Chapter 113

CHAPTER 113 A few days later.

Lisa and Roshan stopped going to school for the time being. Many famous figures from around the world visited Selena while she was still in the hospital. Artur Bonsbell also met her and made a good impression. He also met Rebecca because she stayed with her mother all these days and took care of her.

Today, as Selena was going to be discharged, everyone from the Sterling family came to the hospital. While Selena was entering the car in the parking garage, Benjamin approached her with a bouquet.

Rebecca’s eyes gained life after seeing him so many days later. His beard looked a little bit bigger, but he looked healthy.

However, the same couldn’t be said for the others.

“I-I’m so sorry for what happened,” Benjamin tried to talk to Selena, but her eyes gained redness from rage. “Whoever released those photos and videos should be put in jail!” Jacob looked embarrassed when the topic he had tried to forget was again brought up by his son-in-law. Lisa and Roshan looked much more shamefaced. Elizabeth, however, hiddenly smiled. Vlad and Mercie, on the other hand, didn’t know what Benjamin was talking about.

“Benjamin!” Veronica was the first to lash out at him. “How dare you come here after everything you did? You shameless son of a bitch!” “He’s really shameless,” Dorothy also voiced her mind. “To think he’d come with a bouquet in his hand. What’s he expecting, huh? That Selena would take the flowers and forgive him?” Selena just glared at Benjamin briefly before glancing at her sons. Both Shawn and Louis stepped forth. “You should go,” Louis warned, “or you’ll get hurt.” His voice didn’t contain muchhatred.

“I told you I’d kill you if I see you again,” Shawn folded his sleeves. “You shouldn’t have come here.”

Rebecca stood in the path of her brothers, surprising them. “Move,” Shawn ordered.

Rebecca turned around to face Benjamin. She took the bouquet from him and said, “On behalf of my mom, thank you.” Her little smile was a mixture of emotions. She couldn’t make it to the date she had said she would, and she didn’t even call him to explain what had happened. Yet, he came here to give flowers to her mother whom he definitely didn’t like. She felt sort of bad for putting him in this situation. She wanted to give a hug, not just because she thought he deserve but also because she felt like she needed it, too. However, she couldn’t do that in front of her family. She couldn’t wear her heart on her sleeve.

Selena, meanwhile, couldn’t digest seeing her daughter talk to Benjamin. Why did she even take the bouquet from him? Weren’t their relationship on rocks? “Rebecca...” she called for her in a soft voice while pressing her hand against chest as though she was in pain.

“Mom!” Rebecca rushed over to her. “Are you okay?”

Selena looked into her eyes. “Don’t talk to him. Promise me, you’ll never talk to him.”

“Mom...” she put the bouquet on the car’s hood before helping Selena get into the car. “This isn’t the time for you to worry about such things.”

Elizabeth took the bouquet and threw it at her feet and stomped on the flowers, both the roses and the lilies. She was grinning as she did it.

“What are you doing?” Rebecca was annoyed from seeing what Elizabeth was doing. She pulled her to the side.

“Kya!” Elizabeth cried out.

“How can you step on flowers? They didn’t do anything to you, did they?” Rebecca picked up the bouquet and glared at her sister-in-law before looking at her brother. “Tell your wife to stay in her limits.”

While Shawn wasn’t surprised by Rebecca’s actions, George surely did. Was she the same Rebecca who used to be all shy and timid in the past? How was she fighting back against his monster of a sister?

Elizabeth went to Shawn with a crying face as if her arm got hurt. She leaned into him and sniffled. “Why should we stay in this family when nobody respects me? Let’s live in a separate house. You, me, our children, and my parents.”

Shawn didn’t say anything, so Jacob had to open his mouth, “How much longer are you going to make me stand here? Get in.”

His words made almost everyone get into their respective cars, and Elizabeth hated how even her husband still listened to his father.

As the cars left, Vernoiced showed Benjamin her middle finger, but Rebecca also briefly looked at him and smiled. It wasn’t a big smile, but it showed that she was happy to see him. And that was all he wanted. He couldn’t smile back in time, but he still waved his hand. Veronica could only frown in annoyance from seeing him wave at her even after she gave him the middle finger.

“Shameless! So shameless!”

After the cars faded out of his sight, Benjamin took a deep breath. “I can’t wait to have a heart to-heart with you, Rebecca. Then, all these invisible chains binding me might just break away, and I think I can be a better husband.”

He then looked to his right, toward a pillar. “How long are you going to stand there, officer?”

“Ah, so you knew,” Steve walked out with a rather sharp smile on his face. It was your typical, forced smile. One of his hands was on the gun, while the other held a mobile.

“Is this about the bounty poster?”.

“You are always a step ahead, and I’m starting to see why,” Steve took his gun out. “You are no ordinary guy, are you? Not just anybody gets put a million dollar bounty on their head and then gets the bounty taken down within 24 hours. What is your real identity, Benjamin? Are you the son of a don or something?”

Benjamin smiled, but it only annoyed Steve. “Do you think this is funny?” Steve shot the gun, and the bullet flew past Benjamin’s face and hit a fire extinguisher. However, Benjamin didn’t even flinch, which kind of left Steve in disbelief for a second. “Who the fuck are you?” “If you had got any evidence that proves me breaking the law, you wouldn’t be asking that but would have already tried to arrest me,” Benjamin sat on his bike. “As for my identity, you already know it. I’m just a live-in son-in-law of the Sterling family who hopes to get accepted into the family so I can hold my wife’s hands in public and without asking anybody’s permission for it. And I hope the same for you, that you get to hold Jane’s hand because the one she’s currently with is cheating on her.” The last sentence shocked Steve. “A-Are you talking about Donovan?” “Unless Jane changed boyfriends, who else can it be?” Benjamin started the engine and twisted the throttle. “I wish you good luck in your endeavors, officer.” He steadily released the clutch, and the bike whooshed past Steve who just watched.

After Benjamin left his sight, Steve was still occupied in his thoughts. “He didn’t spout some bullshit just to get away, did he?”