One Year to Part: Passion and Deception
Chapter 2

Chapter 2:.

Hugo had just finished smoking his cigarette when he was heading inside and a girl bumps into his chest. She had come in concentrating on lighting her cigarette, but apparently her matchbook had run out of gas, because the flame wouldn’t light.

“I’m sorry” she apologized immediately she felt her head bump into someone.

Hugo said nothing, took his lighter out of his suit pocket and put the cigarette in front of the girl’s face, who was still with her head down. When she noticed him, she flicked her cigarette and finally raised her face to replace cold gray eyes staring at her.

“Thank you,” she murmured.

He watched her for a few seconds, but said nothing and continued on his way.

“How strange some people are.” she thought.

Hugo went back to the private room and Philip resumed the conversation just where he had left it, a few minutes later someone knocked on the door. It was a waitress from the restaurant.

“Excuse me for interrupting, but someone is calling for Mr. Alejandro”.

He frowned without understanding and after checking his cell phone and saying something in his boss’ ear he left the room.

“Forgive my manners, Mr. Moretti, now I realize that we have been talking for hours and I haven’t bought you a drink.” He took the bottle of wine and poured a drink for Hugo and then another in his glass.

But Hugo politely declined.

“I’m sorry Señor Felipe, but I don’t drink alcohol.”

“How silly of me, I didn’t know that Mr. Moretti, but we’d better toast then with water” he raised the glass of water and Hugo did the same.

A smile appeared on the face of the girl sitting next to Philip and after toasting Philip resumed his speech, but a few minutes later Hugo began to feel ill, very hot and a little suffocated.

In the nearby room the men had gone out for a smoke along with Sara, Lydia approached Monica and gave her two small bottles of medicine.

“Put this pink one in Tobias’ drink and the blue one in Sara’s drink, you can’t go wrong, they are different medicines. The drinks are about to arrive, I’m going to go to the bathroom so no one suspects me, because if anything comes out I’m going to be the first suspect.”

Lydia left the private room and went to the bathroom and minutes later the waiter arrived with the new drinks, Monica was on her way to comply with what she was asked when Jose crossed her path.

ga𝗇𝗈ν𝖊𝗅𝘀.k𝗈n – 𝑅𝑒𝒶𝒍 𝓈𝒸𝓇𝒾𝓅𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓉

“How are you having a good time Monica, are you enjoying yourself?”

Monica had been secretly in love with Jose for years so when he addressed her she only had an eye for him and forgot about the rest of the world.

“Yeah, sure. I love spending time with you, I mean, with you guys.” she replied nervously.

“It’s always good to be with mates, come for a cigarette do you want to go for a smoke?”

“Thanks I don’t smoke.”

He smiled and walked over to one of the chairs at the end of the room where his backpack sat and pulled out a box of cigars.

He smiled at her again before leaving and Monica sighed, it seems Jose does know of her existence after all. She almost dropped the jars as she daydreamed, but was agile enough to hold them well.

She arranged the new drinks on each other’s seats and when it was time to put the medicine in the drink she realized she had forgotten which one to put in which one. So he tried to recall and not being able to remember he drew the most logical conclusion he could think of.

“Pink for the girls and blue for the boys.” he proceeded to pour the medicine and then took a seat.

Minutes later the group of friends returned and took their respective seats and finally Lydia returned.

“Well guys one last toast it’s late and I’m going home” proposed Sara and they all accepted “here’s to another one together”.

They all drank and Monica and Lydia exchanged an accomplice smile.

“Let’s go Sara, I’ll take you home” proposed Tobias.

“No” said Lydia immediately “I shouldn’t” she rectified more calmly “everyone drank they shouldn’t be driving”.

Jose considered himself a good drinker, but for some reason today he felt tired and his eyelids were heavy.

“I think you’re right.”

“Of course I do, Sara there’s no need for you to leave, I reserved rooms for everyone in case this happened.”

Everyone was grateful for Lydia’s kindness and left to replace their rooms.

“If you want I’ll walk you to your room Sara, it’s next to my room.” offered Lydia.

“Sure” accepted Sara feeling a little bad.

They both got out and went to the elevator, Lydia escorted her to the room and left leaving the room door open, she then took out her cell phone and made a call.

“Everything is ready, come to room 420.” and after waiting for the answer she hung up.

She went back down to the room where she had left Tobias and on the way she ran into Monica.

“I think I made a mistake.” lamented Monica.

“What’s wrong?”

“Something happened to Tobias.”

Lydia didn’t let her finish speaking and ran to see what had happened. When she entered the private room of the restaurant she found Tobias unconscious on the leather sofa.

“I think I’ve got the wrong doctor,” Monica muttered.

Lydia felt like killing her for ruining her chance to sleep with Tobias, she only had the consolation that Sara had drunk the aphrodisiac and that considering she had just sent a man to her room she would end up having sex and when Tobias found out he wasn’t going to want to continue with Sara.

In the Hotel room Sara felt very hot and went into the bathroom to cool off, she filled the huge bathtub with hot water and got into it.

Hugo told Philip that he was not feeling well and asked him to end the meeting.

“If you feel unwell, you can rest in a room until your secretary returns.” offered Philip “I took, I had reserved this room for myself, but I see you need it more.”

Feeling dizzy and suffocated Hugo accepted without hesitation and left the restaurant towards the hotel rooms.

“In 15 minutes go up to the room, everything is ready and the cameras are in place”, said Felipe to the woman next to him.

Hugo went up to the rooms on the fourth floor, but instead of turning left towards room number 460 he turned right and seeing an open door he entered the room, he felt too hot so he took off his clothes and went into the bathroom, turned on the shower and let the cold water run down his body. Sara had fallen asleep in the bathtub but the sound of the shower woke her up. The glass wall separating the tub from the shower was fogged up from the steam from the hot bath water so she could only see the silhouette of a naked man.

“Who are you, what are you doing here?” he asked as he stepped out of the tub, he tried to reach for a towel but it fell into the tub.

Hugo stepped out of the shower and saw the naked woman in front of him, her body was exquisite and she was a little flushed. Something took hold of him and he went on top of her, kissing her with desire. Sara tried to resist but in the end ended up thirsty and letting herself be carried away by the moment.

That night the couple performed sex countless times, in the bathroom, on the bed, the terrace, they left their mark on every corner of the room and melted their bodies into one, only the clash of their bodies and their panting could be heard.

The next morning Sara awoke with a terrible headache and seeing the man beside her and the traces on his body of what had happened last night she could only lament.

“Damn” she muttered, but not low enough not to wake Hugo.

He opened his eyes and was also startled to see the woman sitting next to him on the bed pulling her hair and looking at him in horror. He was analyzing what he could say when she stepped forward.

“Look, I don’t know who you are nor do I care to know, what happened last night was a mistake, a terrible mistake, I am married and this will not happen again. So forget it and forget me.”

She grabbed her things and fled without barely getting dressed.

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