Seventy

— Protect them from me, Bennet? — Hurt me. — Did you hide them because of my past?

— What has she done in the past? — she whispered.

— Thomas raped her and then —

— I died because of it, I died because I decided not to have a child of that monster. I paid for my mistake, paid with my life.

— But —

— AND YOU KNEW IT! — I shout at him, not believing in the level of his insensitivity. — I knew I was thrown off that balcony because I didn’t want to give birth to my rapist’s son.

— Mi —

— Shut up! —I order with my finger pointed at him. — I’m tired of this. Tired of you. Tired of Piter, Thomas and everyone else who keeps deciding how my life should be. I’m tired of hearing orders, of being judged, despised and used.

— Now the circus has closed for him!

— You’ve been using me since the day I met you, throwing me out every time things get too close to you. You judge me without purpose and even snub my low—cut clothes when even your wives don’t care what you think. You tell me what to do, what to say, what to wear, like I’m a fucking doll. Your doll. He has the audacity to charge me fidelity, when he shares the bed with three other women. He was even jealous of Adam for him —

— Don’t quote Adam to me! — he warns me. — I saw how you looked, I saw how you opened up to him like a — again your mouth closes, curbing your immoral lines.

— Speak! — I ask sarcasm. — Speak!

— That’s enough, Mila!

— Bitch! — I say for him. — Like a whore!

— Miss Bennet! — He calls her softly. — Who is Adam?

— Adam is one of the members of the council. An old rival of Benjamin’s. Mila met him recently and it seems that he became attached to her.

— I’m the whore and you’re the saint, right?

— I did not call you that! — he said. — And all this talk is very unnecessary!

— Who says it’s unnecessary? — Back. — You? — Back again. — This ends here, Benjamin!

For a second, I can hear his heart being hammered into his chest.

— C—what do you mean? — Asked uneasyly. —What are you talking about?

— All the decisions you have made to date have been decisions aimed only at your own navel. Selfish decisions. You turned me thinking of you, killed Thomas thinking only of you, ripped out that boy’s heart, locked me in your house, abandoned me for three months and still hides me from your wives. — vent. — Everything you do Bennet, benefits you in the end. Everything favors you in some way. Now I, I am the other, I come later. You managed to keep me in the background even when it came to my children. Children you didn’t even give me a chance to know existed.

— You think you’re gonna take these kids away from me?

— The best thing that can happen to these children is that they are raised by someone who always wanted them, who always did everything to have them!

— Are you kidding me? — He understands. — You don’t think I’m gonna let you give my kids to Thomas, do you?

— My children! — I correct him.

— Mine, Mila. THEY ARE MINE, DAMN!

He loses control by activating his eyes and immediately Julie and Hector stand worried.

— THEY ARE NOT YOURS! — revirevido in the same tone. — I WILL NEVER DELIVER MY BABIES IN YOUR HANDS, THE HANDS OF A MURDERER!

— BUT DO YOU WANT TO HAND OVER TO THOMAS, THE SAME MAN WHO KILLED YOU?

— THOMAS WILL PROTECT THEM AS IF THEY WERE HIS CHILDREN. HE WILL TAKE CARE OF THESE CHILDREN MUCH BETTER THAN YOU AND ME!

— I KILL HIM! — threatened. — RIP HIS BODY IN A THOUSAND PIECES!

— HOW DID YOU DO WITH HIS PARENTS? —I LEAVE HIM GAPING. — HOW DID YOU DO WITH DAYA?

— That was a long time ago, I’m not like that anymore! — he defends himself, still possessed of anger.

— So you’re a self—righteous son of a bitch! —I judge.

— What?

— You want me to accept that you’ve changed, but you can’t forget what I did when I took those pills. You go around insulting everyone’s past, wanting others to swallow yours.

— Look... he takes a deep breath, closing his fists and for a matter of centimeters almost glued his tits on me, farting me. — Listen to me, Clifford!

He never called me Clifford. He never liked calling me by the name he so despises.

— If you dare give my children to Thomas, I swear I will make you regret the day you were born. I’ll make you suffer so much, you’ll beg me for death!

— Be... Benjamin is...

His threat causes me to tear down all the barriers within me, opening the gates of hell against him.

— Very well then!

I tear up the blindfold I was hiding in and break every one of the bars I was holding. The woman he once thought he knew is devoured by the demon that haunts her inside, getting a free pass to expose herself to all those she thought were a threat.

That wasn’t me. It wasn’t Mila. Ali had no trace of the Queen.

To improve the scenario, Iris, Kaila and Piter, cross the door of the room bumping into the debated. They come in brutishly, ready to join that shouting, but soon they meet my demon, having their bodies locked on the ground.

— Perfect! — I comment turning my gaze to Benjamin. — I will give the warning and do it in front of everyone, so there is no doubt.

— Mi —

— Shut up! — I raise my hand in front of his face, making him close his mouth. — You may be the first vampire, but you’re not invincible like everyone thinks you are. I have something that can bring you to your knees if I want to —

— WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, TO TALK TO MY HUSBAND LIKE THAT?

She screams at the same time as she steps on top of me, being taken by surprise by a field that Hector quickly creates, preventing her from attacking me. The wizard unleashes an incredible spell, casting several waves from his fingers, which created a kind of barrier.

There at last, I witness part of his power.

— WHEN I LEAVE HERE I SWEAR I WILL KILL YOU WIZARD! — warned, out of his mind. — I WILL KILL YOU AND THAT –

Before her sentence ends, my eyes turn to her, causing her silence.

"Fuck Benjamin, and fuck your fucking wife team!"

The vampire next to me has his whole world exposed when the demon in me, decides to show himself to the presents. That was much worse than a bomb. It was like throwing him in a pit full of venomous snakes, with no way to climb to the surface.

I was handing him over to them so they could make him suffer the slow and painful way.

The way he did to me.

— Mila...for...why? — Bitter contemplating my red eyes.

— She...she... echoed in shock. — You turned another vampire...

— N—no... I said without believing.

— If you threaten me again, I will make you experience hell! — I tell the Greek God. — And if you two come after me —I say fixed on them. — I will burn them, until only their ashes remain!

— Are you crazy? — You just snorted.

— No, my love. I’m just protecting what’s mine!

"It is done!"

— And if you come after me, Benjamin Bennet, Falkor will be waiting for you at the front door!

— PIRANHA!

— I WILL KILL YOU!

BENJAMIN

I swore that after them, I would never sleep with others.

"I promised faithfulness, truth and eternity!"

I should be prepared. Okay. That was inevitable.

"Look at my age. Why am I still impressed with things like that?"

— LET’S GO! — he said pulling the Queen’s hand.

Mila is not to blame. I angered her at the worst possible moment, made her defend herself by showing the beast that lived inside her. And I already knew that women like that, women like her, had a dark side.

— IRIS, PLEASE STOP!

— I WILL BREAK YOUR SOUL, BENJAMIN!

I usually say, there are only three types of women in the world, are: The beautiful, the naive and the dangerous.

"Have you ever heard that question: Why do men live less?"

The real reason was never poor diet, or lack of health care, in fact, the problem was always the type of woman we chose.

— HECTOR, TAKE MILA AWAY!

For some reason, much of the male sex is not attracted by tranquility, silence, or routine. We are driven to fall in love with what challenges us. Passionate about adrenaline, heat and everything that tests our limits.

"We like to be teased..."

We risk choosing the kind of woman that’s harder to deal with. The kind that always has two faces, the one with two opposite sides. The guy who likes to analyze, who loves to store the smallest details waiting for the right time to act. The ones that house a monster inside.

We are attracted by danger, by the third and last kind of woman. Seduced by the most ingenious, original and mysterious category. Caught by the most beautiful and lethal, by those who know they have the power and still like to play with it.

— You want me to leave you here alone with the two of you?

— I can handle them!

— BENJAMIN! — cried distressed.

— GO WITH THEM! — I ask. — MAKE SURE SHE RETURNS TO THE PALACE SAFELY!

Piter and Mila pass through the second door of the room, which gave access to the outside. Julie follows them as I ordered, making sure her friend isn’t in danger.

— I’ll take them to the exit and come back to help you!

The field the wizard had made soon disappears as he walks through the door.

"Now I’m stuck in my room, which looks more like a boxing ring."

— You used us all this time!

She spits out her words, advancing towards me.

— I never used you!

In an attempt to explain myself, I end up being caught by surprise when Kaila throws a full and strong slap in my face.

— Wretch! — cried indignantly.

"God damn it!"

That slap really hurt.

— I knew — I explain by rubbing my aching jaw. — I knew how they would react if I told the truth!

— You promised us fidelity, Benjamin!

"Wait, there’s something wrong here!"

Iris had to have been the first to vent her anger, all the while she just walked around the room watching Kaila punish me.

— And I didn’t break my promise!

— LIE!

— I DID NOT BETRAY YOU!

Smart and fast, Iris tries to take me down, but I manage to dodge her blow, just did not expect that when she was deceived his anger would awaken with his intelligence.

— SON OF A BITCH!

That’s where I get caught in the back, hit by an elbow between the ribs. It immediately brings me to the ground burning in pain, sighing as I leaned on the floor, feeling the bone she had broken.

— Are we really going to fight? — I snort on the floor, with my hand on my rib. — Last time we did this, it took almost a week for you to recover!

— Last time my love — she crouches beside me, exuding power. — We were not feeling betrayed!

"You know what’s worse than choosing the third kind of woman?"

It’s falling in love with two of the same kind.

— I knew, I knew you and that girl had something!

To my bad luck, even surrounded by four women the two I loved most in life, had exactly the same temperament.

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