One week before everything became complicated, far from his assistant’s watchful eyes, he spent nearly an hour reflecting on his life outside the company. Truthfully, he didn’t have much of a love life, aside from a few casual encounters with people he had met along the way.

None of his relationships had ever lasted very long. The longest one had barely reached five months, which was already saying quite a lot. Honestly, he didn’t consider himself cold or emotionally distant. When he was with someone, he did everything he could to keep that person satisfied. Yet whenever things began to move forward, toward the next stage of a relationship, they would simply… leave. The truth was that he wanted something stable. He wanted someone waiting for him at home or, why not, stopping by his office to have lunch together. He wasn’t asking for much, was he?

His mind betrayed him, pulling him back to fleeting memories of his last “long” relationship. He had met her at a business dinner. Lucía was