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Me convertí en la Esposa del Ceo

Married To My Ex-Fiancé's Silent Uncle

Married To My Ex-Fiancé's Silent Uncle

Ming Yue
Twenty minutes before the "Wedding of the Century" at The Plaza, I stood outside the Presidential Suite in a fifty-thousand-dollar Vera Wang gown. I was the girl from a West Virginia trailer park about to marry Hugh Maxwell, the golden heir to a billion-dollar defense empire. I pushed the door open only to find Hugh pinned against the bed with my own stepsister, Floy. She was wearing my bridal diamond necklace, and the sounds of their laughter scraped against my eardrums like sandpaper. I didn't scream; I listened as Hugh grunted that once the wedding was over and the trust fund unlocked, he'd dump "that hillbilly trash" on a bus back to the mountains. They weren't just cheating; they were planning to steal my family's land deeds and leave me with nothing. When I set off the sprinklers and exposed their naked bodies to the paparazzi, the Maxwell family didn't apologize. They called me a "greedy peasant" and threatened to ruin my life unless I signed a new deal to save their crashing stock. I realized then that I was never a bride to them. I was a transaction, a rounding error in a ledger to be used and discarded. They thought my poverty made me weak and my silence made me a victim. "If we don't have a marriage certificate by midnight, the bank freezes thirty percent of our liquidity," their lawyer warned. So, I gave them exactly what they wanted. I used a loophole in their hundred-year-old family covenant and married the only other direct heir available. I didn't marry Hugh. I walked into the ICU and married his uncle, Fleet Maxwell-the legendary war hero who had been in a vegetative state for months. Now, I am the matriarch of the Maxwell dynasty. I've suspended Hugh's executive powers, exiled my mother-in-law to the Swiss Alps, and taken control of the family vault. They think I'm just a gold-digger waiting for a "corpse" to die so I can collect a fifty-million-dollar widow's payout. But last night, as I lay beside my comatose husband, the man they called a vegetable gripped my hand back.
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?Me gustaría enteramente sentimental, que llegase al alma, que hiciera llorar.... Yo, cuando leo y no lloro, me parece que no he leído. ?Qué quiere usted? Yo soy así-me dijo el Duque de Cantarranas, haciendo con frente, boca y narices uno de aquellos gestos nerviosos que le distinguen de los demás duques y de todos los mortales.

Yo le aseguro á usted que será sentimental, será de esas que dan convulsiones y síncopes; hará llorar á todo el género humano, querido se?or Duque-le contesté abriendo el manuscrito por la primera página.

-Eso es lo que hace falta, amigo mío: sentimiento, sentimiento. En este siglo materialista, conviene al arte despertar los nobles afectos. Es preciso hacer llorar á las muchedumbres, cuyo corazón está endurecido por la pasión política, cuya mente está extraviada por las ideas de vanidad que les han imbuído los socialistas. Si no pone usted ahí mucho lloro, mucho suspiro, mucho amor contrariado, mucha terneza, mucha languidez, mucha tórtola y mucha codorniz, le auguro un éxito triste, y lo que es peor, el tremendo fallo de reprobación y anatema de la posteridad enfurecida.

Dijo; y afectando la gravedad de un Mecenas, miróme el Duque de Cantarranas con expresión de superioridad, no sin hacer otro gesto nervioso que parecía hundirle la nariz, romperle la boca y rasgarle el cuero de la frente, de su frente olímpica en que resplandecía el genio apacible, dulzón y melancólico de la poesía sentimental.

Aquello me turbó. ?Tal autoridad tenía para mí el prócer insigne! Cerré y abrí el manuscrito varias veces; pasé fuertemente el dedo por el interior de la parte cosida, queriendo obligar á las hojas á estar abiertas sin necesidad de sujetarlas con la mano; paseé la vista por los primeros renglones; leí el título, tosí, moví la silla, y, con franqueza lo declaro, habría deseado en aquel momento que un pretexto cualquiera, verbi gracia, un incendio en la casa vecina, un hundimiento ó terremoto, me hubieran impedido leer, porque, á la verdad, me hallaba sobrecogido ante el respetable auditorio que á escucharme iba. Componíase de cuatro ilustres personajes de tanto peso y autoridad en la república de las letras, que apenas comprendo hoy cómo fuí capaz de convocarles para una lectura de cosa mía, naturalmente pobre y sin valor. Aterrábame, sobre todo, el mencionado Duque de los gestos nerviosos, el más eminente crítico de mi tiempo, según opinión de amigos y adversarios.

Sin embargo, Su Excelencia había ido allí como los demás, para oírme leer aquel mal parto de mi infecundo ingenio, y era preciso hacer un esfuerzo. Me llené, pues, de resolución, y empecé á leer.

Pero permitidme, antes de referir lo que leí, que os dé alguna noticia del grande, del ilustre, del imponderable Duque de Cantarranas.

Era un hidalguillo de poco más ó menos, atendida su fortuna, que consistía en una posesión enclavada en Meco, dos casas en Alcobendas y un coto en la Puebla de Montalbán; también disfrutaba de unos censos en el mismo lugar y de unos dinerillos dados á rédito. A esto habían venido los estados de los Cantarranas, ducado cuyo origen es de los mas empingorotados. Así es que el buen Duque era pobre de solemnidad, porque la posesión no le daba más que unos dos mil reales, y esos mal pagados; las casas no producían tres maravedises, porque la una estaba destechada, y la otra, la solariega por más se?as, era un palacio destartalado, que no esperaba sino un pretexto para venirse al suelo con escudo y todo. Nadie lo quería alquilar, porque tenía fama de estar habitado por brujas, y los alcobendanos decían que allí se aparecían de noche las irritadas sombras de los Cantarranas difuntos.

El coto no tenía más que catorce árboles, y esos malos. En cuanto á caza, ni con hurones se encontraba, por atravesar la finca una servidumbre desde principios del siglo, en que huyó de allí el último conejo de que hay noticia. Los dinerillos le producían, salvos disgustos, apremios y tardanzas, unos tres mil realejos. Así es que Su Excelencia no poseía más que gloria y un inmenso caudal de metáforas, que gastaba con la prodigalidad de un millonario. Su ciencia era mucha, su fortuna escasa, su corazón bueno, su alma una retórica viviente, su persona ... su persona merece párrafo aparte.

Frisaba en los cuarenta y cinco a?os; y esto que sé por casualidad, se confía aquí como sagrado secreto, porque él ni á tirones pasaba de los treinta y nueve. Era colorado y barbipuntiagudo, con lentes que parecían haber echado raíces en lo alto de su nariz. Estas llamaron siempre la atención de los frenólogos por una especial configuración en que se traslucía lo que él llamaba exquisito olfato moral. Para la ciencia eran magnífico ejemplar de estudio, un tesoro; para el vulgo eran meramente grandes. Pero lo más table de su cáriz era la afección nerviosa que padecía, pues no pasaban dos minutos sin que hiciese tantos y tan violentos visajes, que sólo por respeto á tan alta persona no se morían de risa los que le miraban.

Su vestido era lección ó tratado de economía doméstica. Describir cómo variaba los cortes de sus chalecos para que siempre pareciesen de moda, no es empresa de plumas vulgares. Decir con qué prolijo esmero cepillaba todas las ma?anas sus dos levitas, y con qué amor profundo les daba aguardiente en la tapa del cuello, cuidando siempre de cogerlas con las puntas de los dedos para que no se le rompieran, es haza?a reservada á más puntuales cronistas.

?Pues y la escrupulosa revista de roturas que pasaba cada día á sus dos pantalones, y los remojos, planchados y frotamientos con que martirizaba su gabán, prenda inocente que había encontrado un purgatorio en este mundo? En cuanto á su sombrero, basta decir que era un problema de longevidad. Se ignora qué talismán poseía el Duque para que ni un átomo de polvo, ni una gota de agua manchasen nunca sus inmaculados pelos. A?ádase á esto que siempre fué un misterio profundo la salud inalterable de un paraguas de ballena que le conocí toda la vida, y que mejor que el Observatorio podría dar cuenta de todos los temporales que se han sucedido en veinte a?os. Por lo que hace á los guantes, que habían paseado por Madrid durante cinco abriles su demacrada amarillez, puede asegurarse que la alquimia doméstica tomaba mucha parte en aquel prodigio. Además, el Duque tenía un modo singularísimo de poner las manos, y á esto, más que á nada, se debe la vida perdurable de aquellas prendas, que él, usando una de sus figuras predilectas, llamaba el coturno de las manos. Puede formarse idea de su modo de andar recordando que las botas me visitaron tres a?os seguidos, después de tres remontas; y sólo á un sistema de locomoción tan ingenioso como prudente, se deben las etapas de vida que tuvieron las que, valiéndonos de la retórica del Duque, podremos llamar las quirotecas de los pies.

Usaba joyas, muchos anillos, prefiriendo siempre uno, donde campeaba una esmeralda del tama?o de media peseta, tan disforme, que parecía falsa, y lo era, en efecto, según testimonio de los más reputados cronistas que de la casa de Cantarranas han escrito. No reina la misma uniformidad de pareceres, y aun son muy distintas las versiones respecto á cierta cadena que hermoseaba su chaleco, pues aunque todos convienen en que era de double, hay quien asegura ser alhaja de familia, y haber pertenecido á un magnate de la casa, que fué virrey de Napóles, donde la compró á unos genoveses por un grueso pu?ado de maravedises.

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