THE GIRL I KNEW

38. SHE SOLD HER MOTHER RIGHTS TO ME!

~if you haven’t read THE NEW GIRL, go REEEEADDD IIIITTT before reading this book to have a better understanding 💛

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ANDRÉ’S POV:

“I’ve fired all the staffs like I told you I would. It had to be one of them.” My father came to me in the garden. “Except for Mrs. Edna. She has been working for our family for fifty whole years and has witnessed all the terrible and despicable things happen but not once has she leaked to the media.”

“So it has to be the others.” I replied.

“I’ve replaced both the domestic staffs and the security. The new recruits have areived..”

“Good.” I placed my hands in my pockets.

“Sir.” The new head of security rushed to us. “Sorry to bother you both but there’s a problem at the gate. Someone is demanding to be let—”

“Let them in.” Both my father and I spoke.

“Umm..sure sir.” He nodded and left.

We already knew who that was. And God knows I wasn’t ready to face them.

“I’m surely dead.” Dad spoke and sighed.

After some seconds, I heard their footsteps.

“How the hell did last night become today’s headlines for every fucking newspaper Mister Lombardi?!”

I turned around to face her. Her face wasn’t as bright as it normally was, her eyes were red and puffy, as for her hair, it was in a mess. She was the total opposite of The Gabriella Dalmonte the world knew her as. But, somehow, she still looked beautiful.

“I-I....I—”

“You what?! I couldn’t even sleep at all because Tequila wasn’t with me and to make matters worse, at five am in the morning my phone is going haywire because of the amount of messages and calls I got from people about what was happening online. I fucking went on twitter and the first thing I saw were numerous videos of everything that happened last night! YOU BETTER HAVE AN EXPLANATION AS TO HOW THE ENTIRE GLOBE KNOWS THAT TEQUILA IS NOT OUR BIOLOGICAL CHILD?!”

“Someone leaked it. And we’re suspecting that it was one of the workers so dad fired everyone.” I spoke to her without any emotions in my eyes.

“Forget about that now, what is important is that where exactly the hell is my granddaughter?” Uncle Nathan finally spoke.

“Nathan..” My dad came in.

“Andrew...where is she?” He faced my dad.

“André where is my daughter?” She stepped closer to me.

“Don’t tell me what you know I don’t want to hear, Andrew.” Uncle narrowed his eyes at him...and me.

“The scenes shown in the video were till I was thrown out of this house. What happened when I left?” I asked one more time trying to hold myself....but I couldn’t. “Where is Tequila?!?!” She lost her last patience and bursted.

“She’s in Italy.” A feminine voice approached us. It was Andrea. “Laura took her.”

Gabriella blinked once and then twice before her brain could capture what was just said to her. And when it did, knowing how Brie is, all she saw at that point was pure red.

“WHAT. DO. YOU. MEAN. SHE. TOOK. HER?!” Her blood was boiling as hot as it could and her chest rose up and down to the point that I’m sure it hurt. “YOU LET THEM TAKE HER?!” Her eyes shot at mine, searching for answers. “I know what I did to you was awful but just because she’s your family, it doesn’t mean that you should side for wrong! Tequila is my baby! Not her child! She didn’t care for her one bit when she was born! She-She didn’t even want to feed Tequila! She w-was ready to starve her to the point of death without feeling any fucking remorse! I was the one that took up the motherly duties from the second week of her life! Laura basically sold her mother rights to me just so she could go back to wasting her fucking life while I and my mom and dad did all we could so that Tequila could live to fight another fucking day due to her nonchalant attitude during the pregnancy! Yet you and your family chose her!” One of the things I dreaded was seeing her broken. She literally was the strongest woman I knew, and I’ve realized it takes everything to make her reach her breaking point.