On Paradise Ind, the Narrator:


    After having heard the words issued by Reyner everyone at the table, began to murmur. Not a minute had passed, when Sofia, bravely and without feeling embarrassed or humiliated, for that matter, expressed….


    -And where in the bws or internal regtions of the shippingpany does it state that because I am a single mother, I am not qualified to upy the position of CEO? -Sofia asked scathingly, pronouncing each word with emphasis, “Tell me?


    In the face of this frontal attack, without any prudence or sense, from Reyner against Sofia, Estefania assumed her defense and support. She made it very clear what her position is before what was her husband’sst will and closed by affirming….


    -I share Sofia’s criteria, besides agreeing with myte husband’sst decision,” she said.


    “Therefore, I fully support my daughter to upy the position of CEO and I support this position with my thirty actions,” she concluded, she sternly.


    Estefania, who until that moment had kept quiet, doing the same as she had done during her husband’s lifetime. She spoke, to exercise her right to vote, supporting the decision made by her daughter.


    -I support what Reyner said,” said Ezequiel, looking disdainfully at Sofia and her mother, “It seems to me that he is indeed the one who has the most merits to hold the position of CEO.


    -How many shares do you represent, Ezequiel? -Sofia questioned with a challenging look, raising one of her perfectly delineated eyebrows.


    -Five percent,” he answered, lowering the tone of his voice.


    -Secretary of Minutes, count the shares that support the votes, to elect the CEO, although it is something absurd, since this was made clear in the copy of my father’s will, which states his proposal for the position and which was sent to each shareholder,” she said.


    -However, we cannot let just anyone manage our patrimony,” said Jose David, resentfully.


    -I support my friends! I will go to Reyner,” dered Noah, “even though he has been in the Executive Management for a few months, he did well, and what we are interested in are the results. We must not get carried away by sentimentality,” he said, looking at Benjamin.


    -How many shares do you represent, Noah? -Sofia asked without showing any gesture on her face.


    -Five,” he confessed.


    -I support my father, with my ten actions,” said Jose David, avoiding looking at Sofia and referring to the way she became pregnant.N?velDrama.Org ? content.


    He considered that a person who, under the effects of whatever, loses his five senses, gets pregnant and does not know who the father of his children is,cks the morals to lead apany of the magnitude that Naviera represents,” he affirmed.


    -Well, if that’s the case, he alsocks morality who, taking advantage of another person’s esteem, maniptes him, so that he can put his daughter on a silver tter,” Sofia said.


    And in this way, to get his son to move up in economic position and social status,” she blurted out, without flinching, discovering their hidden desires.


    -At no time did I persuade my friend Juan Carlos to enter into a marriage engagement between you and my son Jose David, for economic or social purposes,” Reyner answered, “I only wanted to unite our families,” he finally confessed.


    -And it is precisely the fact that you did not ept that engagement that has led you to this confrontation today, without any legal basis whatsoever,” she rified, with a feigned and arrogant smile.


    Legally, my thirty shares, plus my mother’s thirty, add up to sixty percent of thepany’s capital, more than enough for both of us to elect the CEO, for the time established in the bws,” she said.


    -I am opposed! And I immediately request a modification to the bws, so that decisions are made by head and not taking into ount the number of shares of each owner,” argued Reyner.


    -I request a right to speak,” requested one of thewyers of Sofia’s father, to rify the legal aspects of the decisions in this Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting.


    -I object! -Because this is a shareholders’ meeting, in which only we “the shareholders” have the right to speak and vote to elect and decide,” he added arrogantly and obstinately.


    -That’s enough, Reyner! -The bws are clear: absolute majority, fifty plus one, for the appointment of the CEO, and a qualified majority of seventy-five percent, for modification of the bws,” he rified.


    In view of the fact that you do not have either of the two, because my vote is for Sofia, she is the new CEO of the Shipping Line and for the time established in the bws,” he said, making the observation to the secretary, who immediately recorded this decision.


    Quickly, the election and appointment process was closed, and the decision was recorded in the minutes. At the end of the process, Sofia, her mother and Benjamin went to the CEO’s office so that she could take her position at once.


    In the meantime, thewyers proceeded to draft the minutes, to take the signatures of all the shareholders. In this way, they proceeded to register it immediately, mainly for legal purposes, both nationally and internationally.


    Simultaneously to the act of appointment, theworks in Paradise Ind and Ciudad La Rosa uploaded a photo of the new CEO of the most important international shippingpany. The great majority celebrated that such a young and beautiful woman assumed such a high position and responsibility.


    In any case, the defeated and resentful Reyner, Jose David, Ezequiel and Noah, remained in the boardroom, frustrated. Each one of them had a proposal ready to make changes that would allow them to remove the widow and the heiress from the Naviera’s domain.


    They left with their heads in the sand. Especially Jose David, who has always had high aspirations to be the Executive Director of the Shipping Company, taking advantage of his rtionship with Sofia. Now he regretted this decision.


    “I should not have confronted Sofia so radically, it was a mistake on my part, letting myself be guided by my father. I just buried any possibility of conquering her and bing her husband,” Jose David deliberated, acknowledging his grave mistake.


    “I also shouldn’t have brought up her pregnancy and the fact that she doesn’t know the father of her children. No one on the ind knew about this, except for my father and me,” he said, regretting what he said and did at the meeting. However, he will not give up.


    Three yearster…


    Sofia:


    Starting spring again in Ciudad La Rosa, with a torrential downpour, together with my mother and my beautiful triplets, in a four-door Golden Bentley, I arrived at the inauguration of another branch of Naviera.


    -Mommy, I’m going into the subway parking lot, so we don’t get wet,” I said, since she has a phobia of this type of parking lot.


    -Calm down, daughter! I told Sha and Sheyli where we were going to park so they coulde in with us,” my mother answered.


    So, when we arrived at Laar, a shopping mall by the sea, in the back of which the new offices of the shippingpany were located, I went directly to the basement to park my car.


    Behind came in their respective cars, my two friends, who will be the Directors of this new Branch, in spite of Reyner’s objection…