Chapter 2 Mommy, Linda Saw Daddy
Five years later.
Freyton Auction House.
In the spacious hall, celebrities gathered.
At the auction, the auctioneer wore a white qipao. Her black hair was tied up, and a thin veil covered her face, so you couldn’t see what she looked like, but every move she made was amazingly beautiful.
She confidently and smoothly introduced the auction items on the display table, and people in the audience rushed to bid.
A pair of clear eyes swept over the audience, holding the gavel, in control of everything.
On the second floor, Rodrigo sat there, tilted his head and glanced over, “The person Grandpa insisted on seeing is her?”
The assistant next to him handed over the documents, “Yeah, her name’s Gina. She started here as an auctioneer five years ago. At her first auction, she sold an ancient landscape painting with a starting price of one million for a sky-high sixty million. That’s sixty times the original price. She became famous with just one sale.”
Rodrigo squinted his eyes, “She always showed up with a veil?”
The assistant thought for a moment and said, “Yeah, I heard someone once offered her ten million to take off her veil, but she turned them all down. People said she was so ugly that she didn’t want to take it off.”
Rodrigo put out his cigarette and watched quietly, “Nice eyes.”
With such beautiful eyes, how could she have been shockingly ugly.
And those eyes looked like a person.
Who did it look like?
Like Gianna.
That woman from five years ago, who left a divorce agreement, got rid of his baby without saying a word, and left—no one’s been able to find her since.
“Bring her to see me.”
Rodrigo stood up, took a couple of steps, and he stopped.
“It’s been five years, and there’s still no sign of Gianna?”
The assistant was terrified.
They all said people couldn’t just vanish into thin air.
But his wife really just disappeared from the face of the earth. It’s been five years, and there wasn’t a single clue.
Rodrigo had a headache, “Keep looking.”
That woman was ruthless. She got divorced, aborted his baby, and blocked and deleted all his contact info.
I guess nobody knew that the president of the Salazar Group was actually the one who got dumped by a divorce agreement, and nobody knew he had been looking for the woman who left him for five years.
Rodrigo had to find her. He wanted to ask her what exactly he had done that was so unforgivable that made her act like this.
Rodrigo left.
Assistant Kade Navarro stood there breaking out in a cold sweat. He had looked everywhere he should, but there was no news at all.
Couldn’t find the person for five years, so keeping on looking was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Kade muttered to himself miserably, “Ma’am, where on earth are you.”
An auction ended, Gina gave a graceful little bow and turned to leave.
Five years ago, Gianna came to Freyton and started working at an auction house. She changed her name to Gina. To avoid unnecessary trouble, she always wore a veil at the auction house.
Came to the office.
A soft, squishy little pink dumpling ran over with its short little legs, opened its chubby hands, hugged Gianna’s leg, and called out in a crisp voice, “Mommy.”
Gianna took off her veil and showed a delicate, beautiful little face. She bent down and picked up her daughter, kissed her on her fair face, and said, “Has Linda been waiting long? Where are your brothers?”
Little Pink Dumpling’s tiny hands were all bunched up, lifted her little head, “Hmph, the big brothers went out to play.”
“Weren’t they bringing Linda?”
“They said if we went to play boys’ games, we couldn’t bring Linda.”
Gianna, “…”
These two guys just wanted to ditch Linda, just say it.
Back then, Gianna was so discouraged that she wanted to get rid of the baby, but when she actually saw the operating room, she couldn’t go through with it and gave up in the end.
Two months after she came to Freyton, she had three babies, two boys and a girl.
The oldest was called Elliot Pollard, the second was called Jacob Pollard, and the third was called Belinda Pollard.
Elliot was sensible, Jacob was naughty, Belinda was the cutest.
Gianna looked at the little baby in her arms and felt glad about the decision she made back then.
“By the way, Mommy, guess who Linda and the boys saw today.”
“Who is it?”
“Was a bad daddy.”
Linda spoke loudly, but Gianna didn’t catch it.
“Who did Linda say she saw?”
“Linda and her brothers saw the bad daddy, the one who shows up on TV, called… called… Rodrigo, the bad daddy, the really mean one.”
Linda was talking and raised her little hand to gesture to Gianna.
Gianna listened to what Linda said, and her heart skipped a beat.
These past few years, she rarely heard the name Rodrigo.
For a while, Gianna forgot this person even existed.
But at that moment, when his name came out of Linda’s mouth, all the memories came rushing back, and Gianna still felt a pang in her chest.
But how did Rodrigo end up here?
Her kids only knew their dad was called Rodrigo, saw him a few times on TV, probably got it wrong.
“Linda got it wrong, he wasn’t coming here.”
“But…”
Knock knock—
Two knocks on the door interrupted Linda.
“Who?”
“Gina, are you busy? The manager asked you to go over right away. An important guest asked for you by name. The manager told you to hurry up.”
Honored guest?
They had plenty of VIPs at their auction house, but there really weren’t many who could make the manager this nervous.
Gianna was actually kind of curious how important the guest was.
“Not busy, I’ll be right over.”
“But Linda really saw the bad daddy.” Linda frowned and spoke softly. Gianna looked at her. Linda blinked her big watery eyes and asked a little sadly, “Is mommy going to work again?”
Gianna put Linda on the sofa and said apologetically, “Linda, baby, wait a little longer. Mommy will be back soon, okay?”
Although I really wanted mommy to stay with me, I couldn’t let her work be delayed.
Linda was very well-behaved.
“Okay, Linda waited for mommy.”
Gianna kissed her daughter on the cheek again and gave her some bread, “Linda, have some bread. Later, Mommy will take you and your brothers out for a big meal, okay?”
“Okay.”
Gianna gave a gentle smile, put on her veil, and walked out.
Linda held the bread in both hands and ran to the door, poking her head out to quietly check outside.
Mommy left again, so bored.
Linda put down the bread, tapped her smartwatch, and asked in a childish voice, “Brothers, where are you? Linda came to find you.”
Soon Linda got a reply, a location pin plus, “In the underground parking lot.”
In the underground parking lot, two little kids stood in front of a black Maybach.
Elliot hugged his little arms and looked at Jacob with a complicated expression, “Are you sure this car was scumbag daddy’s?”
Jacob worked hard painting on the car with a paintbrush.
It was all done.
“Couldn’t be wrong, I saw him get out of this car.”
Elliot looked at the big messy words on the car and quietly read, “A jerk who ditched his wife and kid.”
