On the way home, I called Benjamin anxiously, but the line had been busy all the time, so I had to throw the phone aside hurried back, wanting to see him immediately.
I knew he did it for my own good.
But my dignity was shattered.
The moment I opened the door, a pair of sturdy arms pulled me into my arms, lowered his head, and kissed my lips fiercely. The familiar cold breath and familiar dominance made me fascinated!
I looked at him with my eyes open, and suddenly bit his lips, he let go of me, looked at me blankly.
The corners of his lips were slightly bloody, he pursed his lips and stretched out his hands to wipe them, then took a look at the blood on his fingers, sneered and said, "Tsk, when did you learn to bite?"
Benjamin was wearing only a white shirt that was unbuttoned from top to bottom, revealing his muscular chest. I once said that he was a devil. Now the devil seemed ever more charming and enchanting with the scarlet traces on his lips.
My heart was itching so much that I couldn't control myself.
I was nothing but a woman. Seeing such a scene, all I wanted to do was to pounce on him.
But I definitely couldn't at the moment!
Holding back my trembling body, I leaned my back against the door to support myself, and asked in a pretentiously calm voice: "Why did you give my mother the money? Why didn't you tell me?"
Benjamin raised his eyebrows and asked: "Is that why you bit me?"
"Don't make it sound as if it were nothing! I didn't even dare to use your money I borrowed it from someone else. Why did you give her all that money if without even telling me first?" I felt wronged as I said this. I lowered his head and said, "Yes, 200,000 might not even mean s*it to you, but do you know how much money that is to me?"
For me, the dignity I tried to maintain in front of him was shattered by the money he gave my mother. I marry him to seek his asylum, not to covet his money!
Benjamin folded his arms and asked calmly: "Are you done?"
"I'll pay you back the money," I said.
"What are you thinking about?" Benjamin stretched out his hand and rubbed my head, then his fingers slightly bent and lightly flicked on my forehead, and said softly: "It was your money to begin with."
I was surprised: "What?"
Benjamin turned around and took out a bank card from his suit pocket on the sofa and handed it to me. The card number of this card was so familiar to me!
It's the one I used to pay the debt!
I suddenly remembered what Steve said about the debt being a trap set by Benjamin.
I knowingly asked: "It was you who did it?"
"Well, I promised to help you get all the property back. It was never a lie."
I looked at his handsome face and said, "But Steve did get the money from the loan shark, whom you hired. So the money should all be yours. When did you even set the whole trap?" "I wouldn't put it that way. I got eyes and ears in all lines of work. It's just that your ex was unlucky enough to borrow money from one of my men." Benjamin's lips raised slightly, and he narrowed his eyes and said: "I am a businessman. And the only thing a businessman cares about is profit. It might seem that I got nothing to gain from his one and a half million, but I've not lost anything either. The process might be a little tough, but your property did return to you, didn't it?"
"You gave my mother 200,000 to get her to stop, so the remaining two million is all my property?"
I was really stunned that Benjamin could really get all my property back so easily as he said.
Benjamin smiled lightly: "Yes."
I thought for a while and said: "Benjamin, like you said, a businessman cares only about profits. You can keep the money. You deserve it."
Benjamin put his arm around my shoulder and smiled: "I don't need the money in my pocket as long as it can make you happy. Not to mention how much I like to know you are in my debt."
"Sorry I lost my temper on you." I sighed again: "So you are a loan shark yourself?"
"I'm the only one who you can lose your temper on whenever you want to." Benjamin hooked my shoulders and walked towards the bedroom: "I'm not a loan shark, well, at least I'm not ONLY a loan shark. I do a lot of business, different kinds of them."
I was curious and asked: "So what else do you do?"
Charlotte said that Benjamin was a chief executive officer with an income of no less than 10 million annually, but neither she nor I thought he had his own companies.
"Real estate, cruise ships, film industry, and a whole lot of other things. I don't have the patience to enumerate something like this for you."
His footsteps hurried up, and I squinted at him and said, "You are making yourself sound like Warren Buffet."
"I might just really be, who knows?" Benjamin opened the door and pushed me onto the bed. He climbed onto the bed and pressed down on me with his body and said hoarsely: "As long as you can give me what I want, I'd be willing to make myself sound like Quasimodo."
I smiled and said, "And you expect me to want to have sex with Quasimodo?"
Benjamin was impatient, and I had no intention to refuse.
I got up and went to the bathroom to take a shower. When I came out, I didn't see Benjamin. I dried my hair with a towel and went to the living room.
There was no one in the living room. I walked around the living room and looked to the balcony. Benjamin put on a black silk pajama and sat sideways on a wicker chair, holding a half- burned cigarette with ashes on the ground.
It seemed that he was in a trance.
I stood there hesitating for a while, turned around, and went to the restaurant. The sitter cooked dinner as usual. She cooked dinner when Benjamin and I were having sex. I wonder if she heard it.
We'd had sex in his apartment. The soundproofing effect was very good. Besides, the kitchen was far away from his bedroom.
Also, I tried my best to press down my desire to moan. So she probably didn't hear anything at all.
I sat down and took a few bites before going back to my bedroom. I put Benjamin's bank card in my drawer and put my bank card in my bag.
The next day I would transfer September's money back to her.
I suddenly remembered that Benjamin was behind the loan shark, but the loan shark kept calling me and forcing me. Was that part of his plan too?
I was suspicious, so I went to Benjamin to ask him! He took off the cigarette butt in his mouth and threw it in the flower pot beside him, and said in a faint voice: "I'm glad you mentioned it."
"You knew I needed the money so you gave me the card?" I asked.
"At that time, your ex-husband called my men and said that he only got 1.5 million and you were gonna pay off the rest." Benjamin looked at me with piercing eyes, and said with a slightly disappointed voice, "It's your own fault anyway. If you held on and didn't pay the debt for him, my men would've made him pay anyway. After all, I think you and I both know how much his mother got."
Benjamin even knew about Sharon!
I shook my head and explained, "I never failed to hold on and didn't want to help him. Remember the IOU I asked you to sign after the divorce? Steve's debts were the same as that. So all I did was doing myself a favor, not helping him."
"Really?" Benjamin paused for a few seconds and said: "Anyway, I wanted you to gather the 700,000 on your own as a punishment for hiding the whole thing from me. But I couldn't bear to let you do it on your own after seeing you brooding over it all day long."
I did hide Steve's debt, but he pretended to be in the dark. Did he want me to tell him myself?
I said to him: "So you gave me the card so that when my back was up against the wall, I'd least have a way out, right?"
Benjamin squinted his eyes, and the neon halo of the city shone brilliantly behind him.
It made him indifferent to the extreme.
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