Chapter 247 Amusement Park (2)
After playing too many exciting projects, the adrenaline has been at a high level. Playing other exciting projects will reduce the fun. As they were playing, Della and Leah realized this, so the two who had just played the bungee jumping machine prepared to try something relaxing before entering the haunted house.
"How about the spinning teacup?" Della held the tour brochure and silently passed the carousel which was too relaxing. It looked too much like something for little kids and she didn't really want to go.
"Okay," Leah leaned over to read the description in the booklet, "I'll turn very quickly, so don't scream when I do."
"Then I'm really looking forward to it." The two smiled and walked towards the rotating teacup according to the map.
Before sitting down, Leah wanted to show off her skills and let Della see her strength, but Hina and Beretta, who were sitting in the same teacup with them, did not give her the opportunity.
Leah looked at the timid 4-year-old girl sitting opposite her, then at the equally nervous Hina next to her. She shrugged and said, "What a coincidence, Miss Perea."
"What a coincidence, Miss Abend," said Xina stiffly. She recognized the woman who now supported her cousin Maxine.
Della calmly withdrew her gaze from the surroundings. The moment she saw Hina, she thought it was a coincidence. But then she thought that the people in the amusement park were either families who formed teams by default or couples who wanted to enjoy their time together. It was understandable that Hina, a natural beauty who attracted attention, was alone and sat with them. She nodded to the two sisters opposite her and said, "Hello, I'm Della Riddle."
"Hello, sisters. I'm Beretta, and this is my sister Hina." Little Beretta, who had the same blonde hair and blue eyes as Hina, blinked her big eyes and greeted them by twiddling her skirt with her fingers. Her voice was soft and soft, and her innocent and cute appearance made people love her at first sight.
"Wait a minute, do you want to go faster or slower? Sister Leah will help you turn." Facing the child, Leah leaned forward and asked with a cheerful face.
Beretta's fingers never stopped twirling her skirt. She still looked nervous, but she was not afraid to speak. She blinked her big eyes and said to Leah, "Can you go a little faster, Sister Leah?"
The human cub was so cute that Leah felt like her heart was pierced. She felt so soft in her heart that she raised her eyebrows and made an OK gesture.
The three older girls put their hands on the spinning disk, and the little girl leaned on her elder sister. At the beginning, the three of them were passing the ball from one to two, and from two to three. But one time, Leah accidentally used a little more strength, and she was the only one who could still control the spinning disk tightly.
"Hahaha - ahhahaha." Feeling the loss of control in the small space, Della and Sina were still able to control themselves. They pursed their lips and forced themselves to swallow the screams that were associated with the excitement. Beretta, who had just played the stimulating projects within her age range today, couldn't hold back at all. She laughed and screamed with joy.
After getting off the spinning teacup, Beretta was no longer nervous. She looked at Leah, who was shaking her sore hands, with sparkling eyes, "You are amazing, Sister Leah."
Leah felt relieved when she was called "Sister Leah". She suggested, "Let's go get some ice cream. It's my treat."
"I feel a little hot too." Della agreed politely.
"......" Xina didn't really want to go, but thinking of Maxine who couldn't be contacted, she bit her lip and nodded. Beretta, who was holding her hand, cheered immediately after seeing her nod.
"I heard that you won a lottery and paid off all your father's foreign debt?" On the way to the ridiculously expensive coffee shop in the amusement park, Leah looked at Hina who was still struggling and spoke first.
"Lottery ticket?" Della, the instigator, acted in a very natural way of surprise. "Ms. Perea is really lucky."
Hina nodded subconsciously, then asked cautiously, "Is this a big deal?"
"It's not big, but it's a big deal for someone who misses you," Leah noticed that Beretta's little head was tilted to one side, and looking over, she saw a little girl happily riding on her father's neck, "Want a high ride?" She dropped the conversation she was talking to Hina and squatted down to ask Beretta.
Beretta blinked twice and said slowly, "Think—"
Leah picked up little Beretta and put her on her shoulders. Beretta was a little shy when she was first picked up, but when she was on Leah's shoulders, the excitement of being suspended in mid-air made her hug Leah's neck tightly. Her whole face was buried in Leah's half-long brown hair, and she whispered in Leah's ear in a baby voice, "Thank you, sister Leah."
Della looked up at Beretta on Leah's shoulder and laughed softly at the cute human cub. She joked, "Beretta looks shy, but he's actually not polite at all."
"Because Beretta loves playing the most!" Beretta grinned, revealing a mouthful of cute little teeth. The three older sisters around her all laughed when they heard what she said.
Even though the prices were more than three times higher than outside, the coffee shop in the amusement park was still packed. Leah turned her head this way and that, trying to see if she could be lucky enough to find an empty seat. Beretta, with his little face resting on top of her head, also turned around following Leah's movements, which made Della laugh again.
"After you buy it, just find a bench and sit down to eat." Della's eyes were still shining from her smile, and she made a thoughtful suggestion as always.
"I think that's a good place," Xina was proactive for the first time. She pointed to an empty chair behind her and said to Beretta on Leah's shoulder, "You've been sitting on Leah's shoulder for so long. Leah must be tired. Let Leah go over and have a rest first."
Leah turned her gaze to Hina, paused for two seconds, then curled her lips. She gently put Beretta down, squatted down and touched the little girl's soft golden hair. "Sister Leah is a little tired. Can Beretta and Sister Della help Sister Leah pick the most delicious ice cream?"
"Okay!" Beretta responded immediately with blinking eyes, and then realized belatedly that she had to go with her other sister, so she opened her eyes wide and looked at Della hesitantly.
"Let's go," Della's eyes slid between Hina and Leah while holding Beretta's hand. She knew what to do and didn't say much. She just tilted her head and smiled gently at Beretta, "It's Leah's treat today. You can buy whatever you want to eat."
"Then I won't be polite." Beretta said shyly but frankly. Her little look was too adorable. Della smiled and touched her soft and tender cheek.
Behind her gentle and kind appearance, she thought about the lottery amount that she had let Hina win, which was only slightly more than the debt on their books. To be honest, Della knew that this was a temporary solution, and she did not have any expectations for gamblers. However, if she gave too much, Hina might be more tightly bound by her inhuman father, so she could only give Hina a chance to breathe before she reached adulthood.
Della also has a simple method, which is to solve the problem once and for all by solving the problem of the person who caused the problem, but she has no plans to kill anyone else at the moment.
Leah leaned back on the wooden bench and watched the two girls, who were very small for her, walk into the coffee shop. She then turned to look at Hina, who was sitting upright next to her. "What do you want to ask?"
"My sister," Hina frowned, "how is she now?"
"It's definitely better to live in my house than to live with your gambling father," Leah said bluntly, directly exposing Hina's seemingly improved situation. "A lottery ticket can pay off a debt, but a gambler won't stop just because a debt is paid off. Do you think the situation has improved and you want to take Maxine back? That's too naive."
"My father loves me and my sister." Although Hina only thought of the recent bad memories when she mentioned her father, she still defended her father for the warmth in her memories. "Now the debt has been paid off. He has more than just gambling to bring our family back on track."
"How naive," Leah sighed, not going into the topic any further. "But it's a good thing that you won the prize. You look pretty good today. I'll tell Maxine when I get home tonight."
"What?" Xina remembered what Leah had said before, 'For those who miss you, this is a big deal.' She felt a little strange and asked directly, "Sister, don't you know?"
"It's a pity that besides your sister, Condra Barrios also misses you," Leah sneered, "You are a great beauty."
"Who is that...?" Xina had some impression but couldn't remember exactly who it was.
"Robert Baker betrayed your uncle, and then he knocked out your beautiful cousin Maxine and gave her away as a bargaining chip, to Barrios," Leah continued, looking at Hina's body that stiffened for a moment, "He did it in my place in order to please Barrios. Robert Baker has gone to see Satan, and Maxine has become a bargaining chip between Barrios and me. She will not have a good ending if she leaves me."
Xina covered her mouth, her eyes suddenly turned red, her throat felt sore and her heart was in turmoil, but she couldn't utter a word.
"Barrios has had his eyes on you for a long time. The only good thing about that guy who sleeps with 100 women a year is that he never touches minors or forces women. And you," although she was talking about something that made her unhappy, in order to let Hina better understand the dangers of society, Leah deliberately used a calm tone, "you will be 18 in September."
"As long as he doesn't force women, I won't rush to him even if my father is heavily in debt!" Xina tried her best to suppress her voice but it was still no different from a scream.
"Is Maxine in a hurry to go up? Barrios assumes that the women he gives to him are all willing," Leah continued with the cruel words, "including the women who lost to him as chips at the gambling table."
"What—" The tears in Xina's eyes stopped. She frowned, her eyes were empty, as if she didn't understand what he said.
"How do you think your father was able to enter such a high-end casino after gambling away all his money?" Leah sighed, "I used to be a thug in a casino. Gamblers have no bottom line—"
"My father won't!" Xina interrupted Leah, tears finally rolled down her eyes, and she choked and said, "My father won't use me as a chip on the gambling table."
"......" Leah raised her eyes slightly, feeling a little tired talking to such an innocent girl who could still talk about false family affection in the face of a cruel future. Thinking of the lovely Beretta just now, she forced herself to say the last words, "Without a reason, I can't fight Barrios, and I won't win if I fight."
"So I only have one plan. I will control your father and sponsor your schooling. You can study law, medicine, or literature. After graduation, come and work for me. As long as you are on my side first and your father doesn't cause any trouble, I will be completely right." Leah looked at Hina who was silently wiping her tears, waiting for her choice.
"Control my father?" Sheena had expectations for her own father, but she also didn't want to join the mafia she hated, so she shook her head. "Thank you, Ms. Abend, but I believe in my father and my ability."
"The offer is good until you lose the bet," Leah shrugged, ignoring Hina's rejection, "but when you see Barrios, no one can save you."
"I believe in my father." Yu Guangli's sister was being led over with ice cream, and Xina repeated what she had just said to Leah. At the same time, Condra Barrios and Ernie Piazza in the office on the top floor of the casino were also talking about her father.
"Did you hear that your new lover is going to run away?" Ernie, who was sitting at his desk, said as he flipped through the investigation materials in his hands that he had read over and over again, his brows furrowed even deeper.
"Her father is a big gambler, he can't escape," Condra was quite sure of this. Standing by the window, looking down, he slowly exhaled a puff of cigarette, then turned around and asked, "How about it, did you see anything?"
"Della Riddle, a child who dropped out of school, her adoptive father, Severus Snape, is an unemployed vagrant." Thinking of the extraordinary girl he saw that day, Ernie couldn't believe the report. "It shouldn't be like this. That kind of girl is not ordinary at first glance, and Leah shouldn't be so easily fooled."
"There's too little in the report," Condra showed his sharp eyes and intuition at this moment, "They are just like people from another world, a world that cannot reveal any traces."
"......" Hearing this, Ernie stared at the report in his hand, thoughtfully.