Chapter 2 Dealing with an Inheritance: He Protected You Growing Up

"Knock, knock."

"Come in."

Elena carefully pushed the door open, just after being beaten and seeing Martino a little abashed, like a shrunken little chickenshit shutting the door behind her and resting against it, afraid to move.

"Come and sit." Martino sat in the main seat at the table pointing with the pen in his hand to the chair opposite.

Elena took small steps and walked over to the leather chair and sat down under Martino's watchful eye. The slap she had just received was no longer felt at all, and sitting down in the chair Elena didn't look directly at Martino, flicking her eyes to the bookshelves behind him. There were all kinds of books, from philosophy, social science, psychology, economics, to encyclopaedias, zoology, botany, Elena couldn't help but curl her lips.

Martino watched her a little out of focus, 18-year-old innocent girl without worldly affairs, emotions unabashedly exposed on the face, and Martino's world is out of place, but now have to pull her into the game in order to protect her for the rest of her life.

"Ahem."

The soft cough was all it took to pull both of them back, Elena blushed involuntarily as she looked at Martino, not out of shyness but embarrassment at being touched by a man she didn't know well enough to touch that obscure part of her body for the first time in 18 years.

"We'll get married when you're of age." Martino said and pushed the paper in his hand in front of Elena.

"You really don't have a favourite?" Elena just couldn't accept the idea of deciding the rest of her life so early, she was looking forward to marriage and wanted to spend her life with someone she loved rather than with a man she hadn't even known for a few days.

"No." Martino answered without hesitation but his eyes burned down on Elena's face, not before, not sure if he would ever.

Elena, as stupid as she was, knew how such a good thing could possibly come to her, "Then why do you have to be with me? You're so well endowed, you could have anyone, right? Why me?"

"Uncle Cheng, in my favour, he is gone, I should take care of you."

Hearing this made Elena laugh, "You have so many men, just arrange one at random, you don't need to be so exaggerated."

"Read the paperwork first, there's no harm in being with me, just think of me as stupid." Martino saw the smile that had recently spread across her face, indulging like a spring day into February, springtime.

Elena flipped through the folder, listing the size, value and address of the various assets, the overall management framework and the current development, very detailed, but in Elena's eyes could only read the basic information, the financial statements, the management framework of each company, the organisational structure in the back looked confused.

"What is this?" Elena looked at Martino with a blank face.

Martino explained, "This is Uncle Cheng's assets, now they are all yours, go to the law firm together this afternoon to go through the formalities. When you graduate from university, it will be handed over to you to take care of, for the time being, it is still according to Uncle Cheng's management mode, he has hired a professional manager, and he will report the situation to you regularly."

Elena looked at the financial statement total assets of the column behind the countless zeros confused, this is in the Mark Six lottery? The Chosen One? Such a large fortune suddenly appeared in front of her.

Martino looked at Elena's silence and stared blankly, "With your current ability, you can't even read a basic financial statement, how can you talk about managing the assets left behind by your father."

"So that's what the Wakpak and the others are here for?" Elena sank her face, recalling everything that happened in the past, that innocent teenager, that teenager who brought himself light in the darkness turned out to be a messenger from hell.

Martino didn't make a sound, just looked at Elena steadily, the answer was obvious and needed no words.

"I think I need some time to calm down, recently happened too many things, about our marriage is not in a hurry, the legal age of marriage is 22 years old, by the time also graduated, we make an agreement, if I'm 22 years old also did not meet their own favourite person, we try to get together, if not suitable also do not have to force, do you think so? " Elena said her thoughts in one breath, about the company and what not have the ability to manage for the time being, someone to manage for her is of course a good thing, but about her own happiness, she can still decide now.

"I don't agree, you can only be my wife." How could Elena have survived 24 hours without Martino's blessing, how naive.

Elena looked at Martino so stubborn also clear that now he is completely unable to counteract his ability, if later he can get his handle may have negotiating chips, this issue can be put aside for the time being, maybe in these four years he met his favourite person. "Okay, we'll talk about that later."

Martino raised an eyebrow not to continue this topic, and turned to the next arrangement, "It won't be a few months until the college entrance exams, start tutoring at home tomorrow, I've already hired a good teacher for you."

"I'm going back to school." Elena looked straight at Martino, "School teaches you quite well, no need to hire a tutor."

"How come you still got such a low score? English 49, Politics 30?" Martino said with a stern face and an unquestioning attitude with a hint of mockery that made Elena look particularly unnatural sitting in front of him.

Elena retorted with an indignant neck, "But I got 130 in Maths and Language, and over 80 in Chemistry and Biology, why didn't you say so."

"Yes, you can't even touch the door of the university because you're so biased." Martino really didn't know how this girl's brain in front of him grew, but she was able to be biased into such a biased subject, "Uncle Cheng also doesn't want to see you failing to get into the university, right."

Elena heard Martino mention her dad again and stormed like she was being stepped on, "Don't you use my dad to pressure me."

"I wish you'd be more self-aware instead of me having to control you even about things like studying."

"Don't bother." With that Elena snapped the file shut and walked out of the study and headed for her room.

Elena in front of the computer desk searched for a few hours about his father left behind the assets related information, a lot of them are in foreign countries, full of English screen to see her headache, can not withstand directly lying down to sleep.

Until Elena was woken up by a knock on the door, pacing to open the door, the butler respectfully stood in the doorway and said, "Young master's wife, the young master has been waiting downstairs."

With a jolt of surprise, the whole person sobered up, "Good."

Martino expressionless in the car looking at financial magazines, and Elena is so bored that she can only look out the window at the people coming and going to be dumbfounded, looking out of her mind, her mind is constantly playing all the things that have happened in the past few days, it seems to be like a dream or not a dream, her father is really not there anymore, if Pak is the illegitimate son of her father's murderer, Martino in return for the kindness has to marry herself, at this moment her mind is so messed up that it is like she has walked into a kaleidoscope, it is still grey shades.

Arrived at the law firm, the driver respectfully opened the car door to welcome down Martino, got out of the car Martino did not go, but waited for Elena to get out of the car, will be behind the bodyguard handed over a long windbreaker draped over her body, Elena's body all of a sudden frozen, "hmm?" Angle head looked at the tall man in front of her, sullen face without half warmth but real concern for herself, "Cooling down, wear more." Elena seemed to have not reacted to the general allow him to hold her shoulders, followed his steps to the inside, behind a group of bodyguards with.

The lawyer in charge of handling the estate got up to welcome the two of them, although he was used to seeing big scenes, but he could not help but mutter in his heart when he saw that the office was not full of ragged bodyguards, "Mr Martino, Mrs Elena, please have a seat."

"This is the will that Mr Cheng made during his lifetime, Mrs Elena is the sole legal heir, please read it, we will have someone to interpret the remaining legal documents for you one by one, if you have any questions, you can ask them."

Elena took the will and read it carefully, while Martino went through the other legal documents one by one, making sure there were no loopholes to be exploited before handing them to Elena.

The mountain of paperwork in front of Elena finally stops, and Elena finishes reading the will, "There's so much more, isn't there?"

Her head was too big to read one will, let alone the pile in front of her.

"Well... Can I take it back?" If I keep reading, I guess it'll be tomorrow when I'm done.

The lawyer gave his opinion in an official manner, "Mrs Elena, these documents are important and it is not advisable to take them away."

Elena thought so, but she spent here does not matter, Martino so busy also want to accompany myself here to see tomorrow? Turning sideways to Martino, she said, "Why don't you go ahead? I still have to see a long time."

Martino frowned slightly, this is to drive him away? "I'm not busy, I can watch it with you."

"Fine, if you're busy then go, I'll go back by myself later." Elena saw him sitting motionless next to him, flipping through the ipad in his hand, with no intention of leaving at all.

Still very concerned about her rights and interests, Elena flipped through the bylaws of a company's transfer and inquired, "What does this article mean, can you explain?"

The lawyer explained it in plain language, Martino listened with his ear to the side, and was relieved to see that the lawyer was doing his job, and got up and took half of them with him, instantly brightening the room considerably.

Elena was so engrossed in the pile of papers that she didn't realise Martino had left, and by the time she had signed them all, it was night.

Outside the bright lights, Elena stood to the floor-to-ceiling windows stretched out, opposite the office building there are many offices are also lighted, now the world is left alone, secretly resolved to run everything left by his father, can not let them in their own hands in vain decay and loss, so that their current ability is still not enough to deploy the integration of them even so few points of the document to read! After so long, the positive thoughts that had just sprung up quickly dissipated again.

The lawyer stood next to Elena, looking at this only 18-year-old girl is not much older than their own children, without a father or even other relatives, even accompanied her to Mr Martino aura full obviously and she is not the same way, could not help but speak out to comfort, "Mrs Elena, your condolences, the deceased has rested. "

"Well, you worked for my father during his lifetime, I wonder if you would like to continue working for me? There are still a lot of things I don't know about legal matters, and I'm sure I'll have a lot of contracts to deal with in the future as well." Elena again sadness also need to live well, in order to live up to the father's sacrifice, was protected for 18 years, now no more can only rely on their own hands to build, "The price plus five per cent."

The lawyer's teacup in his hand shook, the piping hot tea accidentally overflowed and spilled onto the carpet on the floor fizzing away, "Willing, thank Mrs Elena for still using our firm."

"Well, good cooperation." Even though it was an employment relationship, gathering the courage to extend her hand in the face of the uncle in front of her who was the same generation as her father, the lawyer steadied his posture and then rushed to extend his hand in a gentlemanly manner to shake her back, it was the first step in Elena's purchase into the adult world.

As she walked out of the law firm, "I'll get in the car first, you guys wait a minute." After saying that, she closed the car door with a touch, the driver and a group of bodyguards looked at each other respectfully and stood waiting.

The moment the door closed, she finally couldn't help herself, and the tears in her eyes flowed down like a dike...