#191 “I’m So Sorry, Benjamin.”

Despite his initial shock, Benjamin decided that this was just another game on Alexander’s part. He frowned and despite the pain from his wound stood up.

“Let me guess, Alexander tell you this nonsense?” he scoffed, his tone tinged with bitterness.

Sophia shook her head, her resolve unwavering. “Yes, but…”

“Can’t you see that he is trying to separate us? He makes up stories to…”

“Benjamin, listen to me,” Sophia interrupted, her voice tinged with frustration. “What Alexander told me is not a lie. It’s another secret that my grandfather kept from us.”

Benjamin’s brows furrowed in disbelief, his eyes searching Sophia’s face for any hint of deception. But all he found was sincerity, an unwavering resolve that spoke volumes even in the midst of their shared turmoil.

Sophia continued, her voice soft yet resolute. “Our family has been hiding this secret for years, and

sure?” Benjamin asked, his voice tinged with

reflecting a well of emotions too complex to name. “I trust him, Benjamin. He is

enormity of Sophia’s revelation. “And what now?” he asked, his voice barely

this from you any longer.

them, a heavy silence filled the room, thick with tension and uncertainty. Benjamin’s mind raced his thoughts a tumultuous whirlwind of disbelief, confusion, and

rely on, but now, faced with the possibility of their shared bloodline, he couldn’t help but feel a

constricted with the weight of unspoken emotions. “Since when… since when do you

found out the day after you were shot,” Sophia confessed, her own voice tinged

sides, his heart pounding with a mixture of shock and anger. “This is crazy. It can’t happen to me,” he muttered, his words a desperate plea to

my mother hid all this from us?” he shouted, his voice filled with a sense of betrayal. “As

out, her hand trembling as she gently placed it on Benjamin’s arm, her touch a silent plea for him to calm down. “She wanted to

is to calm

to contain the storm of emotions raging within him. ”

despair deepened, a heavy silence settled over the room, punctuated

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