I arranged a confidential meeting with Rick about the financial report for the next day and confirmed with Marina via text message if it was okay for her. With that done, I started to move on with the other things I had to do.

An hour later I heard the door to my boss's office open as if it were being ripped off. My boss leaned over me, with one hand on each arm of my chair, and with his face very close to mine and his eyes blazing, he spoke in a very serious tone and with an even hoarse voice:

- Catarina, pay close attention, this will be resolved today and I don't even want to know. Cancel any appointments you have, because we're going to leave this office at the end of the day and we're going to sit down and talk about this situation like adults.

He looked at me for a second, stood up, turned his back on me and left, slamming the door again. I was completely stunned when Patrício came in looking confused.

- Catarina, do you know what happened to Alessandro during the video conferen