CHAPTER 12
BUSINESS EVENT
On Friday evening, Pedro hosted a poolside party in Copacabana for his staff. Blanca wanted to avoid it in favour of looking after Maria, but her dear aunt had brushed off her illness, telling her it must have been food poisoning. Blanca didn’t believe her. Something was going on and she was determined to find out. But she relented when Maria insisted she attend her boss’s party.
Blanca arrived at Pedro’s house wearing a black designer mini-dress featuring a cream chiffon buttoned jacket with matching earrings and a pearl necklace. The dress had a V-shaped neck and was three-quarter sleeved, and she wondered if she was over-dressed. She steadied her legs in black, wedge sandals. Her hair was pulled up in a bun with wispy strands falling down the sides of her ch
