novelxo Chapter 253: Seducing openly
At the word complaint, the mother completely changed her expression and did not dare to answer her daughter's question. Serena then reached for her cell phone, "Then I'll make the complaint." "No, you don't have to denounce!" said the mother grabbing her hand, with spirited eyes, "Serena, denouncing would be useless, that man will have already disappeared into thin air."
"Even if he disappeared we have to report it, let the police handle it. If he ran away taking all that money with him, it's obvious he's a crook." Serena again made to reach for the phone, but her mother directly took the phone out of her hands.
"You don't have to report it!"
At these words, her father Andrew, impatient, stormed out of the room, "Serena, don't believe the rubbish your mother says. She took that money to go betting!"
"Shut up!" said the mother who, in turn furious, had thrown herself at her husband to shut him up. "Why? It's just the truth! Don't you think you've bothered Serena enough already? That 300,000 € from where did you get it? Now that you have lost it all, do you want your daughter to give you more? At this point kill her!" said the father after breaking free from his wife's grip.
Serena stood speechless staring dumbfounded at the scene; who would have thought that in the span of a few years the situation at home could sink so low. She then moved slowly in front of her mother and, in an absent voice, asked, "How long have you had the gambling habit, Mom?"
The mother squinted her eyes without having the courage to answer.
"In the last period, with the fact that you had become part of the Ferrari family, he began to go out and strut his stuff every day with whoever he met, and some people took advantage of it...."
"...So last time when you asked me for money, was it because you had lost all our money? Is that why you asked me for that €300,000?"
The mother remained silent in embarrassment.
Serena suddenly found the situation sadly comical: "And then with that money what did you do? Did you cover the shortfall in our house account or did you go and continue betting?" "Forgive me Serena, but this time you have to help me, otherwise...my way is over."
Exhausted, Serena closed her eyes, "I thought that by coming back here to you I would finally feel at home, and instead...I'm just devastated. Do you know, Mom? That €300,000 will have to be paid back little by little."
"How to give it back?" asked the incredulous mother grabbing her arm, "You belong to the Ferrari family now, you are Mrs. Ferrari, what do you mean you have to give the money back? I know, I was wrong, bu help me this time, please."
Serena was so confused by his words that she could hardly stay on her feet; devoid now of feeling, she had the feeling that she might collapse at any moment. Now without any more hope, she turned to her mother with her eyes closed, "Mother, do you really believe...that I have money? Do you really believe that in the Ferrari family I have not suffered any kind of discrimination? I've been joining the Ferrari family for more than a few months now, and you've never asked me...not once, if I fit in."
The mother stared at her bashfully. Then, almost crazed, she grabbed her arm again, "What are you saying? That you don't want to help me? Is it possible that you want to see your mother killed? This daughter without any pity, I have raised you all these years, and you return this cruel look to me?" And once these words were said, the mother violently hurled herself at her to beat her.
Serena did not move and biting her lip replied, "You can beat me to death, I can't give you the money anyway."
Father Andrew stepped in to stop his wife, "What are you beating her for? Isn't the €300,000 she has already given you enough? Serena's husband is a man with major handicaps, who knows what consideration is given to him in the family. Stop bothering her. And you Serena, go away, this problem will be solved by me and your mother."
"No! You can't leave! If you leave who will give us the money?" The mother seemed to have gone mad: terrified by the thought of not being able to repay her gambling debts and being maimed by creditors for it, she grabbed Serena's arm with such force that it bled.
With the old wounds not yet completely healed, new ones also now appeared on Serena's arm. She lowered her head and stood watching in astonishment as the new wounds mingled with and reopened the old ones, until, at one point, she could not stop herself from laughing. She had come home to her house looking like that, and not only had no one cared about her, but they had even raged at her. Sometimes she found herself doubting whether she really belonged to the Gallo family: how was it possible that her mother's behavior with her and her sister Aurora was so different!
"Serena, go away, hurry up!"
The father Andrew, no longer putting up with the situation, had managed to stop his wife while, at the same time, motioning Serena to leave. Her father's intervention was like a godsend for Serena who, withou a second thought, cast a glance of understanding at her father and left their home.
Finding herself in the middle of the road, Serena felt she had nowhere to return to. When her cell phone began to ring incessantly. Although not initially intending to answer it, Serena eventually gave in to the insistence of the person who was calling her without pause.
"Hello?" she said exhaustedly.
"Serena!" the voice of Anna Galli was on the contrary full of life and enthusiasm to hear her, "Where are you? Why didn't you come to work today? Don't tell me you are still on vacation!"
Hearing Anna's voice, Serena was silent for a few seconds, and then replied, "Yes, I am resting today."
"Oh, I'm resting today too, I've been sleeping until now! Come on, I'll come to see you and we'll walk around a bit!"
"Not even, come on," Serena replied after casting a glance at the road.
At this moment how could she feel like going for a walk?
"Come on, tell me where you are I'll come right away. Send me your location, I said I'm coming and I'm coming!" ordered Anna to her without much ado. Serena then, with no other choice, sent her position first. then looked for a place where she could give the wounds on her arm a rinse, and once she was done she stood waiting for Anna.
Once she arrived, Anna cast a glance at Serena's new wounds, unable to hold back a grimace of pain on her face.
"What happened? Who did that to you? Did you meet the ones there again? Did they do this to you?"
All these questions in a row made Serena smile, "No no, I was careless and hurt myself."
"Who are you kidding?" replied Anna, throwing her another look before dragging her to the car, "Let's go to my house and I'll fix these wounds for you for a moment."
"You..."
"I tell you the truth, Mr. Leonardo called me and said you were not well today and sent me to find you."
Mr. Leonardo?
Leonardo Ferrari?
Serena squinted her eyes, she never thought that Leonardo could....
"But you tell me what kind of person this Leonardo is. If he really cared, couldn't he have come looking for you? Instead, he sent me instead. This way of coming after you is too strange, especially the fact that you are his brother's wife. Serena, I have to tell you something! It is true, Leonardo is handsome and very kind, but as a person he is not much. This way of his, it's obvious that he wants to seduce you! Really unreasonable!"