38 - Rental belly?

Sebastian had no choice but to continue pretending to be a good husband, after Katlyn stopped crying inconsolably when he said he had lied to her about the bankruptcy, Sebastian told her it was okay, he would work it out, although he had no idea how.

-I swear I'm going to do everything I can to make sure we have a baby Sebi," the blonde exclaimed in anguish. Sebastian felt at that moment a stinging in the back of his neck, his inner little voice telling him:

"Tell her the truth, tell her it's your fault, that you are sterile."

He was about to reveal his innermost truth when there was a knock on the bedroom door, saving him from confession.

The young CEO quickly got up and approached the door, meeting the family butler, who had known him since he was a child.

-Master Aller, I am sorry to interrupt your moment with Mrs. Aller, but there is a man looking for you....

-Who is it?

-He says he's a private detective.

-A private detective?!" his wife exclaimed in confusion from behind him.

-Tell him I'll be right down, send him to the meeting room," he ordered, keeping his composure in front of his wife.

-Why do you want a private detective Sebi," she asked confused.

-It's for a company accounting issue, nothing serious," she lied, "I'm going to take a long time with the gentleman, why don't you go with your friends? I'm sure you have a lot to tell- He poked her, knowing that Katlyn would not refuse such a tempting proposal.

-Next time don't show up as a private investigator at the door of my house," exclaimed the young Aller with annoyance, when he was finally able to free himself from the blonde and meet the man in the meeting room that had belonged to his late father.

-I'm sorry, I didn't know he was married, especially because of the job he sent me to do... -the detective answered shrewdly, as he took a sip of whiskey.

Sebastian ignored him and took a sip of the drink as well, with all the honeymoon and the new clause he had completely forgotten that before leaving for Paris he had hired a private detective to investigate who had made the video that appeared at his wedding to Helena and who was probably also responsible for the video that was sent anonymously to all the company's e-mails.

He had been so anxious to get away from her and leave her alone for a month, after having seen that projection, that he had committed himself to find out more about the matter, without expecting that when he returned things would change so dramatically in his relationship with the redhead, who now did not even want to see him in the magazines.

-Let's get to the point, show me what you have achieved.

-I was actually coming to tell him that I'm returning the advance he paid me.

-And why is that?" he asked with annoyance, "Have you been threatened or something? I think you're more astute than that....

The young detective laughed in amusement at this.

-Not really, but personally, it's something worse. -He sighed mournfully, "You know...I've had a streak of over 10 years of success in my investigations, but with your case it's been different. I haven't been able to get anything.

-But I've been told you're the best at this! The price I paid says so.

-I know, I feel just as terrible as you do. I thought this would be just another case, like so many, a simple secretary with an ordinary past is a no-brainer. It wouldn't be hard to find out who was threatening her like that...- he took another sip of whiskey smiling fascinated- But it seems that the joker is smarter than both of us.

-He suddenly felt like punching whoever was hiding in the shadows and stalking his former secretary.

-What I want to tell you is that I have tried to locate where that video came from, but nothing, zero. We are facing a technology expert who is not easy to catch- The detective got up from his seat and extended his hand, shaking it with the young heir- I apologize for not having succeeded, I still appreciate this, as I have realized that I still have a lot to learn.

The young detective left the office accompanied by the butler, leaving Sebastian alone and bewildered, feeling mocked by an anonymous person who claimed to be smarter than him.

He already felt unmanly for not fulfilling his mandate to be a father, to create an heir son in order to collect his fortune, he wasn't even getting the company back on its feet after his father's death and because of the gap in the accounting that he still hadn't been able to completely solve, and now this?

She really needed to have a few drinks to distract herself from her miserable, failing life.

Helena was leaving Alan's company very cheerfully, it had been a quiet day, just like all the others and the memory of the day Sebastian had burst into the company to ask her to come back with him was slowly fading from her memory.

She was walking to the hospital to see how her little brother was doing, who to her joy had already passed to intermediate therapy and she could see him, even if it was only for an hour a day. Everything indicated that her life was improving little by little, when she bumped into a woman, because she was distracted in her thoughts.

-Oh how I'm sorry," she apologized and then froze as she realized that she had collided with one of her former colleagues from Aller Industries....

-Helena..." exclaimed the woman in surprise.

-Hello, Alicia," she exclaimed uncomfortably, she was almost sure that the young woman's name was that, she had not really had a good relationship with anyone but Carmen, the others had only been a group of cruel women who had made her life miserable day after day in the name of Katlyn, "Well, if you'll excuse me," she said anguished at having to stir up the past once again, and she dodged her way, hugging her bag as if it were a protective shield.

-Wait, Helena," the young woman shouted and followed her from behind.

-Please leave me alone, they got what they wanted so badly, now just let me get on with my life.

-It's not that..." said the girl ashamedly, "Do you have time to talk to me in a café? - I want to tell you something that I should have told you a long time ago....

-And well that's it, in a few months I'm going to end up on the cover of the NEW TIMES as "The World's Most Idiotic CEO"- sobbed Sebastian over the bar with his third drink in his hand.

Erik rolled his eyes as he listened to his friend's dramatic story. The young CEO had removed the detail that he was sterile, he trusted his lifelong friend, still he feared that information would leak out.

-Don't be melodramatic Sebas... I have an idea, though I don't think you're going to like it.

-Oh please, just tell me, if you're dying to say it- he exclaimed with annoyance and Erik laughed amused.

-All right, all right, but it's just a suggestion, how about if I sleep with Katlyn and make you the son you want so badly?

-You're an idiot!" the CEO shouted, getting up from the table.

Sorry! It was just a joke, what an ogre you are... What I was thinking is that you could adopt a child or something like that, it would be quick and you would even be sure that it's a boy.

-Do you think I didn't think about it Erik? -he said with annoyance- It's not an option, I can't risk the comments, it would expose me to the media if they saw me doing the adoption procedures.

Erik remained thoughtful for a moment

-What about doing something more anonymous? Something with discretion?

-What do you mean? I don't understand you...

-You know, publish an anonymous ad in the paper or something, saying you're looking for some pregnant woman who doesn't want her baby, give her a good sum and bam, newborn baby for you and Katlyn equal to cashed inheritance- he exclaimed with total normality.

-Is that legal?

-What does it matter if it's legal or not? It's like an investment, you give him a good sum for the baby and then you collect the fortune, or what do you prefer? To be left without the inheritance? To have your brother keep everything and also be married to someone who is bankrupt just like you? Is that what you want, old friend?