Beware The Fury by C. I. Lopez

Author:C. I. Lopez [Lopez, C. I.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amazon
Published: 2019-12-20T06:00:00+00:00

PART THREE

Chapter 2

Family Reunion

Everyone in the village in the mountains over five years old remembered the case that had been the talk of the town for months. The story of the pretty teenager who was going to marry Federico Montenegro, and she disappeared. The gossip and speculations did not abate until her mother died, and out of respect, the subject was hushed.

The rumor was that Federico shut himself in his room for months, coming out only to eat and use the bathroom, his face red from crying. It was said that at night, his father could hear his son sobbing and calling out her name.

The truth was that Federico gave up learning to be a rancher after Yasmin’s disappearance, and for months he did nothing but play his clarinet and mourn Yasmin.

Don Jose was getting discouraged about his son ever wanting to be a ranch owner. He sent him to a university in San Francisco, USA, to study what Federico really liked; architecture. At the university, Don Jose’s son excelled in his studies. He began to make new friends, seemingly having put behind him his constant yearning for Yasmin, the girl who’d vanished.

After a year, Don Jose was struck with a heart attack, which forced him to leave his ranch and move to an apartment in town to be near the medical care he needed.

Upon hearing of his father’s illness, Federico returned to be with him. The young man stopped caring about what he wanted to do. His dream of becoming an architect fell by the wayside after his father passed away.

Federico hired out most of the work at the ranch and kept his father’s apartment in town. When Don Carlos, president of the local bank, retired, Federico was offered the job, and he accepted the position. He was known as a bright young man, and his father had many influential friends who knew Federico. They considered him as honest a man as anyone had known. Thus, he had no trouble getting the board of directors to approve him right away.

In the interim, the young man knew the ranch had meant everything to his father, and being his only child, he kept the farm going. It was rumored that Federico spent much of his free time using his architectural ability, remodeling the grand old farmhouse.

He’d also been known to date a few females, failing to develop an attachment to any of them. Sometimes he wondered what was wrong with him that he couldn’t get excited about any of the women he dated. He supposed it had something to do with the mentality of a small town. The girls would grow up, get married, have babies, and then raise their children to start the process all over again. Something seemed to be missing in such a lifestyle that presented the same dull outlook that his banking position did.

The new bank president had been spending time lately with a young woman who went by the name of Violeta, and that was only because she actively pursued him.

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