Micaela had a boring day, not knowing what she was doing, and went to the council chamber in the afternoon to take care of some business, but she kept rambling…..
Carlos was gone, Mike was gone, his friends were gone, everything felt empty, like my heart had gone with them, and I kept checking my phone, forcing myself not to call Carlos, he had just arrived in Ode Nation, he must have a lot of things to do, he would have called first when he was free….
All the friends were either on the plane or on their way to a connecting flight….
Finally, in the evening, her mother moved to keep her company, making her feel comforted and finally feeling that she was not alone….
-Moya, I have seen many gifts in the other rooms, Alba and the girls have left them for you, haven’t they?
Yerma came down from upstairs with a bunch of beautifully wrapped gift boxes in her arms and looked at Micaela sitting on the sofa fiddling with her phone and asked….
Micaela then remembered that her friends had left gifts for her and hurried to get up to help her bring them in. Mother and daughter sat on the couch and opened them one by one, with jewelry, watches and ornaments, none of which were duplicated….
Looking at the array of gifts, Micaela’s heart swelled with emotion, not for the gifts, but for her heart….
Yerma picks up the last little box wrapped in fan confetti and hands it to her.
-This was placed on the table in Diego and Paula’s room.
It looked like a lipstick, Micaela took it and unwrapped it to discover that it wasn’t, but a USB memory stick…
This one had to be looked at in the study upstairs. Mother and daughter went upstairs together, Yerma didn’t go in with her, worried that what was on the flash drive would be Moya’s best friend and what she would have to tell her alone, she said goodnight and went into her room.
Micaela pushed open the door to the study, turned on the light and looked around….
It was where Carlos used to spend most of his time, apart from his bedroom, and the air still had its familiar fresh scent….
I sat down at my desk, opened the computer, inserted the USB stick and opened the folder….
Micaela realized they were the photos of the honeymoon, of when they left, of the camper, of the beach, of the sunrise, of the old town of Pesla City, of the arcades, of the Netflix hotel….
Each photo captures the joy of the moment, and Micaela can’t help but stare at the corners of her lips….
After the photos, next was a video file, which Micaela clicked to play and couldn’t help but watch over and over again….
Carlos is so handsome when he dances…. I’ve become infatuated with him for the umpteenth time through the screen….
After watching the video, it was an even more intense and overwhelming sense of loss than before, missing Carlos, Mike, all my friends even more….
Micaela was clutching her chest, breathless and in tears of sadness….
The phone on the table rang and Micaela hurried to look at it to see that it was Carlos on the video call.
Carlos is sitting on the sofa in front of the windows of the five-star Hotel Nation Ode, with his cell phone resting on the small table, giving the bottle to his newly bathed Mike, who squints at the pacifier and falls asleep….
He behaved very well during the day, but at night he began to grumble, he must be looking for his mother. Carlos ignored him and went at his own pace, bathing him, changing him, feeding him, Mike kept grumbling, with an aggravated face, and now he was finally going to sleep…..
Micaela’s heart broke when she saw this image…
Carlos raised his eyes and glanced up to see the girl sitting in the study, with an aura of sadness permeating her body, and his heart seized, forcing himself to quirk a smile at the corner of his lips and ask:
-Is the office open today?
Micaela shook her head and looked at father and son.
-No, not much today, Carlos, what have you done today?
Carlos put away his bottle, looked towards him and asked rhetorically:
-Have you been looking at me since the first day I left?
Micaela shuddered slightly, but did not reply, trying to acknowledge him in a lighter tone.
-Of course! Careful, the kind where you have to report the number of glasses of water you drink a day!
How could Carlos not see that the girl was forcing a smile and cooperating by saying something sesquipedalian before getting to the point:
-Today I bought a house in the middle of nowhere as a temporary home in Ode Nation. I’ll be able to move in tomorrow when I get all my stuff.
Then, looking at her, he began to talk about his plan:
-Micaela, I have decided to develop a branch of the Aguayo Group in Ode Nation, to engage in the development and production of high-tech test equipment to offer to Salamonsa to use and sell for money. One, to pass the time without you around, and two, Salamonsa’s equipment input and labor that will have to be changed in three months will require a lot of money, and the money Anlandana earns, to spend it here and change currency will be a hassle.
Micaela frowned a little, fearing that in the end there would be a lot of work in Ode Nation, where everything was starting from scratch, and said with concern:
-Don’t get too tired….
How Carlos wanted to reach out and rub his head.
-I got busy to think less about you….
But the truth is that, as for the moment there is only him and Diego, today he does everything himself and he is so busy that he has no free time at all, but his girl keeps coming to his mind from time to time….
Micaela’s heart skipped a beat and her eyes fell….
She wanted to numb herself with the hustle and bustle, but she kept thinking about him from one moment to the next….
Carlos knew he shouldn’t talk about that, since the girl had only been distracted and wasn’t that upset, so he hurried to talk about other things, like how Natalia had settled in the hospital, that she still hadn’t gotten better, that Javier would arrive in a few days and that today he had been touring some places and had come across some things….
The woman listened with great interest and forgot about her problems for a while, and Carlos convinced her to take a shower and rest before hanging up….
Carlos put his sleeping son to bed, reached out and gently rubbed his head, and finally congratulated him:
-Well, that’s good.
The corners of the sleeping Mike’s mouth curled up as if he had heard his father’s compliment….
Carlos suddenly remembered that he had not given Nicolas his number as he had promised, turned around and went back to the couch, sent him a text message, hung up the phone with the idea of washing his son’s clothes when he went to the shower….
The phone in his hand suddenly rang, Carlos stopped moving and looked at the number on it, raising an eyebrow, had he found out so quickly?
As he picked up the phone, Nicolas’ excited voice could be heard:
-Carlos, I got it, I know why you asked me to look into it, that daughter of Dr. Rain’s is definitely Nilson’s! The timing matches perfectly! I also found out what happened and got the video, give me the email and I’ll send it to you right away.
Video?
Carlos, somewhat surprised, turned on the hotel computer and opened the link Nicolas had sent him, only to find out that the video he was referring to was the surveillance video of Rain that Ian had sent to Nilson’s room.
At 1 a. m., Lluvia left the house in distress, argued with Ian, who was guarding the door, burst into tears, tore up the check he had given her and threw it in his face, then walked away anarchically….
The surveillance is silent, but it is possible to guess Estela 8 or 8….
Charles’ mouth lifted in a smile, he was right, the two were fated for each other, it turned out that Nilson’s love for Estela came from the fact that she was of his blood….
Then he frowned again, analyzing in his head that Leila wasn’t present, so he didn’t know it had been Rain that night, and because of her brother’s connection, Leila probably felt confident that she could cover up for the woman who had been there that night….
Ian didn’t tell the truth because he must have been worried about his own sister and privately wished that Nilson and his sister could have been together….
But why would Rain lie to Nilson?
Don’t you want Nilson to know it was her that night?
And go out of her way to ruin his reputation by telling him that Estela was forced to conceive?
At the end of Salamonsa, Micaela lies in a bed filled with Carlos’ scent, tossing and turning, missing him, missing Mike, and really losing sleep in his absence….
Not knowing how many times she had tossed and turned, she decided to stalk Carlos, there was no reason for her to be the only one losing sleep!
The phone was dialed and picked up immediately after a ring.
In fact, Carlos was about to call her when the phone rang first, a heart-to-heart conversation he was glad of and, in a rare bit of gossip, got straight to the point and told her the momentous discovery:
-Girl, I can confirm that Estela is only Nilson’s daughter.
Micaela got out of bed with eyes full of disbelief.
-You mean Nilson went to the hospital and donated, er, what, what, what, what, what happened to Lluvia to take him away?
Carlos laughed softly.
-No, people are naturally conceived, like Mike?
The woman blushed instantly and asked hurriedly.
-Why are you so sure?
It would be great if Estela was really Nilson’s….
Carlos told her about the conversation he had with Nilson at the airport and the results of Nicolas’ investigation:
-Carlos, in that case, Lluvia has actually liked Nilson for a long time.