CHAPTER 39

Rebecca’s cry was heard by the maids and the butlers. Though she felt quite the pain for a second, once he put her on the bed and her foot neatly rested, she didn’t feel the pain anymore.

“I’m sorry,” Benjamin apologized for the tenth time. “I was…” he couldn’t say the reason as he was staring at her face and forgot about the surroundings.

“I don’t think you did it on purpose,” Rebecca said, “so it’s alright.”

Benjamin was left speechless. Was she always so understanding? No, something definitely changed in her. He couldn’t pinpoint it but could feel it. “Uh, I couldn’t make it to the job in the morning,” he said, “so I asked for a night shift.”

“Oh, so you won’t be here tonight.”

“Yeah.” He sounded disappointed.

little bit sour. She currently wasn’t wearing the wedding ring.

love.” He leaned forward and gently adjusted a few strands of hair falling down the front of her face, almost tickling her cheek and ear with the tip of his finger. “My first and last

hear it. Normally, she wouldn’t have let him be so close to her for so many long seconds, but she felt a bit powerless against his charm tonight and kept staring at him almost like a mesmerized doll. Benjamin could feel the baby romance rising in the air, and if not for

waved his hand and said, ‘See you later,’ like any

forced him by taking part of his salary away. He’s really a tough guy, yet…” she remembered how he shed tears in the garden after Elizabeth had hit him repeatedly with a stick. “I made him cry.” Her jaw began to harden.

with the free time he got. “Should I

out for him.”Get over here, Mr. Maid.” The only two people who unhesitatingly called Benjamin in such a humiliating manner were

you need me here for, Mr. &

puppies just defecated on the grass,” the bald old man with an eagle tattoo on his head said. He was Nolan Conway.

was loud enough to startle the dogs, but Benjamin acted like he couldn’t hear her. He went into the distance and kept poking the puppy’s belly with his finger, and the puppy began to playfully bite on his finger. Dorothy ground her senile teeth in frustration. “This brat has grown balls in the weeks we’ve been out. Do something, darling.” “I’m older than you, so what do you want me

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