Hallie had never heard Benjamin say such harsh words to her before, and immediately froze, her eyes full of disbelief.
"I am just concerned about you and worried about you getting hurt, how do you ......"
At once, her eyes were red and overflowed with tears, as if she was hurt.
Yet Benjamin was oblivious to this, or saw it but didn't give it a second thought.
"Don't need your concern." At that moment, he retorted nonchalantly, followed by a warning.
"Hallie, I think I made it very clear last time, our relationship was broken off a long time ago. I think you should understand what it means. You refused to leave me, then I gave you this place to settle down and let you stay here, it is a kind of compensation for you, but only if you are at peace with yourself, do you understand?"
Hallie was completely dumbfounded.
She didn't expect him to be so desperate, not even leaving herself the slightest room for error.
She had thought that she would be able to use this opportunity of his presence to behave well and try to get him to take her back home and stay with her.
Yet now it was all a delusion, and there was no more possibility between them.
"Can I ask why? Why do you just refuse to accept me? Why won't you just keep me around? What am I not doing well enough?"
At that moment, she asked him with teary eyes and pity.
However, this question was ultimately left unanswered.
Benjamin only gave her a cold look and said nothing as he turned to leave.
Looking at the man's determined back, Hallie felt cold for the first time, so cold from her heart to her body.
It was all because of Ruby! What was so good about Ruby! Hallie tightened her grip on the hand in jealousy.
And what she didn't expect was that Benjamin's desperation even called for her to be thrown out.
Hallie left the Institute with a grimace on her face.
This scene fell right into Ruby's eyes.
She raised her eyebrows and curled her lips into a smile.
Back in the suite, she told Levi about it.
Levi responded: "It must be that Benjamin knew that Hallie was contacting you in private, so he got angry and kick her away."
Ruby was thinking the same thing, and just as the two were talking, there was a sudden knock on the door of the room.
Both they stared at each other, the door to the room opened and it was Jason, saying he wanted to take Ruby away. A chill flashed in Ruby’s eyes and she smiled, nodding as if she knew nothing.
Jason was accompanied by the head of the X Institute, Mr. Lincoln, in a fairly polite manner.
When Ruby was taken to the car, Levi subconsciously took Ruby's hand, his eyes glanced at the ring between her fingers, and warmly admonished, "When you arrive there, you must contact me at any time, call me if there is anything wrong, understand?"
At the sound of her words, Ruby smiled.
"Why are you getting more and more verbose now? You are still so young and you're acting like an old man."
Levi pinched her nose, quite displeased.
"I'm nagging because I'm worried about you, if I could go with you there, would be no need to be so anxious."
Saying that, he looked at Lincoln with a hesitant expression.
"Mr. Lincoln, is it true that I can't go along with her? I can promise that I won't say anything I see and will never reveal half the secrets of your institute, I just want to follow my wife, to accompany her and take care of her, after all, she is going over there for treatment and I can't always feel at ease if I don't accompany her."
"Well......" Lincoln blushed with embarrassment, "I am really very sorry, Mr. Finn, our institute must require absolute confidentiality, generally speaking, it is not allowed any outsiders to enter or leave casually. This time, in order to save Mrs. Finn, it is already a precedent broken ......"
Levi's face sank, but he didn't say anything else after all. Ruby got into the car.
After that, he seemed to be in little mood and went straight upstairs.
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