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Drowned under his Touch Chapter 97
Alita wrapped her hand over Benson's shoulder for support after falling over and nearly being torn apart, and when she saw a man pointing a shotgun at him, the entire world came to a complete stop. She squinted her eyes and recognized that it was the same man who had shot Perry. At that moment, she knew she couldn't lose him. No, not the man that perfectly fits into her imperfections and brings out the best of her. A thousand thoughts ran through her mind as terror gripped her features.She wished she could have intervened when she saw her father's car burst into flames and burn, but as a young child at the time, she was powerless to do anything but stand by and watch him die. Over time, she had dreams in which she had saved him from the fire at that exact moment. She cried after waking up to see it was a dream. Now, she was looking at a gun being pointed at Benson. She wouldn't survive it if she watched him die too. At that moment, there was only one thing on her mind, the one thin
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Benson woke up from his long sleep after being sedated by doctor Chris. He observed himself and found out that the bullet from the sniper had only brushed against his skin and caused him a minor injury and his concoction had been because he had hit his head on the frame of the doors and now had a bandage around his head.After fully booting to a normal state of mind, his thoughts ran back to his last moments awake and he yanked himself off the bed and went dashed out of the room and headed down the hallway, where his body and uncontrolled speed took him. Despite the pain he felt, he still ran with every breath he had inside of him.“Alita,” he screamed and his voice echoed through the hallway. Soon after, he began gathering himself a crowd of both doctors, nurses and other patients. He screamed again both it wasn’t words that humans could understand. It was an outburst of pain, confusion, and fear of the unknown.He couldn’t even think about living without Alita. She couldn’t be dead
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“This would be weird... but I—we have to say it anyway,” doctor Chris cleared his throat, he and Alita’s mum share an intimate look and at once everybody knew what Chris was going to say. They just waited for his words to confirm their thoughts. “In light of the love that gives life from one to the other, now is the best time to say this. We’ve been trying to tell you, Alita, but couldn’t find the right time,” he paused, observing Alita’s countenance. She was wide-eyed, looking straight at him, expectant of what he had to say. “I and your mum… we are in love and are serious with each other,” he said. A smile crept onto his face as he continued, “We wanted you, Alita, to know, and of course, everyone else,” he drawled and exhaled afterward.The room was quiet and awkward for some seconds as everyone processed what they just heard.Alita went pale-faced and her eyes drooped as her jaws set. She pursed her lips and squinted as She made a mental analysis of Chris as a man for her mother.
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Alita wished Benson would stop talking, even though she so loved his beautiful words. She just didn’t like the weight of attention that he had attracted to her. Everyone’s inquisitive eyes set on her and all she could do was close her eyes and wish she could disappear.She had imagined a more official and appropriate scene in her head for when she would meet Benson’s mother. But again, life happened and ruin the beautiful picture in her head. Maybe after he had proposed and then told everyone, then they would schedule a meeting that she would dress and properly prepare.Her closed eyes served as her palm over her face. She imagined how ugly she would be looking at that moment and feels more insecure: dry and swollen face, droopy eyes, bloody johnny gown, and oozing odor of injections and medicines. She remained silent, shutting her eyes as she felt Benson’s eyes crawl on her skin. “Stop staring,” she mouthed and Benson chuckled.“Thank you, Alita, for what you did,” Beatrix's voice d
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“Alita, what you have with Benson, it is genuine. Nothing I have ever seen. Whatever people say or think about it is on them and not you,” Luke said. His expression closed up and he spread his palm on his thigh. “Trust me, I know what it is like not being able to publicly express your love for someone because you are afraid of critics and naysayers. You can go mental,” he rubbed his forehead and sighed. “I get you but some people might not. It doesn’t matter—It doesn’t. What you have done to him was impossible before you showed up in his life. I have been with him for some years now and I can tell you he is a better person than he was. You slowed everything down from his fast living and now he sees more of life and people than did. If anybody thinks all that is fake and insincere, you are not to blame for their ignorance, he encouraged her.“Where did all of that come from?” Alita clutched her chest, marveling at the words Luke said to her. It lifted some weight off her chest and gave
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“This is so good Sarah,” Alita exclaimed, pushing more noodles in her mouth and gulping the last of the juice in the glass by her side, and extending it to her mother to fill it up for her. “It has been ages since I last ate Chinese food. This is amazing. You are such a darling,” she closed her eyes and hummed as she savored the taste on her buds that caused her insides to vibrate. “God, I am having a foodgasm,” she moaned and placed her hand on her stomach and then nodded playfully. There’s room for more. That’s great. “I love you so much right now,” Alita pushed her lips forward and narrowed her eyes at Sarah who just sat on the bed, marveling at how fast Alita was eating. “I so don’t want to get well if this would happen every day. It’s too bad I have to get shot to get all this food,” Alita’s brows caved in as she looked at the other bag on the ground. “What’s in there?” she asked, flickering her lashes. “Luke, ordered you fries, even though I asked him not to because I thought
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Benson handed Julie to Alita and she lavishes all her attention on the cute little girl that she had missed so much.The color drained out of his face as his thoughts run wild in search of a way to tell his mother why he hadn’t told her about Julie.“Ah, first off, I am sorry for keeping her away from you. Only a handful of people because I wanted to keep her away from my overwhelming life until I was ready to let it out,” he pursed his lip and strode to the bed, gesturing for her to sit on the chair beside Ivy. Chris had had another chair brought in early that morning to accommodate Alita’s many visitors.“I am your mother, Benson, don’t I deserve to know about my granddaughter? You know how I have wanted a child from you all these years and finally, a little angel drops by and you keep it to yourself. It’s been a goddamn year, Benson, are even still ready, because it seems you can take until the end of time before you make up your mind,” Beatrix blurted. Her eyes blazed with anger a
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“Now you chased our mothers away,” Benson threw the last piece of the slice of pizza in his hand.“Me?” Alita’s eyes bulged and her mouth open. He nodded and she scoffed, then said, “You were the one trying to play smart with me and I was defending myself and somehow they were uncomfortable with it. So, it’s either you chased them or they chased themselves with whatever they were thinking, feeling, or seeing,” she puffed out her chest and pursed her lips. “Now, I lost my appetite,” she handed him the box of pizza but he refused to take it from her.“You are still being weird,” he jerked his body backward. “You’re puffing out your chest and blaming me for making them uncomfortable and now for losing your appetite,” he scoffed and bobbed his head, then added, “You are unbelievable.”“You started it, not me, so all of this is your fault,” She smiled wickedly. “Who is going to take all the blame? I know it’s not me because I have taken a bullet for you and look where that got me,” she bit
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It took a few days for things to come back to normal between Alita and Benson. It almost felt like the getting-to-know each other phase of their relationship just with serious sexing and less conversations, and she was sleeping on the same bed with him, yet.Alita had changed a bit in about a month they were separated. She had gatherer enough money to start her dream styling firm to incorporate her into the fashion industry, where she had always believed she belonged, which meant she had no time for nannying, although it wasn't all that necessary because she was used to taking Julie with her already. The problem was that Benson missed her presence more at home.They managed and in no time, came back to full connectivity.Benson kept his break up with Alita away from his mother. He couldn't afford her drama. And she was going to scold him for letting Alita go.Alita too didn't tell anyone. Sarah thought her disappearance was because Benson impregnated his ex-wife. She was shocked when
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Benson stayed in his house almost emptying his bar. He switched his phone off so nobody would disturb him. He was devastated. He had been living a lie all the while. Many times, Sarah and Luke came to look for but he never came out. It didn’t look like he was in the house.He just had to call off their engagement. She went too far and he couldn’t live with it. He couldn’t help but imagine how his life would have been if Alita came out and told him she Julie was his flesh and blood.It was unbelievable. Chris had assured him that he was impotent and that they had tried everything but nothing worked. He had to know for sure and the only way to that is to go back to the beginning.For the first time ever since that day, Benson went out of the house. He went to the hospital to meet and confront Chris about what Alita had told. There had been too many lies and falsehood around his life in the recent days and knowing this one truth or lie, whichever it would turn out to be, would be liberat
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“I was scared you would leave me if I told so I didn’t. This is me as I am, covetous. I don’t regret keeping this away from you but I am sorry I did. I mean it when I say I would do anything to keep you with me forever, and this—this was something I thought I had to do. I love you and I don’t want to lose you,” he peered into her eyes. “Please don’t hate me. Don’t stop loving me. I there were many times I wanted to tell you but how does a man walk up to his dear love and tell her to forget about any dream of ever having her own children?”“I knew, Benson,” Alita looked down as she pressed her lips together. “I knew if I stayed with you, I wouldn’t have any children but it didn’t matter to me because I love you so I stayed. I got so wrapped up in my mind with jealousy and contempt that it escaped my mind. I felt threatened and intimidated by her that I let her get in my head with her selfish words,” she leaned of the wall and held her hands in front of her.“You knew. How?” Benson’s br
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The moment long waited for was there, and Alita wore a smile that evening as Charity stated she was leaving. It felt unreal that the whole ominous atmosphere was clearing already.“It is nice having you,” Alita waved her hand at Charity. “You can pop and high any time you want,” she lied.I don’t want to ever see you here again.As the door slid open, Alita shut her eyes and drew in a long breath, absorbing the relief in the air. She had missed the feeling. Her joy was cut short when she heard Charity’s voice.Haven’t you left?“I can’t go like this,” CHarity exclaimed, shaking her head as she shut her eyes. “I wanted to keep it to myself, but I just can’t,” she sniffled.Alita glanced at Benson, and he bobbed his head. “What are you talking about?” she held her hand to her chest.“He knows,” Charity pointed at Benson.Alita turned to Benson and batted her lashes numerously at him.“Know what exactly? Where are you driving?” Benson inclined his head and folded his hands across his che
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Alita was shocked to see the door slide open. Benson just walked to his room, and they were the only two people that could open the door.She balled her fist, waiting to see the figure standing in front of the door. She couldn’t see the face of the woman but as the door slid wider, she recognized who it was.Freaking Charity!Charity was the least of people she could expect to see. Many questions raged through Alita’s mind but the most outstanding was how she could open the door.“Benson,” Alita Bellowed crossing her hands on her chest as she jotted her hips, giving Charity a once over.“Yeah, babe,” Benson answered from his room.“You have a visitor,” Alita pushed her lips forward as she swayed her body from side to side.“I don’t have plans to—“Hi there,” Charity flickered her fingers in the air, smiling excessively as she looked over at Benson. “I let myself in,” her eyes went round. She looked around and observed the living room. “Things have changed here, haven’t they?” she snic
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At Sarah’s wedding, Alita wasn't the only one wishing to enjoy the bliss of a wedding day and, after it, the certainty that comes with elevating their commitment to a more permanent situation.Benson had the intention to propose to Alita the day he came back and met her in a pool of blood. He had planned it all head in his head. The band, everyone involved.He wanted it to be a prestigious surprise. She had always said she wished she was a princess, and he wanted to make her feel more than that. She was his queen, and he wanted to show her that she deserved to have everything she wanted.Benson felt he was ready to move forward with their relationship. She was perfect for him, and he needed to ensure that she remained his till the end of time.Before the morning he had intended to propose to her, he had planned how everything would go with everyone he thought necessary to involve. He would ask her out for a date and then surprise her when she got out of the house with her favorite ban
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"Let's go on a date," Benson said pouring wine into two glasses form them. "We haven't gone anywhere, we haven't gone out ever since…" his eyes snapped close as memories of almost losing Alita to the jaw of death flashed through his mind–not sonething you wouldn't want to remember, not even randomly. "What do you think?" He asked.Alita's face lit up and she giggled sharply. "Are you serious right now?" She squinted at him as she extended her hand and collected her drink. She gingerly whirled the glass before a sip and moaning to the taste that surprised her. "This is amazing," she nodded and took another sip. "What in God's name do I say to that?" She pursed her lips and raised her chin, playfully scowling at him."I don't know," he laughed softly, looking the other way as set himself on the arm of the chair she was seated on."You must be high," Alita jabbed her finger into his side and he yelped moving away. "Should you when ask me about it? You could have surprised me," she scrunc
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126Julie was Alita's only company as the days went by. As expected, everyone around her was distant. She would sit on the bed in Julie's room and talk to her, even though she knew Julie wouldn't understand what she was saying, it was comforting that she could talk to someone about the burden in her heart and how everyone all her loved ones were avoiding her.Sarah blocked Alita and cut all contacts from her. Alita went to their apartment and saw that Sarah had changed the lock. She went to Luke's house but didn't find anybody at home. It was while walking back to Benson's place that she realized they would have gone for their honeymoon.They say no mother could hate her own but it wasn’t looking like it for Alita. She hadn’t heard from her mother ever since her confession. He called but got no answer, texted but got no reply. She tried to go and see her at Chris’s apartment but couldn’t. One time, she was standing right in front of the door but froze when she raised her hand to knock
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Dumbfounded and dwindling between anger and confusion, Benson cleared his throat. The place went absolutely silent. “Why didn’t you say anything about it? You could have told me. I feel betrayed right now,” he face-palmed. “I just want to go home,” he breathed heavily. “I can’t believe it at all. I just can’t believe our friendship was built on lies all this while. We promised to…” Sarah whined and cried. “All this while, Alita, I thought we were best friends. I told you everything and I thought you did the same,” she turned and wrapped her hands around Luke, looked up at him, and muttered, “please take me out of here.”“Please don’t leave me like this,” Alita extended her hand as she moaned. Her throat patched as she watched Luke lead Sarah out of the room. She was too weak to move and she couldn’t possibly follow after Sarah when Benson was there also preparing to leave.“Let’s go home,” Benson looked at Alita with pain in his eyes. She wiped her face and dragged herself up.Ivy sa
