered, for no apparent reason. Helen, Sofia’s assistant, saw Sofia and filled her in on everything.

-The CEO, Mr. Reyner, Benjamin, Ezekiel, Jose David and Noah have been meeting behind closed doors in the boardroom for half an hour. In addition to the Directors of Planning, Finance, Human Capital, the lawyers Homero Fonseca and Bertin Osuna, and Mr. Reyner’s daughter as a guest.

-Do you know the purpose of the meeting? -she asked.

-No, Miss! But Mr. Benjamin asked me not to call you because he would take care of everything,” she said, passing her cell phone to watch a video.

-Who gave you this video? -Sofia asked.

-Mr. Benjamin. Likewise, Mr. Noah gave me another one,” she confessed, looking in her cell phone for the other video.

Sofia, upon hearing the two videos, asked her friends to accompany her to the meeting and what she wanted from them. They all agreed and left the office and headed for the meeting room. Reyner’s bodyguards wanted to forbid their entry.

Sofia, however, immediately ordered her bodyguards to take them down, because she needed to get into the meeting. When she entered, Reyner, who was standing there arguing loudly with Benjamin and the lawyers, fell silent.

-What are you doing here? -Jose David questioned, who, observing Shayla and Sheyli behind Sofia, argued, “And you, who authorized you to enter? This is a shareholders only meeting.

Sofia:

-So, that’s a lot of people leaving from here! Starting with your sister, she has no business here. So far, the only thing she has done in her life is to be a parasite who lives at the expense of others,” I said, snapping the fingers of my hand.

-How dare you insult me, immoral? -Yoly Del Mar shouted at me, totally enraged, out of her mind and getting up from her chair to attack me.

-I treat you as I please! Since this is my company,” I replied, ordering my escorts to take him out of the room. They immediately moved to where Yoly was.

-Just a moment! -She is my daughter! And as my heir, she has every right to be here and even to vote to decide if she wants to. Besides, I’m telling you that you are not the only owner,” he replied.

-That is false,” argued the company’s lawyer, named Homer, “Your rights as heir will only arise when you die, and that condition has not yet arrived. Therefore, you have no right to be in this meeting,” he concluded.

-And you! -said the other lawyer named Bertin, pointing to the group of people who were there, who had nothing to do with the company, “You know that all this is an arbitrary action against Miss Sofia.

Benjamin, getting up from his chair and approaching me, whispered in my ear:

-Take it easy! Those who will really put an end to so much stupidity on the part of Reyner and his son are about to arrive.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

-Who are they? And why are they here? -I asked, astonished to witness this frontal attack against me, now without filters or masks.

-A prosecutor and a Municipal judge that Reyner hired to disqualify you as CEO,” he added.

-Ha! And now what… Am I being charged with a crime? Because according to the laws of the Island, being a single mother is not a crime…