18 A Night Stay At Moretti Family Mansion

{Author's pov}

"Eek!! Hurry up everyone! My friends will be arriving very soon!" Brinley exclaimed in excitement for the hundredth time. It was weekend after all, she was informed that the car she sent already had picked up Amelia and Gianna.

Lorenzo and Grace looked at each other and sighed, Brinley was continuously making all the maids clean up whole mansion and arranging flowers here and there.

"Brinley your friends are coming for night stay right? You're acting up as if they're coming here for some important occasion." Grace said as she pointed out at her excited actions.

"Mom! You'll love them! They're special to me, I never had any friends like them." Brinley started explaining excitedly but at the end of her sentence, her voice became somewhat sad. Grace frowned as she saw Brinley making a sad expression, she knew that all the friends Brinley made in past were behind her family's fame or money and some came close to Brinley just to run behind Derek or Xavier or Adam, just to trap them.

"Dear, if you're saying they're special to you, then we'll believe you." Lorenzo said and brushed Brinley's soft hair after patting her head. Brinley became emotional and hugged Lorenzo.

"See you spoiled my make-up, now I'll have to apply it again." Brinley giggled and pouted.

Lorenzo chuckled, Grace was just silent but after a while she said in a strict voice, "No need to apply those stupid things, go and wash your face, be natural. We like you the way you are, no need to change yourself." Brinley pouted and rushed towards her room to clean off her make-up.

A man wearing a black suit, came up to Lorenzo and spoke in a husky, emotionless and strong voice, "President, one of the family's car have arrived with two ladies inside, they already showed the access card, shall I allow them to enter?" Lorenzo nodded once and signalled him to leave. The man gave Lorenzo and Grace a salute and left from there.

"Honey would you like to have some tea?" Grace asked Lorenzo to which he responded, "Not now darling, let Brinley's friends come, we'll have tea together." Grace nodded in response.

~Half an hour ago~

"Gianna I'm telling you, this must be a scam! Let's jump off the car!! Stop the car!!" Amelia exclaimed anxiously. Gianna frowned as she was getting a bit irritated by Amelia's constant urge to run off or jump off or hop off from the car.

"Calm down, the driver already let us speak with Brinley before getting in the car right? Why're you scared?" Gianna shrugged.

"Ugh! You don't understand! That driver looks super scary! This car is too expensive and big to be called a 'car' it's a freaking limo!!!" Amelia shrieked while speaking.

Gianna gasped when Amelia told her about this. Gianna was simply guided inside the car, she felt suspicion when Amelia didn't get on after her. When she called Amelia to get on, Amelia silently obeyed because she was terrified and confused.

Gianna and Amelia held each other's hand and trembled in fear.

"Anna, what if that voice of Brinley was fake? What if we're being kidnapped?" Amelia clenched her teeth as she felt helpless. She looked at driver who never spoke one word, he was driving with an emotionless face, he had not even one different expression except that weird frown.

"E-Excuse me? Will it take more time to reach there?" Amelia collected her confidence and asked the driver.

She got silence in response.

After a while they stopped in front of one huge gate, the driver gave the black card to security guards who also looked as scary as the driver and the driver exchanged a few words with the security guards.

Gianna being the older sister she is, was continuously rubbing Amelia's back to calm her down, as she was getting very hyper.

The huge gate opened and the limo drove inside finally getting parked in front of a big mansion.

As soon as Gianna and Amelia came out of the limo, Amelia's leg started trembling in fear, she started crying which shocked Gianna.

"G-Gia-anna! My guess w-was right! W-We have been kidnapped! This place is as huge as a fucking castle!! Let's go back Gianna! Let's run!! What're you standing for??" Amelia rushed her words and grabbed Gianna's arm and started running towards the huge gate entrance. Watching this, the driver tilted his head and scratched his head.

"Why are those ladies running that way, when the door is there? Did I do something wrong?" The driver started sweating in fear, and called the main entrance security to not let the ladies out.

Brinley heard the news of Amelia and Gianna's arrival, so she rushed out to take them inside, but she saw them running towards the main entrance, so to surprise them she also started running towards them.

"Gianna! Run fast! Please catch up with my speed! We'll be in trouble if we get caught! We have to shake off these security people too!" Amelia shouted while running whereas Gianna was speechless and panting very much, she was exhausted because she was not used to such vigorous physical exercise. She sprained her leg and was about to fall behind, when someone caught her. She took deep breaths again and again to catch her breath back.

Amelia looked behind to check on Gianna, but she met the eyes of Brinley. Brinley stared in confusion at Amelia and looked at Gianna's sprained leg.

"Amelia? Why're you running so fast?" Brinley cocked her head.

Amelia sighed in relief and wiped her sweat and tear stains. "I-I thought we--" Amelia stopped herself as she helped Gianna stand up with Brinley.

Brinley escorted both of them inside while supporting Gianna to walk.

As soon as Grace spotted them, she rushed and helped Gianna sit on the sofa.

"What happened? Why do you both look so haggard?" Grace looked from Amelia to Gianna to Brinley.

Amelia explained, "We... no no... I thought that we were being kidnapped so we kind of got scared…" Amelia explained in short and sighed.

Lorenzo and Grace looked at each other in confusion and then stared at Brinley in suspicion wondering if this is her another mischief.

"What? Obviously it was not me! I was expecting them, and I had already informed the car will be coming to pick them." Brinley explained, trying to prove her innocence. Brinley gave a glass of water to both of them and sighed. She herself drank a glass of water as she was tired and thirsty after running.

"Gianna, Amelia, he is my father, Lorenzo Moretti, and she is my mother, Grace Moretti. Mom, Dad, they're my friends Gianna Allen and Amelia Allen, they both are sisters. Gianna is the elder sister." Brinley gave a brief introduction.

"Mr. Moretti, Mrs. Moretti, I apologize for our rude and abrupt behavior, please forgive us. Actually my sister wasn't expecting a limo to arrive in front of our door to pick us up. She became somewhat frightened and thought we were being kidnapped. It was because of our misunderstanding, we created such a ruckus in front of your place." Gianna explained in a polite voice and tone. Grace smiled at her beautiful appearance and nature.

"There's no need to apologize child, we understand your situation, and it is quite expected to be wary of strangers in today's generation." Grace said and smiled. She slightly raised an eyebrow as she noticed Gianna looking down as she was talking.

"It is our fault too for not teaching our servants to provide information and explanation and being rude. We should be the one to apologize." Lorenzo cleared his throat and stated. A chuckle came into everyone's ear, and they looked at Derek who was standing by staircase chuckling to himself. He took his seat on the sofa and silently watched the scenes unfold. [Readers: Like us lol]

Amelia glared at Derek who smirked in response. She turned her head elsewhere not bothering to even glance at him.

"Brinley go bring the first aid kit for her sprained foot. What would you like to have Amelia and Gianna?" Grace smiled at both of them. They both shook their head not wanting anything as they already drank a full glass of water.

"Umm... Mrs. Moretti this is for you, this is Yorkshire Black Tea, a blend of the best tea leaves from Kenya." Gianna handed over the bag to Amelia who was sitting beside her. Amelia gave the bag to Grace. Grace was again confused.

'Why didn't she give the bag to me directly? Is she scared or embarrassed?' Grace thought.

"Thank you but, you didn't have to give us such a precious gift, it would have been alright. Also, you can call us uncle and aunt, drop the formalities, now that we know each other." Grace said as she hesitatingly took the bag from Amelia.

Brinley came with a first aid kit and said, "Take it Mom, Gianna already has a big collection of different types of teas, beverages and coffees. She knows a coffee shop after all." Brinley grinned proudly as if she was announcing her achievements.

"Oh my, that's brilliant. Lorenzo and I enjoy different teas too. We'll visit your coffee shop when we get a chance." Gianna nodded and smiled brightly. Looking at her beautiful smile Grace was mesmerized for a few seconds.

"Oh! Why didn't you bring Charlie along? It could've been fun playing with him." Brinley said excitedly.

"What if someone is allergic to dogs in your family? We can't go around with Charlie everywhere right?" Amelia said and started wrapping a bandage on Gianna's foot after applying medicine. Brinley nodded as if understanding.

"You have a dog? Which breed is it? Do you love having pets?" Grace asked somewhat in excitement as she herself loved dogs and took care of guard dogs in their mafia clan.

"Charlie is a golden retriever breed dog, and no dogs can be very troublesome sometimes, my sister takes care of Charlie all time. Well she needs him all the time so they kind of have a bond." Amelia explained.

Lorenzo who doesn't speak much got interested, "You can give your dog to us, we can train him well and take great care of him." Lorenzo suggested.

"No uncle who'll help my sister then?" Amelia said as if stating something very obvious.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Lorenzo asked in confusion.

"Dad, Gianna can't see. She's blind." Derek who was quiet since he came from his room spoke up. Grace gasped in shock and Lorenzo stared at Gianna with sympathy.

'Such a beautiful and polite girl... god doesn't show mercy on innocent people too.' Grace thought and sighed.

Grace and Lorenzo found it strange because they were not able to depict that she was blind. Brinley and Derek looked at each other when they saw Grace and Lorenzo's confused expression. No one was able to come to know that she's blind at first glance unless someone tells them. She's that much beautiful, maybe she can become Miss. Universe if she went for modeling.

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