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announced to everybody onboard that my special gift was that luxurious yacht.
    My jaw drops in front of everyone present, I couldn’t believe it, this is so insane. I wasn’t a sea fan nor did I have any wish of becoming one, never in my life had I thought I would receive a gift like this. Of course, it would be a gift to share with our family. I was thinking already about the amazing trips during weekends with friends, social parties and cocktail parties for potential clients for Edward to increase his business.
    This was too good to be true and everything was just a beautiful dream.
    My life was a living dream, I had it all.
    After dinner, Edward took me to see the yacht. Although I had seen the yacht from outside, deck and the living room with a bar lounge, Edward showed me 4 large doubles and 2 twins’ rooms, they were beautifully decorated and everything was impeccable and new. Another living room equally decorated with great taste and there was the crew area as well, which we didn’t enter to respect privacy. I noticed something weird in Edward, I didn’t know what it was, but he was acting in a very unusual way with me, and every time I tried to look in his eyes he avoided looking directly at me.
    Finally we entered into the bridge he becomes very serious, and ordered the crew in the bridge to give him some privacy.
    They obey and we stand there alone.
    I don’t remember seeing him so serious since we meet; he was making me nervous and very anxious.
     
    But nothing had prepared me for what was about to come next.
     
    “My love, I have something very serious I need to tell you” Edward said in my direction, looking more serious as ever.
    I was so nervous I couldn’t get a word out of my mouth, so I waited for him to continue.
    “This is very serious, it’s about my work” he said and again he stopped. Edward was clearly nervous and he was having a hard time to get the right words out.
    If there were words that could even describe for what he revealed to me next.
     
     
     
     
     
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Chapter 2
     
    We could feel the dense air for the first time between us, and the silence was too intense. I started to be impatient and I made a noisy sigh, slowly he continued, because he knew every word he would say next would stab my whole body like a sharp knife.
    “I need you to know that I love and I always will love you from the bottom of my heart, and nothing that I am forced to say to you right now, will change that.”
    He stopped, came close and kissed me, I couldn’t recognize him, he had the saddest look and continued very slowly:
    “Sometimes, because I’ve been very successful in my business I don’t give you all the attention you and Junior deserve, but everything I do is always thinking about both and trying to give you a better life, please forgive me for that and what I have to say next”
    Stopping again, making my blood running in my veins full of stress, I watch at him impatiently and he continued:
    “But as you know, business can in one moment be successful and we can earn lots of money, and in another moment we put everything in stake because we believe in a certain business and it can go very wrong and with it, we can lose everything…”
    He stopped, waiting for me to take a moment and assimilate what he was trying to say. Edward was hopping I could understand the gravity of the situation. Now I was trying to understand what was going on and I needed to know everything.
    “What are you trying to say? That you had a bad business?”
    “What I am trying to tell you, is that I invested everything we have in one huge business which I thought the risk was very low and the potential of being successful was very high. But the person with who I was doing business died suddenly with a heart attack two days ago and the new responsible was in position to reject the business and without his approval and financial help, although we put lawyers from each side to deal with it, he could cancel the