I shook my head. "Nothing":
Benjamin raised his eyebrows and asked, "You sure?"
I was silent. Benjamin pinched my palm and said softly, "I know you too well. You are thinking about the past."
Benjamin guessed that I was laughing at what had happened that day.
He was obviously a smart man, but he always broke my heart.
He paused and said, "I remember that I gave you a ring that night."
He lowered his head to look at my fingers and asked softly, "Where is the ring?"
When he asked me to sign the divorce agreement, I took the ring off and put it in the house I rented.
"I left it somewhere. I'll go fetch it tomorrow," I said with a smile.
"Ha." Benjamin sneered. Then he slightly bent over and held me up horizontally, and went straight into the villa.
Benjamin put me on the sofa and stretched out his hand to gently rub my head, and then his fingertips trembled slightly as he untied my dress. I looked into his obscure eyes and asked, "Can't help it?"
Benjamin put his forehead against my forehead, and a cold feeling swept through his body. He explained in a low and hoarse voice, "Mrs. Dunn, you're too beautiful."
It was obvious that he couldn't hold down his desire.
Benjamin folded my dress neatly and then turned to look at me. His eyes were dark and shining. He whispered to me with a smile on his lips, "You really are beautiful."
I realized he would only say that because he was in love with me at the moment. After all, Teresa and Laurelie, and all other women Benjamin had seen must be way more beautiful than I was.
I saw Benjamin trying to please me, so I wrapped an arm around his neck and raised my body slightly to kiss him between his eyebrows.
His brows were very handsome and elegant, suffused with a cold aura.
Benjamin's palm was placed on the back of my head. After a while, he loosened his hand and said, "I will be gentler."
He was a man of patience, but he couldn't help it.
"All right," I said with a smile.
It was a pleasant thing to make love with Benjamin. He would serve me carefully and make me comfortable.
When I was still gasping for breath, he came inside me gently with his waist moving slowly and his palm rubbing my shoulder.
There was sweat on his forehead. I reached out to wipe it away for him, and his body became stiff and released it inside of me.
The smell of Benjamin was very good. I took a deep breath and was intoxicated in his love and desire.
Benjamin got up and threw a thin blanket. Then, he turned around and went upstairs. I lay there and gasped for a long time.
When the joy in my heart disappeared, I got up and went to the bathroom to take a bath in hot water. Then I put on the bathrobe and went upstairs.
I saw an unopened door on the second floor. I reached out to open it and saw Benjamin looking out of the window with his back to me.
Outside the window was the vast sea and surging waves.
I sniffed and smelled a whiff of smoke. I thought that Benjamin might be annoyed, otherwise, he would not have sneaked here to smoke alone when I was pregnant.
I grabbed his waist from behind and put my head on his broad back. Then I asked softly, "Are you not happy?"
Hearing this, Benjamin's body stiffened. He stretched out his hand and pushed me away. Then he put out the cigarette in his hand and threw it on the ground. When the smell of tobacco on his body had dissipated, he held me into his arms and carefully said, "I will quit smoking for the time being."
He intentionally skipped my question.
I leaned into his chest and asked again, "Are you upset?"
Seeing that he could not avoid this question, Benjamin answered with a soft "Hmm" and said, "I am having a lot of trouble recently."
"Can you tell me about them?" I asked nervously.
I was afraid that he hid everything in his heart.
Benjamin rubbed my head and then sat on the couch with me in his arms. He said disconsolately, "There are some things that will only add to your troubles, but they don't matter if I tell you."
Benjamin said in silence, "The Dunn family has been pushing me very hard recently. Although my dad didn't make it clear, I knew that he wanted me to go back to the Dunn family alone. Alone... what made him think I would do that?"
Alone. Without me.
If the Dunn family kept pushing Ben, he probably would find another way around this.
I asked worriedly, "Do you have any ideas?"
Benjamin tightened his arms around my body and said in a vicious tone, "Well, I'm not a three-year-old! If I can't even make a decision on my own, I'd still be nothing but a puppet on a string."
I believed this. He had always been confident.
"The Dunn family has been targeting the company I founded recently. Even the money I invested in the Heaney family has been blown into the wind! It is really annoying recently, but I'm not desperate yet." Benjamin was silent for a while, and his cheek was against my cheek. He whispered, "I'm gonna go up against the Dunn family on my own. It might cost me everything I have now but it's worth it for you."
I knew it would. After all, the Dunn family belonged to him. Now, he chose to be the enemy of the Dunn family for me, which was a risky move.
He surely was not as powerful as the whole Dunn family in the business world. If he acted recklessly, both sides would suffer and he would surely be the one who suffered more.
I asked nervously, "Have they really gone this far already?"
I really didn't expect Ben to say that he was willing to go up against his own family for my sake.
I knew that he was only telling me about it as a husband. He was talking about the depressions in his heart like an ordinary couple with me.
He didn't want me to worry at all.
That day, after talking with me for a while, Ben went downstairs to make lunch for me. I sat on the tatami and looked out of the window.
Outside the window, the sun was shining brightly. The sun shone on the beach, and the waves kept beating against the beach with several seagulls flying above.
I felt that I was very happy. It didn't matter if the Dunn family would accept me or not, as long as this man loved me!
As long as he was determined to stay with me.
Everything else was no longer important!
What's more, Benjamin has changed a lot compared to before. Now he would tell me that he's worried about me, so I could share his burdens.
He began to understand the meaning of having a wife.
But at that time, I did not expect that all the gentleness was only for a moment, and Benjamin was more mercenary than I imagined.
He was also more self- conceited than I thought.
He was so conceited that he thought everything could be reversed!
I took a side glance at the phone that Benjamin had left behind. I clicked on it and saw that there was no password need, but I was smart enough not to peek at it.
Everyone had his own privacy and this was the basic respect.
That night at Elysia, it was my fault that I peeked at his cell phone.
From that matter alone, I should have apologized.
But if I didn't do that, I wouldn't have known I was Edith.
Just as I was struggling, Ben's father called. I took the phone and went downstairs.
When he saw me coming down, he looked at me and raised his eyebrows. I handed the phone to him and pointed at it, saying, "It's your father."
Benjamin was stunned. When he took it, I went upstairs obediently and felt bored, so I just took my cell phone to watch the news.
Ten minutes later, my phone rang.
I was familiar with the number.
I hung up impatiently, but the phone rang again two minutes later.
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