Micah turned to his guard and told her, “Call Julianna and tell her wheels up in 30.We lay in the flight plan once we are over Bolivia.Pack everything you don't want to leave here, and we are out the back door in less than ten minutes.Move.”
She did as she was told.As cars arrived at the beginning of the gala, she and Micah slipped out in the departure of vehicles dropping off the guests.When the call came in from Eleon, who shouted into the phone about where Micah was, Micah answered his grandfather with a sense of pride.
“Currently, we have entered Bolivian airspace headed for Colombia,” Micah said.“I am not signing a contract to marry that vapid woman.My path is uncharted, and I like it that way.I refuse to be genetically tied to Martín Rossi in any form, let alone bring forth the continuation of his lineage.I'm sorry.”
Eleon continued to yell into the phone, but Micah ended the call.He turned in the seat to face Alita and told her, “You look lovely.I really like that dress on you.Julianna, what is in the galley?I'm hungry.Anything but steak.”
“Steaks!”Micah said, suddenly remembering what he was supposed to get for Angel.
“I have them,” Alita said.“They are in the smaller case.I felt like I was stealing, but I knew you asked for them for Angel.”
“You're all sorts of awesome and have a working brain that you actually use,” Micah said.“I need food and a nap.Maybe a cookie.Julianna, I need a cookie.Can I have a cookie, please?”
Chapter 15-Mishap
Eduardo Delgado preparedhimself to leave Barrancabermeja after spending an afternoon with his foot on the neck of Nicolás Gómez, who had decided to shortfall the shipments of white powdery products to the local distributors, thinking Eduardo wouldn’t notice or find out.His argument for the blatant thievery was based on his girlfriend Natalia needing a reliable vehicle to get back and forth to work.Eduardo sympathized with the man, and for a brief moment empathized with him, having been married twice to two totally different types of women.It still didn’t stop him from cutting off both of the man's hands and firing him from the best paying job in the region.He didn't like thieves.He also couldn't respect weak men.
He had arrived alone and would be leaving the same way as he entered the oil capital of Colombia.Too much money was to be made in the area with dignitaries coming in from all over the world, wanting the best powder in the region.The last thing he needed was an ass muncher like Nicolás Gómez re-cutting the product and short selling to make a few extra bucks.Eduardo could have respected him more if he'd asked for a loan to get the woman a decent vehicle or simply worked harder to afford his life choice as a lover.
His phone vibrated in his pocket as he began his drive home.He took the call from Julianna, the overseer of his plane.She informed him in one sentence that his plane was in the air with Micah and Alita.The call ended.Julianna had provided him with the basis for the next few hours that would change his life and how he saw his third-born son.Her lack of details noted that one, the kids were coming back early versus the planned arrival on Monday, and two, Andres was not on the plane and wasn't returning with them, which meant something had gone horribly awry.He didn't need to make any calls to find out the information.
His phone vibrated again, and he answered.This time it was his former father-in-law Eleon, who ranted and raved into the phone about Micah's departure.He yelled about Micah not signing the contract.The image of his rotund-bellied former father-in-law sitting behind a resolute-style desk, hand-carved from wood from his land, nearly made Eduardo smile as he imagined the man's face sweaty and flustered.Eleon spoke of the deals which would be lost on his beef with Uruguay and the potential breakdown in communications with the Czar of Suriname.When he stopped huffing and puffing, Eduardo grunted and ended the call.He had nothing to say to Eleon until he'd spoken with his son to get the entire story, so until then, the man could stew.
The next call came from Andres, who could not stop laughing.Eduardo held the phone as he listened.
“Papa, these chicks are big mad,” Andres said.“The one from Suriname, she can barely speak English, the girl speaks no Spanish but she was trying to flirt with Micah.I watched her and that lazy eye kept zooming in on his crotch.She even tried to touch him there.She physically reached for the family jewels, or she could have been reaching for his hand, with that lazy eye, maybe her reach was off.He told her to stop talking to him, and he walked away from her.”
“Really?”Eduardo replied sighing deeply.
“The second one sounded like she grew up in South Central and said she wasn't planning to live on a cocaine farm and walked away from Micah,” Andres said, laughing.“I tried talking to her, and she was actually flirting with me, knowing I'm getting married in six months.I was like, chick, you know I live on the same damned farm?Papa, it is hilarious these people's reactions to him.”
“And what of the third one, the Rossi girl?”
“Papa, I don't know what she read inThe Handmaid's Talethat resonated with her, but she is empty,” Andres said.“It's like they programmed her to serve him but left off her personality.Micah was having none of that.It was actually funny to watch, butAbuelafound no humor in it, especially when Micah went towards the kitchens and never came back.I think he is on his way home.”
“Thanks for letting me know, Andres,” Eduardo said, ending the call.
