Wife For Sale

Chapter Two

CHAPTER TWO

Family Crisis

Leianne’s parents, Damian Villar and Estela Ruiz, met, married and divorced in USA. She was seven years old and her brother, Ian, was just two years old. Her father had an affair with her mother’s younger sister Emily. Her Tita Emily was already pregnant when her parents divorced.

The divorce settlement had entitled her and Ian enough financial support until they both reached eighteen. Their mother worked hard to support them. Their grandparents by their father also helped them in any way possible. 

Their father and their aunt went home to Filipinas. They got married and settled in Wallori City, Canyan near the mansion house of their grandparents, Don Fortunato and Doña Laureana Villar. Their father had two more siblings – their Tito Fernando and their Tita Adelle.

Tito Fernando with his wife Tita Alicia and his daughter Alyanna lived also in Wallori City, Canyan near the Villar Mansion.

Their Tita Adelle lived in the Villar Mansion with Don Fortunato and Doña Laureana. It was also where they spent their annual Christmas and summer vacations whenever they had to go home to Filipinas.

Canyan’s Best was a family-owned meat processing company of the Villars. It was established in 1965 by their grandparents. They produced world-class tocino, longaniza, hotdog, ham and other meat processed foods. Her grandparents used to be meat vendors. Whenever they had some unsold pork at the end of the market day, her grandmother had to process the pork into tocino and longaniza. It just started as a home business until it became a world-class meat processing company.

March 8, 2008. Don Fortunato Villar died. Leianne, her mother and her brother had to go back to Filipinas for good.  It was the dying request of Don Fortunato for them to come home and live at Villar Mansion with Lola Laurena and Tita Adelle.

Her brother, Ian, was the only grandson of her grandparents. Don Fortunato and Doña Laureana didn’t approve of their father’s marriage to their aunt. Their father and their aunt only had one daughter – Leilani. Their Tito Fernando and his wife Tita Alicia also had one daughter – Alyanna. Their Tita Adelle had no husband. She had general learning disability. She still acted as if she was a child.

Their grandfather left her and Ian the ownership of Villar Mansion, the sixty percent shares of Canyan’s Best, and the care of Lola Laureana and Tita Adelle. Lolo Fortunato, Lola Laureana and Tita Adelle each owned twenty percent shares of Canyan’s Best.

Such had sparked the existing family feud even more. Their father and their Tito Fernando both didn’t approve of Don Fortunato’s last will and testament.

Ian, who was still then on his early twenties, had been trained by Lola Laureana with all the things he had to know about running the company. He also got the full support from their mother and from her. He also took up his MBA and DBA.

Leianne had to give up her practice on physical therapy just to help out Ian who had a slight Asperger Syndrome. Ian had slight difficulty in social interaction and nonverbal communication and had restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. Nevertheless, his linguistic and cognitive development was normal.    He had an IQ of 180. He was a genius and capable of running the business very well but lacked the required social interaction functioning in a business. Their Lola Laureana didn’t trust any of her two sons and so Leianne had to be Ian’s deputy.