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.

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

not, Benjamin faintly smiled and said, “Thank you, my 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

feel the baby romance rising in the air, and if not for his wife’s wounded

his hand and said, ‘See you later,’ like any good husband would before leaving the

really support him. He didn’t ask me for money even though he could easily have after my mom 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. “I married him to keep him by my side, and I know that if someone disrespects my husband, they are disrespecting me as well, but if I fight for him, I’ll be fighting my own family.” Despite everything Benjamin had done for her, a big question still bothered her. Was he really worth fighting her whole family for? “I still can’t decide,” she hardly breathed in the past minute or so. “Maybe I should spend some time with him to get to

wondering what he should do with the free time he got. “Should I just go back and spend some quality time with my

toys. Seeing Benjamin, they called out for him.”Get over here, Mr. Maid.” The only two people who unhesitatingly called Benjamin in such a humiliating manner were none other than

do you need me here for, Mr.

bald old man with an eagle tattoo on his head said. He was

elderly couple speechless. “Get back here, you rascal,” the old woman, Dorothy Conway yelled. Her voice 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

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