Matthew Jones's Business

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"Then,"  Violet continued, "I'm so glad to see you, if I went another week without seeing you again, I would introduce myself at your work and say a few words to your boss."

“Oh for god, Violet! I think you're so capable of doing it and that's why I came” —they both laughed.

They were friends from very, very young, they were practically like sisters, Abbie always but I always considered Violet as her younger sister and defended her from anyone who wanted to hurt her.

Abbie had arrived 30 minutes ago at Violet's apartment, saw  everything very  changed,  but did not say anything, although if he was surprised not to see Jack around the place, it was Sunday and it was usually his only day of rest and always but always spent it at home.

"I'm sorry for my boss," Abbie confessed, Violet looked at her with interest. But it seems that he was 70 years old, he carries a lot of work on his shoulders and they scammed him.

"What?" —  Violet's eyes almost come out of her bowls— tell me everything.

"Confidential,huh?" —Violet  nodded obviously, what was talked about there, stayed there—Mr. Jones went to visit his grandmother.

She frowned, that lady must have been very old then, Violet was sure that Mr. Jones was a 50-year-old man, not 30 and handsome as he actually was.

“He left the head of marketing in charge to do the negotiation with a supplier from Italy, it was going to be the business of the year! But then the guy this one went wrong, he didn't offer what Jones had said, he never really said anything, he just said that it didn't matter the price because they had to close that deal if or if, but the guy this one let the competition stay with this company and now we're losing millions but millions a day," Abbie said.   “of their employees, we discovered in the ledger that money laundering was being done and at the moment there are many vacancies”

"Are there no vacancies like for me?" She was very interested in the answer. I hadn't found anything fixed yet.

Abbie   asked in confusion, she didn't know the new news of Violet's life.

"I was fired from work," Abbie gasped too surprised.

"What?!" Violet bit her lower lip hard, she already felt her eyes watery ”Baby,why didn't  you tell me?”

"Because I could only see you today" Abbie felt very bad, her friend needed her and she preferred the job.

"God, I'm so sorry, for how long?"

“Of the weeks”

"Blessed Jesus!" the blonde girl did not come out of her amazement, "And what did Jack say?”

Violet's face acquired a harsh expression.

"We are no longer together”

 “Waoooo,  waooo,  waoooo” Abbie got up from the couch and walked around the living room desperately.

She knew Jack, he was a good man and adored his best friend, they were the perfect couple, the simple fact of thinking about the two separated was impossible.

"When the staff cut was made, I went straight out to tell him, I came to his studio and," he bit his upper lip very hard, Abbie put a hand in his mouth. I found him very entertaining with a black-breasted—.

"Is it a joke?" violet  looked at her with an eyebrow raised.

"Go get something from him in this house if you don't believe me, it's over, we're not together anymore."

"Alas, my friend,"  Abbie hugged her tightly, "I'm so sorry, I didn't know."

"Don't worry, I'm fine"

"Now I feel like going beat my boss myself."

Violet laughed  loudly, her laughter was very strident and sometimes she was very embarrassed to laugh in front of people because of how horrible her laughter was, but with Abbie it was what was heard the most.

"Already, I really wanted to do it too."

Abbie smiled and hugged her a little more.

Jack is an, she  said, cheating on you was the worst mistake he made, did he try to talk to you? —

Cute violet.

"Of course, antier came home,  but I took him out again and he took the last thing he had here. There is nothing of him anymore—

"Are you okay my friend?" she  shook her head.

"It hurts, it hurts a lot. I need it a lot, but I could never forgive an infidelity, not him. I trusted a lot and it failed me—

"Men are idiots," he agreed,  looked at the ring on the blonde's ring finger.

"When are you going to let go?" he  asked in a whisper, talking about it was never easy for Abbie.

"I don't feel capable," he confessed as he stroked the ring.

The first year of college she met Nicholas, they fell in love immediately, it was love at first sight, in the third year of college, he proposed to her, they were very happy together and soon after they got married. On the honeymoon, Nicolás began to feel unwell, when he returned they went to the emergency room, there he was diagnosed with lung cancer, it did not last long when he died.

Abbie had to repeat a semester because the pain and depression kept her at home for a long time.

Violet was by his side at all times, they were his support for each other, Abbie had wished that at least Nicholas had left him a child to have a little piece of him, it did not happen either and since that moment Abbie had never felt anything for any other man again.

"Someday you will have to let him go, you know that he could not see you like this, live your life, you are young and have a lot of future, fall in love again and be happy again.

"It's not easy, I miss it, it's the love of my life. I still don't believe I'm gone—

"Hey, I get it, but it's not healthy, think I could tell you Nicolás  right now."

"The only thing that matters is to be happy,"whispered or  she remembered the words he always said to her.

"And are you happy?" Abbie  thought about it for a few minutes, and then shook her head.

"I'm not"

"Isn't there a man who seems cute to you if you want?"  the blonde's cheeks were dyed pink— "You blushed! —

"Shut up," she exclaimed in shame, "there is someone."

"Are they coming out?" abbie  laughed mockingly.

"He has never spoken to me," he looked at her in confusion.

"Who is it?" Abbie  bit her lower lip.

—One of the company's lawyers, he is also the boss's best friend—

"Alas, you threw him very high."

It was not strange to her that her best friend looked at older men, in fact, Nicolás was her teacher, not her partner, but the boss's best friend was already somewhat bigger.

"Don't be silly, it's very cute, I just think it's cute, nothing more. Other than it's super smart—

"Sure, you  look more at the brain than the face," Abbie shrugged, that was true— Also, how do you know he's smart if you've never talked to him? —

"Because my companions, who if they talk to him, have told me—

"I'll help you make a plan so you can talk to him."

Abbie nodded a little nervously and they began to devise a plan to talk to the lawyer, Andres Ortiz.

***

He came to his apartment tired, stressed and very hungry.

Since he took the position of CEO he began to live in a luxurious building in the city, his aunt had gotten him that place and accepted it only to take it out, it  was very big for him alone and loneliness was his only company.

He had no housewife, only a lady who went three times a week to do the toilet, he cooks himself or when he was in the company he asked at home.

He prepared some pasta a la Carbonara and cooked a piece of salmon and that was his whole dinner.

He sat for half an hour watching the news and then set about doing his favorite thing in the world.

Swim.

He also had to admit that what he liked most about that apartment was to have his own pool, every night he spent time there exercising and releasing all the tension from his body.

When he felt more rested, he set out to go to bed, there he sighed and his last thought before sleeping was the shrill voice talking to Abbie, he smiled amusedly, and let himself go into Morpheus' arms.