Chapter 470 Wouldn’t Learn Without Consequences
She threw herself at Benjamin, sobbing.
She wasn’t scared of the man in the house anymore. But being mistaken for someone else and taken away by force had shaken her badly.
She was also scared of ending up like the man’s own baby-lost and never found.
His baby still hadn’t come home. Nina didn’t want that. She didn’t want to be unable to go home.
Nina usually loved running out the door and never wanted to come back inside. But now she clung to Benjamin’s neck and asked to go home-for the very first time.
“Nina go home!” she cried, her eyes welling up. “Want Mommy!”
Nina wanted to go home and find Amelia. The man who had followed her was already restrained by the bodyguards.
Nina looked back, saw him being held, and through her sobs, tried to explain.
“He wrong!” she managed. “Not Nina! Baby… gone. Not Nina. He want Mommy.”
Nina was too little. Getting the whole story out was a struggle. But Benjamin could understand everything she said now.
He got the gist of it, though he didn’t take her word as the whole truth.
“Got it,” he said simply, then picked her up and carried her away.
As for the man left behind, Benjamin wasn’t finished with him.
After Benjamin took Nina away, she saw Amelia.
The man who took Nina had run the amusement park, but he’d had another job too-he was a doctor.
He’d used a special gas to briefly knock Amelia out. Amelia was awake now,
The moment Amelia saw a safe Nina, tears sprang to her eyes. Then, she pulled Nina over her knee, lifted her hand, and spanked her bottom.
“Nina, are you going to listen from now on?” Amelia demanded, her voice trembling. “No more running off? When I call you, do you stop running?”
Last time, Amelia’s heart had ached too much to spank her. But Nina wouldn’t learn without consequences.
This time, despite the pain in her own heart, Amelia gave her a proper spanking.
Nina wailed and cried, but she also reached for Amelia, wanting to be held. She was genuinely scared now.
Seeing her cry for a hug, Amelia finally stopped, picked her up, and held her close.
2:35 pm
Chapter 470 Wouldn’t Learn Without Consequences
Finished
“Did Mommy’s spanking hurt?” Amelia asked softly, hugging the still-crying Nina.
She had spanked a bit hard this time. Nina nodded through her tears.
She freed a chubby little hand to rub her plump bottom. “Mommy, it hurt,” she whimpered.
Hearing that, Amelia steeled herself. “If you act like that again, Mommy will spank even harder,” she said firmly.
Nina, not wanting another spanking, wrapped her arms around Amelia’s neck again.
She pressed her wet little cheek against Amelia’s face.
“Nina good. Mommy, no hit?” she whispered.
Amelia replied, “If you’re good, no more spankings.”
While Amelia and Nina were talking, Benjamin watched silently. He had been terrified too.
Being abroad wasn’t like Averton. Gun laws were different here, some organizations operated in the shadows, and the crime rate was higher.
He was genuinely afraid that if they hadn’t acted fast enough, they might not have gotten Nina back.
The three of them sat in the car. Once Nina’s sobs subsided and Amelia’s emotions settled, Benjamin took a tissue and gently wiped both their faces.
After cleaning them up, he took Nina from Amelia’s arms.
Nina didn’t really want to go; she wanted Amelia to keep holding her.
But Benjamin insisted, and she didn’t fight him.
“Daddy.”
A subdued Nina sat quietly on Benjamin’s lap, looking drained.
Since she’d already been spanked and scolded, Benjamin didn’t repeat the lesson.
He leaned down, pressed his cheek against hers, and spoke in a low, serious voice, “Nina, you’re so little. A child as small as you can easily be taken by a bad person. If a bad person takes you, you might never see Mommy and Daddy again.”
Benjamin softly explained a few more things.
Nina sniffled and placed Benjamin’s large hand over her own small face. She was listening.
Once Nina was settled, Benjamin intended to take her back to the estate.
But Amelia, knowing Benjamin and Lester had just reunited, thoughtfully suggested, “Benjamin, why don’t you go to the hospital to see Lester? I think Nina’s about to fall asleep.”
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