Naneth teases Gio about who is the lucky woman he likes. But Gio doesn’t want to talk. He doesn’t want to assume first because he might just be hurt that she won’t like what he likes.
“Let’s go home. The car is no longer following us.” Gio said.
Naneth was disappointed because she thought Gio would open up to her about the woman she liked and she was excited to know who it was so that she could get acquainted.
“Haist, what is that, hanging you? Let’s go home. It’s late at. Night, maybe Kyla and Dominic will look for us.” Naneth replied.
“So, that’s it! Let’s go.” they took the car home to Naneth’s apartment.
Gio said that while they were in the car, he was happy that he was with Naneth even for a while.
Kyla and Dominic were waiting for them.
“Hey! It’s good that you are here, Naneth and Gio. We are worried about what might have happened to you.” Said Kyla.
“We’re okay, Kyla, so we took a while because there was a car following us. We turned off the road first so he wouldn’t know where I live,” Naneth replied.
“It’s good that you noticed that car,” Dominic said.
“Yes, bro! Naneth noticed well because she said otherwise I would have been sent straight to their house.” Gio replied.
~~~~~
A month later. When Lira, her stomach often hurt, so she often went to the hospital. Lira’s mother informed Robin that he should tell his parents that he was going to have a baby. She did not want to call his grandson a bastard.
“What, Robin? When will you tell your parents about your son, Lira? Do you know my daughter is having a hard time? After you enjoy her, you will leave her suddenly. Now she’s pregnant, don’t say you’ll just leave her. We can’t afford the expenses, so be a father to your child. Support yourself.” Lora sigh.
“Auntie, I know my obligation as a father. Don’t put pressure on me. I have a big problem now because my parents found out that Naneth and I will be separating. They received the annulment paper for Naneth to sign for me. My dad is furious. This will be the reason for losing the inheritance that he should have given me.” Robin explained.
“Robin, you’re stupid! Why did you get into a situation where you couldn’t stand it when you knew you were married and you should avoid women? So! It’s still my daughter’s fault now why you lose everything. You want that, so find a way.” Disgusted, Lora replied.
“Don’t talk like that to me. You think I gave nothing to Lira, since she worked for our company? I give her everything she wants and ask for. Even the sustenance for you was given to me. Lira also became a living princess in my hands, so don’t say that I gave nothing to her. I even gave her a condo. What else does she want?” Robin answered Lora.
“So! Now you resent everything you did and gave to Lira. Eh! I hope you never got into this situation that you couldn’t handle. You should have done everything to avoid her.”
“Why do you see only me as guilty? Is your daughter not at fault? She is the closest to me. In the beginning, I told her I was married, but she insisted, she always told me to be careful. I am a man. I am also tempted. So don’t blame all your anger on me.” Robin was nervous.
Lora couldn’t answer. Robin also had a point. Whatever she does to Lira, no matter how much she scolds her, she doesn’t listen. This is the limit of her stubbornness. What is even more painful is that she is the cousin of the legal wife of her grandson’s father. She just dropped the call because she also felt ashamed of Robin. It was as if they were begging for alimony because they had no money.
She was just taken aback when someone called him.
“Hello! Auntie, how are you?”
“We’re okay, Naneth, you were called.”
“Ah! Nothing, I’m just saying hello to you. How is Lira? Isn’t this her laboring period? Has she given birth yet?” Naneth asked.
“No! Naneth, the doctor said, maybe the next day. But her stomach always hurts.” Lora replied.
“Oh! I hope Lira’s birth will be okay.”
Lora was silent. Why is her niece so kind? Why is she more concerned than his grandson’s father? Did she know Robin was the father of the child of Lira’s pregnancy who was his wife? Lora asked herself.
She was hurt by what happened. She didn’t think Naneth was a very innocent person, unaware of what was happening to her husband. She wanted to tell Naneth the truth, but she couldn’t because she didn’t know how, because she was sure she would be furious with them, especially with Lira. She also doesn’t want her cousins to fight. Haist! She just sighed.
“Auntie, are you okay? Why did you suddenly fall silent?”
“Ah! No Naneth, I just remember your uncle Deme.”
“Is that so? I’m sorry if until now you still think about uncle.”
“It’s okay Naneth, it’s been a long time, so let’s forget about it.”
“Ah! By the way, please tell me if you need anything, especially the hospital bill for Lira’s giving birth.” Said Naneth.
“Oh no! Naneth, don’t let us make the way. It’s embarrassing for you.”
“What are you, auntie? Lira’s son will also be my nephew? So it’s okay, okay, as long as I can help.” Naneth replied.
Lora was quiet again. She felt even more guilty for hiding the truth from Naneth.
Their conversation is over. Naneth was also in a hurry because she would have called Natasha too, but she couldn’t contact her. She was worried about Natasha. So she had an idea to talk to Natasha. She calls Dominic to visit her auntie and let her know if it’s okay. Dominic didn’t ask why, but he made way for Naneth’s request. It’s true that Aurora, Dominic’s mother, visited the Roa family’s house, so that’s what she did because she was also very busy.
“Hello mom, won’t auntie Natasha visit you?”
“Yes Dominic, why?”
“Please mom, say hello to her and when you’re there call me, I’ll talk to her.” Said Dominic.
“Ah! Okay, I still thought what was that. All right, no problem. ”
~~~~~
Aurora went to her friend Natasha’s house. Natasha was happy that Aurora had visited her.
“How are you, Natasha? What news to you?”
“It’s okay Aurora, that’s why Louie forbade me to go out.”
“What? Why? Are you to blame for him?
“I don’t remember that I’m to blame for him. He suddenly decided like that.” Natasha replied.
“So! How is that? All your actions are watched over you?”
“Yeah! I don’t have a phone, and he freezes my credit cards. It’s just ours! Do you know that sometimes every time we argue, he hurts me?”
“Oh! Are you sure there, Natasha? Brother Louie is not like that when I know him.”
“You don’t know, because you only come to our house once. And everything I said is true.”
“That’s not a good joke, Natasha.”
“Yeah!” said Natasha.
“Haist! What is that? Ah! By the way, I remember him. Dominic greeted you and told me to call him when we talked. Just wait!” Aurora called Dominic. Dominic answered that they just talked for a while and he gave the phone to Naneth.
“Hello, Mrs. Roa! This is Naneth.” Natasha looked at Aurora and walked away because she was talking to Naneth and Naneth was talking to Dominic.
“Naneth, it’s good that I talked to you. You can’t call me anymore because Louie confiscated my phone. He doesn’t allow me to go out and there are many guards outside. He suspected I was involved in a burglary. Louie is cunning.” Natasha’s story.
“Oh! If that is so, be careful there. Let me make a way for Mr. Roa to doubt you. But isn’t he already in jail so you can come out now?” Naneth asked.
“Naneth still can’t because even though she’s inside, she still has contact with her staff.”
“Natasha! Are you and Dominic done talking?” Aurora asked.
“All right Naneth, Aurora is calling me, so she might doubt it, too. Be careful. Don’t worry about me as long as Louie’s staff doesn’t hurt me, it’s okay.” Goodbye Natasha.
“All right, be careful. I am confident that you are okay there.” Naneth replied.
~~~~~
“Boss, someone called Mr. Relloso said that someone will invest in your company and that the owner will be burdened.”
“Is that so? That’s good news. When do you think the client will meet?”
“It hasn’t been confirmed yet, but he just set the time when.” Gilbert’s staff said.
“Oh! All right, thank you. Just call me Mr. Relloso.”
“Okay boss, noted.”
Mr. Relloso talked to Gilbert and there he told the client’s plan. Gilbert liked that, so he prepared a lot of money to invest a lot for the operation to be held.
A client they didn’t know yet, but because Gilbert was greedy for money and power, he immediately merged with that client.
“Boss, I already talked to Gilbert’s assistant. He accepted the offer. He is just waiting for your decision on when you will meet with him.” Said the woman.
“Good! That Gilbert beast still hasn’t changed. All right, enjoy what you have now. I will take back all that you have. Haha!” funny said the man.
~~~~~
Lora bought things for the children because Lira could no longer afford to go to the mall and had to wait a few days for her to give birth.
When she was walking too fast food to eat because she was hungry, when suddenly someone grabbed her arm. She was surprised who it was. She was taken to a bathroom a whole way.
“Release me! Who are you?!”
“Don’t you know me, sister Lora?”
“Franco?” Lora was surprised to see the man.
“Yes, it’s me! We haven’t seen each other in a long time!”
“You are an animal. You still want to show us. You thought we forgot what you did to my family.” Lora replied angrily.
“I didn’t do that thing. Why don’t you ask your husband?”
“Who else can I ask? My husband, your brother, is gone.”
“What do you mean?”
“Your brother is dead three years ago, so how can I know you’re not lying?”
“What?! Why didn’t anyone tell me?”
“Where were you at those times weren’t you hiding? Because you are guilty of what you did.”
“I already told you, Lora, that I will not harm my niece. I love my nieces and nephews and brother Roel’s children.” Franco replied.
“Shut up. I don’t need your explanation anymore. If only I could follow you, you should have been imprisoned before! If only Brother Roel hadn’t stopped me.” Annoyed, Lora said.
“I’m sorry, but where is the other one if Roel is a brother?”
Franco is the eldest of three siblings, Deme is the second, and Roel is the youngest. They didn’t fight when they were young. They could not finish school because of the hardships of life and their lives have become chaotic since their mother had another man and left the three of them with their grandmother. Because their father could not accept it, he committed suicide. Their mother went with another man and until they grew up, their mother did not feel. They no longer know whether it is alive or dead after a few years. When their grandmother died there, they started fighting because there was no one to guide them. Franco got married, but they did not have a child with his wife but after four years of marriage his wife died of colon cancer. His life was ruined when Franco and Deme were together and Franco’s behavior changed and he was led to Deme’s habit of reprimanding.
Deme was the most reprimanding of the three, stubborn and unwilling to reprimand. Until he met Lora and got married and had two children, their eldest boy and a girl, the youngest. Deme and Franco both indulged in illegal vices until the day came when they ran out of money. Deme sold his eldest son to have money and pay off debts because Deme was good at talking to his wife. Deme convinced Lora that Franco sold their son, which was not true. True. Franco told the truth to Lora but does not believe it. Until Deme threatened his brother Franco, so he ran away and never showed up at them.
Roel is the kindest of the three. He inherited the habit of his grandmother. Generous to give up for his brothers and sisters. He cares for his brothers and sisters. And she is just quiet, but she does things that her grandmother enjoys, so her siblings are jealous of her because he is her grandmother’s favorite. Until he met Martha, Roel became a responsible husband to Martha until they knew they would have a child. The couple was thrilled because of the hardships of life. Roel was forced to work for a wealthy family in their area. His boss takes him with him for their operations. Roel didn’t know that those operations were illegal. Only then did he find out that it was illegal to have a raid on their operation. Fortunately, they were not caught. And it was his boss’s best-kept secret that pushed him to break free from being an employee of his cunning boss.
“I don’t know where Brother Roel is now. It’s been a few years since I heard from him or his wife, Martha.”
“Why, what happened?”
“First Roel disappeared. He wasn’t there when Martha gave birth. A few days after Martha’s birth, she was still looking for her husband, but we couldn’t find him. We asked questions and blotted out her, but we still didn’t know any information until every day when sister Martha was an idiot. I was worried about her, especially when she was just born.” Lora’s story.
“So! What happened to sister Martha?”
“One day she suddenly left without us knowing. We looked for her, but we still couldn’t find her. Just like what happened to your brother, they are still missing to this day.”
“Oh! But where is their child?”
“When Naneth was a child, that was the name of a niece of yours, the daughter of Martha and Roel. She lost nearly six people. We recently saw him die when your brother, Deme, was accused of killing his uncle.” Lora’s story again.
“What?! Naneth can’t do that to her uncle. She may have a reason for being angry with your spouse. But she can’t do that to her uncle Deme.” Franco’s defense.
“I don’t know, but I still remember what she did to her uncle. We only found out when there was a bracelet left on the floor and I knew that bracelet because I gave it to Naneth.” Lora replied.
“Are you sure she killed? Did you investigate well? Maybe it was just set up and someone else was angry with brother Deme as well.” Astonished, Franco said.
“Why do you insist Naneth is innocent? Were you present at that event?” Lora asked.
It was a long time before Franco answered. “I’m not there, but I feel like my niece is innocent.”
“I just don’t know if I will be enlightened either. Go away and don’t bother us anymore.”
“Sister, I won’t bother you. I just want to see the niece. Can you give me Naneth’s phone number?”
Will Lora give Naneth’s phone number to Franco? What was Franco’s motive when he appeared again to the Reyes family?