I bit my lips, and Benjamin said furiously, "I should have saved you, but there were many people who would save you that day. As for Teresa, yes, I can't deny the fact that she has done a lot of things she shouldn't have, but that doesn't sentence her to death. What I did that day was my last connivance. After that, I completely cut off my contact with her."
I found it rather amusing and asked, "Nobody compelled you to save her from herself! Now that you brought this up, I have another thing to ask you, you lying sack of s*it! Why did you tell me it was you who told Zack to save me when it was his own choice?"
"I'm afraid that you won't forgive me!" Benjamin buried his face in my collarbone and said hoarsely, "I love you, Emma. Even I might not have acted accordingly. But after you fave birth to my child, I knew you were the one and I will spoil you no matter what others say!"
I felt a tinge of warmth at my collarbone, and it turned out to be his tears. He said, "I hate Teresa very much because she always lets me make a choice, but after all, she is my friend who grew up with me. I can't really give her up. I know she is pretentious, we all do, but that doesn't change the fact she is our friend."
Benjamin's waist didn't move, but I could clearly feel that he softened in my body. Was it because he was too sad? I asked in a flat tone, "Do you wanna keep going?"
He suppressed his feelings and said, "I know you hate me, and I deserve it. But I need to explain something to you."
"What's the point of your explanation?" I asked, clutching at his head.
"You have explained to me again and again, but where did that take us? You still had no problem hurting me. I still remember what you said to me that rainy night at the river. You made another vain promise, and that was all." I touched his tearful cheek and said, "I believe that you love me, but so what?"
I knew clearly that his constant entanglement with me was because he loved me, but so what? Could it wipe away what he did to me? Even if it did, would Emy be able to forgive him?
"Yeah, so what?" Benjamin gave up. He picked up his trousers and looked up at me with his dark and indifferent eyes. He said coldly, "Torture me all you want, but I won't let you go."
"Do you think I care?" I said with a smile.
I tidied up my clothes and went back to the kitchen to make breakfast. Meanwhile, Benjamin was smoking one cigarette after another on the balcony. I fried the eggs and glanced at him. He looked at the distance blankly, and the cigarette in his hand had almost burned to his finger.
What was he thinking about?
There was a piece of steak in the pan. Suddenly, Anthony appeared at the kitchen door and reminded, "Aunt, the steak."
I immediately turned off the fire and said panicked, "Go back to the bedroom to wash up. I'll take you to a place after breakfast."
"OK," Anthony answered and turned back to his room.
After a while, Benjamin sneaked into the kitchen and said, "You treat him well. What's your plan, for him to replace your real son?"
I walked around him and placed the milk in my hand on the table, reminding him, "Benjamin, I would advise you to be careful. Anthony is my child, and that means he's going to be a Shears."
"Really?" said Benjamin, with the cigarette between his fingers. "You're very protective of him, but since you're willing to raise him, I'll admit that he's the elder brother of Ellis."
I glared at him. "Did you hear me ask for your approval?"
Benjamin exhaled the smoke on my face. He said in a frivolous tone, "Of course, you do. Or did you forget how Ellis came to be? I still remember that night pretty vividly"
"Shut up!" I growled through gritted teeth.
"You want me to shut up?" Benjamin asked as he smoked. He then exhaled into my mouth and I started coughing. He laughed and said, "If you kiss me, I'll shut up."
I almost choked with tears, but Benjamin looked at me indifferently. I lifted my foot and wanted to kick him, but he grabbed my leg and put it on his waist. He said frivolously, "Since you don't want to forgive me, I will treat you in my own way."
Benjamin's breath fell on my face. He took a deep breath and bit my ear with a smile, saying, "Emma, you are my heroin, there's no way out of you for me."
His teeth gently rubbed my earlobe, and I reached out to push him away. I put down my leg and said coldly, "Not my business."
He put out the cigarette and lit another one. He asked indifferently, "You want the contract of the Weier family, don't you?"
Before I could say anything, he said in a lazy and casual tone, "Since you want to slap me in the face on your own, then I won't give it to you. But you'd better do it right! Also, the reason I'm helping the Heaneys is on the condition that I won't have to marry Victoria anymore. That would be the last tie, one that is about to be torn open, with the Heaneys."
I didn't care. "It's none of my..."
"It is!" Benjamin interrupted me and said, "I will cut off all ties with the Heaney family. I won't touch anything that you hate. If you want to destroy something, I will help you."
"Your words imply I would want what you are offering."
"So what if you don't?" Benjamin said aggressively, "I'll make you owe me, and I don't care if you hate me or what."
I replied coldly, "You're a lunatic, aren't you?"
"I wish I were!" Benjamin said coldly, "I tried every means to go back to the Dunn family just so that you could be there with me, but... it's really ridiculous. Although I have been appointed as the director of the Dunn Group, the shares are all distributed in the hands of countless shareholders."
"Am I supposed to pity you now?" I asked.
"Am I? I don't know," said Benjamin as he put out the cigarette he just lit. "I'll go against the Dunn family's wishes to help you. When that happens, you'll have to take me in when I'm chased out of the Dunn family."
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