Chapter 77

CHAPTER 77 As he was driving home alone, Benjamin received a voice message from Alfred in the new modern mobile he had just sent through a drone, “Master, how long will you keep trying to be what your wife wants you to be? Why don’t you show your real worth to her? What are you afraid of? Getting rejected for who you are? So what if she runs away after knowing who you are? That only means she was never yours to begin with. If you want my honest opinion, I was elated when I heard you found your love While she may not be crooked like her mother, I think she’s still too selfish for her own good, I’m sorry, but I won’t be sending a drone for the third time. If you want to gift someone, do it with your own hands.”

Benjamin bit his lower lip. “He sounds disappointed. He must be feeling quite angry at me now. Showing my real worth wouldn’t take a minute, but I want her to love me when I’m at my lowest and weakest, Alfred. Why can’t you understand that?”

He pressed the accelerator and drove much faster.

“You think I like being called trash and a useless son-in-law?

“You think I like living like this?” the Porsche hit 100mph. He suddenly hit the brake. The vehicle stopped in a little over a hundred feet, just a few meters in front of an old lady crossing the street with the help of a walking stick. There was a vegetable curries and food in her other hand.

He stared at her for a few seconds, and the anger developing in his eyes subsided. He got out of the car and said, “Can I help you, madam? How far is your place?”

She didn’t respond and kept walking. He couldn’t tell if she had heard his words or not. He went over and asked, “Do you need help?”

She lifted her head and looked up at him with a bit of a sad face. “You shouldn’t have stopped the car. That would have been enough.” Saying that she kept walking.

Baffled, Benjamin followed her from a distance. She was renting nearby in an old house. Her husband was also there, coughing blood. He had both cancer and tuberculosis. He asked a neighbor and understood more about her situation, that their children had abandoned the old couple and that the old woman was taking care of herself and her husband with her pension.

Benjamin was about to call Alfred, but in the end, he didn’t.

He got back to his car and went home.

Jacob also brought his daughters, daughter-in-law, and her parents home in his car. Jacob asked Elizabeth’s parents to stay and told the others to go inside. While Nolan and Dorothy wondered what he wanted with them, he put his hands forward and said, “The wine and the coin.”

The couple looked at each other’s faces once. They had no other choice but to give what Jacob wanted if they wanted to keep living in this villa So, they gave him what he asked. Jacob tossed the two items in his car before telling the old couple to leave.

Just then, Benjamin was also passing by.

“Wait,” Jacob called for him, which surprised Benjamin and made him double-check.

“Me?”

“Who else is here?” Jacob said, resting his back against his car. “Come here.”

Benjamin huriedly over.

Jacob stared at him for a little while before patting on the side of the shoulder. “What you did back at the party... While I didn’t like that you served drinks for others, you did the right thing by gifting that birthday bear with a beautiful upper cut. A man must be like that, or he won’t be able to protect his family.”

“Then what were you doing?” Benjamin’s question startled Jacob. “You knew your daughter was married, yet someone else expressed his hope of claiming her? And what were you doing? Why didn’t you act? Was it because Rebecca wasn’t your family? I don’t think so. It’s because you don’t even really consider my marriage with your daughter to be legitimate? Right?”

Jacob had no answer.

“You are unbelievable, Mr. Jacob, “Benjamin turned and walked away.

Jacob had a faint frown on his face. (Poor bastard. I know you love my money more than my daughter, so if you think I’ll fall for your act, you’re only fooling yourself.)

Benjamin went inside, and Rebecca was standing at the base of the stairs. Though she had entered the house alongside Elizabeth, it seemed like Elizabeth just didn’t even care about Rebecca’s situation. Benjamin stopped next to her. Rebecca slightly shook her head. “All the standing at the party has put a lot of strain on my ankle. Can you carry me?” she hesitantly asked. “Please?”

Benjamin took a deep breath with his mouth closed as though he was burdened with something. He picked her up into his arms and walked up the stairs. She kept looking at him, but he didn’t look at her. His long beard kept pressing against her chest and tickled her, but she tried not to show it on her face.

The moment he reached the first floor, he put her down and went to the room, leaving her baffled. Previously, he used to take her all the way to her bed, but now, he didn’t even take her to the room. Something definitely wasn’t right, she thought. By the time she got to her bed, he already covered himself with a blanket.

Benjamin suddenly pulled the blanket down and said, “I don’t like the look in his eyes. I don’t think he’s the right guy for Jane.”

He got the blanket over his face again.

Rebecca didn’t say anything, but she began biting her nails. After some hesitancy, she said, “ Benjamin...”

“Mm,” he replied a bit late. “Can we... have our official wedding ceremony together?”

E77 Benjamin sat up fast, throwing the blanket to the side. “What? Are you being serious?”

“M-Mhm,” she nodded. “I didn’t like it when Donovan said those words, either. It was my mistake that I even gave him such an opportunity.” She took out the wedding ring from under the bed. “Will you put this ring on me once again?” she expectantly asked. “Rebecca...” Benjamin was trying his best to not shed tears. “I will slip the ring onto your finger a thousand times if you want, but... don’t be so indifferent toward me, okay? Otherwise, I don’t see the point of having a public wedding ceremony when you don’t treat me as a husband. What I want is...” his voice grew heavy, “your recognition, not the world’s.” Rebecca’s heart ached as his voice slightly trembled. “I have done you wrong, Benjamin, but I want to correct myself.”

Benjamin’s expression froze. Was he hearing things right? Was this prideful woman really humbling herself before hím? What brought this sudden change in her? He wondered for a second, but then he didn’t really care about it at the moment. “Rebecca, I didn’t hear you. Can you say it one more time?” he even turned his ear toward her so he could hear better. Rebecca gritted her teeth. “I’m embarrassed as it is,” she grabbed a pillow and threw it at him, “so don’t push it!”

The pillow hit his face, but he caught it with the mouth and got up from the bed, his eyes peering from over the pillow. “B-

Benjamin, you’re really pushing it now,” she moved back on her butt as he climbed onto her bed. “Don’t do this. M-My, my ankle still needs to heal.” When he brought the pillow closer, she closed her eyes and turned her head to the side. Benjamin dropped the pillow, which fell in her lap. He proceeded forth and planted a firm, long kiss on her inviting cheek The sound of the kiss forced her to shut her eyes even tighter, but then Benjamin began supremely pecking her cheek like a woodpecker, for tens of times with great speed, forcing her eyes and mouth to open simultaneously. This guy was really pushing it now!