His soul-Chapter 90: Approaching Gina
Gina, who had just finished enjoying lunch alone at the dining table, was surprised by the arrival of her grandmother who suddenly approached her.
"Have you eaten, Grandma?" Gina asked innocently.
Barbara smiled. "It’s okay honey, we’ve all eaten and you’re the last to eat."
"No wonder it’s just me, oh yeah Grandma where are the other people? I haven’t seen Daddy and Grandpa since then?"
Barbara’s smile disappeared in an instant. "Daddy and Grandpa are meeting in the study, they have a lot of things to take care of. Mommy and your two sisters are on the second floor."
Gina nodded her head slowly in response to her grandmother’s words, while wiping her lips with a handkerchief. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚
Barbara reached out and stroked Gina’s hair gently, which made Gina feel a little uncomfortable, but she couldn’t do anything but let her grandmother do that. Because she was already full, Gina decided to leave the dining table with her grandmother to the family room, as soon as Gina got up several service people went straight to the dining table and went straight to tidying it up.
"Dear."
Gina who had just sat down immediately turned to her grandmother. "Yes."
"May Grandma ask you something?"
"Of course you can."
"What do you think about getting married young?"
Gina raised an eyebrow. "Married young? What does Grandma mean?"
Barbara smiled. "Grandma just wants to know what you think about getting married young."
"I don’t know, I can’t think of anything because I have no idea about it. Why did Grandma ask me? Isn’t Diego the one who is engaged to Kiara, huh?"
"Diego is someone else dear, he’s not part of the Sanders family."
Gina nodded her head to understand what a grandmother said even though she didn’t fully understand where she was talking, just as Gina was about to open her mouth from the stairs, Vanessa and her two daughters approached Gina and Barbara. The mother and her two daughters joined them in sitting in the living room.
"How?" Barbara asked Vanessa quietly.
Vanessa shook her head with a sad expression, seeing this Barbara immediately closed her eyes and looked down. Seeing the unusual expressions of the grandmother and stepmother, Gina became even more confused and did not understand.
Everyone was lost in their own thoughts, suddenly Rosa stood up straight. "I don’t want to be a victim, I’m a kid, Granma."
"Sacrifice?"
"Rose."
Gina and Selena spoke at the same time.
Rosa, who was called by her two sisters, ignored them, preferring to stare at her mother and grandmother.
"I also don’t want to live in poverty, isn’t that your responsibility as parents. Then why do we have to be victims now?" shouted Rosa hysterically loudly. "Mommy and Grandma don’t know that that man just wants to make us his slaves!"
Gina’s eyes widened, she was even more confused.
"No one will be a slave, Rosa. Trust me, Grandpa and Daddy will do anything to find a way out," Vanessa said softly.
Selena, who had been sitting while playing with her fingers, slowly raised her face and glared at her grandmother. "If there’s really no other way I’ll go to his house, Grandma."
"Selena, are you insane?!" Vanessa shouted hysterically. "You’re not serious about what you’re saying are you?"
"I’m serious, Mom. If it’s all for this family then I’m willing to do anything, even if it has to be a slave to a Massimo del Cano," Selena answered confidently.
"No! No one will be the slave of that madman as long as I live." Julian’s voice sounded loud from behind in response to Selena’s words.
Everyone in the living room immediately turned to Julian at the same time.
Julian who had just had a one-on-one conversation with his father was now standing straight and staring at them all without blinking.
"Me and Daddy chose the second option they gave, so you guys will continue to live normally in the future," said Julian again.
"We’re going to be poor, Daddy! I don’t want to!!"Selena screamed loudly. "I’m more willing to be his slave as long as my life is guaranteed, rather than living in trouble."
"We will not fall into poverty just because we give him half the profits from the income of all our hotels, believe me our hotels are still able to give us a good life, baby," said Julian again trying to explain to his second daughter.
Selena shook her head quickly. "What a good life if Daddy ends up withdrawing an unlimited credit card, hah! I don’t want it, Dad. I don’t want to... what will my friends say if they find out I don’t have a credit card anymore, they’ll definitely scoff, bullied and avoided me."
"Selena, listen to your Daddy first, honey." Barbara softly spoke again trying to quell Selena’s blazing anger.
"What’s more that needs to be heard, Grandma. Isn’t everything clear, these people from the beginning really wanted us to be poor so it’s useless if we give them half the profits from all our hotels, Grandma. ...I don’t want to be poor... I don’t want to."
Finally, Selena’s tears broke, the girl cried in a loud enough voice. Rosa who sat beside Selena immediately hugged her sister and cried together.
Vanessa who was sitting next to her two daughters just looked down, didn’t say anything. The woman looks confused now, really not Vanessa at all.
Of all the people in the room, only Gina did not understand anything, since she had not understood where the family conversation was going. Gina is confused. Why suddenly Selena wants to be a slave instead of living poor, isn’t being a slave even more terrible than living poor, huh? Gina really didn’t understand her step sister’s way of thinking.
"Selena listen to Daddy, our hotels are 5-star hotels whose popularity is unquestionable. So even if we give them half the revenue from all those hotels every month to us, we will all continue to live normally without any disturbance. Trust me, our hotels are still able to give us all a guarantee of living in comfort. So you don’t have to be afraid," said Julian hoarsely.
"But I don’t want my credit card to be confiscated, I don’t want that to happen, Daddy!!"
Julian shook his head. "No, you calm down."
"But for how long? Can Daddy guarantee it all?" Selena asked again, credit cards were everything to her. So when she found out that del Cano wanted her family to hand over half of the income from all her hotels to them, Selena was hysterical, she even chose to become Massimo’s sex slave whose life was guaranteed than to lose the pleasure of using an unlimited credit card. Truly a treasure mad girl.
"Until we can get away from them and until that time comes Daddy asks you to calm down and don’t do anything stupid, keep your mind off of being his slave. Because as long as Daddy is alive, you won’t let Daddy’s daughter become a victim of that man’s madness," replied Julian was firm, his eyes looking at Selena, Rosa and Gina alternately.
Selena nodded slowly, using both hands she immediately wiped the tears that were running down her cheeks. Likewise with Rosa, who is also no longer crying, listening to the assurance from her father made the two spoiled girls calm.
Selena, who has been living in luxury so far, has been hysterical since this morning when Martin and Massimo’s men came, she couldn’t believe that her allowance would be cut in half. Selena, who looks like a socialite, is of course in shock, she doesn’t want the luxurious image she has built for years to be damaged just because of a promise made by her ancestors. That’s why Selena immediately chose to become a slave to the handsome Massimo instead of losing all her luxuries, Selena was sure that being the gratification of a Massimo del Cano’s lust would be much more secure considering how rich and powerful the handsome man was.
Because Selena had calmed down and asked Rosa to go, the two girls chose to go shopping to relieve their sadness. Since Massimo del Cano’s arrival last night the two girls had been very restless.
Seeing his two daughters leave Julian looked relieved, the man even sat down on the sofa with his head closed next to his mother. Barbara immediately patted the shoulder of her only son who looked very stressed, Barbara knew how big a burden Julian was carrying right now. It turned out that what Yohanes had been afraid of had happened, now Barbara knew why her husband was trying his best to try to establish a good relationship with Massimo del Cano. It seemed that Yohanes knew what the consequences would be if Massimo’s side refused the offer that Yohanes and Marius made. For that reason, Yohanes Sanders tried his best to take good care of Selena so that Massimo would accept her.
But after what happened, it seemed like all was in vain, because Massimo himself seemed to have rejected Selena after knowing how wild the girl’s life was.
Unbeknownst to everyone, Yohanes Sanders had apparently been listening to all of Selena and Julian’s conversations in the living room, the man was standing behind the wall listening to his son’s words trying to calm Selena. Actually what Julian said was true, even though they would earn only half the income of all the five star hotels they owned the lives of all the members of the Sanders family would still be fine. But it still frightens Julian’s children, Selena and Rosa who are used to living in luxury are very panicked when they find out that their sources of money will be reduced by half after being given to Massimo del Cano.
What is in Yohanes’s mind at this time is how could the letter of agreement which he had been guarding so well suddenly disappeared without a trace, there is not even a single evidence showing who took the securities. Because all this time, Yohanes was sure that the letters were safe with him. Yohanes Sanders felt calm all this time because the letters were with him. Yohanes knew even though Massimo was very cruel and heartless, the man would still obey the peace agreement made by their predecessors. That’s why Yohanes highly exalted the letter of the covenant.
Not daring to ask what was going on, Gina decided to get some fresh air in the garden, during the debate that occurred between Selena and her father a while ago, Gina could only be quiet and be a good listener. Even though so many questions were running through his head but he tried not to ask because of you if the time wasn’t right for him to ask.
"Slave, why has Selena always said that word. It’s very strange, in this modern era she prefers to be submissive to other people than to live freely," Gina said quietly as she remembered Selena’s words, which repeatedly said she prefers to be a slave. than living in poverty.
Being a slave is the most terrible thing for a human being, because being a slave means that all his freedoms are taken away and must submit to his master. Gina really doesn’t understand her step sister’s way of thinking, one thing that Gina doesn’t know is that the context of slaves that Selena means is different from her understanding. Gina doesn’t know that the slave that Selena is referring to is to satisfy a man’s lust.
Gina’s daydream was suddenly shattered when a soft hand touched her shoulder, Gina instantly turned around and was surprised to see who the owner of the hand was.
"Can Mommy sit with you, honey?" Vanessa asked quietly.
Gina nodded slowly without suspicion. "Of course you can."
Vanessa smiled, slowly the woman sat in front of Gina gracefully. For a moment the woman was silent and didn’t say anything, which made the atmosphere awkward.
"Thank you for coming to this house, Gina," Vanessa said softly. "Your arrival makes this family a lot busier than usual."
Gina pursed her lips. "I also want to thank you for being so well received in this house," she answered innocently.
Vanessa suddenly looked down. "At least with your presence in this house, we won’t be lonely if Selena and Rosa are taken by them, at least we still have a daughter in this house when the other two are taken by someone else."
Gina frowned. "What does that mean, I don’t understand."
"Don’t you know that all this time Selena didn’t get along with her grandfather?"
"Yeah, I know," Gina answered simply.
"You know what caused it?"
Gina nodded slowly. "I do not know."
Vanessa smiled. "The reason they don’t get along is because Selena has been prepared to be the mistress of a terrible man, Gina. Your poor sister since childhood was prepared to be the victim of this family, sob..."
"Sacrifice?!"
Continued
