"Send Natalie back to her apartment," Tobias gave a curt order and hung up.
Cecilia stood helplessly in the ward.
She was terrified.
She had just witnessed Tobias violently smashing his phone to the ground, then picking up his phone to call Benjamin again.
She had never seen him acting like this before.
At that moment, she felt hard to breathe.
Her eyes followed his every movement, but she said nothing.
After a long while, Tobias slumped onto the bed, ran his hands through his hair, then shifted his gaze to Cecilia's face. His eyes were filled with despair.
Cecilia's lips twitched.
"Tobias, are you all right?" She looked at him anxiously.
She wouldn't be this concerned if he was still mad and throwing a fit like earlier.
In fact, the look on his face now was what worried
her the most.
There was a certain desolate emotion brewing in his eyes, as though a calm before the storm.
Cecilia stared into his dark eyes and found herself gazing into what seemed like the deep and dark abyss.
"Mother," Tobias finally whispered in a low voice, "I've never felt so useless."
Cecilia was taken aback by his words, and she stared at him in slight shock.
Benjamin scratched his head in frustration after receiving Tobias' orders. His mind churned as he thought about ways to send Natalie back to her apartment.
He could feel a headache from all the thinking.
Natalie was so drunk that she had already passed out. Physical contact between him and Natalie would be inevitable if he were to send her back, but that wasn't really appropriate since he was single.
In fact, he might even need to carry her in his arms or something like that.
Tobias would probably forget about it now, but who knew if he would get mad at Benjamin when he remembered it in the future.
He thought about it over and over again and finally decided to seek help from a female friend.
He racked his brains to think of who to call, and suddenly, he thought of Yvonne.
Benjamin's heartbeat quickened.
An inexplicable joy burst in his chest.
He was going to see Yvonne.
He was too excited that he had almost forgotten that it was in the middle of the night. Yvonne was probably asleep.
Fumbling out his phone, he dialed Yvonne's number.
Yvonne picked up after a few seconds.
"Hello?" She mumbled, her voice raspy as if she had just woken up from her sleep.
She was in the middle of shooting a scene. She was done with her part and it was someone else's turn now, so she took the opportunity to take a nap.
Benjamin's heart pounded rapidly against his chest when he heard Yvonne's voice.
"Miss... Miss Simpson," Benjamin stuttered.
"Yes, it's me. What's the matter?" Yvonne croaked, rubbing her eyes.
"M-Miss Simpson, something bad has happened
to Miss Godfrey."
"What?" On the other end came a small shriek.
This time, Yvonne was completely awake.
Yvonne rushed to the barbecue restaurant at once.
She heaved a sigh of relief when she saw that Natalie was only passed out drunk on the table.
Her tightly knitted brows relaxed while she secretly cursed Benjamin for exaggerating over the phone.
Natalie was obviously drunk, but the way he had described it to her was as if something terrible had happened to Natalie. She was almost scared to death on the way here.
She wanted to lecture Benjamin, but when she saw him standing beside Natalie faithfully, she couldn't bring herself to do it.
It was not an easy task for him to guard over Natalie here in the middle of the night.
"Hi, Benjamin," She greeted him and asked, "How did Natalie get so drunk?"
Benjamin's face turned red when he saw Yvonne as he stammered, "M-Miss Simpson..." "Please call me Yvonne," She corrected.
"Yvonne," Benjamin paused, "I don't know what's going on either."
Yvonne patted Natalie's shoulder and shouted into her ear, "Natalie, can you hear me?"
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