Vanessa instantly thought of Mercedes’ look and words when she went upstairs.


    “So he mistook the hickey behind his ear for Benjamin’s and called Benjamin’s mother directly to tell her? My God, this is a big misunderstanding. What about Benjamin? Does he know what’s going on?”


    Vanessa couldn’t help but feel embarrassed and a little ashamed. Benjamin would have guessed what had happened if he had seen the hickey, but his mother had misinterpreted it …


    It was embarrassing for Vanessa just to think about it.


    He looked at Benjamin, but, again, could not tell from his expression.


    Vanessa’s smile was extraordinarily forced, and she even felt embarrassed.


    Thinking like that, his face became a little ufortable.


    -There may have been some misunderstanding, I’m sorry to have caused you any trouble.


    If there was a crack in the floor, Vanessa would want to crawl into it right now. She felt so shaky that she wished she could disappear, so she wouldn’t have to be tormented and dragged away in shame.


    Benjamin realised that it was a bad attempt to say so much to the girl.


    Seeing Vanessa’s reluctantly smiling face, he felt regretful and guilty that he had not said that.


    But wouldn’t an exnation show that he had mentioned it on purpose?


    So Benjamin could only pretend not to see Vanessa’s embarrassment and feigned fortitude, and changed the subject without saying anything.


    -Come on, let’s eat before we go back. I suppose you haven’t eaten anything yet.


    -Yes, I’m already a bit hungry.


    Vanessa followed his example and changed the subject, although the smile was still not very natural. As she spoke to Benjamin, she caught a glimpse of a familiar car out of the corner of her eye, and her body shuddered as she looked towards it.


    “Of course, it’s Dn’s car! This one’s in the car. How long has he been here? What do you want?”


    It would only be more ufortable for the three of them to find themselves in this situation.


    Vanessa was a little disturbed when she saw the passenger side window of the car roll down to reveal Dn’s face with a creepy grin. His mouth was open, and he looked like he was going to say something, and then he didn’t.


    “What exactly do you want to do?”


    Vanessa’s heart was pounding and her palms were sweating.


    -What’s going on?


    Benjamin looked at Vanessa suspiciously, and she hurried back to herself, unconsciously grabbing his arm.


    -I’m very hungry, let’s find a ce for dinner.


    -It seems to be a serious case of hunger.


    “How else could the usual Vanessa be somunicative in front of me, which is a kind of improvement?”


    Benjamin thought optimistically as he lowered his head to open the door and put his palms back on the ceiling to prevent Vanessa from hitting her head on the ceiling.


    He was always very tender and kind to Vanessa.


    -Thank you.


    Vanessa thanked him with a smile.


    -Serving a beauty is a pleasure for me.


    Benjaminughed, rounded the front of the car to get into the cab and drove off.


    The silver and white car quickly blended into the traffic, then drove away.


    Vanessa unconsciously tried to look in the rear-view mirror to see if Dn was following her, and only after looking did she realise that she could not see Dn’s car on her side of the mirror.


    The good thing was that until we got to the restaurant, everything went well.


    Vanessa was secretly relieved that Dn did not seem to have followed her.


    The atmosphere was more rxed and the atmosphere was better in the restaurant.


    For dinner Vanessa ate more than happily, so she didn’t say no when Benjamin offered to take her to a movie.


    It was good to rx from time to time.


    When the two returned, it was almost midnight.


    -I won’te in if it’s toote, so go back to your rest.


    -Okay, drive slowly on your way back, okay?


    -Don’t worry, I’ll send you a message when I get there.


    Benjamin waited for Vanessa toe in and drove away.


    Mercedes had gone to bed and the living room light was left on especially for Vanessa, who returnedte.


    She left her bag in the living room, changed her slippers and went inside. Switching off the living room light, she went upstairs. Passing Mercedes’ room, she gently pushed the door open and tucked Mercedes in.


    I didn’t expect Mercedes to be awake.


    -Vanessa is back?


    -Did I wake you up?


    -It’s OK, at my age I wake up easily. Well, get in the shower and go to bed, it’s veryte.


    -Well, you go back to sleep too.


    Vanessa said goodnight to Mercedes before leaving. Her room was across the hall, a few rooms away from Mercedes’, near the corner.


    The curtains were open to let outside light into the house.


    Vanessa closed the door and turned to see Dn, who sat speechless to one side.


    He seemed to have been waiting for a long time and admired the way she was frightened but did not dare to scream.


    -Dn, what are you doing in my house! -asked Vanessa in shock, scared to think what would happen if Mercedes suddenly came into her room and saw Dn’s things! And she was too bold to sneak into her house!


    Hadn’t the garden cameras caught him as a suspicious person?


    Dn seemed not to have seen Vanessa’s anger, his jaw tightening as he raised his wrist to check the time, his voice low and clearly upset, as if he had spat ice:


    -You look like you had a great time on your date with Benjamin, I can’t believe you’re back at this hour. You know what? If you’re not back after twelve, I’m out of here.N?velDrama.Org owns ? this.


    -Are you crazy? -Vanessa lowered her voice and asked.


    He reached over and grabbed Dn by the cor of his shirt:


    -Get out of my house!


    Luckily Mercedes was already asleep, otherwise I wouldn’t know what to do.


    -Yes, I’m going out the front door bright and early right now,” Dn said willingly, with a frankly menacing look on his face.


    -You …


    Vanessa was so angry she couldn’t speak. She thought Dn had already left, but she didn’t expect this madman to go straight to her house.


    Did he have to drive her crazy?


    -If you don’t leave, I will call the police and say that the president of the hanging SJ Group has broken into a private home and is going to misbehave with me.


    -Well, then the whole of Peaceful City will reconfirm my rtionship with you. It would be a good thing for me, and I even think it would be quite nice.


    -Dishonest…


    Vanessa was speechless at his shamelessness.


    -What do you really want?


    -I was upset that you went on a date with another man behind my back, so I wanted to punish you.


    -Behind your back?! Dn, ask yourself what kind of rtionship we have. Is that enough to justify such an usation on your part?


    -Of course that’s enough. To me, a woman is my woman if she’s been in my bed. Never get rid of me and never be with another man if I don’t want you to.


    -Even if I’m your toy you should have had enough…. Haven’t I slept with you enough? Dn, what does it take to make you satisfied?


    -Who knows.


    He himself did not have the answer.