Chapter 34
P . O . V LUÍS
Unfortunately, I would be going back to Sydney to work, I had been conning my mother for years, but I knew that at some point I would have to take her place in front of the company, no matter how much I disliked it. I am her only family. She put it into her head that she wanted to travel the world and enjoy life a little before she couldn't do it anymore. What I never imagined was that her ward was Maria Alice, my Maria Alice that I searched for so long and when I finally thought I had found her, I was told that she had died. I never knew how she died. I should have been surprised and tried to find out more about it.
When I arrived at Beckerman fashions I would never have imagined that the Alice my mother spoke so fondly of would be the only woman I had ever loved. For me it was a shock to see her in front of me, I could barely react, totally contrary to her who screamed at me with so much hate for having lied my name and for having abandoned me. Little does she know that I never abandoned her, I wanted to explain to her that I always looked for her. It was years before I found out where she lived and knew she was dead. That day a part of me died too.
I went out with thousands of women trying to find Alice, my Pettit, but none of them came close. I decided to go out into the world on spiritual retreats trying to reconnect and to know how to accept that I had lost her. Today I live a very different life from what people think, I am not that spoiled little mama's boy. I try to be a conscious man, I try to bring fashion in the most conscious way possible to people, with % rawelly free and vegan material, and I intend to do this here at Beckermann Modas with my mother's full support. But I feel that it won't be easy at all to work here with my Pettit hating me. I feel that I will have a lot of headaches. May the gods help me with this woman!
P. O. V MARIA ALICE
Alice - NICOLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Nick - Yes ma'am, what can I do for you (scared)
Alice - Call my husband and ask him to come here now, tell him it is urgent, no matter what he is doing tell him it is a matter of life and death
Nick - Yes ma'am
Nicole walks desperately towards her desk and calls Tom in the meantime I keep screaming and destroying my room
Annie - have you gone crazy maria alice? MAY I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING?
Alice - HE, HE IS BACK
Annie - Who is back?
Alice - HIM
Annie - Him who? whoever he is does not justify you destroying your living room and shouting like that
Alice - LUNA'S FATHER IS BACK
Annie - WHAT? - Annie's eyes widened so much I thought she was going to jump out - BUT HOW SO? AFTER SO MANY YEARS? HOW DID HE FIND YOU?
Nick - Madam, your husband said he will be here in 10 minutes, I took the liberty of bringing this tea for you
Alice - Ok, leave it on my table and you can leave - Nick puts it on the table and as he is leaving - Ah Nick, I am not for anyone, only my husband, cancel all my appointments and I hope you don't comment with anyone about anything you saw
Nick - Alright ma'am, anything else I'll be outside doing my job.
Annie - Honey, could you get me some of that tea too?
Nick - Of course miss, I'll bring it in a minute
Annie - Get Tom some too, it looks like we will need a lot of tea
Nick - As you wish Miss - Nick goes
Annie - Ok Nick is out, now are you going to tell me how Alex found you after all these years? what does he want? does he know about Luna?
Alice - SHUT UP ANNIE
Annie - hey calm down, it's not my fault, I just want to understand what is going on
Alice - Okay, sorry, it's just that I am nervous, of all the people in the world the only one I never imagined I would meet just now is him.
Annie - Just now? why?
Alice - Tom divorced me
Annie - Oh is that so? relax, Tom wouldn't have the courage to leave you, between kisses and slaps you love each other and he wouldn't have the courage to leave you for Luna
Alice - I don't know, he wasn't about to play around, I always tease him with sex, he denies sex Annie
Annie - You've been extrapolating too much, barely paying attention to your husband and even less to your daughter. I don't recognize you anymore Alice. You need to get better or you will lose all the people who love you
Alice - Speaking of which, I know you want to leave, you traitor, when you were dying to tell me when you were on the plane?
Annie - I have to go Alice, it is for me, I have to find myself again and I am not leaving forever, I am going to study, it is only two years, I will come back and besides that you don't even care about me anymore, much less Tom
Alice - You love him, don't you?
Annie - Maria Alice
Alice - Relax, I know you love him, don't worry, I'm not jealous, but you know he doesn't love you, in fact he doesn't love me either, he never stopped loving her.
Annie - He loves you, but you still love the father of your daughter and you don't let him near you, you don't let anyone near you or your daughter.
Alice - I DO NOT LOVE THAT LIE
Annie - Liar?
Nick - excuse me - I brought the tea - Tom enters
Tom - tired - WHAT HAPPENED? I CAME AS FAST AS I COULD
Maria Alice runs and hugs her crying and sobbing husband, he hugs her back without understanding, looks at Annie
Annie - I don't know exactly, only that Luna's father is back
Tom - HOW? - pulls Alice to look - HOW ? LUNA'S FATHER? HER FATHER IS ME ! WHERE IS THAT IMBECILLE - Alice replies nothing but cries - LET'S GO MARIA ALICE TELL US WHERE IS HE?
Alice - He, he lied, he lied, his name is not Alex
Tom - And what does that matter now, what did he want here? Does he know about our daughter?
Alice - no he doesn't know about Luna, he didn't try anything, I didn't even give him a chance, he is LUÍS BERCKMANN
Tom - Alexandra's son?
Annie - Alex?
Alice - do you know him?
Annie - Of course, I studied with him and he is also my ex-boyfriend, don't you remember him, Tom?
Tom - I don't, should I? you had so many boyfriends
Annie - He was the soccer captain
Tom - Son of a bitch, I knew he wasn't strange, of course he was.
Alice - he's come to take over the company in Alexandra's place, what's it going to be Tom, what am I going to do?
Tom - He can't know about Luna, promise me you won't talk
Alice - It's okay, she's your daughter, I won't say anything, but how am I going to get along with him? work with him, Tom? he disgraced my life and deceived me and now I'll have to work with him.
Annie - Well we can see this calmly, now I think you better go home, I'll solve everything here. tomorrow is Saturday is the anniversary of the daughter of you go home and rest
Alice - I have a thousand things to do
Annie - there are not you sent Nick to cancel everything forgot? and whatever is pending I'll resolve, I say I need to resolve the last details of the birthday with your husband. go home. Come on Tom take this stubborn girl home
Tom - Thanks Annie, you are an angel, let's go.
Annie - Later I will come to your house to see how everything is ok?