In the end, Matteo simply carried Anna back to her room and then down to Serena.
Serena was probably very tired, and fell asleep on the sofa silently.
But when Matteo walked toward her, she suddenly turned around and saw her about to fall off the couch onto the cold, hard floor. Matteo jumped forward to hold her and put her back in place.
After such a momentum, Matteo’s forehead was all sweaty.
At first he was calm, but now he looked embarrassed.
Matteo stared at Serena in his sleep and shook his head helplessly, “You really want to make trouble for me. Who is the host, me or you?”
Better let it go, after all, she was his sister.
Matteo loved his sister very much, finally getting up taking her in his arms and carrying Serena to her room.
After putting her back to bed, Matteo went back to his room to get ready to wash. When he entered the room, he found Manuel lying on the bed with a pillow in his arms looking at him with a bright gaze.
“Uncle, it’s hard for you.”
Matthew, unbuttoning his shirt, somehow had the feeling of being teased, “Come on, sleep.”
He urged him to sleep. Manuel immediately turned over and covered himself with the blanket, “Good night, Uncle. See you tomorrow.”
*
The aftershocks were very strong. When Serena woke up the next day, it was very late. She turned around and felt like a drill in her head. She looked at the room all lit up and got up.
What time was it?
Serena glanced at her cell phone and saw that it was already ten o’clock in the morning. She got up calmly and went to the bathroom to wash up.
When she finished dressing and went downstairs, she saw Matthew sitting on the couch with his laptop, talking about work in a video conference.
Serena did not greet him; she went directly to the kitchen and poured herself a cup of hot water.
When she came out, Matteo had interrupted the videoconference, “Are you awake?”
“Brother, don’t you have to go to work, aren’t you going to the company?”
“I would like to go, but how can I be comfortable? You both drank so much.”
Serena simply did not answer. The day before, initially, she did not want to drink so much, but then she started drinking and did not think about it anymore.
She did not remember anything about what had happened the night before. At that moment… He just looked at Matthew and asked him, “Brother, didn’t I say anything last night?”
“What do you say?” Matteo answered with a question.
Serena smiled awkwardly, “I don’t know, if I knew, there would be no need for me to ask.”
“Abroad, did you do it often?”
Serena was stunned for a few seconds and immediately shook her head, “Not at all, just occasionally…”
“Occasionally?” Matteo arched his eyebrows, with an angry look.
“Not very often…” Serena quickly rephrased the words, but seeing Matteo’s serious face, she realized the situation was not good, so she hastened to say, “Brother, I only drank with her a few times when things were not going well at work. It’s not what you think, and it wasn’t even like last night.”
In fact, it was more serious than he thought, they didn’t even drink much last night.
So in the end it still wasn’t what he thought.
Matthew was so angry that he reached out to pinch her sore temples, “I mean, you should always take care of yourself. I won’t put limits on what you want to do, but if you let yourself go like this and ignore your health, I won’t bother to find someone to take care of you when you need it.”
This last sentence made Serena change her expression slightly, “Find someone to take care of me? What do you mean?”
Matthew kept quiet and stared at her, thinning his lips.
Serena’s eyelashes twitched and she pulled her lips together awkwardly, “Brother, it’s not what I think it is, is it?”
“Sort of.” Matthew turned and picked up the coat on the shelf, buttoned it and said in a firm voice, “You’re not a little girl anymore. As a mother, if you can’t take care of yourself, I, as your brother, will have to take care of you. I will have to find someone to take care of you.”
“… You talk about me, but why don’t you also look out for yourself? I am your sister, since you became my brother, I never imposed that there were people to watch over you.”
She scolded him as if he were an army general, but Matthew did not pale, and his voice became even colder.
“You know I am your brother.”
Serena stopped talking.
He is the older brother, and she as the younger sister should just listen to his lecture.
“I have to go back to North City, you-when will you go back to the Giordano family home?”
“Can you…”
“No.”
“That’s okay, I understand, in two days I have to go there for work, at that time I will drop by the house.”
“Great.”
Matthew did not leave until he had a satisfactory answer.
After he left, Serena stood in front of the window and touched her shaggy hair. Very often he was still very strict, and he took care of her as if he were her father.
He could let a lot of things slide, but — not when it came to feelings.
Even though in the last five years he had never had any relationship because he preferred to take care of Manuel, still he still cared a lot about her.
But… What he had just said showed that… He was thinking about it.
In the future he would probably look for a suitable partner for her, it was only a matter of time.
He had to think about how to get this problem out of Matthew’s head.
Anna rushed down and looked at her, she was nervous.
“Is your brother gone?”
Serena turned around, “Yes, why?”
Anna slinged on her chest, her look seemed pained, “I’m really embarrassed, I was drunk last night. Now that I’m up, I can’t remember anything that happened last night!”
“So?” Serena approached her indifferently and with equal indifference said, “What’s the matter, I was drunk too.”
“Can I act like you?” Anna quickly approached and said sorrowfully, “You are her sister, and I am your assistant!”
“So what?” Serena turned around, bent down and leaned against the table with her arms folded across her chest, looking at her calmly.
Anna covered her pained cheek, “How can a ruthless woman like you understand how I feel? I’m not his sister, I’m just a normal woman, and I was drunk in front of him. He had no image on me. From now on, in your brother’s eyes, I will be a horrible person!”
“And what do you care? Don’t tell me that…” Serena raised her eyebrows and looked at her playfully.
Anna changed her expression, only then noticing what she had noticed, turned back and stared at Serena.
“Do you like my brother?” Serena asked, approaching in a low voice.
“Don’t talk nonsense!” Anna took a step back, “Such a thing is impossible!”