Chapter 2

Gaberial thought to book a cab to return home, but when he checked his wallet, he found he had left a few dollars inside it. 

If he uses this wallet money to pay for a cab right now. He would be penniless until he got some small job which doesn't need education but physical work, as he would not ask for money from his wife. 

Sara gave him this money, which is now almost inclined to be empty. He feels embarrassed to take his wife's savings money for his own survival.

This disarraying thought made him run his hand around his back neck with anxiety, feeling crushed his spirit.

Discerning uselessness and believing his in-law's every word was accurate. He could not help but race his fingers over his hair with a struggling mind.

He discerned he had started to lose all his confidence with every single passing day; he couldn't tolerate any longer rejection. 

With a heavy chest, he eventually muttered, "How long?" 

"How long do I need to suffer?" 

"Why was it becoming impossible for me to get at least one job?" His voice was broken with discomfort heart. 

However, as he doesn't have the answer. 

With all these raising questions, he started striding and decided to go home by walking. He will save his wallet money for future use.

He walked only a few steps when his phone rang once again. 

He, without stopping, checked the phone log screen and found it was a phone from his brother-in-law, Jose Gil, who hated him to the core.

He frowns to see Jose calling him. 

Jose treated him as his opponent and worst enemy from the day he stepped inside Gil's house. He constantly bullied him.

From school to college, all he did was hate him for being in an orphanage and poor. When he gets bored bulling him alone, he starts to include his friends with him for fun. 

Even now, nothing changed. Sometimes, Jose just dropped his home, ridiculed him, and even punched him.

Once, Gaberial almost needed to be admitted to the hospital for a day because of all those struggles. 

Gaberial first thought to reject Jose's phone, but he ultimately chose to answer it. 

If he rejects his call, Jose will surely come to his home to make things a nightmare for him. 

He slid the green button and pressed the phone against his ear, "Hello."

"'Hello' My shit!" Jose shouted angrily,  making Gaberial raise his brows sternly, "What happened?"

"Listen! You fucking bastard! What do you think of the Gil family?"

"How could you think we will accept you once we have the news about the baby?"

"Don't ever think that! We will never accept you or that shit bastard!" 

"What?"  

"What are you talking about? I cannot understand anything." Gaberial is already in a bad mood from job rejection and now hearing his brother-in-law screaming over him for some unknown and baby reason. He can't get it. 

"Oh really? Don't try to be over-smart, you Ass!" 

"Do you think you can hide my sister is pregnant, and you can have your way in Gil's house again using that seed of yours? Don't ever think that! Mom and Dad will never accept your baby. Remember that!" 

"B-Baby?" Gaberial felt frozen on the spot for a second, realising what he meant, "Sara is pregnant?" He was all surprised.

"What? Are you trying to trick me by saying you don't know about that?" He was annoyed in anger.

"Yes, I don't know that." He was all amused by this good news.

"Sara is pregnant. Oh my god!" He turned all happy and chuckled to realise he would be a father. 

This news almost made him forget he was angry and upset just a few minutes ago. Even he forgave all the statements from Jose.

However, Jose can't help but feel boiling rage at hearing his laughter and the next word; he throws evil words to change his mood again.

"Don't be so happy, bastard. You need to divorce my sister before tomorrow. Don't forget that." Jose's statement snatched his perfect smile, and nervous lines became visible on his forehead, "What Divorce?" 

"Yes, Sara needs to divorce you by tomorrow or else she needs to leave Gil's property right."

"What?" His eyes winded in shock.

"You heard it right. If Sara doesn't divorce you. She and her child would be disowned by the family for good. Then you can take her and live on the road. Do you get it?" His voice got thick and robust.

"But why?" 

"How could they do that? When she is just pregnant. It's unethical." 

He doesn't realise where he got the will to speak back to Jose. He never did this before, but today he felt it all because he is now going to be a father, and he needs to stop being a loser and listen to everyone's bullshit. 

"Oh really? So, now, a dog gets a mouth to speak to his owner?" Jose was frustrated by his sudden response and mocked him angrily before adding, "Listen, Gaberial, we can do anything. Don't forget Gil's corporation belongs to Mom and Dad, so if they decide to get her out. They will do that."

Gaberial can't take his words and coldly responds, "Alright if they decide that. I'm also okay with it. I'll find a job and give my wife and baby everything they deserve." 

"In hell!" Jose smirked, "You will find a job in hell, Gaberial. I swear. Because in this life, no one will give you any job; I can bet your shit life on it." He chuckled. 

Gaberial was speechless to see how Jose was so sure about him not getting a job, and this made him question directly what made Jose think like that, "What do you mean by your words? Just speak directly." 

Jose grinned from another side, which he could hear on the phone, "Oh Gaberial, How could you not notice or find out that there is another reason why no company accepting your profile?"

"What?" Gabreial's brows twisted together in doubt.  

"My Mom behind it. She made sure that you can't get any job till now." Jose sneered evilly.

"Mom?" Gaberial's hand clenched over the phone tightly as his expression got muted, shocked by this big reveal, which shook him to the core, 

"How could she do that?" His breath gets heavy. He felt all messed up by this news. His eyes almost filled with tears.

Jose laughed at him brutally to hear his never-shocking voice. He felt joy in it and added, "Yes, You heard right. Mom is behind that. She had demanded every company in the city reject your application on sight. So, there was no way you were getting any fucking job in this city anyway." 

Gaberial gasped for air. He felt he had fallen from a high place to the dark edge. He got into big silence, no longer knowing how to react to this reveal. 

Suddenly, he listens to Jose say his last words before cutting the call without giving him a chance to speak, "Listen, you dumb, ask my sister to divorce you or your life more hellish than now. Trust me." 

After the phone disconnected, Gaberial pulled the phone from his ear and looked at the black screen with a deep, messy mind. 

He never assumed Gil's family hated him so much that they could do something like this with him. For the last three years, they always knew he couldn't get a job but still mocked him and made him look like an incompetent person in Sara's eyes and even his own.

He realised that if Jose's words were all true, then he could not survive to protect his wife or unborn baby. He can't stop them from getting him a divorce.

"Why? Why it's happening to me?" His jaw tightened as he greeted his teeth out in fury.

"Now, what am I going to do?" 

He felt he was going to lose everything. He will be going to fail to protect his family. 

This introspection made him stretch all his nerves in anger and frustration. 

He was stressed and could not even move from his spot. He felt frozen just there and standing without knowing where to go. He should cry for his miserable self or beg Gil to stop harassing him.

His eyes reddened with hurt and sadness, "God, what should I do now?" He muttered in deep, heavy breath. Suddenly, he heard a car engine sound, and he moved his gaze to notice a Lincoln Limousinen pulled up a few meters away from him.

His brows twisted with curious expression as he had never seen this expensive car, even in Gil's family? 

However, before he could think additionally, he saw four strong men in black suits come out of the car and move towards him in wind strides.  

Without letting him be alert, one of the men held his arms from the back, and the other man covered his head with a black bag. 

It all happened so fast that, even before he could react or shout, he was all in their captured.

"What the!" He panicked and tried to free himself once he realised what they had done. However, their holds on him were so vital that they dragged him inside the car. 

This terrified him to the core, and he turned mute and frozen.

'Oh god! What happened? Did they just kidnap me?' He felt frightened to realise he had been abducted. 

'But why? What do they need from me? I don't even have any money with me?' He trembled with fear, 'What if they are human traffickers? No! It can't be that!' 

His mind was racing at fast speeds, 'Damn it! Why were all the bad things happening to me today? Now, how will I save myself from this situation? And what about Sara?' Thinking about his wife. He got nervous and stressed.

'She should be waiting for me. She will be panicked in my absence for a long. What if my in-laws take my absence chance to get their way with her and my baby?'

'This is bad! I need to be there and protect my wife and child. I can't be trapped here." 

He was scared but still tried to speak with the kidnappers while all shaking that he had nothing with him and they should let him go, but when he attended, no one talked back to him. This pushed him to feel more tense. It showed they didn't need the money but something else.

He can sense the car is moving at a fast speed, and this causes him to assume a hundred bad things; what can they do with him? He also presumed the last thing being killed by them. 

And this realisation hit him more to pray to God for his wife and unborn child, 'God, please take care of my love Sara and my unborn baby, if anything happens to me. Don't make them suffer just like I did all these life."

He could feel his tears almost ready to fall when he sensed the car stop and being dragged out by them to somewhere. 

He pictured the place should be dark and messy, just like he could imagine a kidnapping place where the abducted could be transferred, but when he was pushed to sit on the comfortable couch and the black bag removed from his head.

His eyes widened to see a lavish place in front of his eyes. 

For a moment, he blinked doubtfully and looked at the men who took him here, "What is this place? Why do you take me here?" 

He questioned while trying to rise from the couch, ignoring his fear of being murdered by them, but his shaking voice lied to him, and they all noticed that.

Before he could stand completely, one of those men came in, forced to push his shoulder to make him sit again,  and warned him in an enraged manner, "Just sit down! Shutting your mouth!"

His lips pressed tightly to hear that when suddenly another loud, angry, booming voice rang in the living area in attack, "Who the hell are you talking to like that?" 

The next go, the wooden hit sound comes into force.

Gaberial moved his eyes instantly to the new domineering voice figure, where he saw an old man, 65 or older, standing on the stairs in a neat, expensive grey suit with a luxurious shoe on his feet while his hair and beard were all white.  

He was holding a wooden stick in one of his hands to make a straight pose and glared angrily in the black suit man's direction, who just shouted at him. 

"How dare you treat our young master disrespectfully! Are you all done with your life!" He stomps his wooden stick with a dark gaze, instantly shaking all men like dry leaves.

When Gaberial heard the 'Young Matser' phase for him, he felt stunned, and his mouth half opened to blurt out in a gasp, "Y-Young Master?"