Chapter 25 Unwanted Legacy

Chapter 25 Unwanted Legacy
Seraphina’s POV

The Landlord is my mom's uncle?
And Mam Carolina is my aunt?

I can't believe it.

If my mom was born and raised here, that means I didn't know anything about her. Why would she keep such secret from me?

And my dad, I wouldn't blame him. He was always busy and barely spend an entire week with us, except during special occasions.

Mam Carolina warns me not to tell any of the girls, to avoid being envied. But what's there to be envied?

I wish I can leave this place for good. I don't want anything that has to do with it. And I don't care whether my mom was raised here or not.

Jessica, Elena and Rosa are happy to see me back. They throw a mini welcome back party for me in our room. I don't have their time, I just lay quiet on my bed.

Elena asks how life out there is? But I don't say anything. Rosa replies that it's obviously hard, that's why I returned.

“I didn't return. I was forced back!’ I snap, but that only make them tease me even more.

When I am fed up, I climb down and leave the room for them. I go to Valeria’s room to check on her, but she's not there. When I am about leaving the room, I bump into someone who's obviously just back from a gig.

I've never seen her before. She's really beautiful. She stares at me for some seconds, eyes wide as if she knows something about me, until one of Valerie's roommates calls. “Irene, where are you coming back from?”

“Somewhere,” she responds, falling wearily on one of the beds, “I don't know why these days I feel lazy, tired”

“Maybe you are pregnant,”

“Cut that crap, Lena. I don't like it”

“But it's got to be something,”

“Yeah, whatever!”

I leave the room for them.

Mam Carolina calls for breakfast later and we all eat in the grand dinning table at the first floor. I still can't find Valeria. But luckily, I find Gabriela, her sister.

When I wave at her, she smiles. And gently wave back. I can't wait to finish eating so I can ask her about her sister.

As I continue to eat, my eyes land on Irene, she keeps staring at me and I suddenly become uncomfortable. I don't know why she keeps looking at me as if I did something she didn't like.

Also, it's not as if I am more beautiful that she will feel threatened by my beauty. She's way more beautiful than me, and her chest is way more bigger. I don't have such sizes of breats.

After eating, I meet Gabriela to discuss about her sister. She huff and tells me her sister has been missing for almost a month now. A client took her out and she… allegedly bite off one of his ears and runs away.

Like seriously?

I am totally confused.

Why would Valeria do such thing?
Maybe there is something I don't know.

“Valeria did that?”

“So they said,” Gabriela mutters, now wearing a sad face.

I don't want to believe Valeria will do such a thing even if she wants to, not when she has a sister in La Estancia. Even her sister doesn't seem to believe in the story.

As we continue to talk, Mam Carolina walks to me and tells me she wants to see me. I follow her and we head to the top floor. She asks if Irene had said anything to me.

I don't know why she asks such question, “No,” I respond.

She heaves a sigh and tells me to not listen to whatever she has to say to me. That sometimes she can be delusional.

Delusional?

She doesn't look like someone who's delusional to me. But I can't say anything, so I nod to her advice.

“Good. You can go to your friends now” she says.

But I am not ready to leave. I have some questions to ask her, though I don't know how to put it.

“You still standing?” she wrinkles a brow at me.

I decide not to ask again, at least not now. Maybe this isn't the right time, she doesn't look like someone who's ready to answer my questions.

I return to the floor where I stay.

In the evening, Rosa and Jessica dress well to go out for their usual duties. But Elena isn't feeling well, so she stays.

Mam Carolina asks me to replace Elena. I am not happy but there is nothing I can do. I get myself dressed, and Jessica helps me with the makeup.

A nice car, new generation Mercedes Benz comes and picks up. For the first time, I am going out to do what other girls are doing? I feel like I am not ready for it but there is no going back now.

The thought of my mother comes into my mind. If really what Mam Carolina told me is right, then she must have done this too… what I am about to do, maybe long before my dad met her.

“Nervous?” Rosa from the front seat beside the driver glances back and asks me.

“No,” I lie and try to hide my nervousness by crooking a smile but she smiles, obviously aware of the fact I am lying.

“Relax, okay?” Jessica, sitting beside me says, “If it's your first time, then I can try talking to our clients to look for someone more convenient for you”

I heave a sigh, speechless…

I don't know exactly what to say.

“Look, Seraphina,” Rosa glances back again, “You don't have to do this today. Mam Carolina would be pissed, sure, and that's because The Landlord is going to be pissed too. Though we've not been seeing him for a while…”

“After that incident, where the guys that brought you came to pick you up again” Jessica chimes in.

“Yes,” Rosa continues, “his sickness gets worse and one of La Estancia’s doctors has to come and check on him. We heard rumors he doesn't have much time left”

It's not a rumor, it's the truth.
That man looks dead already.

But I am nor going to say that so they won't have to say they heard that from me.

I am curious though…

“If he dies, will La Estancia fall? Because I don't think Mam Carolina can handle that building alone” I utter.

“His son will” Rosa says.

“He has a son?” I am confused.

“Yes. And his son is a gay. He lives in Spain. That's all I know!” Rosa responds.

A gay?

From Spain?

Who is that exactly?