SINGLE MOTHER AND CEO

Rafael:

Amazed, dumbfounded, I unconsciously brought my right hand to my birthmark, which I know perfectly well because it has been with me since I was born. Aunt Anastasia, stood up from the edge of the pool, as if propelled by a spring.

Estefania narrowed her eyes and looked at me suspiciously. Sheyli did the same. The triplets watched me happily, admiringly, and walked across the pool to where I stood. I froze and that night with Sofia came to my mind like a flash of light….

“Yes, it was her! The same woman of that night, with her long blonde hair and her pure and virginal body. It was my Sofia, the one who for days, weeks, months disturbed my dreams and my stillness.”

As they approached me, I squatted down to put myself at their height and ran my hand over the mark between their nipples. Recognizing it perfectly identical to mine, I hugged them one by one, my heart overflowing with indescribable emotion.

It was something I could not describe. I was very excited, because regardless of the situation in which they were conceived, they were my children, whom I already loved, without knowing that they were mine.

-Come on, namesake, let’s play! -they asked me, holding my hands.

I was automatically weighing the situation. This discovery, knowing that they were my… children, was exciting. Now, I understand the strong call I felt the first time I saw them in that room, the day of the inauguration, it was the call of the blood?

-I’m coming, my loves! -I answered, “Aunt, can you stay with the triplets? Meanwhile, I talk to Estefania and Sheyli in the office -I asked with my eyes fixed on her, who like me was coming to her conclusions, regarding the children.

-Of course, son! -she answered me, being totally supportive, as always.

-Let’s go! My beautiful, precious triplets to play with the Russian and his twins, shall we? -she asked, leading them to the center of the pool with Sasha, who obviously didn’t understand what was going on.

-Yesssssss! -they shouted happily in chorus.

Meanwhile, putting on a beach shirt and beach shorts, I approached Estefania, who was still in shock at this discovery.

-Estefania, I need to talk to you,” I asked seriously and not knowing where to start, I also asked the same to Sheyli, because as a close friend of Sofia, she must have known under what circumstances she conceived her triplets.

-Let’s go! -they both answered, with astonished looks on their faces.

When we reached the office, I locked the door so that no one would interrupt us. In spite of the emotion I felt for knowing that they were mine, there was something inside me that demanded answers and explanations.

“If before, I had doubts and even went so far as to rule out, that Sofia was the same woman from that night at the disco, today it is not so. I am sure, that it was her”, I thought more stunned by this revelation.

-Sheyli or Estefania, for either of you, do you know how and when Sofia got pregnant? -I questioned sternly.

-I can clarify that for you,” Sheyli said angrily, looking me in the face.

-She can explain it to you better, because that night she was with Sofia, together with Shayla,” added Estefania with moderation.

-The night of our graduation, we celebrated our triumph in a discotheque in the International Shopping Center,” she said, making a silent pause, observing how he opened his eyes, “We started drinking liquor, dancing, without being aware of our drinks.

“It was like this, how three hours after arriving, between eleven and twelve at night, Sofia began to feel sick. Trying to get to the bathrooms, she realized that someone was following her and wanted to drag her somewhere in the same discotheque, but she resisted.

“The guy hit her, apparently he was the one who drugged her – she added – Besides, he knew her because he called her name. However, because of the drug she unconsciously ingested, she had no clear vision or hearing, of what was going on around her.

“Finally, another wretch who defended her from being raped, took advantage of the state she was in, seduced her and was the one who impregnated her,” she said, letting her tears run down her face.

“At all these, neither Shayla nor I realized what had happened to Sofia, because the disco that day was very crowded. Then, as we did not find her, we left the place, thinking that she had left us there in the disco.

Strongly shocked by this revelation, I turned to Estefania and explained:

-That is the disco of my friend, Martin Elias, he is the owner, Reyner’s son -I expressed.

-No wonder he looked familiar! However, I didn’t remember from where,” expressed Sheyli, with a wave of her hand in the air.

To put an end to this enigma and totally convinced that I am the father of the triplets, I made them both sit down, I asked them to let me speak without interrupting me and I started the story with the exact date of that day…

-March 25, four years ago, was the first and only time I almost lost my consciousness, due to liquor, as a result of an argument with my mother,” I said, looking them both in the eyes.

“The case was that I went to the discotheque of my friend, Martin Elias, and drank uncontrollably. I went… I was looking for a female companion, I felt the need to be with a woman -I confessed with shame, with a lot of sincerity- He offered to find me a friend, who never arrived.Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.

-Rafael, sorry to interrupt you! However, that was the date of our graduation,” said Sheyli, “That was the day of our graduation ceremony! -she asserted. Then, convinced that it was her, I continued with the explanation.

-“The thing is that locked in a VIP room of the disco, I heard a loud knock against the door, which made me get up and open the door,” I continued my explanation, pausing again.

“When I opened, I saw a young woman lying on the floor with her face beaten, full of blood, who shouted at me to help her because she was going to be raped. The man who intended to do this, called her Sofia and tried to get her to shut up, but I went crazy and went in punching him.

“After, that I saw him passed out on the floor, I took the young woman in my arms and put her in my VIP room. I took her to the bathroom, because she was feeling sick, and I stayed outside waiting for her. In the meantime, I kept consuming liquor,” I confessed.

“When she came out, she was wet, wrapped in a towel and totally naked. I ran to her, dried her body so she wouldn’t catch cold and that’s how it happened. Let’s be clear, I did not seduce her! It was something with no premeditation, no premeditation, no premeditation at all.

-Didn’t you realize she was drugged? -Estefania asked me angrily.

-No, I don’t know! Suddenly yes, but I repeat, I had too much to drink, the memories I have are blurry. I had no control over my body and neither did she, but I am sure she gave me her virginity. And this worried me for a long time,” I said.

-It bothered you so much, you didn’t even look it up! Or why didn’t you check with your friend? -Sheyli intimidated me.

-Maybe you’re right,” I agreed ruefully, “I tried to do it some time later, because I felt something calling me to her. However, I had many problems at the hacienda, then with my sister’s pregnancy and the birth of my nephews,” I affirmed.

-Does Martin Elias know all this? -Estefania asked me.

-Yes, because I asked his staff to take care of her when she fell asleep! Before leaving, I dressed her. She woke up in the living room and the next day she left. Nobody knew more about her -I lied, remembering what Martin had told me a month later, about this encounter…