December 21, 2017. Thurday. In the morning. Neil's mother and sister had already arrived at the ancestral mansion of the Monteverdes. His father had fetched them from the airport. Neil was not able to go to the airport because he had to preside at the executive meeting where all of the executives of the subsidiaries and the general managers of all the hotels, all the leisure parks, and the arena had to present reports and proposals.
He was also not able to go to the mansion for lunch, because he had a lunch meeting with the steering committee of the Annual Christmas Ball for some last-minute briefings. His grandfather insisted that he knew all the whereabouts of their invited guests in the business community of Zaramala.
It was only by dinner time that he was able to go to the mansion an
