Chapter 3 Engagement Day

Engagement Day.

What a happy day to both Mateo's and Alejandro family, and with the whole house decorations that have been set around Mateo's house with the beautiful flowers and ballons swaying side by side, as today is an official day of the engagement between Camilla and Albert after both families agrees to each other about merging their businesses when they children official gets married. But the one thing that this people don't realise is that Camilla has stored a special surprise to all of the guests.

Mateo and Lucy are with the guests inside the sitting room sipping coffee in their cups of coffee while Alejandro and his family are on the opposite coach sipping their cups of coffee too while dressed so perfectly with their clothes as Albert's face lightens up with a broad smile.

"Look at that, my future son-in-law. You look so good in that black suit that you wore today." Mateo compliments Albert.

Albert's smile widens. "Thanks, Father-in-law."

Suzanne interjects. "It will be so wonderful for your daughter Camilla to marry my son, Albert. They are a good match together; don't you think so?"

Mateo nods with affirmation. "Yes, I agree with you about that."

"But wait? Have you tried speaking with your daughter concerning this matter, because as far as I know previously, she was a little bit stubborn concerning this matter?" Suzanne asks, waiting for Mateo's response as she stares at him directly in the face.

"Yeah! Yeah, I have already told her about your arrival today. "Mateo takes a glance at Camilla's bedroom door and then returns his gaze to Suzzane. "And I think she will be here by now very soon."

"Oh! Okay," Suzanne says.

The convo between Mr. Mateo and his family proceeds as they are all waiting for Camilla to come out of her room in order to proceed with the engagement, but the one thing that Mateo and his guests have not really considering about this engagement is that it is not fully supported with everyone around the house in which through this, things can turn way around anytime soon.

In the midst of the conversation, suddenly Mateo looks at Lucy. "Darling! Darling!" Mateo calls with a whispering voice.

"What...What?" Lucy turns and looks at Mateo with a frightened look on her face while her hands tremble simultaneously.

"Have you informed your daughter about the guests' arrival?" Mateo asks in a small inaudible voice.

"Yes, I have already told her." Lucy replies.

Mateo looks at his wife with a sceptical look on his face and then returns his gaze to the guest, ignoring his wife sitting beside him as Lucy looks so frightened while her heart hammers into unmatched rhythm as she darts her eyes on every corner of the sitting room.

"The union between your daughter and my son Albert will be one of the best things that have ever happened to our businesses," Alejandro says.

"Yeah, and we will be able to conquer all of the marketplaces around Mexico since we will be the only distributors who supply the large amounts of dairy milk in Mexico City," Mateo adds.

As Mateo is speaking with the guests around the sitting room. Lucy is inside the sitting room on her deeper thought, thinking about the impact of what might happen to her daughter for the things that they both discussed yesterday at the sitting room after Camilla and her father had an argument for being forced to marry Albert without her will.

"Dear lord, please protect my daughter from anything that her father might try to do to her. Please I'm begging you, lord!" Lucy speaks to her inner thoughts. Looking completely frightened on the face as she stares at the sitting room's watch. Checking on the clock arrows as they move clockwise, passing on every digit on the clock while raising every kind of temperature in her body.

At the time Mateo is having conversation with the guests, suddenly Roberto enters inside the house in a rush. Pacing across the corridors of the sitting room with wide eyes open as he goes straight to the sitting room in order to meet Mateo.

"Boss! Boss!" Roberto calls Mateo as soon as he approaches the sitting room. Making everyone around the sitting room shifting their attention towards Roberto.

At the time Roberto arrives towards Mateo's coach. He then stops. Breathing in and out heavily while his chest rises up and down as Alejandro and his family are looking at Roberto with puzzled looks on their faces.

Mateo knits his brows. "What is it? What is the matter, Roberto?"

Roberto clears his throat. "I have terrible news boss."

Anxiety begins to spread around the sitting room area as everyone becomes bewildered about what is going on with Roberto, and what actually made him pacing like a madman across the sitting room while they are in the middle of the conversation.

"Don't leave me hanging here, Roberto. Just tell me what is going on right now?" Mateo demands a response. Staring at Roberto with a contorted look on his face as Roberto breathes in and out.

"Your daughter Camilla has escaped out of the ranch together with Fernando right now," Roberto informs Mateo without filtering any single word from his mouth.

Mateo leaps into his feet with a scrunchy look on his face. "What?!"

Everyone around the sitting room is taken aback by Roberto's news since they didn't expect that to happen on a day of the engagement.

"Yes, I saw them running away from the ranch a few minutes ago."

Mateo narrows his eyes towards Roberto with the boiling anguish inside his heart. Staring at Roberto with a devilish look on his face. "What are you waiting for, idiot? Just go after them right now and catch them before they go too far!" Mateo commands. His voice sounded rough.

Roberto nods in agreement. "Okay, boss."

"Damn you, Fernando! You will regret everything that you have done to me." Mateo speaks to his thoughts.

***

It is a busy day inside the compound as the men shift the boxes from one place to another. The boxes loaded with guns inside them as they are all preparing themselves for the mission inside the compound of Los negros streets, in Mexico City.

Pedro, 56 years old, is sitting on his chair inside the compound with this cigar pinched in the middle of his teeth, checking his men inside his compound as they shift stuffs from one place to another.

As Pedro is smoking with his cigar pinched in the middle of his teeth, suddenly one of his men approaches him into his space.

"Boss, everything is ready and set. What should we do next?"

Pedro removes his cigar from his mouth and exhales smoke outside of his nose, "Tell your men to get ready because this time will not leave anyone alive when we go and attack."

Pedro's guard nods, "Okay, boss."

Pedro speaks to his thoughts, "Juan Mateo. Did you think that I was going to let it pass that easily? Just wait for it because tomorrow I will make sure that the only thing that remains in this world is your name."

Pedro scoffs and continues taking a puff on his cigar while his men inside the compound are shifting the boxes of ammunition from one place to another.