Natalia stared at the handcuffs in her hands and froze….
Since when had she not thought of running away?
She also offered to take the handcuffs and handcuff the two of them together….
Javier took the cuffs, cuffed her left hand with a snap and opened the door….
Natalia is still standing there…
Javier turned and shook the shackled hands.
-She’s gone.
Natalia looks up and walks out.
Javier closed the door and walked forward, Natalia followed her with her head down, the figure they were walking together before became Javier pulling her in front in general.
Sensing something was wrong, Javier paused and turned around.
-What’s wrong?
Natalia said nothing, merely played along.
Throughout the day, Natalia’s eyes rested occasionally on Javier, and she didn’t even say anything about the water purifier patent she had repeatedly insisted on…..
Sadly she discovers that the man the undisputed Natalia falls in love with also seems to have different emotions….
She began to get used to Javier’s care and, enjoying it, the idea of running away crossed her mind when he let his guard down….
Javier felt Natalia’s gaze for the umpteenth time and put down his pen to look.
-What’s wrong with you?
The two sat together in the office, facing each other, hands cuffed on the desk….
Javier’s bookish face seemed warmer and warmer as the setting sun shone through the glass window behind him….
Natalia stood up, leaned over and kissed Javier directly on the lips….
Javier watched as otherwise incredibly familiar red lips approached, and felt a momentary tingle, but jumped his head just as he was about to touch them….
Natalia paused, looked at his cheek and asked softly:
-What, you dare to sneak in and kiss me in the middle of the night, but you don’t want to when I offer it?
Yes, for the past year Javier has often come into the master bedroom in the middle of the night and kissed her on the forehead….
Javier didn’t flinch.
-Since you know I came in in the middle of the night, you should also know that it was my sister I kissed.
-Huh…
Natalia scoffed, her uncuffed hand brushing his cheek and turning his face, her orchid breath spilling over his face, her muzzle full of ambiguity.
-Oh, are you sure? After all, she’s me, I’m her, we look exactly alike, and honestly, have you forgotten about her and fallen in love with me?
Javier smiled back.
-You are not her, I know the difference.
Natalia’s smile intensified as she got up, walked around the table and sat directly in his arms, her red lips whispering in his ear:
-So you’re not afraid that I’ll fall in love with you? Javier, I’d be so madly in love with you that I’d want to dominate you and she’d have even less chance of getting out…?
Javier froze, surprised, and pushed her slightly away, his eyes full of disbelief….
Natalia laughed, with some indefinable notes in her voice.
-Have you forgotten that she and I are one, and if she would fall in love with you, why wouldn’t I? Spending time with you like this, do you think my heart is made of stone?
Did she mean she had fallen in love with him?
Javier looked her in the face, his eyes full of astonishment?
He really never thought that this new Natalia would fall in love with him, he was five years younger than her, he had no ambitions, he just wanted to live a normal life with the woman he loved, he didn’t care about fame and fortune, and she, with her character, would only like a man like Carlos….
Yes, that’s it!
It was impossible for this high and mighty personality to fall in love with him!
It was a ploy to get him to let his guard down so he could release her and she could take advantage of it to leave.
He is tying her up in the hope that one day she will get bored and leave of her own free will, so that Natalia, whom he desires, can come back….
-Knock, knock.
There was a knock at the door.
Natalia, who was in no hurry to get up and still had her arms around his neck, looked at him and said:
-Javier, let go of the one who doesn’t want to come back and be with me, what she can give you, I can give you…..
Javier pushed her away with a strong push, forgetting that their hands were handcuffed, and stood up with himself.
With a firm look, he said:
-Natalia, I repeat, you are not her, you are not the one I want. I bind you in the hope that she will come back someday. Even if you take over her body, you will never be her.
Then she turned and said “come in”.
Diego pushed his way in, saw the two of them together and, without asking too many questions, got straight to the point:
-Sir, Mr. Aguayo wants you to come up, the results of the instrumental tests are in.
Javier’s heart was racing with joy, after having waited all day for the results, and he was about to leave when, looking Diego in the eyes, he reacted that Carlos wanted him to go alone.
He turned and removed the handcuffs from the erect column on the table and looked at Natalia, who immediately said:
-I want the R&D patent, I must do it!
-We gave it a lot of thought, but the team also deserves a lot of credit, and Mr. Aguayo also gave us a lot of favorable advice. It’s a merit that we can’t take on our own.
Having said that, Javier took the lead and went all out.
Diego looked at Natalia, who was handcuffed to the table, nodded to her and went out as well.
Carlos is waiting for him in his office while Mike sits on the couch, quietly flipping through a picture book for young children.
Seeing Javier enter, Carlos gestures for him to sit down and gets straight to the point:
-The test passed, this water purifier filters all the heavy metals out of Salamonsa’s water, hard work.
Javier sighed in relief, with a smile of joy on his face.
-No hard work, no hard work, it’s good to pass, great?
Carlos also had a relieved smile on his face and some of the same excitement inside him that with this water purifier and buying only imported fruits and vegetables, he could stay in Salamonsa and see the girls every day….
Javier put a lot of effort into the development of this water purifier, and Natalia played along, staying up all night to work together on the design, going to the R&D department together to follow up, and being sloppy in every experiment, all of which Carlos knew, and he knew, that Natalia wanted the patent rights.
Having seen the light of victory, Natalia, with her strength and her drive for fame and fortune, is no doubt very attached to this R&D patent, and it would be strange if she did not want this reputation.
He looked at Javier and spoke:
-Patent rights if you want them?
Without waiting for Carlos to finish, Javier stated bluntly:
-The patents, the reputation are all the company’s, it’s the R&D team, Natalia and I are the ones who give the most, but it’s what we deserve as part of the team.
Carlos looked at Javier with appreciation in his eyes, and stopped his thoughts to talk to him about the next big production.
I don’t know if it will be half an hour, it’s clear that the office is well soundproofed, but the two of them keep faintly hearing the outside, or downstairs there is a lot of noise?
What’s going on?
The two men stopped talking when Diego burst open the office door in a panic.
-Mr. Javier, it’s not good, your office is on fire!