Chapter 4 Mother's Insting

"Are you sure it will work, Mom?" asked Gary nervously. "With Dave the way he is, I'm not sure he'd be interested in the staff you were referring to earlier."

Leah paced the living room in exasperation. "I don't know if it will work or not but we should at least try to work something out. Linda said the way will work for a man like Dave. I'm going to pay that guy a heavy price if he success with the plan. He's in need of extra money for his father's medical expenses and seeing what type of men Dave has liked, I think he's would be able to catch Dave's attention."

"Dave only liked them as bed buddies, Mom, nothing could ever really tie him down. He's a heavyweight playboy and I don't think the guy you pick is necessarily willing to do what you want. He might just be a straight guy who is in trouble."

"He himself told John that he would find a sugar mommy so he could help pay for his father's medical expenses."

"You mean you're going to be his sugar mommy?"

Leah hit Gary's knee with a hard slap and made his son wince in pain. "Of course not me idiot! I'll just offer him a sugar daddy instead of a sugar mommy."

"Sugar dad-you mean, Dave?"

"Yes."

"How to?"

"Use your power, Gary! You're the director of personnel for this company and you have the power to control who gets where. Do that to that guy named Tristan! I'll talk to him later."

Gary looked at Leah with questioning eyes. He saw the hue of sadness and hurt in the eyes of the woman who had given birth to him.

Leah revealed William's plan while crying at his house a few nights ago. She was very disappointed and felt betrayed by her own husband. Gary understood why Leah felt that way.

He was eight years old when Leah married William. His mother was a beautiful and clever woman who wasted her youth marrying a poor man who was good at gambling and beating his wife and son.

Leah was a rising model when she met Denis--Gary's biological father, a security guard at one of the locations where Leah took photos to promote a beauty product.

Denis, who is strong and tan, managed to make Leah fall in love with his sweet words. They dated and decided to get married a few months later.

Leah's parents were against it because they felt that Denis was absolutely not a good match for their daughter.

Denis and Leah eloped and moved to another town. The marriage without the blessing of their parents only lasted romantically for the first two years.

After Gary's birth, Leah started having a hard time finding work as a model as she grew tired of taking care of the house and child alone and started neglecting her appearance.

Denis, who used to work as a security guard at a supermarket, was fired for being rude to a customer. Denis and Leah's household life began to fall apart. Denis started to addict to gambling and he began to dare to swing his hand to hurt his wife and child.

One day, Denis comes home drunk after spending Leah's last savings. Gary was crying so hard because he was hungry and Leah was going to borrow money from a neighbor's house.

When Leah came home, she saw Denis choking Gary to make him stop crying. Leah took a piece of wood from the side of the house and hysterically hit Denis many times until her husband was unconscious.

Denis died five hours later in hospital. There was a wooden nail that Leah used to hit him, stuck in the back of his head.

The judge acquitted Leah in self-defense, due to testimony from neighbors and friends who knew that she and Gary were frequently beaten and abused by Denis, and the most important testimony came from Gary, who was only five years old back then, sat in the courtroom, crying and showed the jury the stranglehold Denis had on his neck. All the juries was cried to that poor child.

Leah brought Gary back to his hometown and begged his parents for forgiveness.

Quiet and intelligent Gary managed to make his grandparents melt and accept them.

Three years later, his mother remarried to a wealthy widower who was looking for a new wife who would take care of his child.

William Jan loved his late wife very much, but he was not good at dividing his time between taking care of his business and taking care of his children after his wife passed away because of brain cancer.

He asked one of his relatives to find him a new wife who would take good care of his child.

Many women were willing to marry him, because of his good looks and wealth, but he was impressed by a quiet woman he met at a charity event at one of the foundations funded by him.

The woman never let go of the small child by her side and she treated the child with tenderness and motherhood. The woman remained him to his latest wife.

Two days later William brought his five year old son, a very handsome and active boy, to Gary's grandparents' house to propose to Leah. Gary got a Jan, a father, and a brother, after the wedding

"I'll make a small arrangement, Mom," Gary said as he picked up the phone and called one of his staff. "Lidya, can you bring me the file of one of the finance staff named Tristan?"

Gary hung up after making sure he got what he asked for. It took ten minutes and almost annoyed Leah, when Lidya knocked on Gary's office door carrying the requested file.

"Why so long?" snapped Gary angrily. "Your room with the file room and with mine are only a few steps away!"

"I'm sorry, Mr. Gary. I have to get this file from Mr. Dave's room first. Neena, Mr. Dave's secretary, borrowed it two days ago because Mr. Dave asked her to."

"Mr. Dave borrowed this file?" asked Gary with a frown. "Why?"

"I don't know. Neena also didn't know."

"Ok, I will take care of this. Thank you,, Lidya."

Lidya bowed and left Gary's office.

Leah approached the table, looked at the blue folder that had the name Tristan Franera, Financial Officer on the cover written on it.

"You know Gary, your mom knows you guys pretty well--you and Dave, and I know you two weak sides, even if you don't admit it. Dave especially, since he was little he's always been attracted to things that are nice and shiny. This guy--" Leah pointed at the folder on the table. "--is one of those nice, shiny things that he's sure to be interested in. I don't know how his interest process goes, but by him borrowing and looking through the contents of this folder, I think, there's a gap he opened for us to enter."

Gary looked at the blue folder, then looked at his mother. "I understand, Mom."

"Good!"

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