Chapter 244 Della's Evening
From testing a person to finding out all her secrets, this process takes Wangwang several years to soften herself up enough to pry out all the secrets.
But Della knows magic.
Now she was in a state of mind where she could casually and condescendingly use Legilimency on a Muggle.
Besides, the information about Ximena, that is, about Maggie, is quite important.
Della read Maxine's past without hesitation.
From being the apple of a gangster's eye to being the maid of a cadre of a rival gang, Maxine's life experience has been quite rough. Her cousin Hina, the 17-year-old girl who looks very similar to Jimena, is about to step into another muddy life.
Sina Perea has a father who is a gambler. After her uncle died abnormally, her father, who was no longer restrained by others, fell into the abyss of gambling. When he lost all his cash, he cashed out without any care. When he lost everything, he even gambled away his car and house. In just a few months, he gambled away all the well-off family.
The loss of his brother-in-law, who had been restraining him, meant that the person who could provide a safety net for the family was also gone.
Xina moved from a big house to a slum, and from the best aristocratic school to the cheapest public high school. She was a strong girl. She did not give up on herself despite such a huge gap in her circumstances. While studying hard, she also worked various part-time jobs to earn as much money as possible to save tuition and support her four-year-old sister.
Yes, her father, who used to be respectable but is now crazy and only knows how to gamble, not only does he not give her any tuition fees, he also doesn't care about his little daughter's life or death. He even uses his little sister to threaten Xina to take out the little money she has saved so that he can make a comeback.
Today, when she came back from a day's work, she found her cramped house in a mess, the little money she had hidden had been taken away, and her sister Beretta was curled up in bed sleeping, her little body twitching and tears on her face.
It was a very despairing scene, but Xina had seen it enough times and even her heart had become numb. She gently coaxed her sister to sleep, then dragged her tired body to the entrance of the casino that her father often went to.
She was seventeen years old, not an adult, and the casino would not let her in. It would probably be useless even if she went in. Xina knew that she could not stop her father at all.
But Xina still came over and asked and said that it was the only thing she could do to persuade her father to change his mind. Perhaps she still had a last glimmer of hope in her heart for her father who had always loved her in the past.
She had to have this hope. Her mother died during childbirth, and there were no other relatives in the family. Her father had a firm grip on the custody of her sister Beretta. Sheena, who was nearly an adult, could escape from this mud, but how could she abandon such a young sister?
At the entrance of the magnificent casino, Hina is conspicuous yet inconspicuous. She is tall and slender, wearing a high-end dress that has become white due to washing because it is out of date and cannot be sold at a high price. She has a pair of clear blue eyes, and her simple but beautiful face is full of sadness.
Xina is so beautiful that it is impossible not to see her at first sight.
But like all the people huddled dejectedly in front of the casino, Xina was filled with an aura of despair. She seemed calm, but that kind of calm despair made people feel that her hysterical shouting was only in her heart, not to be heard by people outside.
Della had been observing her for a while. The more she looked, the more she felt that the girl in front of her looked exactly like Ximena, and even their figures were terribly similar.
……
Della, who never showed her emotions, bit her thumb nail unconsciously for the first time. While observing Sina, she thought of countless possibilities and futures in her mind, and almost every future used Sina as a tool to restrict Maggie.
She had no intention of competing for power with Maggie, but she had a natural desire for control. Maggie was too uncontrollable, which further aroused her desire for control.
but……
Ximena is not only her relative, but also such a wonderful person. If the Xena in front of her is really the reincarnation of Ximena's soul, wouldn't such ruthless exploitation be too cruel and heartless?
And how unfair is it for Hina, a complete outsider, to manipulate her fate like this?
Finally, Della walked over to Sheena and she wanted to do an assessment.
"Sister," Della, who had shrunk to the size of eight or nine years old and had blonde hair and blue eyes, walked up to Xina and pulled at her clothes, "Can you help me..."
This pull made Hina's dazed eyes regain their spirits. She looked at the little girl in front of her who was looking very shy with her head down, and gently squatted down to look at the girl at eye level. "What's wrong with you, sweetheart?"
When facing the younger girl, Hina subconsciously used the nickname for her sister.
"I don't know where this is," Della's eyes sparkled, looking panic-stricken, "I can't find my brother."
"Did she get separated from her brother?" Xina subconsciously glanced at the casino behind her, suspecting that the little girl's brother was also obsessed with gambling in the casino and even forgot about his younger sister.
"I don't know either," Della raised her eyes, which were as blue as Hina's, and said carefully, "I forgot when my brother disappeared."
"It's okay, sister will take you to the police station, so that more people will help you find your brother!" In order to calm the little girl's emotions, Xina did not show any doubt. Even though she guessed the girl's brother's identity from a gambler to a henchman in her heart, she still smiled gently and even raised her voice.
"Okay - thank you, sister." Della tried her best to act like a little girl. She obediently took Ximena's hand and followed her towards the police station.
"Sweetheart, what's your name?" For fear that the girl would be scared on the road, Xina talked to Della patiently.
"Hannah Abbott, eight years old this year," Della randomly picked out the name of an old classmate, "What's your sister's name?"
"Xina, Xina Perea," Xina touched Della's golden hair, which was as soft and shiny as hers, "I have a younger sister at home, she is only four years old, and now she can only play at home-"
As she spoke, Xina remembered the tears she wiped off Beretta's face. She felt sad. Her sister used to love to whisper and pester people to take her out to play, but now she is so well-behaved that she stays at home all day.
She is only four years old, and she is already so sensible...
"Hannah is amazing. Not only did she come out by herself, but she also knew to ask others for help." Xina continued to coax the little girl, but her voice was a little lower.
"Sister Xina, are you a little unhappy?" Della blinked her eyes, showing her insight into emotions as a child's keen intuition, "If you are unhappy, you can talk to Hannah."
Della has already investigated Xina's past and current difficulties, but she needs to see the attitude of the person involved, which will greatly affect her decision.
"..." Xina lowered her eyes and didn't speak immediately. She looked at the little girl who was unconscious in Casino Street, slowly forced a smile, then squatted down and looked Della in the eye. "Sister's father encountered a monster on this street and is now lying at home with a fever." It would be great if Dad could really stay at home obediently.
"Sister Xina was worried about him, so she came to this street to see if she could find that monster and beg him to let my father go." Gambling, gambling, how many people can extricate themselves from it?
"Did Sister Hina find the monster?" Della cooperated by opening her eyes wide, having already guessed Hina's gentle and kind personality.
“I found it, but the monster ignored me. Instead, it made other people sick in front of me.” The abyss called gambling keeps swallowing new people.
"Is my brother in there?!" Della did not forget the brother she was talking about.
"No!" Xina comforted the girl, then frowned and shook her head, showing a worried look that was most easily seen by children. "But you can't say for sure next time. Hannah, you have to find a way to stop your brother from coming to this street again."
"What if my brother doesn't listen to me?" Della pointed out Xina's current predicament in a childish tone.
"Ordinary people can't take care of the disease caused by the monster," said Xina. She felt that the little girl had a bit of her own shadow, and her heart ached. She hugged Della in her arms, "When that time comes, Hannah had better stay away from her sick brother, otherwise the monster will eat you up."
"But that's my brother!"
"After being targeted by the monster, the brother in the past left--" At this moment, Xina finally realized how cruel her poorly made fairy tale was to a child, but she could not give a happy ending. She could only shut up and pat the girl's back gently, trying to give Della some insignificant comfort.
An ordinary child would definitely want to get to the bottom of the story, but Della missed the opportunity to further interrogate Sina. She curled up quietly in Sina's warm arms, deciding to let this kind girl go and help her out of her current predicament.
Della is a considerate person most of the time, but her kindness is only shown when she can be kind, and now is one of the few times she can be kind.