The next morning.

The veterinarian had treated the birds and asked who abused them, but Benjamin didn’t have an answer yet.

Benjamin didn’t go to the rooftop. The parrots were still resting on his bed. Because their nails and part of their feet were crushed, the veterinarian said, they might never be able to stand, much less walk properly again.

Their situation didn’t even let him sleep. He felt guilty because if not for him taming them, they might have left the villa, and they would still be living somewhere happily. But now, their entire life was ruined by his mother-in-law.

Yes, Benjamin had overheard the conversations of the maids from a distance and learned what had happened. He didn’t want to use his enhanced sense of hearing to eavesdrop on others in the villa, but the circumstances forced him to.

He knew Johnny was the one who caught the birds and beat them and tortured them, but the one who made him do it was Selena.

“Not only did you get some men to attack me, you even went