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She looked at Benson with disappointment in her eyes: “That was an email I asked Olivia to send. Your
aunt is a professor at that school, remember?”
Benson’s face turned pale: “That’s impossible, Mom. Why would you contact Aunt Linda by email?”
“You know your aunt doesn’t check her phone at work, only her computer. How could you forget that?”
Benson never expected this to be the truth.
He turned stiffly to look at the now–panicked Celine.
“Didn’t you tell me not to blame Olivia, that it was your own fault for not being good enough, making her
feel insecure?”
“So you were just going along with what I said and letting Olivia take the blame?”
Celine couldn’t meet his eyes.
Benson grabbed her shoulders: “Say something!”
His grip
was forceful, causing Celine to wince in pain. She seemed frightened by his intensity, and her eyes welled
- up.
“Yes, I misunderstood! But I never actually said the person who sent the email was Olivia…”
She was still trying to argue her way out. Mrs. Blake, unable to tolerate this any longer, made an international call to Benson’s aunt, asking about Celine’s situation.
“Celine? I know that student. Her incident of juggling five or six boyfriends simultaneously was exposed–apparently all these guys were already in relationships. She became quite notorious on
campus.”
“She was also caught cheating on exams multiple times and eventually got expelled.”
“Why are you asking about her?”
Mrs. Blake had put the call on speaker.
Hearing all her misdeeds exposed at once, Celine broke down.
“No, it wasn’t like that. Benson, let me explain…”
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She tried to grab Benson’s hand but was roughly pushed away.
Benson glanced at me lying weakly in the hospital bed, then gave a bitter laugh: “Celine, so you were expelled for cheating on multiple relationships, not bullied for depression?”
“How dare you pin everything on someone else? I believed your lies and ended up hurting my own girlfriend and child!”
Sensing his disgust, Celine went into panic mode and rushed to the window, sitting halfway outside it in an apparent suicide threat.
“Benson, you promised to protect me. Are you regretting it now?”
Her eyes brimmed with tears, maintaining that fragile, pitiful appearance.
But this time, Benson didn’t feel the usual sympathy.
He looked at me with guilt.
“Olivia, I’m so sorry. I was wrong.”
“I was blinded by her lies and did so many things that hurt you.”
“But I really do still love you. Can you please give me one more chance?”
Before I could scold him, Celine, who had been ignored for the first time, let out a shrill scream.
“Benson! You say you love her? Then why did you sleep with me at my place the night before last?”
“How pathetic can you be?”
Benson’s pupils contracted in shock. He hadn’t expected her to expose him like this.
As he frantically tried to explain to me, he noticed my calm expression, showing no surprise whatsoever.
I raised an eyebrow and said mockingly: “You think I didn’t know?”
“Your ‘sweet and innocent‘ Celine sent me photos every time. I told you about this many times.”
Benson’s eyes widened.
Previously, he could have claimed he was simply being deceived when caring for Celine, but that excuse was no longer viable.
Caught in my sarcastic gaze and his mother’s disappointed look, Benson knew his facade had completely
crumbled.
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He stood exposed on the pillar of shame.
Humiliated and angry, Benson turned his rage toward Celine.
“Even if I slept with you, wasn’t it because you seduced me? You called me over every night, wore lace lingerie, and threw yourself at me. As a man in the prime of my life…”
“Phew! If you really didn’t want it, why come running every damn time I called? Don’t play stupid–we both know exactly what you were after!” Celine shot back.
Their argument escalated, each trying to tear away the other’s pretenses.
Celine, who had been sitting by the window from the start, initially hoping to use the suicide threat to keep Benson on her side, lost her balance in the heat of the argument.
She slipped!
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