All Chapters of The CEO’s Lost Wife: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

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21. Exposed

The whole afternoon ended quietly, except for the fact that Mael refused to come out of his room. Emiliano felt sad; he had thought that perhaps his son might want to give him another chance. But later, when he noticed the remote-control car he had given him parked in a corner, covered in mud, he smiled. The boy had accepted the toy. Maybe that meant something, didn’t it?Mara was shy, but a little more approachable. Sara left him alone with the girl in the living room while she watched them from the kitchen. The girl was a sweetheart; she reminded him a little of his sister Leticia. She had a gentle nature, calm and kind. She told him an interesting story about how she had managed to save an assignment at the last minute. Her little fingernails were full of modeling clay. She showed Emiliano her paint-stained hands, and with a damp cloth he helped her clean them.It was a truly strange feeling. Children had never appealed to him; in truth, he had never even considered interacting wit

22. The New Sara

It was a quiet morning for Sara. She helped the twins get dressed for school, gave them a tight hug and a kiss. When the woman responsible for taking them to school came to pick them up, she didn’t ask why Mael had Emiliano’s tie in his backpack, but strangely, that made her happy deep down. She knew the boy needed his father—she knew it—and it terrified her that he might be as stubborn as him, but the boy was beginning to give in.Emiliano seemed like he might become a good father.Sofía left a little later than usual; apparently she didn’t have class the first period. So when Sara left for Casa Monter, she went off strangely happy despite everything that was happening—despite Emiliano having returned to her life and the fact that she now had to share her children. She felt oddly content. She had a good job, good pay, and her children were strangely happy. The guilt she had felt for hiding them from Emiliano was slowly beginning to fade. It seemed that things were starting to fall in

23. The Promise

Sara had not even finished processing the intense emotions she had felt with Luna a minute earlier when an entirely new wave of feelings overwhelmed her. For some strange reason, she suddenly felt uncomfortable and dirty. She walked toward the chair in front of her desk where Lara was indicating she should sit, and she obeyed in silence. The woman sat on the other side of the desk in the visitor’s chair and stared at her intently."Go on, say whatever you have to say," Sara told her, very uncomfortable with both the situation and the redhead’s silence."I think there’s only one subject we have in common. Emiliano. Look, I’ll be honest with you," the woman began. "As you know, my family is a minority partner in Casa Monter. And although our shares in the company aren’t that many, they are enough to destabilize it if we dissolved the partnership. That’s what my father wanted, but I didn’t. The only condition for us to remain in the company was that both families unite through marriage.

24. Little Bird

Sara still felt overwhelmed and stressed. She had almost threatened Luna with death, and her entire body remained tense. Mario’s visit only increased the tension coiled inside her. She was sure that if the man spat his poison, she would leap over the desk and stab him with the pencil she held in her hand. But the man walked patiently and sat down in the chair where Lara had been sitting a moment earlier."I saw my sister-in-law leaving this office. What were you two doing? Were you explaining to her how my brother likes it in bed?"Sara gripped the pencil tightly in her hand. She had to make an enormous effort not to stab Mario’s hand, which rested on the desk. Then she frightened herself. How could she be having such terrifying thoughts about stabbing and killing? She released the pencil, which rolled across the desk and fell comically to the floor.Mario watched it carefully, then leaned down, picked it up, and placed it in front of Sara again."Stop talking nonsense. I want you out

25. Almost

In the car, Emiliano did not say a single word. Sara found that strange. Normally he always had a topic of conversation or something to complain about, but at that moment he seemed distracted, thoughtful."Is everything all right?" Sara asked him.Emiliano shrugged."I probably shouldn’t be telling you these things."Sara understood that perhaps the man needed to vent. She was probably the least appropriate person for that—but who else?"And who else could you tell?""Well, do you remember my friend? The one who wanted to grope you at my bachelor party."Sara crossed her arms."How could I forget that idiot?""I tell him everything, but he’s on a business trip.""Well then, tell me. I know I may be the least appropriate person, but maybe talking will help."Emiliano thought about it for a long while, and they were almost home when he finally sighed."Lara and I had decided to try, you know? Our marriage was nothing more than business, but she came to my office a few days ago and asked

26. The Smell of Death

Emiliano left Sara’s house after saying a quick goodbye. He didn’t know what Lara might want, but he imagined it was nothing good. The woman had not taken it well that he had hidden his children from her. They had already decided to try to have a relationship—to at least attempt it—and that revelation had fractured something Emiliano hadn’t even known was there.The woman felt betrayed. That night she had literally slept on the sofa. The only thing Emiliano had in mind at that moment was finding the damn paparazzo who had revealed the identity of his children and nailing him to a wall with ten-inch spikes. But he had to calm his emotions. He had too much pressure and stress on him, so he needed to settle down.The city was strangely, unusually empty that night, and Emiliano drove carefully. There was something in the air that didn’t feel right to him. It was a chilling sensation, like a bad premonition—the smell of death, his grandfather used to say. So he rolled up the windows of his

27. Deep Feelings

Sara had a restless dream that night. She dreamed of noise and claustrophobic sensations, a strange feeling in which there was nothing but darkness and those perceptions that tormented her. When she woke in the morning, the pillow, the blanket, and the sheets were soaked with sweat. Her mouth was dry and her eyes stuck together when she tried to open them. She got out of bed and, before taking a very cold shower, she put everything into the washing machine.Her sister Sofía was getting the children ready for school, and when Jimena—the shaved-headed woman who took the kids to school—arrived at the house, Sara felt strangely tired, as if the dreams had drained her energy.She took the glass of orange juice and drank it in a single gulp. Jimena remained by the door; since she had arrived, she had spent a long minute standing there in silence. Sara knew their first interaction had not been completely friendly, but she was a woman her children were beginning to appreciate quite a lot, and

28. A New Enemy Lurking?

“I… I’m sorry.” The adrenaline in her body was beginning to fade, and the exhaustion of the night, along with the tremendous fright she had suffered, brought on such a great weakness that she had to grab one of the walls to keep from falling. “It’s just that Jimena told me you had been shot, so I ran here.” Sara did not look at anyone while speaking—not Emiliano, not Lara, not anyone. She focused on a fixed point on the tile floor, feeling stupid. Everyone had seen the terrible desperation with which she had entered the room, the force with which she had embraced Emiliano. “I’m sorry. I just wanted to know how you were.”“Well, the truth is I’m fine,” Emiliano commented. Sara felt the man’s voice different, calmer, almost like the old Emiliano. “My car is armored, so the assassins fired but couldn’t do anything. They tried to open the doors but couldn’t manage it. They had no choice but to leave, so I called an ambulance and the police. But I’m fine, it’s just a few bruises and two st

29. Preparing the Truth

Sara left her office, closing the door hard. Although it wasn’t late, it wasn’t very early either. Several people still milled around the office area. She ignored them, ignored the uncomfortable looks they cast at her—maybe it was because of the attack on Emiliano, or maybe they had realized she had burst into the hospital like a madwoman. She didn’t care. Lately she was beginning to care less and less about what others thought. So she walked decisively toward the elevator, and when the doors opened she stepped in quickly and pressed the button for the first floor, but a tall man in a suit slipped in just before the doors closed.Sara knew him. He was Lara’s father, Ezequiel Hidalgo. The man seemed strangely foolish. When Sara had been married to Emiliano, she had not visited the company many times, but on the few occasions she had, she noticed that the man was nothing more than, besides a minor shareholder, a link in the chain who simply went with the current. It was no surprise he w

30. The Truth

Emiliano remained staring at Sara for a long time while she searched for the words with which she would begin the story, but the truth was that she couldn’t find what to say or how to start.Emiliano shifted uncomfortably in his seat as he watched her closely. They were sitting so near each other that the heat from his body began to transfer to hers, and that made her feel a little calmer."I'm waiting," he murmured softly. He didn’t want to pressure her, but he was desperate. Sara swallowed."When your grandfather got sick and decided to step down from the presidency of Casa Monter, remind me why he didn’t choose your brother Mario."Emiliano, not quite understanding what she meant, answered with a shrug."Mario sees Casa Monter as a business, just one of his profitable businesses. I think, in my grandfather’s exact words, he still hadn’t learned to see the soul of the company. I was so young, remember? I was about twenty-three when I took the position. Do you remember, Sara?"She no

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