Savvy Son-in-law by VKBoy

Chapter 58

At night. Benjamin was sitting on his bed and watching the Lost Love series with his wife. She was sitting in her bed.

She was watching season four, so she glanced at Benjamin. “How can you understand it when you start in the middle? You are just watching it to get my attention, aren’t you?” “Why do you ask when you already know?” Benjamin chewed on roasted almonds rather angrily. Because of her, he had to watch the show in which Selena was one of the main leads. For him, it was a torture.

“Because I don’t like what you’re doing,” Rebecca said. “I can’t put complete focus on the tv show.”

“Huh? I’m sitting like six feet away from you!”

“Still, I can’t focus because of your chewing noises and scratching your beard every other minute. Why don’t you just sleep?” Benjamin could only sigh. “I don’t understand why you need to ‘focus’ while watching a romantic drama. I can easily guess the screenplay. The main leads get together after some long struggle and then easily break up because of some forced mistake or some stupid misunderstanding. Rinse and repeat. The acting and the comedy is okay, but there’s no real surprise or weight to the scenes. I can’t understand how this series became a huge hit.”

Despite all that he said, Rebecca didn’t seem to care. Either she was just so immersed in watching the tv-show, or she acted like it. Either way, it felt like he received an invisible slap from her.

“Whatever,” Benjamin covered himself with the blanket.

Seconds turned into minutes.

He heard sniffling. He pulled the blanket down, and Rebecca was crying because Jacob gave a special appearance in the show, and currently, both Jacob and Selena were on screen, touring the sea together

on a motor boat. This scene brought tears to her eyes as the chemistry between them seemed so natural, even though they were already many years into the marriage by then.

Why did such a lovely couple now live in two different rooms? The reason wasn’t as simple as choosing to be comfortable and luxurious. Her heart still ached for her parents. “Hey, are you okay?” Benjamin came over to her bed. “Don’t cry.” Seeing her so vulnerable, his heart throbbed slow and heavy. It felt painful in a way. He didn’t know why, but he felt like protecting her all the more. Without himself knowing, his hands reached out for her. His hand wiped her tears. Her mouth was still downturned from the swelling sadness in her heart. “It’s going to be okay,” Benjamin said. “Everything is going to be okay.” He brought her head

closer to his chest. She leaned on him for a little while until her heart eased down.

Afterward, she sat straight and looked at him. He stared back at her with a soft look. Her cheeks were still a little bit wet, and there was still a hint of sadness lurking in those eyes.

“Thanks,” she said in a murmur, but his ears caught that word. “I must have disturbed your sleep. Sorry.”

His heart gained wings and flew for a second. “N-No problem.” He stood and went back to his bed, made the sleeping-gesture with his hands, telling her to sleep.

She didn’t feel like watching the tv-show at the moment, so she switched the TV off and slept.

The next morning. Selena woke up with a beautiful view of the garden through her glass wall as sunlight kissed the trees as well as her almost alike.

As usual, she had to have coffee first before getting off the bed. A fat maid named Delle always took care of Selena’s needs in the house just as Kathy took care of Jacob’s needs. Delle was an obedient woman who only did what was told, so Selena never had to waste her concentration on this maid.

Every morning, assuming Selena woke up in the house, Delle would bring two things. A cup of coffee, and a random book from the villa’s library.

After drinking the coffee, Selena would read the book for fifteen to thirty minutes everyday until it finished, whether the book was interesting or not. Once the book finished, Delle would bring a new book along with coffee the following morning.

Today as well, Delle brought coffee and a new book

The cream coffee was as tasty as ever. She received most of the needed sugar from her daily coffees.

After finishing the coffee, she lowered her head to pick up the new book. However, her expression slowly but surely changed when she read the title ‘How to stop hating your In laws.

A vein in her neck throbbed. “What’s this? Are you starting to get smart with me now?” she glared at Delle who quickly apologized and said she just randomly picked a book from the shelves. “Tsk, whatever. I’m sure Trashmin put this book on the shelves. That guy is smarter than he looks. I thought Francis and Edward would take care of him, but what the heck are they doing?” Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

Even though she hated breaking her routine, she threw the new book out the window. It fell in the bushes below.

Selena peered at Delle. “I’ll forgive your mistake if you tell me Trashmin’s morning routine within three days.” “I-I don’t know about these things, ma’am,” Delle looked timid. “Take seven days if you want, but figure out his routine,” she said. “I could have done it myself, but how can I stoop so low as to waste my time monitoring him? If you don’t want to do it, then you can consider your job terminated.”

“Ma’am, please reconsider,” Delle tried begging, but Selena ignored her, took out a water bottle from the fridge, and went into her mini open gym room that extended out of the villa on the first floor and had glass walls on two different adjacent sides. It had a great view while she exercised there.

As she was warming her body up, she noticed two people in the garden. She didn’t care about them at first, but a second later, she stopped her work and came up to the glass wall and squinted her eyes. “Are they…”

Her eyes turned red from rage as she realized that the two people in the garden were Benjamin and Rebecca. The former was tagging along with a water bottle and towel in hand while the latter was walking with the help of a stick. Moreover, they were smiling together!