Chapter 236: Five Boys
Tony tried his best. He tried his best a few more times too. In the ten years that followed, his "tries" resulted in three more boys.
They had five boys! Five!
Marcella didn’t want to stop yet. She wanted to have a daughter at any cost. It was not like they didn’t have the means to support many kids. They were rich. Tony only became richer and the investments she made gave great returns too. They had become wealthier than they were when she got her father’s inheritance. Her wealth had doubled while Tony’s had tripled over the years.
Joey grew up to look more and more like her father. His smile was the same as her father’s. Although a parent was supposed to not have favorites, Joey was her favorite. He was an angel walking on earth. She counted her blessings to have such an obedient and smart boy.
Victor although had Tony’s eyes, grew up more to resemble her. He didn’t cause much trouble for her. He was a little naughty but he looked up to his big brother and was considerably tame.
Compared to the...horrid one—the middle child—Raphael.
He came out like a little carbon copy of her. Caramel eyes, brown hair, olive skin...and an incomparable attitude at the age of eight. He caused constant headaches to her.
Maybe because he was the youngest child for a long time, he was pampered too much by his father. Or it was because he couldn’t raise his voice against that boy who was the mini-me of Marcella.
Raphael would blink his pretty eyes and act all innocent in front of Tony. His father thought of him as an angel, while everyone in the town knew him as the angel of confusion. He and his band of rogues caused havoc around the town, poking their noses in other people’s affairs and picking fights with boys older than them.
They never let their fight escalate to physical violence though, knowing they would lose. They found innovative ways to make the older boys lose to them, and in the process gain enemies.