Chapter 289: The Victim, a member of the Betances Family
Since he was a child, Gabrio had been the good boy of them all.
He would never make a mistake, let alone get into a fight.
However, men are impulsive and Gabrio, who grew up as a good boy, was no exception.
Only, compared to Severo, he was a bit weaker.
After ten minutes, Gabrio paused with bated breath and a slightly unsteady tone in his voice: “Mr. Betances, I told you it was not necessary to be pious”.
“Ah.” Severo replied weakly, his breathing even.
This made Gabrio wonder a little.
He usually exercised, not to mention that he was a doctor himself and was very particular about this aspect of his body conditioning.
A normal person, after a fight like this, would definitely be out of breath.
Severo, on the other hand, was as if nothing had happened.
When Severo finished speaking, he turned to pick up his suit jacket and put it back on, fumbled for a few seconds and found his cigarettes and lighter.
He lit a cigarette before speaking and asking Gabrio: “Would you like a cigarette?
“Thank you.” Gabrio held out his hand.
Once Severo brought him the cigarette and the lighter, he took it and lit it, then handed it back to Severo.
Severo’s smoky voice was a little hoarse: “What did you say to him?”
“I think you should ask what she said to me. There was a hint of derision in Gabrio’s tone.
The sarcasm in the words was clear.
Allyce was the little sister he had watched grow up, so how could he make her cry?
He would only let her trust him so far as to tell him everything he had originally said.
Although he could not see Severo’s face, he could feel the hostility emanating from him.
Gabrio took a deep drag on the cigarette in his hand and said, “You’re too shady for Allyce.
“That’s between me and Allyce, you don’t get to say anything!”.
Severo took a long drag on his cigarette, threw the butt to the ground, lifted his foot on it and did not move it again, as if it was Gabrio he was stepping on.
“If so, why did you have to come to me? Gabrio looked up at the sky with a hint of surprise in his tone: “Can you still see the stars here?
“What did he say?” Severo repeated the previous question.All content is property © NôvelDrama.Org.
“That you don’t fit in”.
Gabrio finished and then spoke: “You are a very good person, I am not as good as you, but being able to manage a group of companies does not mean being able to manage a relationship, you …”.
Severo interrupted him coldly: “If you’re so open-minded, why don’t you tell Allyce that you like her?
When he finished, he let out a grimace, a laugh laden with sarcasm and contempt.
Fortunately, Gabrio said nothing, otherwise he would have shown no mercy at this point.
Gabrio’s body shuddered for a moment before he reacted.
“Because I’m not like you, because I know she doesn’t need me to like her, what she needs is for me to always be the brother next door that she remembers”.
At the time, the Ortis and Allyce families were very close.
The day Allyce’s mother went into hospital to give birth, Gabrio stood guard with her outside the operating theatre.
He was waiting to see his little sister.
However, when her baby sister was born, she was left motherless.
At that moment, he felt that his little sister was very poor and that he had to take good care of her.
Everyone has obsessions in their heart.
That thought took root in his heart and grew stronger and stronger over the years.
As a child, Allyce was a good girl and listened to him, and as she grew older, her features grew and she became a beautiful girl in her late teens.
To Gabrio, Allyce was like a flower he had grown to care for.
He loved and cherished her with all his heart.
In his little life, apart from spending too much time on medicine, the other thing that cost him his heart was Allyce.
There had also been resignation.
How could the girl I had grown up with be someone else’s in the blink of an eye?
And this other person, who didn’t know how to appreciate it.
Gabrio vaguely saw that Severo seemed to be trembling, but the light was so dim that he couldn’t really see him.
He withdrew his thoughts, and when Severo said nothing, he continued: “Allyce said that you were good to her, but that the kindness you showed her was not pure.
Severo pursed his lips and almost clenched the words between his teeth: “You know nothing!
“Indeed, I don’t know anything, and there is one thing in particular that I haven’t discovered”.
Gabrio copied his hands into the pockets of his suit trousers, his voice dropped a few tones, “You should know about Allyce’s father, I was fourteen when it happened and I wasn’t a Delahoz, so I don’t know much, but the victim, from what I hear, was a Betances. ”
Gabrio deliberately added emphasis on the last two words.
The air was still crisp and cold on an early spring afternoon.
The two men faced each other on the abandoned, dimly lit basketball court and, for a long time, neither spoke first.
Severo’s voice was a bit hollow: “So what?”
“Yeah, it doesn’t mean anything, it’s just that …” Gabrio paused, his tone becoming abruptly somber, “Women who are from the Betances family and make it impossible to find out anything about them, there aren’t many women in Cloud Cit there aren’t many, and I’m sorry to bring up the dead in this context, but I will say that Uncle Delahoz is not someone who would do something like that, otherwise he wouldn’t have taught Allyce such an obsessive daughter.”
Gabrio saw that Severo had remained silent and was almost certain in his mind of his suspicions.
The Delahoz family had handled this matter with extreme discretion and exceptional cleanliness at the time.
More than ten years ago, the way information was stored was not as perfect as it is today.
Even if I had wanted to investigate it, it would have been useless information.
Allyce was so young that the Delahoz family removed her after the incident, fearing that public opinion would damage her, and did not allow her to see her father again.
This led to a situation where she knew nothing about her father.
But the fact that Allyce was completely isolated at the time does not mean that she was completely ignorant.
He did not suspect Severo, but Gabrio, who had been following the matter during the time Severo had just returned to Cloud Cit, discovered that someone was investigating the matter.
Only the person who was investigating the matter was very mysterious.
He was also testing the waters, but Severo’s reaction …
“I didn’t know Dr. Ortis had such a vivid imagination. Severo stood in the shadows, unable to read his expression or hear his emotions.
“If Mr. Betances thinks it’s my imagination, go ahead, but I’m sure Allyce will listen to me very carefully about this.
Gabrio’s voice, cold as a thousand years of ice.
How was it possible that the girl with whom he had grown up with so much love and affection could not be approached by another man with ulterior motives.
If that was the case, he might as well keep an eye on her himself.