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 vi.”


    “Haha.”


    Benjamin and Reba enjoyed the meal together in a cave with a cold butfortable 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. Reba 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 choctes and kept raking through her bag. “Where are the


    choctes? 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. Reba peered at him, wondering what he was doing. “Sorry,” he let go of her cheeks, “I


    couldn’t control myself.”


    “Sugar really helped,” Reba exhaled from her mouth repeatedly. “Howe I never knew about this?


    Choctes 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.”


    Reba 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 ovee 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 brte, 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 brte, Amelia, opened up her umbre. 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 Reba were sitting about twenty feet away from them, so they could clearly hear her


    words.


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


    Amelia signaled with her eyes, telling her little sister to stop. “Brother-inw,” 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


    uing, so he resorted to this type of cheap tactic. He lost all my respect because of it. So…” he


    nced 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 noting,


    so pleasee.”


    “Huh? What sort of logic is that?”


    As the three of them kept talking without any break in sight. Reba, on the other hand, looked quite


    ufortable 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 wildughter reached his ears. A muscr woman in a gray suit shed next to him.


    She was almost 200cm tall and looked like a woman in herte forties even though she was well over


    seventy years old. “You don’t have a clue on how tofort 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.”


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    Her response startled him. He nced at her. “You… How long are you nning 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 Reba’s lips?” he


    thought and imagined himself doing it, but then Reba pped 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?”