“During the vacations, your natural daughter had new clothes, while the other one did not. You treated her like a savage, even… You made her work and forced her to take care of her younger sister. These are injustices, I guess you always told her that because she was the older sister she had to take care of her younger sister, right?”
When Chiara said this, thinking about the information she had investigated, she could not help but look at it with disgust, “Even after her divorce, you pushed her further, forced her into marriage, making her suffer another injustice. Mrs. Gallo, to go this far is horrible.”
When Chiara finished speaking, Julia felt the weight of her guilt, but after a while, she realized Chiara was right.
“Why would I be horrible? You also know that she is not my biological daughter. If she was my biological daughter, I would have treated her well, but she is not, so why should I treat her as such? I don’t owe her anything! Besides, at home we supported her in everything, I let her go to the school she wanted to go to. Why should I have felt sorry for her?”
“Does she perhaps not know that she has violated her personal freedom? If there had been a choice, do you think she would have wanted to choose you as her mother? At first you wanted to adopt her because you could not have a child with your husband, but after you had her, she began to be treated unfairly. When you treated her like that, did you ever think about how much joy she had given you?”
Julia: “…”
She suddenly remembered that before she got pregnant, she and her husband were very happy when she and her husband were able to adopt Serena, because she had beautiful eyebrows and would be beautiful when she grew up.
The two of them discussed that they should find a good family for her when she grew up.
But later, after she had her daughter, those thoughts gradually faded away, and she was even disgusted by Serena’s presence, thought Serena was like a broken oil bottle and would take a lot of money from her, so she had begun to stop giving Serena anything. She bought new clothes for Aurora and when she bullied Serena, Julia pretended not to see and was even relieved.
When Serena had been taken away by the traffickers, Giulia also thought that… it was a very good thing.
In any case, she was a child adopted from an orphanage, and as the abandoned child she was, she was not at fault for being caught by the trafficker. She thought that the trafficker might send her to other parents and that her parents would never see her again.
These thoughts grew fast, but then the police had called her family to say that she had been found and asked them to pick her up at the station.
Ella had hesitated for a long time before picking Serena up, and from then on she looked at Serena even more disgusted wondering why she had not died in the hands of those traffickers.
In any case… what she had said up to this point was not entirely clear.
“Then why did you come today?”
“Now you will admit that your daughter was adopted, not your biological daughter, right?”
Julia nodded, at that moment there was nothing more to admit.
“Yes, however, you have investigated the matter so clearly, so I have nothing to deny, who are you anyway? What is the motive of this investigation? ”
Chiara looked at Matthew, he nodded, and Chiara asked, “Where is the lucky charm?”
Giulia looked at them, and then said angrily, “What do you want to do?”
“Mrs. Gallo, things are already clear, are you sure you don’t know what we want to do?”
“you… “Giulia thought about it for a while, and when she reacted, she suddenly opened her eyes wide and pointed at them incredulously, “Could it be that Serena is…”
“If you can, please return the pendant, the pendant… There is an inscription on it, which was made by the Giordano family with a lot of money.
Hearing this, Julia thought she was living inside an illusion, had she really adopted a child from a wealthy family? She was in her own home.
It was not possible.
She could not take Serena back.
Thinking about this, Giulia coughed slightly, “You want to get her back, but how do I know if you are telling the truth? At first glance this pendant may seem very valuable, taking Serena from the orphanage I didn’t commit any crime, did I? As for what happened next, it was after I adopted her: as her parents, I have the right to decide what to do with her. she is an adult and now you want to tell me, is she the daughter of the Giordano family? Mm, if there’s not enough evidence, I won’t believe it and I can’t tell you for sure.
Chiara smiled knowingly, “that would be great what you said.”
After she finished speaking, she took out a credit card and laid it on the table, “Mrs. Gallo, this is your reward for taking care of Ms. Giordano over the years. If you are willing to return the pendant, this is five hundred thousand euros for you.”
As soon as Julia heard about the five hundred thousand, her eyes instantly lit up, just as if a thousand lights had suddenly lit up in her eyes.
But soon she looked again at Matthew in front of her.
After this person had entered, the atmosphere that had enveloped the whole house made it difficult for anyone to feel good. Would five hundred thousand be enough?
Thinking about this, Julia pretended to stand and coughed slightly, and then said, “What do you mean? Do you want to buy me for five hundred thousand? Am I the kind of person who only sees money?”
“According to my investigation, you have more than one hundred thousand euros in gambling debts. Recently, your husband has been heavily in debt because of your foreign debt problem, and your daughter, Serena, has already given you three hundred thousand euros, right?”
Julia: “… It seems that you have really investigated everything. ”
“You are an intelligent person. You should know that if this money will be used to pay off gambling debts, the remaining money will be enough for two elderly people.”
“What is that supposed to mean? “Julia stood up angrily, but she was terrified by the aura emanating from Matthew, her voice was calm: “I raised her for more than 20 years. And you a would like to exchange her for money?”
“If I may, I don’t want to talk about money.” Here’s the thing, Chiara. “Matteo said suddenly.
Chiara reacted and stepped forward putting the credit card away.
“We had not prepared the money before coming. After all, you are a benefactor who has raised her for more than 20 years. Using money to solve the problem is a painful thing, and now it looks like you are like us.”
Julia saw her take the money back, her eyes straightening in surprise.
What was going on? She wanted more money, but she didn’t expect…