Chapter 4 I never knew I was dead

"What! Vivian, how could you do this to me? You promised me." He said it with a tinge of sadness in his tone.

“Did you ever love me? I did everything I could to make you love me, but you didn’t care about my feelings. Now you are crippled with nothing, and you expect me to be with a cripple who has nothing to show? Ha! Dream on. It was never going to happen. She scoffed.

 " Even though I didn't love you, I never treated you baldly." Benjamin replied.

"I wanted more than that. I wanted your love and everything, but I realized it was  useless, so I would have to do everything to gain your trust. In fact, I also didn’t love you. I have been with this man all this while. I had been waiting for the perfect chance to divorce you, and it seemed the  heaven was on my side. She spoke

"You wicked woman, you mean all the treatment you gave me was just an act?” He asked with shaky hands.

"Yes, I have to put in so much effort to make it real. Aww, it was tiring to live with a ruthless man who never smiled. Finally, a burden has been lifted from my head. You are too smart. I have drained all my energy." She scoffed.

Benjamin gasped. He was speechless and didn’t know what to say. How can she be so heartless after all that he did for her? Tears were welled up in his eyes, but because he was a man, he decided not to cry. He had a painful expression, which annoyed Vivian.

“Don’t look at me with that painful look. Someone might think I am wicked. But I am not. I just participated in the race, and I won. The game had no rules and all it cared about was to win. And I did exactly that.

"Please get out of my house. I have already filed for divorce. I don’t need you in my house," she said harshly.

"Are you driving me out of your own house?" he asked.

“Please get out. You are destroying our peace. Hey drive him away. I don’t want to see him near this house." Shadrach, who is her fiancé, said.

"Aren’t you ashamed to leech off a woman?" Benjamin asked.

“I don’t care as long as I am enjoying the money I didn’t work for. He drew closer to him and whispered something. 

Drive him away." He ordered the servant

The servant didn’t have any pity on him. They all thought he deserved it. They drove him away with nothing left on him. He didn’t have anywhere to go. He stood outside for three days. Vivian and her husband would be passing and would only mock him.

One day, a girl came to him and said, "Sir, I have seen you here for three days. Don’t you have any where to go? Aren’t you the man I saved from the car accident the other time? How come you are here. Always full of trouble.” The lady shook her head.

"Hmm, I have no place to go, not even a place to lay my head." He answered. How could Benjamin Wilson end this way?

"Oh this is too bad. There is an uncompleted building that is not far from here. I can help you there and we will know what to do after that." She drove him to the incomplete building.

She fed him and cleansed his body every single day. She became his comfort and never gave up on him

 

"Evana, I am very grateful for the love you have shown me. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn’t know what I could have done. I promise to pay you back once I am back on my feet. " He said.

"don’t worry, what are humans for? As long as I am alive, I will take care of you till there is a turning point.

Evana took care of him for a year. She vanished into thin air one day. Benjamin waited for her, but he didn’t hear from her. He had an expensive necklace which looked ordinary but was very valuable. 

He sold the ring and got enough money. When he was living with his wife, he had a bad feeling that something would happen, so he didn’t tell his wife about the money he had saved in different banks. He went abroad with that money, came back and started a new business. It took him just a year to build an empire.

... The flashback is over...

He stared at her with cold eyes. No emotion could be detected on his handsome face.

"Aww no, this man has gotten on his feet. I am not going to have peace starting today." Vivian thought to herself. She was really scared. She knew he wouldn’t let her go scot free.

 She suddenly became hot and fan herself with her hand. " I need to kill him before he comes for everything. I am now rich, and I can afford international assassins. There is no time to waste. I need to speed up. "

"Aww Vivian, Vivian I am back now, strong and fit. The great battle has just begun. I will take everything from you and destroy your family. I will make you suffer more than ever. You shall leave to tell your generations." Benjamin clenched his fist. He left the venue and joined his people. 

 ............

Vivian who couldn’t sleep all night was really frustrated. Benjamin had returned without her notice. He came like a thief and didn’t give her enough time to prepare. All this year’s, she had been searching for him to kill him. But she couldn’t. Her men later came and told her he died out of hunger.  She believed them and stopped her investigation. Who knew he was never dead but just hid himself very well.

“Very good Benjamin, it’s good you have arrived. Let’s settled this once and for all. We will see how far we can go.  I am not ready to give up these properties and so do you. This is going to be a bloody war.” She smirked. 

She picked her phone and called a line. “I need top international assassins. I mean the strongest killer in the universe. I am willing to pay any amount. I want you to eliminate Benjamin Miller. The world young billionaire in America. I need it to be done as soon as possible.” She instructed and hanged up. 

“Ha! Benjamin, just wait for your death. I will burry you myself. Your family do not care about you so it will be easy to do so. Before they would find out you have return it would be too late.” Vivian said with an evil grin. 

…… Benjamin’s Office….

"Find out how many companies Vivian ith owes, I need it in an hour time.

One hour time his secretary brought the result, “Boss I had gotten the information. Vivian has two big companies here. One in Japan and the other one in Africa. She was the richest woman in the country before you. She owns many estates and factory. It is said that her dead husband left her all the properties.”

“What! you mean her husband is dead?” Benjamin asked. 

“No boss, his current husband is alive, but I learnt she had a husband who committed suicide because he couldn’t accept the fact that he was crippled. She mourned over her husband for almost a year before she got married to her current husband.  She goes to visit his grave every year.” His personal secretary explained. 

“Ha! When was I dead?” Benjamin said furiously.