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his connection
with him.  He always supported my desire to work for the Princeton Group, but
it was clear that he did not respect or liked anything to do with them. What
happened?”
    Retha sighed.  “It is a
long story, but to cut it short, Ray worked for Miguel while he was still
studying.  He was a hot head when he was young and the two of them clashed all
the time.  Miguel and Cecile, Rays’ mother, never saw eye to eye and that made
the conflict between them even worse. Every time Miguel and Ray had a fight,
Cecile would interfere.  Obviously, Miguel started Ray at the bottom; he was
not going to give him preferential treatment because he was family. Cecile was
livid and it was her interference more than Rays’ that caused them to fight. 
She pushed and pushed until even Ray snapped.  The three of them had a huge
fight. Miguel said things to Ray that he regretted to this day, but Ray slammed
out of his office, vowed never to return there, that he was no longer family to
him.  Miguel and Cecile continued to fight and what was said between them I
still do not know … well …”
    She turned and stared
at the clear blue Caribbean ocean with dull eyes.
    “Miguel and Cecile had
a brief affair when we were married about two years … after we found out ….”
    A lonesome tear escaped
down her cheek.  Clarissa took her hand.
    “Retha, don’t.  You
don’t have to…”
    “No, I do.   We found
out that we could not have children. Miguel was devastated.  He adored children
and we always spoke about having a soccer team of our own.  At first, he could
not accept the fact that we would never have our own children and refused to
consider adopting. We drew further and further apart. He spent more and more
time at the office or flew all over the world to attend to matters he normally
had others handle.”
    She sniffed and a
quivering smile formed around her mouth.
    “Cecile was his PA and
was always by his side.  She carried him on her hands and it flattered him.  He
felt like a man.  I never realized, but at the time, he blamed himself more
than me.  He was sure he was the one … well … as I said, she made him feel like
a man and that is when the affair started.  It only lasted about two months.  I
found out about it by chance when I phoned his hotel room and she answered the
phone.  She claimed she came to fetch some paper work, but it was late at night
already.  He was in the shower at the time and she knew it would be me when the
phone rang, which is why she deliberately picked it up. She thought I would
leave him and he would marry her.  She was over confident. Especially, about
the effect she had on Miguel.  I was livid.  I immediately got on a plane and
stormed in his room early the next morning, while they were having breakfast on
the patio of the hotel room.”
    “Oh no, it must have
been terrible!”  Clarissa could imagine what Retha must have felt like walking
in on such a cozy picture.
    “Oh, no indeed!  To
this day, I still see Miguel’s expression when I walked through the door.  He
turned as white as a sheet. Clearly, Cecile did not even tell him I phoned the
evening before.  She sat there in a skimpy nightgown with a smile of
satisfaction on her face.  I saw red! I stormed over to her, grabbed her by the
hair, pulled her out of the chair, through the room and literally kicked her
out the door.”
    “Retha!  You did that?
I can’t believe it!”
    “He was the love of my
life.  I was not going to allow an empty-headed tart to ruin my happiness and
future. Well, Miguel snapped out of it immediately and cried in my arms.  That
was the last of it. He never strayed again and accepted that it would always be
just the two of us.”
    “And Cecile?”
    “That was the worst of
it. She married Miguel’s twin brother less than two months later and Ray was
the honeymoon baby. Obviously, Miguel and Darius had a fall out about that and
they never mended the bridge. Darius passed