Chapter 70

CHAPTER 70 “Kids can be really mean and even unknowingly wicked sometimes...” Benjamin was speaking through his mobile as he drove on a highway.

“I get that you agreed to buy her a car, but you at least warned her to never play games with you, right?” Alfred spoke from the other side. “I told her if she threatens me again, I’ll go straight to her principal and ask him to give her an F-grade in all of her subjects, and she shivered when I said that, so I don’t think she’ll try to use me like this again.”

“Mm, but when are you going to take your card into your hands, Master?” “I don’t know,” replied Benjamin. He was never intending to take that card anyway. He only wanted to take it from Lisa and then break it, but now, he wasn’t in a position to do that, or Lisa could mess everything up. After what happened during the breakfast, the last thing he wanted was for Lisa to approach his wife and tell her he had a crush on Lisa who was still a minor and over ten years younger. Moreover, Lisa was his niece. Without a doubt, Rebecca would divorce him, he thought. “Alfred, can you freeze that account for me?”

Alfred didn’t reply, but Benjamin heard a faint chuckle come from the other side. Benjamin could only purse his lips. (This guy...

is he laughing at my situation?) “Alfred, you brought the card into the villa and caused this mess, so take some responsibility.” “I will if you are willing to hold the card, Master. Your father agrees with me on this, too. He doesn’t want his son to struggle both mentally and physically.”

“I felt stressed for a few weeks after I ran away, but I’m not mentally stressed about the past anymore. I’ve moved on and married a woman, too. She’s my world now, but of course, I would love to bring her home and introduce her to everyone if she’s willing.”

“And how long will that take, Master?”

“It won’t take long if you can freeze that card, I tell you.” “Haha, that’s not happening, so stop asking about that.” Benjamin cut the call even though Alfred was saying something.

“If the card goes missing, she may doubt that I stole it,” Benjamin thought. “How can I get both the card and also convince her that I’m clean and never had a crush on her? She doesn’t even listen to half the things I say. It’s not going to be easy. That much I can tell.”

He exhaled audibly through his nose and checked his hair with his fingers. “I wonder if I have aged a little in these months I’ve been at the villa. The Sterlings sure are good at putting stress, but I can’t let them turn my hair gray. My priority is to win over my wife’s heart, but this selfish mother-in-law is so cunning, and I’m worried that I’ll lose myself and hit her one of these days, and she’ll die from shame.”

“Alas! It’s a pain in the ass if I don’t fight, and a bigger pain if I fight.”

He could only shake his head.

Soon, he arrived at the Rye’s Pizzas, and only after getting out of the car, he realized that he had quit the job. “Ah, crap. I drove to this place out of habit. Should I just greet some of my friends for one last time? I sent the application to Christopher, but they might not know that I quit.”

As he was about to enter, he noticed Elizabeth sitting at the manager’s desk. His eyes almost popped out of the sockets, and he immediately turned the other way and walked.

“Benjamin?” just then, Christopher said his name aloud and walked out of the hut.

Benjamin had to stop and turn around.

“It’s you indeed,” Christopher was smiling, and his cheeks were red. “You are late as usual.” “Hmph, I quit, remember?” “What quitting?” Christopher came closer and said, “Your resignation was torn into pieces by the new manager.”

“What?”

“She said you were a butler at her villa, and so she’ll decide things after discussing with you.”

Benjamin was startled. So, Elizabeth was really the new manager then? She was telling him the truth? “Wait, if she’s the new manager, then what about you?” he looked at Christopher from top to bottom.”Is it my imagination, or did you lose a couple of pounds?” Christopher was almost in tears as he covered his red cheeks. “The new manager is crazy. She slapped me eighteen times yesterday. I didn’t eat anything yesterday. I wanted to quit the job, but she threatened to file a police complaint that I harassed her at work. She looks so attractive, but her heart is wicked. She’s really the devil incarnate!”

Benjamin patted his shoulder. “I feel you, bro. She hit me, too.” “She did?”

“Multiple times already,” Benjamin’s mouth turned down as he remembered those times.” I’ve never let anyone in my life hit me like that, you know.”

Christopher could relate himself with Benjamin, and likewise. Probably for the first time, both of them pitied each other.

Elizabeth entered the scene and gently put her hand on Christopher’s back, sending a shiver up his spine. “Assistant manager, why don’t you go to work so I can talk with my butler?”

“Y-Yes, ma’am,” Christopher hurried in without looking back.

Elizabeth and Benjamin were staring at one another without blinking. She smiled, but he didn’t.

“I’ve checked your application form from back when you joined for this job,” she said, “and your name written there is somewhat different from the name you go around telling everyone. What’s going on there, huh?” her smile turned into somewhat of an evil grin. “It’s kinda sketchy. I wonder how Rebecca will react once she knows that her husband is a fraudster who goes around getting jobs with fake resumes.” Benjamin looked calm, but his heart kept skipping like a tense little rabbit bound in a cage.