Taking Out A Player

Chapter 15

Gina POV:

I was having dinner with my brother, Chase, my dad, and his fiancée. It was an awkward silence between us. I don't mind as long as that woman didn't talk to me.

"So Chase," my dad's fiancée said breaking the silence. "How long are you planning on staying?"

My brother looked up from his food for the first time. "Oh, not long. Probably two or three weeks before I head back out."

My brother had got a degree in business. He travel a lot cos of the businesses he's starting. He already had five hotels running in in five different states, and a charity house near a hospital for families whose loved ones have cancer. He always had a caring heart like our mother.

I'm slick mad at him cos after our mother had died, he had left me and my dad alone to grieve. I guess he didn't want to have to be the strong person around us, while we cry. He did have a life to live, and he did. He made daddy happy by getting into business. He made mother proud even in death by caring for other people.

I wish I was more like my caring mother, but I'm about as cruel as my daddy. "Power is everything," he always told me.

"But that's right before our engagement party," she said.

"Ya son. You can't go and miss it," my daddy said.

I rolled my eyes. My dad's fiancée want to do some weird masquerade ball thing. I think it's a bit stupid and too much. Who wanna be around people with masks on? There probably someone there to steal or some.

Chase shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know. I do have a project I have finish."

I guess he didn't want to go as much as I do.

"Son surely you could take a little while longer off. This is a big event," daddy said.

"Yes. Also, Gina." She pointed at me. "You can invite your friends you been hanging out with lately."

My mouth dropped. How did she know I was hanging out with the other girls? It only been two days. I didn't ask her.

"I don't know if I'm coming," I said.

"And why not?" daddy asked.

"Um... My friends and I wanted to do something for that day daddy. I know you don't want to ruin my friendship with my first real friends."

As much as I hate to admit it, I never had true friends before. Most girls who pretended to be my friend just knew I had money and saw that as a benefit. I have girls I hang out with, but never true friends. Tori, Bre, Lassie, aand Mariah are the closest thing I have for friends. Even if we don't consider each other one.

"Well how bout you bring your friends to the party. I would love to meet the girls that befriend my daughter," daddy's fiancée said.

I set my fork down.

"You're not my mother, and I'm not your daughter," I said.

Daddy and Chase stopped eating and stared at me. Daddy's fiancée looked at me.

"I know I'm not biologically your mother, but I am going to be part of this family. I just want to be closer to you guys," she said.

"Well, you don't have to do that. Last I checked, my mother had died from cancer, and I hadn't been looking for a replacement." I stood up and left out the dining room.

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Stella POV:

I don't understand why that girl hate me so much. Does it pain Gina so much that I am marrying her father? Does she think of me as a gold digging woman?