Chapter 58
At night. Benjamin was sitting on his bed and watching the Lost Love series with his wife. She was sitting
in her bed.
She was watching season four, so she nced at Benjamin. “How can you understand it when you start
in the middle? You are just watching it to get my attention, aren’t you?” “Why do you ask when you
already know?” Benjamin chewed on roasted almonds rather angrily. Because of her, he had to watch
the show in which Selena was one of the main leads. For him, it was a torture.
“Because I don’t like what you’re doing,” Reba said. “I can’t putplete focus on the tv show.”
“Huh? I’m sitting like six feet away from you!”
“Still, I can’t focus because of your chewing noises and scratching your beard every other minute. Why
don’t you just sleep?” Benjamin could only sigh. “I don’t understand why you need to ‘focus’ while
watching a romantic drama. I can easily guess the screeny. The main leads get together after some
long struggle and then easily break up because of some forced mistake or some stupid
misunderstanding. Rinse and repeat. The acting and theedy is okay, but there’s no real surprise or
weight to the scenes. I can’t understand how this series became a huge hit.”
Despite all that he said, Reba didn’t seem to care. Either she was just so immersed in watching the
tv-show, or she acted like it. Either way, it felt like he received an invisible p from her.
“Whatever,” Benjamin covered himself with the nket.
Seconds turned into minutes.
He heard sniffling. He pulled the nket down, and Reba was crying because Jacob gave a special
appearance in the show, and currently, both Jacob and Selena were on screen, touring the sea together
on a motor boat. This scene brought tears to her eyes as the chemistry between them seemed so
natural, even though they were already many years into the marriage by then.
Why did such a lovely couple now live in two different rooms? The reason wasn’t as simple as choosing
to befortable and luxurious. Her heart still ached for her parents. “Hey, are you okay?” Benjamin
came over to her bed. “Don’t cry.” Seeing her so vulnerable, his heart throbbed slow and heavy. It felt
painful in a way. He didn’t know why, but he felt like protecting her all the more. Without himself knowing,
his hands reached out for her. His hand wiped her tears. Her mouth was still downturned from the
swelling sadness in her heart. “It’s going to be okay,” Benjamin said. “Everything is going to be okay.” He
brought her head
closer to his chest. She leaned on him for a little while until her heart eased down.
Afterward, she sat straight and looked at him. He stared back at her with a soft look. Her cheeks were
still a little bit wet, and there was still a hint of sadness lurking in those eyes.
“Thanks,” she said in a murmur, but his ears caught that word. “I must have disturbed your sleep. Sorry.”
His heart gained wings and flew for a second. “N-No problem.” He stood and went back to his bed, made
the sleeping-gesture with his hands, telling her to sleep.
She didn’t feel like watching the tv-show at the moment, so she switched the TV off and slept.
The next morning. Selena woke up with a beautiful view of the garden through her ss wall as sunlight
kissed the trees as well as her almost alike.
As usual, she had to have coffee first before getting off the bed. A fat maid named Delle always took care
of Selena’s needs in the house just as Kathy took care of Jacob’s needs. Delle was an obedient woman
who only did what was told, so Selena never had to waste her concentration on this maid.
Every morning, assuming Selena woke up in the house, Delle would bring two things. A cup of coffee,
and a random book from the vi’s library.
After drinking the coffee, Selena would read the book for fifteen to thirty minutes everyday until it
finished, whether the book was interesting or not. Once the book finished, Delle would bring a new book
along with coffee the following morning.
Today as well, Delle brought coffee and a new book
The cream coffee was as tasty as ever. She received most of the needed sugar from her daily coffees.
After finishing the coffee, she lowered her head to pick up the new book. However, her expression slowly
but surely changed when she read the title ‘How to stop hating your Inws.
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A vein in her neck throbbed. “What’s this? Are you starting to get smart with me now?” she red at
Delle who quickly apologized and said she just randomly picked a book from the shelves. “Tsk, whatever.
I’m sure Trashmin put this book on the shelves. That guy is smarter than he looks. I thought Francis and
Edward would take care of him, but what the heck are they doing?”
Even though she hated breaking her routine, she threw the new book out the window. It fell in the bushes
below.
Selena peered at Delle. “I’ll forgive your mistake if you tell me Trashmin’s morning routine within three
days.” “I-I don’t know about these things, ma’am,” Delle looked timid. “Take seven days if you want, but
figure out his routine,” she said. “I could have done it myself, but how can I stoop so low as to waste my
time monitoring him? If you don’t want to do it, then you can consider your job terminated.”
“Ma’am, please reconsider,” Delle tried begging, but Selena ignored her, took out a water bottle from the
fridge, and went into her mini open gym room that extended out of the vi on the first floor and had
ss walls on two different adjacent sides. It had a great view while she exercised there.
As she was warming her body up, she noticed two people in the garden. She didn’t care about them at
first, but a secondter, she stopped her work and came up to the ss wall and squinted her eyes. “Are
they…”
Her eyes turned red from rage as she realized that the two people in the garden were Benjamin and
Reba. The former was tagging along with a water bottle and towel in hand while thetter was
walking with the help of a stick. Moreover, they were smiling together!