Episode 5

"Oh, friend, I wish you the best of luck. The man is very handsome, he is, but he is very unpleasant and grumpy. He left me in the same position, but he left me some rules that I must abide by, or else I will be fired. So, friend, please, as soon as he calls you, run to his office, so he doesn't have an excuse to fire you," says Catalina, Emilia's best friend.

Catalina doesn't finish speaking when Emilia's phone rings, indicating that it's her turn to go in and introduce herself to the boss, and find out if she gets to keep working at that company or not.

"Hello, sir, good afternoon," says Emilia nervously, looking at her boss and wondering if he had recognized her (because yes, friends, as soon as Emilia entered, she recognized that perfume and that voice), but unfortunately, he didn't recognize her. There, she confirmed and reaffirmed that she was never important to him (haha, stupid, of course you were never important to him, you were a damn bet)," her mind told her. Of course, her heart hurts, because even though he's stupid, her daughters will always remind her of him, and in this case, it's Abraham, her first love, her first man, even though the infatuation was only hers. She was happy in that lie, in that ignorance, before the world fell apart when she found out the damn truth. Of course, she hated Abraham, and a lot, but the idiot left her two blessings. Was it difficult to raise them? Well, of course, it was. She was barely 17 years old when she got pregnant. She was barely going to turn 18 when she became a mother. She had to finish her studies at night school because she had to work in the afternoons to support her daughters. She was able to study a career with a lot of effort, and thanks to the help of her parents, she was able to continue.

"Take a seat," says Abraham without even looking at her.

"Name?" he asks in such an icy tone that it froze poor Emilia to the bone.

"Emilia Bustamante."

"Age, Emilia?"

"I am 28 years old, sir."

"I am reading your background in the company, and it says here that you are a single mother of two 10-year-old daughters. I wonder if you meet the requirements to work in my company, since I need people who give 100%, not 99%, and from what I see, you have 2 distractions that are too big. I'm sorry, but you don't meet the requirements to continue working for me."

Emilia's heart froze, because she is the breadwinner of her family. Her parents were sick. Unfortunately, poorly managed diabetes had very harmful consequences for her parents' health. She has two daughters, and she won't find a job so quickly anywhere, and she won't earn what she earns there, either. Besides, her daughters' 11th birthday was coming up.

"Sir, one question, are you firing me because I have two daughters?" she asks fearfully. She can't believe that this guy is ruining her life for the second time.

"Not at all, Miss, I am simply firing you because I feel that you don't have the necessary profile to work in my company, so please go to your job, and at the time of your departure shift come to sign your settlement, I will be waiting for you at 6 o'clock," he finishes speaking without lifting his eyes from the computer, he didn't look at Emilia at any time.

Emilia stood up like a zombie, but when she reached the door, a hurricane entered quickly. This was Abraham's best friend, who was also at that bet. He looked at Emilia and saw a familiar face, he saw the woman with tearful eyes, Emilia apologized and left quickly.

"Damn son of a bitch, what did you do to that poor woman?" She almost left crying.

"I fired her, she doesn't meet the requirements I need for this company, besides she has two daughters, she is a single mother and that takes time, and I need competent people working for me, not a single mother who would ask me for permission every time her daughters need her."

"Damn you, if she's a single mother, she needs the job even more, why did you fire her? And I want the truth."

"For that, I simply didn't like her, I don't know why, but I don't like her, and since it's my company, I don't want to have her working for me, that's all."

Mateo sat down in one of the armchairs (Mateo is Abraham's friend, the one who was in that bet), he was thinking and thinking where he had seen that face, but he didn't remember.

"Abraham, what's the name of the woman who left this office almost crying?" Mateo asks curiously.

"Emilia Bustamante, why?"

"Emilia, Emilia Bustamante?" he asks almost shouting.

"Why the hell are you shouting, Mateo, for God's sake?"

"Friend, Emilia Bustamante, isn't she the girl we made the bet with when we were about to leave school?"

"What girl? What bet?" asks Abraham.

"Friend, remember that we made a bet that you would make the most studious girl in school fall in love with you, and that you would take her to bed, do you remember?" Mateo asks cautiously.

Abraham felt a cold all over his body, and immediately began to review Emilia Bustamante's resume.

Emilia Bustamante studied from pre-kindergarten to the fourth year of high school at xxxxx school, but for some reason, she didn't finish fourth grade at that school, but finished at an adult school years later.

She became a mother at the age of 18 of two girls, currently 10 years old about to turn 11.

"Abraham, that time you slept with her, did you use protection?" Mateo asks.

"I didn't even remember that I slept with her, how do you want me to remember if I used protection with her or not, I was a stupid kid, who did everything for fun, and that classmate never meant anything to me, damn it! Is it possible that I got her pregnant that time?"

"Counting the accounts, you are possibly a father."

Mateo stood next to Abraham immediately to talk to Emilia, but only saw her enter the bathroom with her friend, they stood at the door and listened while she cried, and said the following words to her friend.

"What am I going to do, friend? What am I going to do now without a job? I am the breadwinner of my daughters, you know how much it has cost me to raise them, you have been with me in the worst moments, you have helped me a lot, friend, you know everything I have been through, from the time I had the girls until what it cost me to finish my studies."

"Friend, why don't you look for the father of your daughters and tell him about their existence so he can help you?"

Emilia let out a bitter laugh and replies. "Friend, that man doesn't even know I exist, how do you want him to know about the existence of the girls? For him, I was always a game, for him, I was a bet, a damn bet, while for me, he was my whole life."

"Will you ever tell me who the father is?" her best friend asks.

"I prefer not to, friend, I prefer that no one knows who the father of the girls is, I don't want them to look for him one day and he rejects them, because I am 100% sure that he will reject them for the sole fact of being my daughters, and carrying my blood."

"Are you sure about that, friend?" asks Emilia's friend.

"Of course, friend.

I will have to continue working until the end of the working hours, and tomorrow I will start looking for a job, because my daughters eat every day, so I can't afford to be unemployed."

"Oh, friend, but I don't understand why he fired you, if you have always worked full time in this company."

"According to the boss, I don't meet the requirements of the company, since I am a single mother, according to him my daughters are distractions, which will not let me give my 100%."

Emilia and Catalina were leaving the bathroom, when Abraham and Mateo realized it, they ran to the office.

Abraham didn't know what to think, he had fired the mother of his daughters, he had been a damn son of a bitch in the past, and he had been a damn son of a bitch at this moment, that poor woman raised her daughters alone.

"What are you going to do?" Mateo asks.

"I don't know, the truth is, all this took me by surprise, I didn't even recognize her when I saw her, and now I find out that I have two daughters with her, how things are, all my life I have been careful not to be a father, and I am the father of the woman that I didn't even remember," Abraham finishes speaking with a pain in his chest, thinking about everything that Emilia had to go through since her pregnancy, until now.

"Are you going to fire her, now that you know who she is?" Mateo asks again.

"No, no, I'm not going to fire her, she is the breadwinner of the girls that I rejected before they were born, Mateo, I'm sure that the time she looked for me and I humiliated her, was to tell me about her pregnancy, I'm 100% sure of that."

"It's true that after that we didn't see her anymore, and we didn't worry or ask about her either."

"And you remembered that just now?" Mateo asks.

"Yes. And I remember everything perfectly."

Mateo just looked at him without saying a word.

Mateo, I need you to help me get closer to her and the girls, I need to know everything, but everything, about them, and I want everything for today, I need to know what school they go to, the day of their birthday, their likes, their fears, their angers, their hobbies, their favorite food, their favorite color, if they are bullied in school, everything, but everything, I need to know, I need to know even the time they eat.

Sure friend, give me 3 hours and I will bring you all the information.

So Mateo leaves that office leaving Abraham with his heart beating a thousand miles an hour.

"Please call Miss Emilia to come to my office immediately," he says before hanging up the phone.

To be continued....

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