LOGINPamela suddenly felt just as miserable and abandoned as in her first months here. Desperate, she slipped under the covers, trying to forget what she had done. But that night she did not want to succeed.
The next day her uncle didn't say a word about the incident either. He acted as he always did. But Pamela had become very still. The shock and the fear that came with it weighed too much on her soul to dare to say a word to her uncle.
Almost a week later Ernesto called his niece and asked her to go on a little sailing trip with him. Pamela knew, of course, that his request was a subliminal command. Immediately she went down to the marina, where Canetti was already waiting for his niece on his sailing boat.
They drifted swiftly out to sea in the fresh autumn breeze. When they were quite far out and only the silhouette of the mainland could be seen, Uncle Ernesto pulled in the sails and let the boat drift in the current.
He sat down across from Pamela and stared at her for a long moment. Pamela's panic began to rise up inside her again. Perhaps the body had been found so Uncle Ernesto wanted to discuss an alibi with her.
Her nerves, which were already quite strained, could no longer withstand the pressure, so that she fearfully burst out: “What happened? Having found the body? "
" All the best Small. You don't have to worry anymore, ”he soothed her.
“The reason I sailed out of here with you is because I have to talk to you undisturbed.”
Pamela felt cold down her back. It didn't mean anything good when Uncle Ernesto went to so much trouble to talk to her.
"What's up?" She asked carefully.
"Pamela, in the last few days I have thought a lot about you and after careful consideration I have come to a decision."
" Have come to a decision?" She repeated his last words in fearful excitement. Surely he wanted to send her away.
"Yes. And this one will change your life quite a bit, ”he said calmly, as if he just wanted to send her to a payroll course.
“Please, Uncle Ernesto, don't send me away. I promise you I won't say a word ”, Pamela begged him.
"Sending you away is surely the last thing I plan to do with you," Canetti replied, astonished.
"But what do you want from me then?"
Sighing, he took a deep breath and stared at Pamela for a long moment.
“I have to go back a little so you know who I am and you can see the connections.”
Ernesto took two cans of Coke from the refrigerator and handed one of them to Pamela. Then he sat back down and considered where to start.
“When I got here with your grandparents and mother over 25 years ago, there was no more than $ 300 in my pocket. But for that I had a lot of dreams and visions in my head. The fish trade was extremely sluggish, so that your grandfather and I were already thinking of giving up. ”
A flock of wild geese, cackling loudly, flew overhead, their unbelievable noise silenced Uncle Ernesto for a moment.
“As luck would have it, I witnessed two thugs pounding poor Jimmy Henderson pretty hard. Jimmy had run a small bar at the end of the quay and refused to pay protection money to the mafia.
However, the two men were able to convince the slender bar owner with powerful arguments that it would certainly be beneficial for his health in the future if he would "pay his fee", said Uncle Ernesto and took a sip from the narrow can.
"While I was watching the debt collectors, I suddenly had a brilliant business idea how we could earn our money much more easily without having to hunch our backs," he said and smiled mischievously to himself.
“On my old Vespa, she followed the men who drove into the old town and parked in front of a small Italian restaurant. I followed them into the restaurant and saw them both disappear into a back room just in time. With my only dollar in my pocket, I ordered a small espresso and waited.
I kept my eyes on the door of the back room. A short time later the two men came out again. As they passed me, I said, 'You've given poor Jimmy a lot of trouble. He won't be able to show himself so quickly in the near future '.
I couldn't look that fast when the taller of the two grabbed my jacket and pulled me off the bar stool. He promised me a set of hot ears if I didn't leave immediately.
I told them that I had neither heard nor seen anything, but was only there to propose a deal to their boss that he would certainly not refuse. The smaller one smiled at me pityingly and poured the rest of my coffee over my head. Then he threatened to stamp me in the ground if I didn't leave the field immediately.
At that moment the door of the back room was opened and an elderly man with snow-white hair and a perfectly fitting dark gray suit stepped out. His elegant appearance hadn't really suited the dingy place. In a calm, commanding voice, he had ordered the men to leave me alone.
Immediately the giant let go of my lapel and smoothed it with a smile of provocative concern, while the man with the white hair and the alert eyes looked me up and down behind the rimless glasses.
But then he gave me a friendly smile and asked me to tell him about the deal. At that time my heart almost stopped with excitement when I was allowed to follow him into his office.
The general assembly then went completely different from the way Philipp had imagined. The unexpected setback that the monkey died in the test phase just before the shareholders' meeting destroyed all of his hopes. Now there was no way to escape the Mafia's stranglehold. If he wanted to stay alive, he had to do whatever they asked of him. And Pamela didn't hold back long after the change was due.As an enterprising woman, Pamela knew exactly what she wanted. It was also in their interest that RNV3 should go into production as soon as possible. So Pamela had hatched a diabolical plan that lived up to her evil character.After the terrible scandal during the general assembly, the time was extremely favorable to take Philipp out of the company and send him to a diving station. Due to Philip's sudden failure, as sole managing director, John should quickly have got into trouble to continue the company profitably. Pamela had expected a rapid decline in business, so that John w
In the course of the next few weeks, Philipp had more and more trust in Pamela. He told her about the problems in the company, the study that was commissioned, and the vast sums of money the research devoured. In this context, he had also told her about the problems with his brother and that he had no idea how difficult it was to raise this money, when the company was nowhere near as much as the research was currently devouring. And investors were in short supply anyway. In addition, the banks did not want to grant any more credit increases. On the contrary, they were even considering calling the loans due if the necessary progress was not made soon.Without being aware of it, he had given Pamela exactly the information she wanted. Pamela had made it appear as if she wanted to help Philipp out of a tight spot and offered him a change in the amount of the loan amount to cover the loan. Seen in this way, he would have been creditworthy again and more time could have been given t
Philipp had deliberately dropped into the snow and was waiting. He could still take out the radio and warn John. Or he simply failed to raise his ski pole and wave that the signal for the two explosives experts was to detonate the dynamite to set off the murderous avalanche.The two men had already been looking for the right places yesterday where the greatest possible exit was guaranteed.They now lurked hidden behind a protruding rock and watched Philip with hawk eyes. Philipp had no choice, he had to sacrifice his brother for his own life. With incredible effort, he raised his stick and waved it. Immediately afterwards the earth began to shake and a tremendous thunder and rumble filled the mountains.A huge slab of snow had come loose and was moving at high speed straight towards John. But John reacted immediately and drove rapidly down the mountain. Philipp watched John's shot drive tense. Without realizing that he was screaming, he cheered on his brother vi
“Do you think that it really makes sense to do the descent in this weather?”“You don't need to worry. According to the last weather report, the weather remains stable. The pilot also confirmed to me that it would not start to snow, "said Philipp soothingly.“There should be great powder snow in the upper half of the descent. The route is new and only opened up last year. It leads through a wonderful area. I hope you are rested and in good shape, because this descent is really only for experts. ”John nodded confidently, although he wasn't really sure whether he would be fit today. But he didn't want to show himself naked in front of Philip and appear weak."Who else is there?" Asked John."Nobody, just you and me.""Isn't it a little dangerous when only the two of us are on the road?""Come on, where is your sense of adventure?" Replied Philipp challengingly. "We're not wimps, we're real men," he continued euphorically and patted John encou
A week ago, Philipp had called John and told him that he was ready to return to the company. Philipp would now have had enough time to think about how things should go on for him. But he didn't want to talk to John about this delicate matter in the company, but on neutral ground, where there was a relaxed atmosphere and where neither would be exposed to stress or distraction from the company.For this reason Philipp invited his brother to go skiing in Jasper this weekend. Both were excellent skiers, one of the few things they shared in common. The snowfall had started quite early this year, so the conditions for helicopter skiing were just ideal.Even though John didn't actually have time to ski, there was no way he wanted to turn down Philip's request.He urgently needed Philipp in the company so that he could finally concentrate on research again. Perhaps it was really good that he had a physical distance from the pending problems of the company. In the past f
The shareholders had considered John's concerns to be justified and decided against trying the drug on people. The side effects had to be reduced to such an extent that there was no danger to life and permanent damage was also excluded.After the session ended, a heated argument broke out between the two brothers. John had thrown Philipp's incompetence and greed for profit at the expense of others, while Philipp had described his brother as a coward, procrastinator and fearful rabbit, whose willingness to take risks was zero. Philipp was fed up with being put off all the time, while other companies were a lot further with the development of the drug. He wanted to finally get results and not just watch as vast amounts of company money were pumped into research that was unable to finally develop an efficient drug.Here he had met John at a sore point, because he was only too aware of how much money this project cost and how much his meticulous work was thrown back again an