Chapter 164

CHAPTER 164 Christopher was howling at Benjamin. “One second you call me and say you’re coming, and then you show up hours later and say sorry. What do I look like, huh? Just because the chairman is favoring you and Damian after that’ incident, you and Damian think you can come and go whenever you want?”

“So Damian didn’t come to work today?” asked Benjamin while preparing a special pizza. “Nope. Sasha also didn’t. Why do they have to take leave days after their grandmother’s death? It makes no freaking sense.”

“Cut them some slack, Mr. Manager.” Benjamin quickly finished decorating the pizza and pushed the plate toward Christopher.

“Y-You made it for me?” Christopher was surprised for a second, but then quickly grabbed the plate and walked away. “Don’t think this will make me overlook your recent lack of attendance. You should work tonight and cover those lost hours, so prepare yourself.”

“Sure, boss.” Benjamin was about to put the worker’s sim into his mobile, but then his phone rang. It was a call from Jane.

“Tsk, it’s her again,” he didn’t know what to do. “Why doesn’t she stop?”

He didn’t respond to her call, but then his phone rang again. “This woman is really persistent,” a deep frown settled on his forehead. “Maybe I should clearly tell her that I’m not interested in her.” After some thinking, he answered the call. “Finally...”

Jane’s voice contained a mixture of many emotions. “What do you want?” Benjamin straightforwardly asked. “If I say I want you, will you surrender yourself to me?” she asked rather seriously. “Of course, I won’t,” Benjamin’s reply was quick enough to irk Jane’s ego. “So, tell me, why did you call?”

“Ahem,” Jane cleared her throat. “The thing is... there’s something I want to talk to you about Rebecca.”

“...okay. Talk.” “Not over the phone. Let’s meet.” “Ah-huh, no, I’m busy right now.” “But this is really important,” Jane sounded genuine. “Rebecca and I fought at a restaurant.” “What?” Benjamin’s eyebrows raised together. “What kind of a meal made you two fight over it?”

“It’s not about a meal!” Jane snapped.

“Then?”

“It was about YOU.”

Silence followed.

“That makes no sense, ” Benjamin resumed talking eventually. “You’re joking, aren’t you?”

“I wish I am, but I don’t joke when it comes to relationships,” Jane was blunt. “There’s a lot I want to talk to you about that incident at the restaurant and more. If you come to my apartment now, we can talk.”

“Your apartment?” alarm bells rang in Benjamin’s mind. “No. Let’s meet outside.” “Haah,” she sighed. “Look, I’m not really feeling healthy right now,” Jane talked smoothly,“ so I’m asking you to meet me here, but if you don’t trust me, we can meet outside.

What do you say? The choice is yours.”

Benjamin felt conflicted. Rebecca was yet to share anything that happened in her daily life with him. He didn’t know how her everyday life at work was going. He didn’t know a lot of things about her professional life or her friend circle for that matter. He could have asked her, but he wanted her to open herself up to him. However, now, he really wanted to know what had happened between Rebecca and Jane. What the hell made them fight for him? The suspense was too much for him to bear.

“Fine. Let’s meet at your apartment, but I won’t come inside,” Benjamin said. “Let’s talk outside the building.”

“I’ve got no problem with that.” “Cool.” Benjamin ended the call and then silently slipped out of the pizza hut.

Christopher had just finished eating the extra-large pizza and burped twice. “He’s got a knack for making these moreish pizzas. If only he was born with a vagina, I would have gone to hell and come back to marry him. Too bad, he’s got a dick in his pants. I’ve been looking for good female chefs in online dating apps, but there are more male chefs and than female chefs these days, and those that are there are not interested in me even though I put my old photo of when I wasn’t this wholesome. At this rate, I might have to celebrate my fortieth birthday as a bachelor. It sucks, but there’s no helping it.”

He came to Benjamin’s spot, but only Benjamin’s delivery uniform was there. His eyes enlarged. “Where the hell did he do?” He looked around but couldn’t find him. His fingernails pressed into his palms. “Did he leave without telling me even a word?” he raised his hands up and howled. “Benjamin, when you return, it’s either going to be you or me. Only one of us is going to continue staying here!”

He yelled so loudly, he also ended up farting at the same time, which made the workers around him move away with their noses shut.

Christopher felt offended by their response and raised his left leg sideways and leaked out a and longer fart this time, causing the others to run away from his sight.

“Spiritless chickens,” Christopher cursed them. “If you were born in medieval times, I bet you all would have died in the womb from the crap your mothers ate!”

Somewhere else in the city.

Veronica was having fun with her friends, or so it seemed on the surface. Though she tagged along for shopping, she didn’t buy a single thing. This was the first time this had happened to her. Though her friends wanted to buy a few pairs of clothes for her, she refused to buy things that way. She was already putting some burden on them by staying in their rooms, so she didn’t want to put more burden on them.

If Selena or Jacob were to see Veronica now, they would be shocked because Veronica didn’t know how to hold herself back from spending money. She never cared how others thought of her.

As Veronica walked out of the shopping mall with her friends, she was the one holding the most number of bags, even though she owned none of the items in those bags. She was smiling outwardly, but her heart was aching inside. “I must find a job soon,”

she kept telling herself. Her mobile rang. It was a call from Lisa, so she didn’t think much before answering “Sister Veronica...” Lisa’s voice was trembling. She referred to Rebecca as aunt but called Veronica as sister because Lisa used to play with Veronica a lot when she was young, and so they were relatively closer. “What’s wrong?” Veronica worriedly asked.

“Grandpa Nolan...” Lisa sniffled as she answered, “he passed away.”

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