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“True that,” he repeated.
Before the awkwardness festered, Ava said a curt goodnight and headed upstairs.
Benjamin followed her with his eyes, like he was hypnotized until he felt a tap on his back.
“She is unbelievable,” his mother said, walking over in front of him and blocking his view of Ava. “Did she at least apologize?”
“I don’t think I follow.”
Lucy frowned. “Are you drunk? For the scene she caused of course.”
He rolled his eyes. “Just do me a favor and go over your guest list next time? Everybody knows Milly’s grandson is trouble.”
Lucy’s face grimaced and she was ready to throw a fit when Benjamin added: “Or you can hold your gatherings at a different estate… not mine.”
With that being said, he left. He tried really hard not to upset his mother even more and fuel her fiendish thirst for petty cruelties, but he couldn’t let her run wild either. As much as everybody disliked the current situation, they had to make the best of it. Ava was his wife, and as such he owed her a certain level of decency.
Besides, she wasn’t quite the monster he had thought she’d be when she first moved in. Not that the last few dinners had been romantic love stories, but they showed a different side of Ava: Energetic, kind, and smart. And beautiful in a way he had never noticed in any other woman before. Not the kind with long legs and immaculate facial features, but a sparky attraction in her eyes that made him melt when she looked at him. He always had noticed that about Ava, even when they were still little.
Ben shook his head. “Wait. Attraction?” He grimaced. ”…Maybe I am drunk,” he laughed before he waved back at one of his grandfather’s business partners who approached him with long steps.
“Money never sleeps,” he mumbled to himself before stretching out his to hand welcome the guy to talk business.
