Unexpected to be a Son-in-Law

Chapter Twenty One: Hotel DeMadden

“Who says I want the rivalry between our finally to end? I lost so much because of what your son did, even before I married Alicia. So no Hernando. I don’t want this rivalry to end, I want to win to this rivalry, and finally showed to harry that I am not a just a kid who he thought of me to be. I am a Martinez, son of Dalton Martinez… You don’t really know me at all.” I said in my dramatic tone of voice. I don’t lie, but I felt like what I just said is a lie…

Because ot be honest, I want the rivalry to end, I just want to live as a normal business man, who doesn’t have anything in mind besides on how to make the company bigger. I don’t want enemies, I am tired of it… But, you can’t be a business man without a rival.

So maybe no matter how hard I try to change that, it won’t. That is life, it is balance. Life is nothing without a challenge… Nothing. No life is perfect, everyone get through their own hell, and this is my hell, and I have to face it… I just don’t know how, or how can I face my own hell if Ia m afraid, right?

“You now what Lander? Who cares about what you think? I don’t care if you don’t want the rivalry between our family to finally come to an end, but for me, living for 71 years, I am tired of this rivalry between our families. And I want it to end. Starting by making your life right, by saving your life from my son… By giving you what I promised to you.” He said that makes me confused a little bit. “Maybe if you didn’t teach your son to be a rival to my family, maybe the rivalry ended a long time ago.” I whispered to him...

I felt guilty… And I don’t know why.

“I was not the one who raise my child… My father is. Harry’s grandfather was the one who raises him, because the time when he was born in this world, my father wants me to be away from my own son. I was not the one who is controlling my life… My father is… Maybe he knew that I will teach Harry different to how he taught me and raise me… Maybe he knew that one day, I will be the one to break the rivalry…” he said…

By how he delivered his word, I knew he is sincere to what he was saying…

If he was telling the truth… Then what makes him change his perspective to the Martinez?

“Anyways… What is more important now is that you are alive and Harry did not successfully kill you on that fire… He has been waiting for it to happen… He pain someone inside the prison to make that happen, and he is doing everything that he can to send you there… Maybe yesterday he found a way.” He changes the subject. “When Alicia heard about his father’s plan, just before the wedding, she told me about it, so-”

“Alicia? As in, Alicia Katherine Madden? My supposedly wife?” I interrupted him from talking. He nodded. I could not believe she did that… Maybe she is good after all, and not a princess brat.

“So I send my man in that prison, Enzo and Herman… To keep an eye to you, if you ever was sent there… And yesterday, they found you, and save you, just before you all three was burned alive.” He said.

Herman? If I am not mistaken, I already knew Enzo, so Herman must be the one who help me escape, by showing me that little door. Which until now, I haven’t seen… He said he’ll be back, but up until now, he is still not back… Did something bad happened to him? I wish not.

“Thanks” The only thing I could say…

Am I supposed to trust him? I mean, you could tell that I have a trust issue ever since my life falls into pieces… When nothing was left to me but an ache.

“Anyways, like I said… I will make it up to you by giving you what I promised to convinced you to marry my Alicia.” He said. “What is it?” I asks him. “Come.” He said and he started walking inside the house. I look to Shannon that just nodded, giving me a sign that I could follow him, or that I should follow him. “Do you know anything about it? This?” I asks her. “Everything that is in Hernando’s head is in my head too…” She answered. “Yes.” See? How hard is it to answer a yes and no? Why do people have to make their answer so hard to get when the only alternate to that is a yes?

I don’t get people now a days.

We went to the left aisle of the house, where there is a door at the end of the hallway. We went there and my eyes flashes before my… Anyways, as far as I could tell and observed, this ia an office, an office of someone, and that someone I guess would be Hernando..

He went to his shelf where there is a book which have no cover on it. He put it on his desk and get the folder that is inserted between the pages of the book. He gave it to me with a pen.

I look at him with still have confusion on my face, because I don’t get what he is trying to make me do.

“Look inside the folder.” Shannon whispered to me, so I did what she asked me to do. And when I did, documents are inside, documents about owning a property…

Property of one of the Madden.

“Wha… WHat is this Hernando?” I asked him. “This is the Hotel DeMadden, like your family, we have a hotel too, The Hotel DeMadden. It might not be larger than your hotel… But let me tell you one thing… Ever since your fall, evrything that you and your family built, was pulled down with you… The WG company? Where is it? Gone. The NewVis? Gone… So whose hotel is going to blow up now? Our family’s hotel.. The Hotel DeBliss, and this, Hotel DeMadden…” He said to me. “It’s actually NeoVis… But… You are giving me the Hotel DeMadden… Why? I mean, why now?” I asks him.

He look at Shannon.

“Four years ago, before my parents died, they asked me to own that company when I reached 18, I said yes… When the time I turned 18, they are already dead, so they did not process the documents… So the hotel was automatically passed to Uncle harry, but not as his own premises… So hotel DeMadden is waiting to be owned. Uncle planned to give this hotel to Alicia, but still, she was only 17, and for you to own a premises, a property, you have to be 18 above… So when you got married to Alicia, you are 18, it was automatically passed down to you, since you are part of the family now… It was automatically passed down to you because Hotel DeMadden wasn’t owned by anyone for 4 years… And Hotel DeMadden will be closed if it still not owned by anyone…” she explained. “So when you two got married, only signature of yours is the only thing that is missing for you to properly owned the Hotel… But from what we are seeing, Uncle did not tell this to you, because he doesn’t want you to own anything form his family…” She added.

Oh wow….

So maybe, Hernando have a planned after all.

You maybe wondering how did I owned the WG company, if I am only 14 that time… It was because my mom is still alive, and she is my guardian to that company, and dad paid millions of dollars to make sure that it will be passed down to me… That is why…

Harry is such an i***t for not doing what my father did so Alicia could properly owned this hotel.

“Just, signed this paper, this contract, and you Lander Martinez-Madden, will be rich again…” Hernando said and he gave me a pen for me to use. I look down on the paper and make a deep breathe…

Maybe this is how I will rise again…. By owning this hotel… And I will make sure, that owning this hotel, will not be the last one.. I will make sure they will left with nothing, no property, no company, no premises, nothing at all. I want them to taste what it feels like to left with nothing.

I signed my name on the paper and my signature.

“Congratulations! You now officially owned the Hotel DeMadden Lander.” Hernando said.

“Thank you.”

This is still not enough… I will get everything that is lost to me… Everything.