
"No, just now." My voice almost whispered.
"Take this a blind date. Don't be so uptight." He said quietly while I couldn't get rid of the heat on my face and still couldn't talk.
"You've never done this, have you?" The next question made me think it wasn't the first time for her.
"Never." He looked at me, I tried to smile. There are probably a lot of professional sugar babies out there. With their beauty and youthfulness, they could live a good life or perhaps earn some tuition just by making a temporary agreement like this.
"We order food first okay?"
"Yes." Yeah." I'm too awkward now. I answered one question with one answer and dared not start more. I wanted to change my face and pretend I didn't know him.
"What do you want to eat? You must be familiar with all these menus, ohh yeah you're the owner of the restaurant, do you also know how to cook?" He's trying to find us a conversation.
"I'm a professional chef graduated from Coquis." Maybe I'm just trying to be honest, already here, even though we only met once, I can't back down. He dared to take that 10,000 euros.
"so apparently. It's only recently that you've been seen, do you run any other restaurants?"
"Yes in Spain."
"It turns out you have a lot of branches ..." If I had so many branches in the restaurant why would I end up in front of him. It was absurd maybe in his mind.
"It's my ex-husband, I run it. I just returned to Milan two months ago." I admit it so he doesn't get curious.
"So you're divorced?"
"Still in process."
"It turns out so." I don't know how this daddy and baby relationship should be. I think to establish a good relationship you need to honestly not try to hide anything, if I manage to obtain a loan it will be very good. Maybe I can get Valentina out of that guy sooner.
The handsome guy who came in with this dark work shirt. I don't see him needing to use a sugar baby, whether a guy like him needs to be flattered, it looks like he's a guy who doesn't need flattery at all, he looks comfortable with himself, or he's just an anti-commitment don juan, on the other hand I can't pretend to flatter people like that.
"Why would someone like you pay. You can wink and women fall in front of you." He laughed at my question.
"That's not entirely true, there's no such thing as a free lunch Miss. Except from your mother. Everyone who gives something expects something in return. Women are the same, I'm a bit disinclined by the word commitment, child, family, it's a big, complex responsibility. That's why I'm here...."
"Hmm.yes that's right." I know he's right. But the reason he was afraid if he was able to somewhat offend. Maybe he prioritizes his career and considers women only free time fillers that can be called at will. I don't know. I don't want to dream.
"How is the restaurant business? Any difficulties? Looks like your restaurant is crowded, you're doing this just for fun or you're in trouble." He suddenly became serious with the conversation after we finished making the order. It makes me feel like I'm being interrogated.
"I have a problem but maybe I shouldn't have told you? Actually I don't know exactly how this should go. You expect me to tell you? That might be disturbing."
"Yes. I'd rather you tell me." He folded his arms in front of his chest, ready to hear my story while our order had not yet come.
"You mean your sister's in jail because your father can't pay the debt. How can that be, loans if you can't afford them they'll sell you the assets you guarantee?"
"My father signed a loan with Adriano Gianni. If you know who he is..."
"Gianni, wow, you're involved with that stronzo(assh*ole)...." It seems he knows who I'm talking about. "Wait a minute you mean being held back is she holding your sister as... ehm a bail lady?!"
"Yes." Yeah."
"I don't think he's that bang*sat." I didn't say anything. "There's no other way you can do it?"
"Our asset value wasn't enough, even if I sold my business. Dad made the wrong business decision after Mom didn't exist, and I was far away in Spain, nothing was wrong, we were fine before he was tempted to open two more branches that were the source of years of losses and lack of supervision made the restaurant retreat. Not enough time to fix a terrible mistake."
"You said your father was sick? Does he know about this?"
"No."
"No?! It's his fault, he doesn't know the consequences." The man raised an eyebrow hearing my words.
"He's in a lot of pain, he never intended this. Maybe he got hit, maybe if I asked him to tell stories more often and forbade him from making bad business decisions it wouldn't be like this. If I wasn't too busy in Spain. If he knew he might get sick, he'd been trying his whole life. My brother and I were trying to take over the responsibility of the late. I know this is stupid in your eyes."
"Indeed the fool.expand business by borrowing to the leech. Over the years the interest amount may have passed through the principal loan. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."
"My father usually depends on Mom making business decisions, when he did it because of the lure by Gianni and did not understand there are parts that do not match what he said. He didn't research it..."
I sighed, yes, what he said was true, it was stupid. If I knew I wouldn't give him permission. But I only found out after my sister who was in her last semester told me. I felt unnoticed by Dad, too busy with myself in Spain and finally now I get nothing from my husband.
"How much?"
"You mean?"
"Now your debt is."
"About 4,600,000 Euros."
"Early?"
"7,500,000 of the principal loans, have already paid off about 4,500,000 with interest. I tried to bid to pay 3,000,000 cash by selling our house and our assets and repaying for his two 1,600,000 years with interest but he insisted and gave us no choice. If Valentina didn't follow her she threatened to imprison Dad and sell all the assets we guaranteed with flowers going on, she deliberately played us, because we had no choice because of Dad's health. Dad won't stand trial or the intimidation he's running. You shouldn't have to hear this. It's my problem..."
"Dutiful daughter." Maybe it's this guy's insinuation for our stupidity. "I'm so hungry to hear about your problems with Gianni, let's eat, everything's happened. The blood-sucking leech is never satisfied. But I didn't know he was such a dick to play people." And coincided with our appetizers coming.
(red : if there call it loan shark \=hiu loan\= loan shark \=leech)