Micaela who was hugging her sisters froze, the voice, the tone….
Micaela could clearly see that Eric was standing a few feet away, dressed in a pink flowered shirt with a white suit, blue jeans and his fingers crossed.
Eric also saw Micaela, who had just been tightly encircled, and his narrow phoenix eyes blinked hard to force back tears, his fingers nodded several times towards Micaela and his mouth opened several times, failing to make a sound….
Micaela takes two steps forward and lets a tear fall….
-Eric…
-Micaela, I’ve missed you so much….
Eric finally screamed and with that he pounced on Micaela to give her a bear hug….
Carlos quickly stepped forward and grabbed the woman in his arms, a warning look made Eric stop quickly…..
-Mr. Carlos, sorry, sorry, I got carried away….
Despite his apologies, Eric had a happy smile on his face as he looked at Micaela and crooned smugly:
-Heck, not bad for a model I took out, exactly the same as when I left….. How about if I stay at Salamonsa and develop Salamonsa’s modeling career?
Alba immediately flirted with him:
-Yes, you stay in Salamonsa, Salamonsa is full of beautiful women, I wish you a quick break!
Bianca, Katarina and Olivia burst into laughter and nodded their heads.
Eric made a grimacing, haughty-faced gesture.
-Hmph, is there a shortage of beautiful women around me? Nothing above Micaela’s level will catch my eye.
Another guffaw was heard.
Micaela looks at her friends and also at Carlos beside her….
-You didn’t tell me Eric was coming?
Eric interrupted Micaela with a flourish:
-I brought this on myself, I’m definitely not telling you, Micaela, surprise surprise surprise?
Micaela nods vigorously.
-What a pleasant surprise, thank you Eric, sorry to have troubled you…..
Eric remembered how he and Alba had cried all afternoon when they heard about Micaela’s -death- and, still breathless from thinking about it, he hurried to say:
-It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s always good to know that you and Mr. Carlos are well and that we are all calm.
With a slight smile, Katarina said:
-Yes, that’s what we all have in mind.
Bianca also looks at Carlos and Micaela and says effusively:
-Seeing Carlos standing with you in her arms couldn’t have been a better image.
Carlos’ heart skips a beat and looks at the person in his arms, Micaela also looks at Carlos….
Bianca’s words were so melodramatic that when we looked at the couple in front of us, we all thought about the separation after the wedding and were a little sad, Olivia immediately changed the subject to warm up the atmosphere.
-“Gee, this picture will only get better with me here! I’ll do the two brides’ makeup, and one, two, three of you will be my assistants!
The atmosphere immediately livens up and Ernesto looks at Leonardo.
-Leonardito, we are brothers, a friendly price for the appearance of your Darling?
Alba also pretended to be serious when she said:
-I am here in a group with Micaela, it is half price!
Olivia frowned and blurted out a harsh word.
-Don’t you dare give me money, cut!
They all laughed again and Carlos looked around, people were already stopping to look at them and said:
-Well, this is not the place to talk, let’s go and talk again.
The group then left the airport en masse.
With so many people coming, Carlos ordered the maids to fix up the spare room downstairs, bought 2 new beds and contributed to Mike’s children’s room to get everyone settled in.
At dinner, with a large table full of people, the villa had never been so lively and everyone was so happy that they opened several bottles of wine and drank them all.
After dinner, a few women went to swing together in the courtyard, then returned to the living room couch to chat as if there were words to be said, and Eric piled into the pile of women, properly half a woman!
The men would take the baby away, and every now and then the child would cry before being taken to Querida, talking well into the night, the men taking the child to bed, and the women still reluctant to leave, leaving and reminding them several times, before we all reluctantly said goodnight and went back to our rooms.
Alba and Bianca slept together upstairs and she went upstairs with Micaela and escorted Bianca to her room, where Alba took Micaela by the hand.
-Micaela, there’s something I want to talk to you about.
Micaela nodded, her heart swollen with joy and her eyes warm.
-Well, what is it?
Alba coughed dryly and seemed to have some difficulty speaking.
-It’s about, this thing that I’m in love with Carlos?
Micaela hurried to hold her hand tightly for fear of being overwhelmed.
-Alba, it’s all in the past, don’t….
Put it in your heart….
-No Micaela, I was wrong all the time, what I fell in love with was that sweet vibe you had with Carlos, I thought that heartbeat was for Carlos, the more I cared, the more I tried to avoid it, the more it backfired and made it false, I always knew very well that in my heart you were more important than him…