“So what happened in the end?” Anna blinking vigorously said, “Too many things have happened lately that even I have a hard time digesting them, what is your relationship with Mr. Giordano?”
“Anna, if I were you I would gossip some more.” Serena looked at her with a helpless look and placing the cutlery she had in her hand on the table, she stated : “To make a long story short, he and I were not what you think and as for our relationship… I haven’t thought it through yet.”
She had not yet thought it through whether or not she wanted to admit that feeling to herself.
Anna said, “You little cheapskate, you’re not willing to tell me that either, phew.”
As the two were talking, suddenly there was the sound of the doorbell coming from outside.
Anna immediately jumped to her feet, “I’m going to open it!”
Based on the words Ms. Lucia had told her earlier, Anna knew that the person at the door was probably Matteo Giordano himself!
The woman had a burning desire within her to gossip, and after she opened the door, she saw that indeed the person standing outside was indeed Matteo.
The man wore a dark suit, had a cold gaze, and on closer inspection did not look in the least like a man devoid of poise.
This temperament, it really made one think that Serena had hit the jackpot, for although she was divorced with Cristian, on the one hand she had Leonardo incessantly courting her and on the other hand a man with an excellent temperament, such as Matteo was.
Even choosing one without thinking too much about it would not have been so bad.
As soon as he saw Anna, Matteo’s gaze lingered on her for a moment, but after a moment he went beyond that and headed directly toward the interior of the house.
The woman smiling narrowed her eyes and said to him, “Mr. Giordano?”
Matteo nodded with a smile of courtesy, his lips thin.
Anna turned to the side and said, “Serena is in here.”
The man frowned slightly, stepping forward to enter and, unable to resist, gave Anna a furtive glance, discovering that this girl unexpectedly had a playful expression on her face and was, moreover, scrutinizing him with a look that did not seem to reveal good intentions.
Had this little girl perhaps misunderstood something?
Thinking about this, Matthew’s eyebrows wrinkled further.
In fact, after Anna had gone to open the door, Serena had suddenly become very nervous and, to tell the truth, in her current condition she did not have too much desire to meet Matteo. She would still have liked to clear her head for a while.
So when the man came up behind her, she almost unconsciously stood up.
“You….”
“How are you?”
Matthew moved very naturally, set his briefcase to the side, and his gaze rested on Serena’s body; the tone of his words was full of thoughtfulness, like that of an older person to a younger one. After asking her how she was doing, he looked at the breakfast on the table and noticed that, unexpectedly, it had all been brushed off.
After a moment of confusion, Matteo could not resist and smiled faintly.
“You seem to have a good appetite; you shouldn’t have any health problems.”
Presumably his mood had improved as well.
She would never have thought that this girl’s character could be so similar to her mother’s.
Serena would have liked to say something, but hearing him speak like this, the words that were on his lips did not come out.
After glancing at the table where everything had been brushed off, she could not help but look again in the direction of Anna, who was approaching.
Unbelievable! Eating like this was not very polite.
“Mr. Giordano rest assured, Serena has a very good appetite, besides, even if she didn’t eat, I would control her.”
Hearing her talk like this, Matteo smiled kindly at her and said, “Thank you for your trouble.”
“You’re welcome.” Anna waved her hand and said, “We are very good friends, I have a duty to worry and take care of her….” The final part of the sentence went on for a long time, because Anna had actually intended to test Matthew, but the latter seemed not to read between the lines and did not understand her words. She frowned slightly, raised her hand and glanced at the time.
“All right, I have a meeting in half an hour, I’ll stay ten minutes and then leave.”
Concluding his sentence, Matthew actually sat down, Serena seeing that the things on the table were really too many, could only surreptitiously bump Anna’s elbow, signaling for her to clean it together.
The two women then hurried to clean the table, and next Serena looked at Matteo.
“Matteo… have you had breakfast? Why don’t you…?”
He looked at her with a sweet look and said, “Never mind, I’m not hungry.”
Matteo had, in fact, thought of having breakfast with her, more to check that she ate, but since she had already had it, he thought it was not so important that he eat.
Anna, stood to the side and watched them both amazed and a little embarrassed, “Excuse me, I didn’t think you would come, Mr. Giordano, if I had known earlier, I would have waited for you.”
Actually she knew he would come, but she never thought that the head of the Giordano Family Group would have time to go to the hotel and have breakfast with them, such a fact seemed more like a fantasy.
Therefore she had not considered it, and of course they had brushed it all off, partly because she was still afraid of wasting food, but now she was so full that she did not feel so good.
“No problem, I’ll just stop here for a moment and then leave,” she said.
“I’ll pour you a glass of water.” Anna knew she had eaten too much, so she rushed to pour water for Matthew.
Soon afterwards she realized that pouring him just a glass of water would be too paltry, so she turned back and smiled at him and said, “When I came here this morning I noticed that there is a café nearby, if you don’t mind I will go downstairs and bring you a coffee and a sandwich.”
Matteo hesitated at first, but a moment later he looked at Serena, nodded and said, “All right.”
“I’ll go right away, I promise I’ll be quick!”
The door slamming was heard.
Anna was a girl of quick movements and in a moment she was gone.
After she was gone, only Serena and Matteo were left alone in the hotel room.
Although they were related, Serena still felt very embarrassed to be alone in the same room with Matteo.
There was a moment of silence all around and the man suddenly said, “I can handle Alice’s situation.”
Hearing him talk like that, Serena looked up and could not resist asking him, “How will you handle her? Do you really believe in my identity? Don’t you have any doubts? After all… We have to learn from Alice’s story, I think you should be more cautious in order to avoid finding out in the future that my identity is false and at that point…”
“That’s not possible.” Matthew interrupted her, looking calm, his expression cold: “This time, I won’t make a mistake.”
The woman bit her lower lip, lowered her gaze to stare at her fingertips.
“Are you afraid?”
Serena did not speak, merely lowered her head.
How could she not be afraid? It had suddenly dawned on her that the parents with whom she had spent so many years were not her real family, in an instant she had become a child no one wanted, despite the fact that the Giordano family now came out claiming to be her family. But… Alice’s story made her feel afraid, maybe one day as she was about to accept this affection and integrate into the new family, it might appear saying she had the wrong person….
So in the end, who would she have been? Who would she have been?
Matthew looked at the back of his head for quite a while and finally sighed helplessly.
“Initially there was a question I didn’t want to ask you, but since you are so concerned, I can’t not ask it.”
Hearing these words, Serena raised her head and looking at him foolishly, said, “What question?”
Matthew blinked slightly and, in principle, would not have wanted to ask such a question.
After all, his sister was now an adult.