Revenge And Love Against My Mafia Ex-Husband
Chapter 43

-His name is Leonel, he is the best jeweller in the Sena, he graduated with honours, he will be one of the people in charge of the new collection of jewellery this season.

-Hello Leonel, nice to meet you, I hope you shine," I look into the eyes of this young man, who looks full of dreams and illusions, even though he is trembling he must be intimidated by his boss, that is me, he even answers me stammering: -Yes, yes ma'am, it is an honour for me to work in your company, which is undoubtedly one of the best in the world.

-Leonel is excellent, I hope you are as good at designing as you are at flattering.

-Mrs. Ximena, look, I brought some prototypes, look at them," he handed me a catalogue in which he had some beautiful jewellery stuck to some sheets of cardboard.

-Wow, they are very beautiful, you really deserve your title.

-Not only that, Mrs. Ximena, at the Sena, they also give us business training and I have a lot of innovative ideas, I would like to invite you to lunch so that you can get to know them.

-It seems convenient to me, I was just trying not to eat alone and my escorts apparently only eat junk food and steroids.

-Yes boss, I saw them just now, they were eating a hamburger, it's funny that they say it's junk food, if the bread is a cereal, the meat is protein, the vegetables are regulators and the cheese is a builder, it's a balanced diet, the food pyramid is a ball. -Good point Leonel, maybe they will say it because of the sauces or the fact that they are accompanied by fizzy drinks, I don't know, looking at it from that point no food is, neither are the packets of potatoes, or the chitos that are ground corn. -Mrs. Ximena, the extruded corn is a product that has a bad reputation, some people have spread the rumour that they are made of plastic because if you put a match near them they will burn.

-Yes, that's nonsense, even if you add oil to the water you can ignite it, grease is a fuel.

-Miss Ximena, I have an organic farm near the city, I would love for you to come and see it.

I would like to get to know one of those farms, I heard that the idea is to make them self-sufficient.

-Yes boss, the main thing is to have a crop of red worms that transform the manure into fertilizer, the rest is what you add, my father has it ingenious for tourism, although he was annoyed when many foreigners just wanted to get high.

-It's the complicated thing about some tourists who think that in Colombia everything is drugs, and what did your father do?

-Well, he annoyingly knocked down a carrot crop, replacing it with a marijuana crop.

-He had to adapt to the public's request.

-Until the army arrested a neighbour for growing coca, that afternoon we had to finish with those hectares, so I better start studying, although we still have it, so we can go.

-I had to make time and tell my husband that we should go.

-The complicated thing is that there isn't much space, you'd have to go alone.

-In that case it would be impossible, I can't go anywhere without my husband, I love him very much.

-It's rare to replace a faithful wife nowadays, I hope your husband is faithful too.

-Of course he is, we love each other very much, we're just like that.

-What envy, I'd like to replace someone who loves me like that.

-Have faith that you'll get it, you have to start by being more apathetic.

-You're right about that, my father says that first you have to change the inner universe, purify it so that it attracts perfection,

-Your father is very wise, you should try to spend as much time as possible with him, and speaking of time, it's time for me to go to my beautiful and beloved husband, see you later Leonel, may you be the star striker of the jewellery store with which we will beat the competition.

-See you later Mrs. Ximena, it was a pleasure to have lunch with you, I never imagined having such a great honour.

I went back to my house to see my husband, without that boy's words echoing me, until I arrived and saw him accompanied by that model that I saw in almost every magazine, she was really beautiful, surely those who edited her photos or the make-up artists didn't need to do much, I even thought that her long blonde hair that curled from the middle was a wig, but up close I saw that it was real, my biggest surprise was that they were sitting there drinking coffee like a couple of old friends.

-Hi love, how did it go, at least he greeted me well, I remembered once my uncle who was with a beautiful aspiring secretary, when the wife arrived he greeted her as a grandmother, arousing her anger which ended with the poor girl running away all scratched up. well love and you, -I comment while I look at the model with an astonished face, detailing every feature, looking for a defect or something that shows me, that she is a product of operations, nothing, she is perfect, her face seems carved by the gods and her body is a poem, I think it even makes me doubt my heterosexuality.

-This is Natalia, she is a friend I grew up with in Sicily," she shakes my hand softly answering:

-Hello, nice to meet you, I was curious to meet you, the woman who managed to make Angelo settle down and of course you are very beautiful.

-Thank you very much, things worked out and we ended up together, I'm sure she told you all about it," I tell her, feeling good about the compliment offered by a woman who lives and triumphs by her image.

-We were remembering anecdotes from when we were kids, Angelo was a real little devil, once he peed in the soup at a party given in honour of an aunt.

-In my defence, I'll say that I didn't like that lady, she annoyed me when she squeezed my cheeks saying "that little toad is so cute"," says Angelo while they both laugh, at the same time I feel that I'm out of place, that I'm too much, it's true that three's a crowd. -Angelo, do you remember how we used to fill the suitcase of the man we used to call bulldog dog because of his wriggly cheeks," she says laughing like a fool.

-Angelo laughs looking at her and I burst inside, I imagine myself shaking her by the hair, again I remember my aunt throwing the secretary out the door.

-Of course, what I've never been able to forget, and sometimes I laugh alone in the street like a madwoman, was the time we tied everyone's shoelaces in the dining room and when they got up they went face first into each other, that was the top," the blonde grabbed her little belly as if she was going to pee.

-It wasn't so funny when my grandfather beat the shit out of me," Angelo rubbed his tail, making such a funny face that it was impossible for me to hold back a laugh.

-I remember that in my orphanage, with my sister, we also did all kinds of pranks with the superior sisters, who also beat us up to correct us like, several times, -I try to invent something and I can't connect, jealousy is clouding me, I don't know how the wives of the Arabs who share their husbands do it, I explode just when she looks at him.

-It's interesting, it reminds me of the times we used to hide on the rooftops so we wouldn't get punished," Natalia added, as if she wanted to get me out of the conversation.

-Remember the day we slipped and we were hanging from some gargoyles, how scary, I don't think we would have survived at that height," Angelo seems to be having fun, remembering his childhood, while I'm dying of jealousy and I can't join the conversation either, I'm a violinist, the third in discord, without hesitation, I don't want to make an insecure scene, I want to give an image that I trust my husband, so I decide to leave, I say goodbye giving a kiss to my man saying:

-I better leave you, I have to go do some work.

I leave the room biting my tongue, clenching my hands, I even break a nail, I almost bump into Vivían, who I hadn't seen for a long time, who brings them red wine and bread, which tells me that she is going to stay longer and informs me:

-I can't believe I'm capable of leaving him alone with her.

-What do you mean, I suppose you know her," I ask the bitch, her devilish grimace coming out.

-She was Angelo's first love, the one who deflowered him, he could never forget her, what happened is that his grandfather Joseph prevented them from being together because of the promise to your parents, -so the stupid one already knew about my past and the contract marriage. -They only told me that they had grown up together.

-Mrs. Ximena, it's like I told you the other day, Angelo is a man that doesn't suit you, he's a lying, manipulative womanizer, you should run away while you can, change your identity, your country, I know he's one of the most dangerous men in the world, I assure you that you have no idea what kind of crazy cow he's gotten himself into.

The bitch has just filled my head with cockroaches, for a moment I think about shaking that blonde and filling the air with screams, going upstairs to fill my suitcases to leave forever, but I better take a breath and lock myself in my room, where I play loud music to cover the sound of my desperate crying.