On the other side of the table, Mr. Herran, seated with a dull, majestic face, pulled out a check and pushed it in front of Claudio Belles.
“Miss Claudio, you don’t have to think I’m humiliating you either, I don’t want to waste my time beating around the bush with you, Montrelle married you because she took it out on me, a girl’s best years were wasted on an irrelevant man, I, as a father, am more or less to blame for what my bastard son did. The price, whatever.”
Mr. Herran made an extremely rustic “go ahead” gesture.
Claudius Belles smiled, took the blank check and laughed, “So, man, you buy my husband and my son with this check?”
“I can’t help it if you want to be so blunt. But you’d better choose fast while I still have patience.”
Claudius Belles bit his lip and growled coldly, “The marriage is between Montrelle Herran and me, and the divorce, too, must be between Montrelle Herran and me. If it is true that Montrelle Herran wants a divorce, uncle, please ask him to come and see me in person.”
“Montrelle is back at Imperial Capital, he’s too busy running the company to see you now, and, unsurprisingly, he won’t have time to see you later ….”
Claudio Belles shuddered, what, take over the company?
Moreover, this apparently very wealthy old man in front of him, with an air of wealth, was Montrelle Herran the Younger really the owner of the landed gentry?
“Attending the company…?”
“Oh yes, you never seem to know who Montrelle is, so I’ll tell you now, Montrelle Herran, he is the successor of the Capital ImperialGrupo Herran group.”
“…”
Imperial Capital? Herran Group?
Claudio Belles was puzzled for a moment, it was not that he had not heard of Capital Imperial, that group Grupo Herran, it was not that he had not heard of it, they had projects in his company that had deals with the Herran group, but how had he not thought that Montrelle Herran was really the successor of the real consortium.
Montrelle Herran, the bastard! He had said he would never hide anything from her again! But they have been married for three years and she has been kept in the dark about everything!
Aggrieved, tears of … tears welled up in her eyes.
Mr. Herran observed to her: “As far as I know, Miss Claudio is of very ordinary origin, and Montrelle Herran is simply of two worlds. Miss Claudio, even if you are not willing to divorce Montrelle now, has it not occurred to Miss Claudio that, perhaps, you and Montrelle are not really right for each other?”
Claudio Belles’ hand on the hem of her skirt, gradually tightened.
Why he hadn’t thought about it, he thought.
But that could not be a reason for her to divorce.
She believed that Montrelle Herran, married to her, was not to be angry with her father; who would be so naive as to gamble with his marriage, even if others did, but Claudio Belles believed that Montrelle Herran was a firm man and would not do that.
Claudio Belles returned the check to Mr. Herran: “Man, I’m sorry, I can’t accept what you’re saying. This check, I can’t fill it out either.”
Mr. Herran saw Claudio Belles squirming and thought she was too embarrassed to ask, so he said, “Since Miss Claudio is too embarrassed to ask, how about thirty million, what does Miss Claudio think?”
Thirty million?
Claudio Belles had never seen so much money in his life.
Claudio Belles laughed softly, “Miss Herran, your offer is really attractive to me, I will never earn 30 million in my life, but you want to buy my husband and my son for 30 million. Or do you think your son and grandson are only worth 30 million?”.
Mr. Herran frowned when Claudio Belles said, “You!”.
Claudio Belles picked up his bag, “Mr. Herran, if you have nothing else to do, I will leave now.”
…
As he left the café, Claudio Belles’ mood became increasingly confused.
His mind quickly sorted out everything related to Montrelle Herran.
Three years ago, when they got married, Montrelle Herran said that he was an ordinary programmer, that he earned more than 10, 000 a month, that he was not bad, that he had a small family and that he did not have to deal with any in-law conflicts.
At the time, Claudio Belles’ family put a lot of pressure on her, and the fact that she was single and pregnant would have broken her legs if they had known.
The man in front of her, who wanted her to marry him, was well qualified, handsome and well endowed. As for his character … after the one-night stand, the first thing this man did when he found out she was pregnant was not to drag her in for an abortion, but to take responsibility for her, a man with a great sense of responsibility.
Faced with such an impeccable, even perfect man, what reason could Claudio Belles have had to say no, when he was also in great need of a marriage partner in the first place?
It was better to marry someone who was pleasing to the eye than to tie the knot sooner or later.
With this in mind, every day after the wedding, Claudio Belles discovered that her new husband had a lot to offer.
Gradually, and rightly so, they fell in love and all the waterways were channeled.
Claudio Belles had no idea that Montrelle Herran came from such a distinguished family, in which she had grown up, that it seemed really out of place where she lived.
Angelo was picked up by Mr. Herran and, although Claudio Belles missed his son, he also knew that Angelo was now safe and that perhaps Angelo preferred the grandfather of the family who had so much money.
This thought embittered Claudio Belles.
Is it great to have money? Does having money mean being able to humiliate people with checks?
Claudius Belles was so upset that he could not find anyone to talk to, and did not dare to call Montrelle Herran. She was afraid that what Mr. Herran was saying was true and that Montrelle Herran was really divorcing her.
After thinking about it, the only thing left to do was to contact Estrella Berrocal.
…
Estrella Berrocal was having dinner with Adán Rouco and Paulita when she received a call from Claudio Belles.
After hanging up the phone, Estrella Berrocal hurried to put down her bowl.
Adán Rouco asked him, “What’s up?”
“There is a problem at Claudio’s house and I want to go there, so you and Paulita eat first and ask Facundo to send me.”
“Aren’t you going to eat?” Adán Rouco looked at the rice he had left half eaten.
Estrella Berrocal, who had been losing her appetite again lately, shook her hand. “I can’t eat, Claudio hasn’t had dinner yet and I may have to have another meal with her.”
Adán Rouco did not stop, “Facundo Montes, take the lady there”.
“Yes.”
Paulita, who was eating, blinked and said, “Dad, today I saw Angelo Herrán picked up by his grandfather, whom I don’t know.”
Adán Rouco froze for a moment, with a look of amusement in his eyes, “Angelo Herrán was picked up by his grandfather?”.
Paulita nodded her little head, “Yes! But that grandfather seems very bad, daddy, is Angelo Herran’s grandfather a bad man?”.
Adán Rouco stroked the little girl’s head and reassuringly said, “No, Angelo Herran’s grandfather, he would want Angelo Herran.”
It seemed that Montrelle Herran had played with fire.
Mr. Herran suddenly picked up Angelo Herran, while Montrelle Herran’s wife stayed in The Holy City, and Mr. Herran obviously did not pass by Montrelle Herran, but picked up his grandson directly.
Heh, it’s Montrelle Herran who always walks along the river and never gets his shoes wet.