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CHAPTER 635
Benjamin took 100 grand from Teddy, but by the time he walked out of it, he was holding five bags full of cash totaling 3.9 million dollars.He had already given 100,000 dollars to one of the players who cried after losing everything and that he and his family were going to end up on the streets.“Gambling is easier than I thought…” Benjamin muttered under his breath. “I just wanted to humble them a little bit, but I was not thinking of earning this much. What should I do with all this cash?”He didn’t have any good ideas, so he was walking down the street wondering about it. He didn’t know for long he walked, but at some point, he reached a neighborhood where twelve houses were on sale. Each house needed rehabilitation, but they were all still very suitable for living.It was already night at the time, but he had a new sim card, which he wanted to use. He called the agent’s number that was written on the board and talked with him. It took an hour for the agent to come to the spot, an
CHAPTER 636
Benjamin woke up and realized that the time was one o’clock in the afternoon, and Rebecca wasn’t there in the room.He tried to come out, but the door was locked.“Hello, anybody out there?” he called out loud. “Open the door, please.”Delle heard him and was coming to open the door, but Elizabeth signaled her from a distance, telling her to mind her own business.Delle quietly went away.Benjamin understood the situation and didn’t shout anymore.Dorothy and Elizabeth were having fun because they locked the door with the master key which Elizabeth had taken from Selena that morning. They wanted Benjamin to suffer in the room until evening, as they were planning to unlock the door before Rebecca came home.Benjamin, however, opened the window and climbed down the walls using the grooves and comfortably came down.He entered the building right away.Lisa and Roshan were both staring at their mobiles. “You didn’t go to school?”“Jet lag,” Roshan replied.“Ah-huh,” Benjamin didn’t say an
CHAPTER 637
After eating the food, Benjamin washed the dishes and began to do all the household chores even though nobody had told him to do it.He had never done something like washing other’s dishes before, but he was doing it to the best of his ability as he wanted to win over his wife’s family members.Benjamin wanted to finish a lot of work before Rebecca arrived home.But before that, Selena came downstairs and talked with him, “Why did you skip work today? Is it because you have to give the money you earn over to me?”“No, Mother…in-law,” Benjamin hesitantly said. “I overslept, and…”“Overslept?” Selena frowned because she thought that Benjamin and Rebecca might have overworked last night. “My daughter woke up like she does everyday and went to work. Yet, you are so careless. I guess, it doesn’t matter much even if you lose your shitty job. Am I correct?”“No, I care about my job, Mother-in-law,” he quickly said. “It was just a mistake today.”Selena stepped closer. “I don’t know what sor
CHAPTER 638
After Rebecca came home, Benjamin didn’t tell her that her mother was admonishing him unfairly, as he didn’t want Rebecca to feel bad and annoyed because she came from long hours of work. He didn’t tell her what Elizabeth had done, either, by locking the door and trying to trap him in the room for who knew how long?However, when Rebecca asked him the question, ‘Where were you last night?’ he felt like he was perhaps doing the wrong thing by keeping things to himself. Since Rebecca was deeply craving honesty as well as transparency, why not tell her the truth?And then Benjamin explained to her what had happened last night,Rebecca raised her eyebrows. “You’re telling me that you went out to buy a sim card, and some people threatened you and took you to a casino, where you dealt with the gangsters and returned home?”“Yep, I didn’t tell you every detail, but that’s the gist of it,” Benjamin said.Rebecca grabbed his hand and checked his knuckles. “I don’t see any bruises. How do you e
CHAPTER 639
Later that night.Rebecca was coming down for dinner, so Benjamin accompanied her even though he wasn’t hungry.Just when he arrived at the table, Veronica told Amber, “Buy ten toilet rolls in the morning.”“What do you need ten rolls for?” Selena asked. “Didn’t you buy a dozen a month ago?”“Mom, I used more. What’s the big deal? It’s just toilet paper,” Veronica said. “Don’t tell me, you can’t even afford this much.”“The money is not the issue,” Selena hissed. “It’s your attitude that’s the problem. I’m your mom, so I’ll bear it even if you yell at me unreasonably, but you think your husband will bear it when you talk with him so unacceptably?”“Why not? Isn’t Brother Benjamin bearing your insults without any problem?” Veronica said.Elizabeth spilled her drink, and everyone else at the table were also surprised by Veronica’s boldness. Veronica would rarely talk back to her mother, but it looked like she got annoyed because her mother was arguing with her about mere toilet rolls.S
CHAPTER 640
For the next few days, the workload escalated to the aether for Benjamin. Not only did he have to work as a delivery guy during the day time, he came home and had to take part in cooking along with the maids who showed their attitude before him, especially Amber and Kathy who were cousins. If not for Sheron keeping them in check, they would have made his life even harder.Benjamin understood that the maids did not respect him much anymore now that he stepped into the kitchen to cook. After all, nobody in the sterling family would enter the kitchen to cook. He was the first one who was told to cook. Since he was being treated with not much respect by Selena and Elizabeth, the maids also naturally learned from that and began to stop doing their work and push all that load onto Benjamin.For instance, Amber was the one who used to wash the dishes after every meal, but now, Amber was giving the excuse that she was having a headache, and she told Benjamin to take care of it.Kathy told him
CHAPTER 641
Benjamin put the towel on the homeless man who then immediately grabbed Benjamin’s arm and tried to steal whatever that was in his pockets.Rebecca was shocked to see that. “Hey, stop!” she was stepping out. The thief took Benjamin’s mobile out. It was a button mobile, so he threw it away and checked the other pocket while wrestling with him. He found some cash in that other pocket. He quickly pushed Benjamin away and was running, but Benjamin bent down, grabbed the towel, and threw the towel like a rope and it knotted itself around the thief’s ankle, making him fall flat on his face, thereby injuring his nose.Benjamin took his money from him and then let him run away.“Why did you let him go?” Rebecca asked him quickly. “You should have held him down until the cops arrived. I already called them, you know.”“Forget it. He seems mentally disturbed,” Benjamin said and then put the towel back at the place where the homeless man had been resting, where there was a small plastic bag. He
CHAPTER 642
After Benjamin went into the kitchen, Rebecca went straight to her room.She grabbed a towel and a pair of clothes before entering the bathroom. “Mom is clearly angry at me for marrying without telling them. She can’t take her anger out on me, so she’s targeting Benjamin. Watching him getting slapped is hurting me, so I’m sure it should be hurting him a lot more, but he’s not complaining, so why should I involve myself and complicate things even more?”A few seconds passed.“But the fact that Mom slapped him… it leaves a bad taste in my heart,” she thought. “How can she just slap a grown man for silly reasons? She never slapped dad even though he did things that deserve more than slapping. Why is she taking out all her frustration on Benjamin? Elizabeth, her parents and her children, and even the maids are not treating him, yet he’s absorbing everything thrown at him like a sponge. I’ve never seen someone as unruffled as him.“And he’s surprisingly honest. He could have easily done a