"My name is Catalina." I smiled at her and we easily began a conversation. Mama would definitely like her, she is so full of energy and she just seems so sweet.
We were talking for so long that I didn't even notice that my family came out of the water causing Belle to come over to us. "Hey, who's this?" Belle was seemed curios as she sat beside me on the sand. She seemed interested though from her eyes I could see that she was judging Catalina.
"This is my friend Catalina, Chris this is my bestfriend Belle." Knowing Belle these two might not get along too much but they might be friends in the long run.
"And who might this beauty be?" This time it was my brother who came over to us. It's typical of him to flirt with every thing that moves.
I was about to answer but "Belle beat me to it." She's Emmy's friend." She said it with so much distaste causing Gio to laugh, really really loudly, catching the attention of the other people here.
"You're jealous. Don't worry I'm sure she won't replace you yet." Ok it is time for me to leave. Maybe I could even go home, I do have work tomorrow.
"Gio shut up Belle knows I'd never replace her, Lina I'm so sorry about my brother but we have to leave now."
She smiled and got up from the sand. " Ok can I have your number?" I nodded at her, we exchanged numbers and I walked with Belle and Gio back to the cars.
"What was that?"
"What was what."
" You know what I'm talking about Belle. Why were you looking at her like that?"
I looked her straight in the eyes and she sighed." She just gives me a bad vibe, but I guess I could be wrong."
I could see in her eyes that she was trying to convince herself and that's how I knew she made a little improvement.
"I know you like her if you just try." She smiled at me and we went inside the car. Papa was the one driving us back so I know that we'll be home in little to no time.
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I was sitting on my bed going trough some of our guest rates from Miami when there was a knock at my door. Mama's head popped out from behind the door, she looked like she was in the kitchen since she was wearing an apron and had a wooden spatula in her hands.
" I made alfredo for dinner." Like a bolt of lightning I was up and running to the kitchen. If you want me to do anything just mention food.
" Can you please wait for me to clean up before going downstairs." I sighed and followed her to her room. After she was finished we both went down to the dining room.
I went and sat at the table, which was almost full because everyone was already here. Dad sat at the head with mom to his left and e to his right.
"Papa I was looking at the guest rates and I saw that they were high but the check-ins and the cash records don't add up."
"What do you mean, they don't" My confusion doubled when I realized that he indeed didn't know what I was talking about.
"The guest rates show that there were a lot of bookings but most of the money was missing, It's like it disappeared or someone took it."
Papa became visibly tense and looked as if he didn't want to even consider that his employees might be stealing from him.
" That's not possible, the cash records itself should be able to tell the amount of people that had made reservations so I don't know how they don't add up."
"Well the reservations are recorded before the payments so if there was a mistake it would have happened with the money." Mama piped in.
" Maybe they added a some extra reservations that weren't made." Tio suggested in effort to calm papa who was looking angrier by the minute.
"Tio I don't think the desk clerks have that much time to make all those fake reservations for no sensible reason."
"So someone I trust enough to work for me is stealing from me? Don't I pay them enough." He looked like he was going to burst any minute now. I don't think it's the stolen money that riled him up but the fact that he trusted that person.
"Well it had to be someone who has access to the money. I don't think it would be the clerks because they would be smart enough to match the reservations with the payments." Tia said
"Ok, then who does the money go to after it is payed?" Gio inquired.
"Normally at any hotel after payment is made it's recorded and sent to the manager for reviews." Belle responded.
If papa wasn't angry before he definitely is now. I would be upset too if I found out that someone I could have trusted with my life is stealing from me .
" No James wouldn't do that, He's like a brother to me." Papa let out a humorless laugh when he slammed his hands on the table.
"Come on hermano you said that he's been acting strange lately, overwriting your decisions, arguing with you about your hotel. A friend doesn't just change like that overnight."
"So James has turned against me now." papa sighed as he ran his hand over his face.
"No papa he didn't just turn against you overnight, he was already against you from the beginning, he's just showing you his colors now. ___________________________________________________________
Ok so I think I've gotten more frequent with the updates but I know I could do better so I might make a schedule for that.
For the guest rate and the cash records thing it was random but I know that businesses have records of things like those but I don't know the official name for those so I made some up.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter and have a good day or night.
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Action"I'm busy," he said sounding slightly irritated. Well that makes two of us. Suddenly I had an idea. I walked over to him with a smirk. I went behind him, leant over his shoulders and rested my head in the crook of his neck and kissed him. I pulled h...
