Allyce abruptly caught the words “Mr Pastrano”.
He thought for a moment, came closer and asked: “You mean Neto?
“Yes, I got in touch with Mr Pastrano a while ago, but I couldn’t get through. It was not clear what the three of them had said, and Xabat’s face did not look very good.
Allyce thought about what Lucila had said earlier and looked at Severo, “It was Lucila who just called me, she told me that Neto had returned home to Ciudad del Cielo yesterday and that something important must have happened at his house, except that yesterday he called Lucila when he got off the plane. Today Lucila hasn’t been able to communicate with him all day”.
His words silenced the three men in the performance.
The mood in the room became more sombre after Xabat and Severo exchanged a glance.
“What’s going on?” Allyce was acutely aware of what was going on.
However, there was no one to answer his question.
Severo took two steps forward and reached out to rub the top of her hair: “Well, it’s getting late, you should go back first.
It was clear that in the short time it had taken her to answer the phone, the three men had sorted things out and she was the only one who still had no idea what had happened.
At that moment a policeman approached and knocked twice on the door, which made a deafening “clang”.
His tone was impatient: “Come on, what’s taking you so long? It’s time for your shift, so come on out”.
“I’m sorry, we’re leaving now. The first to react was Norberto, after all he was the one who dealt with these people and these things all the time.
Severo gave Allyce a hug and quickly let her go again, saying in a faint voice, “Come back”.
With that she turned and walked around to stand in front of the wall, in the same position as when she had entered earlier, standing her ground and paying no further attention to them.
Allyce was a little puzzled as to why she was standing in front of the wall.
Facing the wall?
Without waiting for Allyce to come up with something, the police tapped again.
…
On the way back, Xabat briefly explained the incident to Allyce.
This was a girl whose last call before she died was to Severo, and her family had identified Severo, who used to be the family maid.
Aletia Pulido, the maid Severo fired that morning for making porridge that was too salty.
She quarrelled with Severo over the incident and never mentioned it to Severo again after that, and in those days she was busy with Alonzo’s early childhood centre, so she didn’t think anything of it.
As to whether the maid, Aletia, had been dismissed or not, I really didn’t know.
And now it seemed that Severo had indeed fired Aletia.
And how did she end up dead?
…
Allyce didn’t sleep well tonight, always falling asleep and waking up again.
Late that night, unable to go back to sleep, he went to Alonzo’s room and looked from his bed at Alonzo’s little face, which looked very much like Severo’s.
It was almost dawn before he took a nap.
In the morning, he got up early.
The news about Severo had not gone down, it had fermented overnight and heated up even more.
As for the comments, Allyce did not bother to read them.
They were just “Can the rich get away with it? “They should be punished severely” and “Don’t the rich treat human lives as such?
But the good thing was that this was a criminal case, not a matter of entertainment, and it would not be judged on which side the public voice went, it was all a matter of evidence.
He thought about how Severo had told him last night to ignore Tajo and not to listen to what he had to say.
Did Severo mean that he would be involved in a criminal case and that it would fester so quickly because of Tajo?
If it was indeed Tagus, what was its purpose?
Severo’s relationship with Tajo was different from that of a normal grandfather and grandson, and as soon as he guessed in that direction, he couldn’t help guessing in the wrong direction.
To get Severo to bow down to him? Or was there another purpose.
Tajo’s status was there; he was no less powerful and no less wealthy.
Even if Severo was cautious, Tajo had lived decades longer, and if it really was Tajo who had done this, then it was all very well explained.
If Severo was involved in a criminal case and the news spread quickly …
There weren’t many people capable of doing that, at least not in Cloud City.
The more Allyce thought about it, the colder her heart became, the more likely it was.
Despite the turmoil in his mind, he kept Severo’s words in mind and lived as he should.
I had to drop Alonzo off at the early childhood centre before going to work, and Lucila had said yesterday that she would come to see her.
Allyce put Alonzo in the car and, as he looked around the compartment, he looked at Allyce with a puzzled look on his face and said, “Dad?
He had a question on his little face, he hadn’t seen Severo since yesterday morning and he wondered where Severo had gone.
Allyce stroked her little head and said softly, “Daddy is away on business for the next few days, so Mommy will take you to the early childhood centre for the next few days and pick you up after work.
Alonzo looked at her as if he didn’t understand.
Allyce turned her head to look out of the window, her mind a little fuzzy.
…
He dropped Alonzo off at the early childhood centre and went to the office.
Naturally, everyone in the office had seen the news and knew about Severo.
“Good morning President Delahoz!”
“President Delahoz!”
However, as soon as she entered the company, these people greeted her politely.
However, as soon as she passed, these people began to whisper.
Allyce couldn’t help but slow her pace.
“I thought President Delahoz wasn’t coming to the office today …”
“What do you know, President Delahoz is people who have seen big scenes, the more times like this, the more she can’t back down or she will sit on her husband’s charges.”
“Do you think she’s just pretending to be calm, or is it because the LK president was wrongly accused in the first place?”
“Who knows, we’ll know when the results come in.
“I think this may be true …”
“…”
Hearing this, Allyce took a deep breath before picking up her feet and striding away.
When something like that happened to someone else, there were always people watching and then speculating, people had that mentality.
And Severo had probably had that in mind when he had told him to go to work as usual and live his life as he should.
However, part of her conjecture was correct, she was only pretending to be calm at the moment.
She is much calmer now that she has discovered what Severo is up to.
Allyce had been in the office all day, even asking Ester to bring her lunch.
He left before closing time.