Benjamin's finger fell on my lips. I stretched out my tongue to lick it and praised, "The apple tastes good."
"Really?" Benjamin licked his fingers and said, "It really is. It's pretty sweet."
I almost choked on the apple.
Was my saliva good or his finger good?
Benjamin was so good at flirting. I turned my head away and stopped looking at him. He held my cheek and pulled me to him, and then he kissed me.
I moved my lips, and Benjamin exhaled on my face. In a joking voice, he said, "It really tastes quite good."
I cast him a sidelong glance before I went back to my room.
I knew that I was too easily seduced by him, but there was nothing I could do.
Anyway, it would be all be over after three months.
While I was lying in bed, Benjamin opened the bedroom door and came in. He took off his white shirt and held me in his arms. I asked, "Don't you want to take a bath?"
"Do I smell?" Benjamin's thin lips wandered around the back of my neck, and his cold breath made me itch. He smiled and said, "We have known each other for seven years, and we've already gone past the seven-year itch. You have even given birth to a child for me. A little too late to think that I smell, don't you think?"
"We're divorced." I reminded him.
He didn't care and said, "We can get married again."
"Then what exactly are your reasons for doing this?" I turned around and wrapped an arm around his waist. "Do you think I'll agree to it?" I asked softly.
Benjamin said nothing. He lifted my dress and made love with me. That night, he tried his best to serve me.
After that, he asked, "Do you need to take your contraceptive again?"
I gasped for breath and said, "Why wouldn't I?"
Benjamin said helplessly, "It's not good for your health."
I reminded him, "You can wear a condom next time." "Em, can you give birth to another child for me?"
Benjamin said in a low voice, "If you give birth to another baby for me, I will take good care of her and you."
I reminded him in a serious tone, "When I was pregnant, you said exactly the same thing, so... your words are the most unreliable. You lie and you are arrogant."
Benjamin asked softly, "That's the way you see me?"
I tilted my head to one side and smiled at him. "What did you think?"
There seemed to be pain in the depths of his pupils, but it disappeared in the blink of an eye. Benjamin was silent for a while and then hugged me into his arms to sleep.
The next day, I woke up earlier than Benjamin. I was a little dazzled when I looked up at the sunshine outside the window. I looked down at his sharp chin and features, feeling confused.
What was this?
Was this just an act of lust or...
I went to the bathroom to wash up. I saw the traces left on my body by him in the mirror. He had sucked at my collarbone for a long time last night. Even now, I could still feel the moisture of his thin lips.
I knew Benjamin as well as he knew me. I liked to suck on his Adam's apple knot, play with his fingers, and enjoyed his deep collarbones.
And he liked everything about me.
He liked to play with everything about me.
Now I understood that Benjamin loved me, but his love for me has been complicated by too many things. He considered too many things, so he had hurt me and abandoned me again and again.
I didn't blame him, I just hated him.
I hated him for tempting me so much, but he couldn't protect me.
He would always choose Teresa over me.
After washing up, I went back to the bedroom to put on my makeup. Benjamin woke up and I was putting on lipstick. He sat on the bed with his upper body naked and said, "That color fits you. What is it?"
"I don't know, aren't you supposed to be the expert?"
He asked with interest, "How much is it?"
"60,000 dollars a piece."
I paused and said, "It's a gift from a friend."
All my stuff was bought by Joel. I wouldn't buy a sixty thousand lipstick myself, never.
Benjamin continued to ask, "Which friend?"
I lied, "Joel, he bought one for September and me."
Benjamin said in a suspicious tone, "You do have a good relationship with him. Why would he give you a lipstick that he bought for his girlfriend?"
"Right," I said, but I didn't answer his question.
But I didn't expect that in the evening, Benjamin would give me a gift. It was a whole box of the most trendy lipsticks.
And they were all ridiculously expensive.
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