Rebekah got her mind back and wiped away her tears. She asked in a low voice, “Who is there?”
No one answered.
Rebekah was stunned. She asked again, “Who?”
It was one thirty in the morning. Customers would ask the reception for help should they needed anything. Once the reception couldn’t make the decision, they would come to find her. However, the person outside now did not answer her.
Just as she thought she might hear wrong, the person outside knocked at the door again.
“Who is that?” Rebekah stood up and walked to the door.
Different people came to live in the inn, so every room here had a peephole. Rebekah looked outside through the peephole, but she found no one.
She was confused, but suddenly, a black shadow covered the peephole. Rebekah was scared and couldn’t help staggering back.
The person outside knocked at the door again.
A piece of paper slipped in through the door slot.
Rebekah hurriedly picked up the paper and checked it.
There were words on the paper, “Rebekah, where is our son? Is he OK?”
Rebekah’s face suddenly turned pale. She even couldn’t get her mind back. She felt her legs fragile and thus she fell down on the ground.
The knock at the door had also awoken Benjamin. Benjamin always had the light sleep, so he got up even though he had heard the very low voice. He felt uneasy as he heard the knock, so he came out and checked.
There was no one in the corridor.
The reception staff were deeply asleep now, the door was closed, and the wind bells were also quiet. It seemed there was no one.
Benjamin hesitated for a second, and still went to the door of his mother’s room. He knocked at the door.
“Mom? Are you sleeping?”
There was silence inside. Soon it was Rebekah’s voice. Her voice was low and strange, “It’s late. What’s the matter?”
“Well, nothing important.” Benjamin breathed a sigh of relief, “I heard someone knock at the door just now and no one answered. Did you hear that?”
“Oh? I didn’t hear that. You must hear wrong.”
“Really? Then I’m gonna go back. Good night mom.”
“Good night.”
The sounds of Benjamin’s footsteps faded.
In Rebekah’s room, Rebekah stood by the door, and on the sofa next to the window, about two meters away from her, a man in his fifties was sitting. He smiled coldly.
“What are you afraid of? I’ve met him before. It must be a tough life for you to raise our son alone all these years. Why don’t you come to find me?”
“Shut up.”
Rebekah stopped the man with a cold voice. She then lowered her voice in case of being heard by others, “Zed, listen carefully. Benjamin is not your son, and our life also has nothing to do with you.”
“Oh?” Zed frowned. Then his face turned sinister, “That’s right. He is kind of younger than my son should be. So, that young man in the Beckham family is my son, right?”
“What are you talking about?”
Rebekah gritted her teeth, “My son has nothing to do with you. Why did you come back from abroad? Why did you come here to find me?”
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