Chapter 131

CHAPTER 131 “If I had known you would hug me for feeding you a spoonful of carrot pudding, I’d have done it every night when I was in the villa.”

“Haha.”

Benjamin and Rebecca enjoyed the meal together in a cave with a cold but comfortable atmosphere.

They toured throughout the Mabel fort and took pictures together. There were no animals other than a few birds, but the visuals from there were quite stunning as the fort was built on top of a mountain. They climbed the famous Mabel hill that had 777 steep steps to the top. Rebecca went three-fourths on her feet, and Benjamin carried her in arms for the rest, embarrassing her quite so much with his overly enthusiastic action. From the top of the Mabel hill, the whole city was up for view. There were stone benches, so they sat there. She prepared fresh lemon water with salt, sugar, and a little bit of grated chili mixed and shaken well.

He drank it without a problem, but it was too spicy for her. Her tongue and mouth were on fire. Luckily, she brought some chocolates and kept raking through her bag. “Where are the chocolates? I’m sure I put them in.” “Here, have some cold water.”

He offered her a water bottle. She hastily had a few gulps and that didn’t help much. He gave her the sugar packet, but she looked at him with a puzzled expression. “Toss some of it in your mouth,” he said. “It will help.” She quickly poured into her mouth all that was left in the packet. In a few seconds, the fire in her mouth began to subside. Her eyes were still watery, and her mouth was still wet. The expression she made was just too much for Benjamin. He grabbed her cheeks with both hands and pulled them like he was dealing with a child. Rebecca peered at him, wondering what he was doing. “Sorry,” he let go of her cheeks, “I couldn’t control myself.”

“Sugar really helped,” Rebecca exhaled from her mouth repeatedly. “How come I never knew about this? Chocolates are made of sugar, too.” “If you ask me, you should have just licked your lips, ” Benjamin opined. “They store the sweetest honey in the world. It would have instantly ended your suffering.” Rebecca gave him an icy look. “Your descriptions are really getting out of hand with every passing day.” “The path of true love never runs smooth,” Benjamin bitterly said, “but I shall overcome all obstacles in time.”

“What the heck are you talking about?”

Just then, three people arrived at the top of Mabel hill.

“Wow, what a view!” the short-haired brunette, Daisy, took in the magnificent view of the city. “It’s well worth climbing all those steps.” “We should have climbed during the evening, though,” the long-haired brunette, Amelia, opened up her umbrella. She was slightly chubby unlike the athletic Daisy. Both the sisters sat on a stone bench, and the curly-haired guy, Gael, sat in their middle and held Amelia’s hand.

Daisy noticed that and grabbed Gael’s other hand and happily smiled. As she looked around, she noticed Benjamin. “Woah, what a long beard!”

Benjamin and Rebecca were sitting about twenty feet away from them, so they could clearly hear her words.

“He almost looks like one of the villains in the El Man trailer, doesn’t he?” Daisy said.

Amelia signaled with her eyes, telling her little sister to stop. “Brother-in-law,” Daisy curled her arm around Gael’s arm and said, “you will take me to the theater for the El Man movie, won’t you?” ; “No,” Gael was quick to reply. “Why? I thought you wanted to watch the movie?” “I did, because that movie producer didn’t see a failure yet,” Gael said, “but his wife’s nude photos were recently released online, and it has caused quite a stir among the school students.”

“A-Are you saying the producer released his own wife’s pictures online?” Amelia, who was also Gael’s wife, covered her mouth in shock.

“Obviously,” Gael said. “It was probably all part of the promotions. He has two big budget movies upcoming, so he resorted to this type of cheap tactic. He lost all my respect because of it. So...” he glanced at Daisy. “I’m not watching El Man or any other movies produced by Jacob Sterling anymore. If you still want to watch the movie, you can take your sister along.” “No. I won’t go if you are not coming, so please come.”

“Huh? What sort of logic is that?”

As the three of them kept talking without any break in sight. Rebecca, on the other hand, looked quite uncomfortable even though she was sitting a little bit far from them.

“Shall we go?” Benjamin asked, and she nodded. They packaged the stuff in the bag and climbed down the stairs, holding each other’s hands. The steps were steep, so she had to hold his hand to feel safer.

After they climbed down, she still didn’t let go of his hand. “I wanted to tell them that my dad didn’t do it,” Jane said, “but I’m not 100% sure about my dad, and I...” she gritted her teeth, “hate it.”

“There are always those that perceive things wrongly,” Benjamin softly said. “We can’t convince or control them, so don’t take their words to heart.”

UHARTER 131 “I’m sorry.” She still had the frown on her face as she walked past him. “I’m going home.” Benjamin wanted to ask her to stop and share her burden with him, but he couldn’t even utter the word ‘wait.’ After she was no longer within earshot, he frustratingly said, “Dammit, man. Those three spoiled our day.” “Keke,” a rather wild laughter reached his ears. A muscular woman in a gray suit flashed next to him. She was almost 200cm tall and looked like a woman in her late forties even though she was well over seventy years old. “You don’t have a clue on how to comfort women, do you, Master Benjamin?”

“I told her to not take their words to heart,” Benjamin didn’t even look at her. “What more could I have done? Forced her to stop worrying?” “Actions are more powerful than words, so you should have hugged her or kissed her or should have done something that could make her forget everything else.”

Her response startled him. He glanced at her. “You... How long are you planning to stand here? Go and guard my wife.” She raised one of her brows. “Is that an order or a request?”

“A bit of both.”

“Hah, fine. Mina will keep your wife safe, so make sure to send me a box full of ice creams every night.” She started walking.

“There’s nothing better than eating ice cream during the cold weather of the night.”

Benjamin’s shoulders slumped. “Why do I feel like I missed a good chance of kissing Rebecca’s lips?” he thought and imagined himself doing it, but then Rebecca slapped him for not even reading her mood. “No.” He shook his head. “Maybe I did the right thing by not overdoing things.” He sighed. “Geez, it’s really hard to understand women sometimes. At this rate, when am I going to kiss her?”