At night.
Almost everyone from the family gathered at the dining table and began eating, all except one who was still standing and serving food for others.
He was the only son-in-law of the Sterling family, yet taunts and mockings were flung at him every other minute. Even the children took part in it enthusiastically.
Sunday was a cheat day, so Selena was gorging on everything her hands could get hold of. While everyone sitting ate their fill to the point of burping twice or thrice, nobody offered Benjamin food or told him to sit and eat, not even his wife.
He was hungry, but he was fed their trivial talk peppered with lies. He had to listen to them exchanging lies to one another. For instance, the children lied the most by hiding things they were doing. Lisa was chatting with her boyfriend since afternoon, but she lied about that. Roshan was watching exclusive stripping videos since evening, yet he acted like he was doing his homework. The other two children, who were much younger, also prepared their own share of little lies when in fact they had been watching gory videos on the internet.
After everyone finished with their meals, all except Jacob started speaking about the good or worth-mentioning things they had done on that day.
Selena said she pulled off an excellently emotional acting scene of blackmailing her ex-husband in the movie, and it indirectly gave Jacob goosebumps.
Shawn, the eldest son of Jacob, said, “I’ve received 70% commission after two of my clients applied for their life and vehicle insurances.”
Louis, the second son, spoke, “I and my wife were focused on our business, as usual.”
“I’ve created a new bikini model,” Rebecca said. “Waiting for it to be accepted.”
Veronica grinned and showed off the bikini she was wearing through her see-through dress, “I have been testing out sis’ new bikini prototype since the past week, and tomorrow, I’ll leave a professional review for her!”
Lisa and Roshan talked about their school experience. The other two children mumbled as usual.
“That concludes today’s dinner,” Jacob said, slightly burping.
Everyone was about to get off their seats, but Selena said, “What about you, Trashmin?”
Benjamin was the only one standing, and he didn’t hesitate to say, “I’ve delivered pizzas, of course.”
Lisa chuckled. Roshan shook his head. Veronica smirked. Rebecca stayed silent.
Shawn glanced at his father. “How much longer should we put up with this, father? I don’t want to see an incompetent guy’s face every day in this house. He has a bad influence on our children, too, with the way he carries himself without much care in the world. When will you kick him out? After the world finds out that he’s your son-in-law?”
Jacob wiped his mouth extra clean with a handkerchief tucked at a maid’s waist. “You think I take pleasure in seeing this nobody every freaking day in my villa? I’m bearing this disgrace only because of my daughter, because she kept him by her side.”
Shawn’s gaze quickly shifted to Rebecca. “When are you going to divorce him?”
“Why should I tell you?” Rebecca spoke back in a sharp tone. “Will you tell me when you’re going to divorce your wife?” she cast a brief glance at Elizabeth, the long-haired blonde sitting next to Shawn. Her curly hair and chubby face made her look very motherly and appealing to the eyes, but the same couldn’t be said about her character.
“What?” Shawn stood in haste, smashing his palms on the table, startling almost everyone, except the one standing. Benjamin was ready to rush in if Shawn were to attack his sister.
“Shawn, calm down!” Jacob and Selena quickly said, almost standing up in the process.
Shawn gritted his teeth before coldly barking, “Don’t forget that I’m your elder brother. I may not earn as much as you do right now, but I will definitely inherit more of Father’s business and wealth than you do.” Saying that he left.
“Hmph,” though Rebecca didn’t like what she was hearing, she knew Shawn was speaking the truth. Jacob loved his two sons more than his two daughters. Both of his sons were older than his daughters and shared his facial features, so Jacob naturally doted on them since they were young. Rebecca had to work hard to prove herself in order to receive some love from her father. Veronica, on the other hand, was too busy with her own life to care if her father liked her or not.
“If you don't want to divorce him…” the second son, Louis, advised, “you can just keep him in the shadows and marry a capable rich man. This guy can still serve as a bodyguard to you and your new husband. Nobody will ever doubt that he was your first husband. That would solve everything.”
Benjamin didn’t like what he just heard. He couldn’t help but cast a hateful glance at the curly-haired Louis, whom he believed was the most mysterious and dangerous candidate of this family. Even though Benjamin tried to find what work Louis exactly did, he couldn’t find a single detail in the eight months he had been in this villa. Louis wouldn’t even reveal his earnings to his parents, after all. But since Louis was taking care of his wife and children well, neither Jacob nor Selena pressured him into revealing what work he exactly did these days.
Louis looked like an innocent man wearing glasses. One could easily mistake him for a librarian who never consumed eggs or meat, but Benjamin, with his experience, had the feeling that this guy was a snake living in a suit. His orange-haired wife, Bella, was also as mysterious as her husband, if not more. She would rarely speak even to her own children.
“Why aren’t you saying anything?” Louis pursued his sister. “If you want, I can find you a capable husband. A man you deserve.”
“Why are my brothers always trying so hard to show that they care for me?” Rebecca asked them back, a hint of resentment flowing through her voice. “If you really cared for me, you would have guarded me properly so I would have never slept with such a man! And, you guys…” She looked at her parents, “you are responsible for this, too.” She stood at once and strode away in quick but heavy footsteps.
Soon, everyone left for their rooms.
Benjamin sat down at the table, but he wasn’t feeling as hungry as he was before the dinner had started. He couldn’t digest the fact that his wife still saw him the same way she did on the day of marriage. “You vowed in the presence of God, to love and to cherish me till death do us part, yet you still seem to hate that I’m married to you. I know I took your virginity, but how long are you going to punish me for that one night? Even the moon gets to shine brightly once every month, but why am I suffering here for eight months straight if not to experience an inkling of your love? When will you understand my feelings? After my heart breaks?”
He stood and walked off without eating.
A couple of minutes later.
Benjamin knocked on a door twice before entering a room. There were two beds fixed six feet apart. Rebecca was laying on one of those and was reading a fashion magazine. He came to his bed and fell at once and closed his eyes.
She briefly glanced at him before getting back to reading.
Benjamin opened his eyes quickly. (Did she look at me just now?) He could see she was immersed in reading the book. (Nah, she couldn’t have.) Still, he kept watching her, and it reminded him of the time he first saw her in the bar, wearing a splendid green dress, when her beauty that could make even lilies and jasmines envy bound him in an invisible cage, and her smile burned his chest and burdened his breath. Men had surrounded her like bees would surround honey, yet she ignored all those male bees and came up to him who was sitting at a corner table and revealed herself like the moon revealing itself through the clouds and cast his darkness away. That was the shortest yet the most memorable night Benjamin had ever experienced.
He shut his eyes again.
As seconds turned into minutes, he began to murmur in his sleep. “I love you, Rebecca. I really do.”
His murmur was loud enough to reach her ears in that silent room. It made her eventually close the magazine she was reading and put it away. She got down from her bed, came up to his bed and pulled the blanket that was at the end of the bed so that it now covered him up to his shoulders. Without looking at his face any longer than a second, she went back to her bed and switched the lights off.
A few seconds later, the lights turned on again. She came up to his bed and pulled the blanket down to one end of his bed before switching the lights off.
If there was anyone more shameless than pigs, it was Shawn’s wife, Elizabeth. Shamelessness ran in her blood was what Benjamin believed.Her family would spend around 100 days every year in the Sterling family, and the rest of the days, Elizabeth would regularly travel to and fro using Sterling’s money. She didn’t have any job, not that she tried to get one in the first place.She was so dependent on her husband for her lavish lifestyle of attending yacht shows and tennis tournaments all around the world. Still, she had no respect for Selena even though Shawn loved his mother more than anything else. Maybe, that was exactly why she couldn’t bring herself to respect Selena because she wanted Shawn to respect and love her the most first.She would always try to put fights between Veronica and her mother and would enjoy the show from the side. However, she received the most entertainment from a single person. And that was the only son-in-law of the Sterling family.“Benjamin! Where are y
Rebecca dropped him at the Rye’s Pizzas, a cluster of vintage pizza huts, and left without saying at least a cursory bye. Only Benjamin waved his hand, expecting her to look back. Though she didn’t look back, she did notice his efforts through the mirror and faintly smiled.“I wish I knew fashion designing as well,” Benjamin thought. “Then I would have joined her company.” He sighed and got to work.Right after entering the cluster of huts, Benjamin had to take out all of his possessions and put them in the employee’s storage box before getting into the blue uniform. Rings, lockets, and bracelets especially were not allowed inside the food center after all.Normal deliveries must be made within 30 minutes to any part of the city, and the customers would give anywhere from 1 to 5 stars of rating.Express deliveries must be made within 15 minutes only, and the customers would give anywhere from 1 to seven stars.Benjamin’s average rating now reached 4.8 after over 12,000 successful deli
In the evening, Rebecca took Benjamin to her personal physician, one different from their family doctor, who gave him some medication to improve his hunger. No tablets. Only some syrup. However, the doctor took 300 dollars for providing less than ten minutes of her time, which was much more than what Benjamin earned that day from tips working from 10 to 4 on that day.As they were heading home, Rebecca was silent as usual. She was a woman of few words, as though something always ran through her mind.“Rebecca…” Benjamin started a conversation. It was better than being silent, after all. “Today,” he was fiddling with his wedding ring, “one of my coworkers started rubbing my elbow.”Rebecca was startled out of her thoughts, but she put on a poker face.“I told her I’m married, of course,” Benjamin continued. “How can I look at another woman when I have you, right?” he looked into the mirror and could see her pretty doll-like face. He wanted to plant a kiss on her cute cheeks, but he cou
Things in life rarely ever go as they planned, wouldn’t they?Benjamin so badly wanted to spend some time with his wife alone at a dinner table in a beautiful restaurant, but Elizabeth ordered him to cook for tonight. She actually liked Benjamin’s cooking, but her pride came in the way of confessing the truth, so she was also the same person who criticized his cooking the most.Though Benjamin didn’t say it out loud, he was hoping for the day when she would leave the home on a trip. Elizabeth would often go for foreign trips with her family, mostly for watching tennis tournaments, using Sterling family’s money, of course.Jacob was the highest earner of the family, being the movie producer that he was. Selena earned the second highest. And then it was Rebecca.As usual, Benjamin served tonight’s dinner as well. While Benjamin was downstairs with others, Oliver snuck into Rebecca’s room and searched for Benjamin’s mobile. It was placed on the bed itself, so it didn’t take him long to s
The next day.Benjamin found his mobile on the dining table, and he initially thought he might have forgotten to take it last night. However, when he sniffed the mobile once, his expression changed as though he knew what might have actually happened.However, his wife was waiting outside, so he rushed out, but he was spell-bounded after seeing Rebecca in her indo-western attire with a full-sleeved cream top and a stylized black salwar bottoms. His mouth stayed open for a good number of seconds. He couldn’t blink let alone take his eyes off his wife.Rebecca raised her brows. “Seriously?” she snapped her fingers. “You look like you’re going to eat me here and now.”“D-Did I?” Benjamin came back to this world. “B-But you look really beautiful in this dress.”“I know,” Rebecca sounded a little arrogant.“Did you make this design?”“Of course, but let’s go.”“Okay.” He jumped into her car, startling her.(He’s really active today.) She thought as she got in.“It’s only 9 o’clock. Why are
Rebecca was driving the car. Benjamin was in the back, slightly shaking his head.“Are you still thinking about the gift?” she asked.“Ah, yeah.”“It’s understandable. I haven’t seen such a gift before, either. 25 kilos of pure gold in the form of coins. It’s worth more than 3 million dollars. The coins seem stylized, so they might sell for more if they auction it. That would not only cover the wedding expenses but would also help the couple start a beautiful journey together,” she sounded like she envied a little. She didn’t care about the money, but would she also have received such a surprising gift if she had held a wedding? Would anyone in the world care enough for her or family to send her 25 kilos worth of gold? She could only wonder.“A beautiful journey, huh…” Benjamin wasn’t so sure about that.After dropping him off at work, Rebecca left.And Benjamin experienced one of the worst job days since he started working at Rye’s Pizzas. Not a single customer gave him a tip today,
Later that night.Benjamin had dinner and was waiting in his room. The newly appointed maid with chocolate looks was cleaning the room, but her eyes were on Benjamin. “Can you tell me how you managed to trap, I mean, make Rebecca fall for you?”Benjamin almost smiled hysterically. “So that’s the first thing you could ask.” He shook his head. “My in-laws think just like you. Everyone in this villa treats me like I’m their enemy even though I’m only trying to be their friend.”Rebecca came home late at nine o’clock, looking tired. The maid quickly walked out.“Should I prepare the bath?” Benjamin asked.“I can do it myself,” she said. “Wait, Jane came to pick you up, right?”“Yeah, she did.”“She didn’t do anything funny, did she?”“No, she didn’t.”“Mm,” Rebecca entered the showver and walked out twenty minutes later, fully clothed. She always put her clothes on in the bathroom itself, so he never even got a chance to peek at her beauty. She jumped onto her bed in her pajamas.“You are
Lisa looked genuinely surprised, whereas Veronica was controlling herself from bursting into laughter because Elizabeth looked like a thousand pound bird crap had crashed upon her and completely ruined her makeup, thereby making her look as ugly as ever.“Who the fuck did you just call an Aunt?” Elizabeth howled in rage and came running at him like an enraged beast.“W-Wait, I can explain this!” Benjamin ran and stood behind the large dining table. When she came from his left, he ran to his right. When she tried to come from his right, he ran to his left.“What’s there to explain? I’m only forty years old, and you dare call me an aunt!” She looked for something to hit him with. She picked the nearest objects, the flower vases, and began throwing those things at him.“I’m not even thirty, and your children call me uncle, don’t they?” Benjamin asked.“Shut up,” Elizabeth didn’t care to even comprehend what he just said. She only wanted to beat the shit out of him in any way possible. “St
THANK YOU::Savvy Son-in-law… It took nearly two and half years to finish this book. In all honesty, I was planning to end it for 600 chapters or so, but I ended up taking this long to finish it.A big thanks to all the readers who followed the character of Benjamin from the start to finish.Special thanks to Cranston Richmond for his long support through votes. I hope reading this novel impacts your life in a positive way.I also thank all the other readers who voted for this novel. There are so many names to list, so I’m not going to spam here.CHARACTERS::I hope you can take away some memorable characters from this novel, whether they be good or bad.My personal favorite would be George. Just kidding, lol.It is Benjamin.His character wasn’t easy to write because he’s predictably unpredictable. He’s not perfect, but he’s trying to do the right thing, and that’s what matters to him.What about you? Who inspired, or impressed you?LOOSE ENDS::What about Veronica and Akash? Well, V
Some days later.Sofia Myers ordered pizza from an apartment she had recently bought.And to her surprise, it was Benjamin who delivered it.“It’s you?” Sofia remembered him. “Aren’t you Rebecca’s husband? You both are having an official wedding soon, right? Why are you still working as a pizza-delivery guy?”“I have my reasons,” Benjamin replied. “And it’s more of a part-time job now.”“Okay, come on in,” Sofia told him.When he entered the apartment, there were over a dozen females there, smoking and drinking.“This guy is Benjamin, a mighty pizza-delivery guy who married a bald woman,” Sofia started making fun of him to make her friends laugh.Benjamin quickly countered her, saying, “It seems your husband has left you to your pleasures. I’m not surprised, though I might not have done the same thing.”Sofia gritted her teeth and threw her mobile at him.Benjamin caught it with ease. “A woman who easily gets angry will have a hard time obtaining a place in any man’s heart.”“Get the
Samuel Sehla and Kathy started dating.And Amber began to work for the Sehla family now, acting as a spy for Kathy.Samuel’s wife, Kismet, got sent divorce papers. Half of her face was still paralyzed.She tore the divorce papers into pieces. “How could you do this to me, Samuel! I will not let you get what you want!” she screamed madly. “Never!”Andrew Sehla, on the other hand, was busy dealing with all the new troubles and terror he was facing ever since he tried to do some good after getting forced by Benjamin a few weeks back.“I don’t have much longer to live anyway,” Andrew thought. “So I’ll live it in a way that it doesn’t leave any regrets.”Knowing that his time was short, he started passing some groundbreaking laws in the country.In the Sterling villa.George was begging his mother Dorothy to let him be the driver of the Sterling family.Dorothy didn’t know that George knew about Shawn killing Nolan beforehand.So she told him that he could work as a driver, but then Elizab
“Why can’t I meet him once?” Lisa yelled at her mom. “If you’re not going to let him see me, then I’ll leave this house!”“You think I’ll come running after you?” Elizabeth yelled back. “Leave the house if you want! No one is stopping you!”Lisa then angrily left the house and walked away on her bare feet, crying and shedding tears.It had been weeks since she had seen her dad, and she just wanted to talk to him once more and know how he was doing, but her mother was not even letting her contact her dad.Lisa didn’t know for how long she walked, but her stomach started growling.It was twelve in the afternoon, and she hadn’t eaten anything. So, she was really hungry now.She looked across the street. There was a bakery.Lisa touched her pockets and frowned as she didn’t have any money.She put her hand on her abdomen and rubbed it for a few seconds and was then walking away.“Lisa, what are you doing here?” Benjamin who was traveling in a truck had just made the driver stop the vehicl
In Sciocidad also known as the Sky City.“So she asked for more time…” Ryan sighed.He became the temporary ruler of the Wolfe clan.“Both Benjamin and Rye have left this seat, which is something that never happened before,” Ryan’s voice was gritty yet sad. “This doesn’t set a good example for the coming generations, especially given that we’re living in the end times.”“Don’t tell me, you’re planning on making someone else the sovereign?” Uzza quickly asked.“No, not yet,” Ryan replied. “We’ve lost a lot already. We can’t be wasting our people’s time or give them false hope. It is better to pick a new ruler, but I will wait a little longer.”Even though Ryan didn’t say it, Uzza felt that the time limit would probably be six months.“Come back soon, Rye,” Uzza wished in her heart.Elsewhere in the same city, in a dark dungeon.“With a friend like you around, what’s the need for enemies?” Benyamin was hissing at Dahlia as she poured her spiritual energy into Benyamin’s spine relentles
Rye’s POV:My first and only love has truly left me.After cutting my heart into pieces without making me bleed… That’s how he left me.My tears won’t fall.I can’t feel anything.Neither sadness nor regret.Nothing.Even though my one and only love has abandoned me, I can’t even shed tears.Just what kind of a person am I?What kind of a woman have I become?I keep cutting onions in one the huts of Rye’s Pizzas, but even the raw onions are not able to bring me to tears.“How long are you going to keep doing this?” A voice washed my back.Without turning, I knew that it was my mom Uzza.“Choose someone else as the sovereign,” I said, continuing to cut the chillies, hoping at least the chillies would elevate my anger.“You’re making the same mistake that Benjamin did,” my mom sighed. “Everyone is waiting for you, so please come back.”“I have no intention of returning any time soon,” I replied.My mom’s hand touched my shoulder. She slowly turned me around.Our eyes locked each other.
A few days later.At six in the morning.Rebecca woke up and found Benjamin resting with his head at her legs. “Benjamin, why are you sleeping the other way? You’re not a cat. Sleep next to me!”Benjamin rolled over to her side and lay next to her, sharing the same pillow. “Last night, I woke up for water, and then I saw the mole on your thigh, and I wanted to sleep next to it.”Rebecca’s face flushed very much. “Stop it, you are talking like a child!”“Aren’t we both still children in our relationship?” Benjamin gently touched her chin and planted a kiss on her cheek.Rebecca’s face gained some more blood. The same could be said for Benjamin. Both of them were fair and were in the prime of their age, so they appeared a thousand times more attractive when blood rushed to their faces.After Benjamin kissed her, Rebecca felt her emotions stirring up again. She pulled the blanket up and covered both of them and hugged him tightly and showered kisses on him.“I think it’s time for breakfa
The moment blood gushed out of Rebecca’s neck, while her eyes were staring at him, Benjamin immediately snapped.“BENYAMIN~~!!”His roar reverberated through the hearts of all the people there, shaking their very souls.Benjamin’s suit was ripped to pieces as he grew into a mighty silver werewolf and leaped forth.In a flash, Benjamin’s claws cut through Benyamin’s shoulder and snatched Rebecca.Benjamin vanished from people’s sight and landed on the rooftop.Dahlia and Uzza took Benyamin and also vanished from there.Rye stood frozen, and so did Selena and everyone from the Sterling family. The guests were also thrown into chaos as a man had turned into a monster right before their eyes.Louis and Bella were quick to act. They cast a wide spell together, which swiftly erased the recent memory of this wedding itself.However, they did not remove the memories of those from the Sterling family.Almost every guest collapsed on the floor afterward, but Selena and others were still standin
The wedding night has arrived on time just like the full moon in all of its splendor.Rebecca did not look happy because Selena did not send invitations to most of the people she should have.Selena didn’t want this wedding news to be spread around the world, either, so she tried her best to suppress it from behind the scenes.Jacob also played his part in doing what his wife wanted him to.Shawn entered the villa, wearing a disguise, as he wanted to see his sister’s marriage and also see his wife and kids once.The wedding was taking place in the front yard.Benjamin was standing in the distance, far from the crowd.Jane and Veronica brought Rye out of the villa. Dressed in dazzling white, she looked like the walking moon.Benjamin didn’t even look in her direction as his back faced the villa.Holding a bouquet of white roses and lilies, she waited for the groom.Moments later, Benyamin also walked out of the villa, as escorted by none but himself. With a hand in his pocket, he walke