His soul-Chapter 64: I can help you

Gina still couldn’t say anything when she saw dozens of shopping bags containing new clothes and several other items in her room.

"What’s this?" Gina asked innocently.

Vanessa, who was still in Gina’s room, immediately approached Gina who had just returned from a leisurely walk with Barbara. "All this stuff is yours, honey. Mommy hope Mommy’s choice is to your liking."

"My stuff?"

"Yes, Mommy and Daddy went shopping earlier. We had to give this all to you because you have twice refused Mommy’s invitation to go shopping," Vanessa answered excitedly as she embraced Julian’s arm affectionately.

Gina smiled faintly at what her stepmother was doing.

"That’s right, Gina. We chose all of this earlier, Daddy hopes you like it," said Julian softly, responding to Vanessa’s words with a warm smile.

"Thank you."

"No, you don’t need to thank me. This is all your right, okay then, please take a look at your new clothes, honey. Mommy and Daddy are going to the room first." Vanessa grabbed Gina’s hand to enter her room. "Don’t hesitate to Mommy, if there are clothes you don’t like, just report them to Mommy, okay?" Vanessa touched Gina’s face gently.

Gina nodded her head slowly in response to the words of her stepmother who had been very kind to her for three days since she officially lived with them, soon Gina closed the door to her room when her father and stepmother left. Gina stared at the dozens of shopping bags scattered on the floor of her room, just about to get rid of the two bags that were blocking her path to the bathroom when suddenly there was a knock on the door.

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A punch landed on Gina’s left chest suddenly.

"Opening the door is too slow," said Rosa, the person responsible for the pain that was now wracking Gina’s left chest.

Selena who entered behind Rosa seemed to have narrowed her eyes when she saw branded items in Gina’s room.

"You’re really amazing, step-sister. Only living three days in this house you can get all these luxuries," Selena said sarcastically.

Gina smiled. "I didn’t ask for any of this."

"Oh is that so? Do you think we will believe that? Only a fool will believe what you say," said Rosa loudly as she kicked the shopping bag from Chanel in front of her hard.

Gina immediately turned to Rosa who had just kicked one of her shopping bags on the floor, realizing Gina’s anger Rosa quickly raised her hands in the air.

"Uuuh someone’s angry, I’m afraid," cried Rosa loudly, teasing Gina.

"Who’s angry? Me? I won’t be angry just because ahhhhh.."words

Gina’sstopped when Selena who had been standing behind her suddenly grabbed her long hair which she was in a ponytail roughly.

"Listen to me carefully, even though everyone in this house accepts you but Rosa and I don’t. We both really hate you poor girl and one more thing, you can have these things, but remember what you get now is not free," said Selena coldly by continuing to pull Gina’s hair tightly, even making Gina have to lift her face up to stare at the ceiling of her room.

Rosa laughed with satisfaction seeing what her sister was doing. "Come on, let’s go, my chest is tight breathing oxygen in this room with her. Just let her enjoy these things, we can buy three times as much as this."

Selena snorted, she quickly released her grip on Gina’s hair and pushed her hard so that she fell, the next second Selena walked straight to the door by trampling on the shopping bag in Gina’s room. The same thing was done by Rosa who followed her from behind leaving Gina who was still sitting on the floor.

Despite being the second person to come out of Gina’s room, Rosa doesn’t want to close the door to Gina’s room, so that the messy state of Gina’s room can be seen from the outside clearly.

"M-Miss Gina, are you all right?" a maid shouted loudly.

Gina who was trying to get up looked directly at a young maid who had just spoken to her, the maid’s body was covered in dry paint as were her face and arms.

"I’m fine," Gina lied.

"Are you sure? But the condition of your room, which looks like a broken ship, shows you are not okay," said the waiter again.

Gina chuckled. "I am serious."

"So you refuse my help?"

"Yeah, I can tidy it up myself."

The young maid smiled and lifted the paint bucket that she had previously placed on the floor. "Well then I’ll excuse myself, miss."

Gina nodded her head, the maid immediately rushed out of Gina’s room to resume her work. As soon as the maid left Gina and quickly closed the door to her room again and locked it tightly, Gina touched her head which was still hot from Selena’s tug.

"Those two kids really don’t like me, apparently," Gina muttered quietly.

Feeling uncomfortable with the messy condition of the room, Gina then began to take out the contents of the paper bags from various brands of clothes to be moved into her closet, it took more than 30 minutes for Gina to move all the clothes into her wardrobe. Of all the clothes, only 30 percent were what Gina liked, the rest didn’t. Gina doesn’t like clothes that are too feminine, let alone pretty dresses that make the wearer look elegant.

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The male waiters who were on their lunch break got new gossip today, Selena and Rosa’s harsh treatment of Gina became the hot topic of their conversation at this time.

"Are you sure Miss Gina didn’t fight back when she was grabbed by her sister?" a young maid asked a maid who had previously spoken to Gina in disbelief.

"For God’s sake, Miss Gina didn’t even say anything when she was grabbed by Miss Selena. It’s just that I saw tears in her eyes, I’m pretty sure that Miss Selena’s tug must be really hard," the middle-aged maid answered honestly

A young gardener who had just returned from the barn immediately sat down to join his other friends, choosing to smoke instead of eating like his other colleagues.

"What’s wrong? Looks like they have some fun things to talk about?" The young gardener asked a man sitting beside him.

"You’re new, aren’t you? I just saw you."

The gardener smiled. "Yes, I just worked at this house, four days ago to be exact. Oh yes, my name is Marco."

"I’m Antonio, no wonder I feel a little unfamiliar with your face." Antonio held out his hand to Marco. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Marco smiled and shook Antonio’s hand. "So what are they talking about, Antonio?"

Antonio turned, looked at his friends who were still talking about Gina and Selena. "Oh, that’s normal. What the servants are talking about must be about the behavior of the residents of this mansion, but today the topic is Miss Selena’s cruelty to Miss Gina."

"Miss Gina? Isn’t that the girl who just arrived three days ago?"

"Yes, you are right, Miss Gina, the first daughter of Mr. Julian and his dead first wife whose marriage is not recognized by the master," Antonio replied in a half-whispered voice.

Marco raised an eyebrow. "A child from an unrecognized marriage?"

Antonio nodded his head quickly, he then sat closer to Marco and started to tell Marco everything he knew. Marco seemed to nod his head as his new friend spoke.

"The point is that no one in this house accepts her presence well except Mr. Julian and the big lady, the rest seems very hostile to her," Antonio said quietly.

"How do you know? Isn’t Mrs. Vanessa nice to her too?" another maid chirped in reply to Antonio’s words who were talking to Marco.

"You’re too innocent John, where there is a stepmother who is really good to her stepdaughter in this world," said another servant quite loudly.

Suddenly all the other servants laughed at his friend’s words, including Antonio who was sitting next to Marco. While Marco himself was silent, he seemed to be digesting the words of his new friends while remembering the faces and names of the residents of the big house where he worked.

The waiters’ conversation stopped when they saw Diego and his girlfriend coming, Diego who had just gotten off his favorite jeep seemed to immediately caress his fiancé Kiara beside the car without any shame.

"See, we got a new show, Marco," Antonio whispered quietly to Marco.

"Does he do this often?" Marco asked dryly.

Antonio chuckled. "I also don’t know since when they were like that, what is clear is that this kind of thing is never absent. We see every young master bringing his lover home."

"Don’t make any noise, Toni. Let’s just enjoy it, count the free spectacles," another waitress called out in a fairly loud voice.

The sound of laughter was heard again in the resting place of the male servants who work at the Sanders family’s house, but no matter how loud the waiter’s laughter was, Diego, who was fondling Kiara The only person who wasn’t laughing in that place was Marco, he just felt uncomfortable with what his friends were seeing.

The laughter of the men stopped when Gina suddenly came out of the back door with a bicycle, things became very awkward when the lady they were talking about earlier appeared.

"May I have a favor." Gina opened the conversation very politely.

"Of course, Miss. How can we help you?" a gardener asked Gina.

Gina smiled. "This bike has a flat tire, can anyone help me fix it?"

The men who were there immediately turned to look at the bicycle that Gina was carrying, their gazes filled with ridicule when they saw the bicycle that Gina was carrying.

"Where did you find this broken bicycle, Miss?" asked one of the waiters very boldly.

"At the warehouse."

"Then you intend to wear it?"

Gina nodded her head. "Yeah, why not? Besides, this bike is still good and strong enough, only the wheels are flat."

Laughter was heard again from the waiters when they heard Gina’s words, only Marco and two waiters who were the same age did not laugh at Gina. Gina was seen gripping the hem of her jacket tightly trying to contain her emotions, Gina was determined not to show her abilities to anyone in this house including the maids. Gina wants to know the true nature of all the residents in the Sanders house.

"If no one can help me, it’s okay, I’ll just look for a bicycle shop to fix it," Gina said softly with a smile, very polite and friendly to talk to the servants even though she was the daughter of these men’s employers. "Then excuse me, sorry for interrupting your rest. Excuse me-"

"I can help you, Miss." Suddenly Marco cut Gina’s words quickly, his hand even touched the bicycle handlebar which Gina was also holding.

Continued