CHAPTER 69 Selena accompanied Rebecca to her room and went a step further to talk to her in private in the room.

“You don’t look happy, Rebecca,” she said. “And that’s a clear sign that this marriage isn’t working. It never has. You guys never spent quality time together, so obviously, he doesn’t really try to help you when you’re in need. That’s the kind of husband you’ve chosen.”

“Mom, can you please leave me alone?” Rebecca said.

“Fine, but take a good rest and think. Use this time to come to a decision,” Selena said and walked out. Benjamin was outside, looking unhappy and tense. She tried to start a conversation, but he ignored her and walked past her. She didn’t mind that, though, as she knew he probably was thinking of giving some explanation to staring at another female’s breasts.

Benjamin came and hesitantly stood next to Rebecca’s bed. She sat with her back against the headboard, but she wasn’t even looking at him.

“Rebecca…” he tried to talk

“I don’t want to talk,” she said, rather softly yet bluntly.

giving excuses, but there’s nothing between

talked back fast. “I do, so you

know, every time you fight Veronica for wearing tight and exposing dresses, I thought you were different, but you’re

know how to explain to her. He raised both of his hands. “I….” He brought his hands down, his lips pressing against each other hard. “I think it’s better I talk to you after you calm down a little. I’ll be

when she was beginning to open up to him, he began looking at other women. Now, she started to wonder if Delle and Benjamin had met coincidentally

any different than the

stress marks fought for places on her forehead. Her eyes turned wet, but she didn’t cry or even blink. Her mother’s words came to her mind. Like Selena said, she

that even if she finds some other man, what was the guarantee that he

looking itself wasn’t the issues as it was only natural for someone to look at the opposite sex, especially if they were good-looking. It was a typical human

very well how a man with lust would look, for she had seen his father look at new maids so lustfully, she was terrified of the expression he would make

the handrail and came downstairs by sliding on it and at the end managed to slow herself down by bringing her leg over the railing and thus increasing the friction. She used to do that when she was young, but even after many years of gap, she was able to pull it off almost perfectly. However, she wasn’t in the mood to feel happy about it. She kept looking for Benjamin and couldn’t find him

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