Natalia pauses.
Victor and Mateo were relieved that the hypnosis had worked, forgetting about Micaela, right?
No more thoughts of going to Salamonsa from now on, right?
Natalia reassures herself that she is fine, Carlos just has to remember that she is the one he loves the most….
Diego bowed his head, feeling sorry for Mr. Carlos, but like Victor, he could not let Mr. Carlos run that risk of certain death in Salamonsa, but, after all, he had been an accomplice of Mr. Carlos forgetting about Miss Micaela and he was ashamed of Mr. Carlos….
Several people, each with their own thoughts, wait for Carlos to wake up.
It was a June dawn, Carlos’ biological clock woke him up at 5:30 a. m. He slowly opened his eyes, looked at the snow-white ceiling, felt something different in his body, stretched out his hand, pressed it against his chest where his heart was and felt the emptiness inside…
Turning his head slightly, he saw the woman crouched on the edge of the bed.
She wore her long hair loose and was dressed in a beige short-sleeved T-shirt, lying on her back, her face unseen….
Carlos’ heart raced with a certain anticipation, anticipation of what he did not know….
The woman raised her head as if she sensed that Carlos was awake….
Disappointed…
Carlos clearly felt the sensation that appeared in his mind, called disappointment.
-Carlos, you are awake….
Natalia was a little nervous, she kept her composure and had to put on a face of concern mixed with joy, reaching out her hand to touch his forehead…
Carlos brushed her head and avoided her hand…
Natalia hangs her hand awkwardly for a long moment, her fingers tighten and Carlos turns his head back to see the ring on her ring finger….
Natalia didn’t move to calm her emotions, he had just woken up, to what extent she was hypnotized, she didn’t know at the moment, fixing her gaze and trying to make her voice tinged with joy.
-What, you don’t even remember the ring you put on my finger yourself?
-I designed it.
The tone is cold, but full of certainty.
Natalia nods her head.
-Well, you designed it and you gave me the engagement ring.
Carlos frowned slightly, a clear voice in his head told him that the woman in front of him was Natalia, the woman he loved the most.
Favorite woman?
Carlos thought it was a bit ridiculous that he had a favorite woman?
With his eyes running down his face, he leaned back to sit up and Natalia hurried to help him….
-No need.
The two words, cold with full resistance, made Natalia again withdraw her hand in embarrassment, questioning in her mind what was wrong, why his reaction, so far from what she expected, admitting that she was the woman he loved the most, then the hypnosis had definitely succeeded….
The door to the living room burst open.
Diego entered and was suddenly startled to see Carlos, who was sitting up.
-Mr. Carlos, you’re awake….
Neither Victor nor Mateo could stand the stupor and went to the family room next door to rest while Diego went to the hospital dining room to be the first guest and rushed upstairs after eating.
Carlos looked at the needle stuck in the back of his hand, then at the dangling IV, then at Diego, who had approached the bed, and asked.
-Has Grandioso’s case been solved?
How?
Diego froze a little, he did not expect at all that the first thing Mr. Carlos would tell him when he woke up would be about the company’s case, which was indeed the one he still had on his hands.
He unconsciously replied.
-It is already settled, Mr. Agramonte invites you to sign the contract to fulfill your part as landlord.
Carlos nodded his head.
-Book your tickets and leave later.
Diego’s jaw almost drops….
Natalia also looks amazing…
-Carlos, don’t you have anything to ask?
Yes, that’s what Diego wanted to ask.
In normal television, when a person with amnesia wakes up, shouldn’t the first question be where am I? Who am I? What happened?
Carlos looked at Natalia with a cold expression.
-Are you all right?
Natalia really doesn’t know how to react?
-You don’t fall into the sea and I save you?
Carlos’ simplicity and brevity made Natalia’s heart skip a beat and she unconsciously answered.
-Yes, I’m fine, but you’re fine because you’re in the water?
Carlos looked away from Diego and interrupted her.
-That doesn’t matter, I’ll remember all the company’s business.
In Diego’s heart joy arose, joy that Mr. Carlos did not look at the malevolent Natalia with the same affectionate eyes with which he had looked at Miss Micaela, and at the same time a wave of sadness arose, he had the feeling that Mr. Carlos had become, no, he had returned to being the old Mr. Carlos, cold, indifferent, indifferent to everything indifferent to everything, only to business was he dedicated to business.
Natalia’s fists clenched, the hypnosis had worked, but had the memory substitution failed?
she asked nervously.
-Carlos, what else?
Carlos looked at Natalia, but his eyes fell on the ring on her hand.
-Remember that we are about to get married.
Cold words, without a trace of the joy that should come with getting married, so calm that there was not a single ripple.
Natalia did not know whether to be glad or disgusted, or whether that man was too much for her, and even if he admitted to marrying her, he would not treat her as he had treated Micaela, but she was sure that all memories of Micaela had been torn from Carlos’ mind, and he would not be so calm if he had the slightest recollection of her.
Carlos had looked away from Diego.
-Are the tickets reserved?
Diego was startled and hurried to pull out his phone.
-I’ll set it up right now.
Natalia made sure Micaela was gone and had implanted in his brain that the woman he loved most was her, Natalia, so Carlos would only be hers!
By the time Victor and Matthew approached, Carlos had removed the IV, put on his formal clothes and was sitting at the table with Natalia eating breakfast from the restaurant.
-Carlos, how are you feeling?
Matthew asked with concern.
Carlos was only suspicious for a second before he didn’t delve any further into why they were here.
Since he had fallen into the sea and lost part of his memory, it was only natural that they would make a point of approaching.
He left the chopsticks in his hand and, with a reserved, dapper gesture, pulled out paper and wiped the corners of his lips.
-Very well. I remember you and you have nothing to worry about.
Having said that, he put down the handkerchief and got up, and Natalia hurried to get up as well.
-Treat them well.
Carlos finished speaking to her, turned and walked straight out, dripping with the coldness of a man who refuses to let anyone in.
Diego approached him.
-Victor, Mr. Carlos and I have to go to Provincia E to sign up for a partnership case, so Natalia will entertain you both, bye.
Diego also ran out after his words.
Victor and Matthew froze for a second, Carlos thought they only showed up because he was afraid he had forgotten about them….
Suddenly they felt so familiar and so unfamiliar with the Carlos who had just passed in front of them, familiar because that’s how Carlos was before, unfamiliar because he has not been like that again, he has not even addressed a word to them….
The car was parked outside the hospital and as soon as Carlos got in, he could smell a faint fragrance in the car, it smelled good….
Diego sat in the driver’s seat, started the car and heard Carlos ask behind him.
-Is there an air freshener in the car?
Diego answered unconsciously.
-No!
Carlos frowned slightly, said nothing more and opened the laptop he had on the coffee table.
When he arrived at the airport, he had to wait a little while to board the plane. Carlos was sitting in the VIP lounge, still flipping through papers in his hands, when he smelled a whiff of smoke, frowned and looked over to see a slightly chubby man smoking with his legs crossed….
Diego noticed Carlos’ gaze and hurriedly got up to approach him.
-Sir, smoking is not allowed here.
The man tried to choke, but the sight of Carlos’ heatless gaze, the powerful feeling of oppression emanating from the man, made him quickly put out the cigarette.
Diego turned and saw that Mr. Carlos moved his eyes to the cigarette he had thrown to the ground and then, raising his eyes back into the air, looked at the smoke that had not yet dissipated completely….
Smoke…
Diego’s heart raced, suddenly remembering that Mr. Carlos had just asked if there was smell in the car, the car that Mr. Carlos and Miss Micaela had ridden in the most, so there was still Miss Micaela’s smell in the car, wasn’t there?
Carlos saw Diego approaching, raised his hand to check the time and said.
-It will take a while to board, so go get me a pack of cigarettes and a lighter.