In the Lap of Luxury novel (Grace and Benjamin) novel Chapter 667

"You're impossible." Grace turned around. "I don't want to see you again."

She strode off. Benjamin reached out a hand to try and stop her, but he missed.

Grace's dress flared, and Benjamin caught sight of her bandaged ankle.

He frowned. He had seen that kind of bandaging before. Anyone who had graduated from the police academy would know how to do it.

Every New Year, Alexander refused to return to Hawkins Manor. It always made Elizabeth rather sad, so she would arrange for things to be delivered to him.

Once, Benjamin had been roped into it and had gone to see Alexander.

It had been raining heavily that year, and the police academy had been in a remote location.

As they had been driving, a landslide had occurred. Both Benjamin and the driver had been buried in it. The students from the police academy had rescued them. Alexander had been one of them.

He had been surprised to see Benjamin, but he was mature beyond his years. "You're Benjamin."

"...you're Alexander."

"A stone fell on your foot, but I've bandaged it up for you. You'll just have to rest for a few days."

Alexander hadn't lingered around after he'd finished speaking. He had grabbed his water bottle and left to fill it up.

Benjamin had never interacted much with him. All he had known was that the two of them looked alike, but when he had met Alexander, he had thought that they were very different.

He had surprised himself when he had called out, "Come back home for the New Year."

Alexander had paused in his tracks for a moment, but he hadn't looked back. "I won't."

Benjamin pulled himself out of his memories and narrowed his eyes. The bandage on Grace's ankle looked exactly like the one Alexander had done for him before.

They had been in contact again.

Meanwhile, once Grace got back to the table, she began wolfing down her food.

She even downed several glasses of alcohol, one after the other, shocking Noelle, who tried to stop her. "Grace, what's going on with you?"

Grace felt slightly better once she had filled her stomach. "Nothing much. I just ran into a rabid dog."

Benjamin returned to the table at that moment, and Timothy took a sharp intake of breath. He looked compassionately at Benjamin and mouthed, "You bear a heavy burden."