A Virgin for the CEO

17

One month later, a new benefit was given to the workers.

It was a health check-up for everyone conducted at the health center. And for the first time, it was mandatory.

A mobile laboratory arrived for lab tests. The Quirozes wanted to make sure that everyone was in good health so if anyone turned out to be otherwise, they could then be treated early.

Urine and stool samples were taken. The stool test became a source of puns for everyone.

It took a few days to finish checking up on all tenants since there were older ones who took their sweet time to visit the center.

But when Arianna received the result of her exams, something caught her attention.

She'd had a pregnancy test? It was a pregnancy test—clear in the wording.

And the result was negative.

She already knew she wasn't pregnant. She got her period in time. In fact, she had been horrified to see the first spots of blood in her underwear because it didn't even occur to her during the whole confusing period since that night that she could get pregnant with what she did with the Señorito!

When she calmed down, she couldn't stop thinking about how this was the very first time that medical exams became mandatory in the hacienda. And why did they take a pregnancy test for a young woman who was unmarried and had no relationship with a man?

As Arianna stood at the edge of their garden plot... as she gazed beyond the field to the direction of the rest house where she had that night tryst with Señorito Enrique, she started to admit that some-thing smelled fishy, as Tommy was saying.

Was it possible that the Señorito already knew who he was with that night and was doing something to find out if he had gotten her pregnant?

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"She's not pregnant..." Enrique felt dazed as he repeated what Brad reported.

He was sitting behind his desk in the study, taking care of the paperwork when Brad entered to tell him the news he had been wait-ing for since he woke up this morning.

"Are you sure?"

"I am sure," Brad replied.

He looked relieved as he stood in front of the desk, even though he also seemed stressed that he didn't even sit down on one of the seats and kept fidgeting. Brad was watching him, waiting for his reaction and new instructions. But Enrique remained quiet.

"So... are we going to relax now? What? Is this tantrum finally going to be over?"

He did not utter a word, but the scowl he threw his way made Brad visibly cringe, which he covered with a grin.

He rolled his eyes at the bastard then he sighed.

"So what do you want me to do now?" he asked again, his voice tinged with submission. He had his hands on his hips, ready to act as soon as he gave a command.

Brad was shocked when he found out the woman he'd sent him as a gift was innocent. He went and found out who about her identity, and Enrique felt himself pale when he told him she was a tenant in the hacienda and whose daughter she was.

Enrique knew his father favored the late farmer who had, as a young teenager, gone out to help grown men rescue livestock and other families in the hacienda in a storm that created a flash flood. He almost died saving an infant in that flood.

If his father finds out about this, Brad was dead.

Not that he hadn't tortured his cousin himself, too.