Chapter 2 When indecision led to chaos
After seeing Martina leave, the nanny immediately returned to the living room and reported to Elizabeth, “Miss Martinez has left.”
Elizabeth lazily flipped through the magazine in her hand and said, “If she wants to leave, just let her.”
The nanny was a bit worried and said, “But young master is coming back in a few days,
what if he doesn’t see Miss Martinez…
Elizabeth didn’t care about such things and impatiently shut her up, “What are you
afraid of? She will come back on her own.” Her tone was full of disdain. “She has endured
for six years, can she really leave?”
In the taxi, the driver asked several times if the address was correct, but no one
responded.
He looked in the rearview mirror and saw Martina silently crying in the back seat.
The ride was smooth and uneventful, and soon they arrived at the house she had
rented temporarily.
Leaving Benjamin was not Martina’s impulsive decision. It took her two months to
come to terms with it and ultimately
decided to end this relationship of six years by herself.
In the first few years of her life, there was no room in her eyes or heart for anyone else
besides Benjamin. Now, the final choice was like bringing closure to those absurd years.
The apartment had already been cleaned beforehand, a one–bedroom apartment with a
living room, 40 square yard.
The basic furniture and appliances were all very clean.
She put her luggage aside and prepared some food for herself, just a bowl of plain
pasta.
A few days ago, she purchased a new SIM card and inserted it into the dual slots of
her phone. She wanted a clean break, in case she decided to sever ties completely. However, she didn’t remove the old number, perhaps because she still held onto a glimmer
of hope.
After setting up the new card, she first called her father, Miguel Martinez.
“Hey dad,” Martina said over the phone.
Miguel heard his daughter’s voice and responded in delight, “Martina!”
The sound of “Martina” almost made Martina cry. She took a sip of water to moisten
her throat.
“Martina, whose phone are you using to call me?” Miguel asked, seeing that the number
was unfamiliar.
Martina casually made up an excuse, “My phone is missing, and luckily my friend has a spare phone that I can use for now.”
Miguel nodded silently and asked about Martina’s well–being, “Is everything going well for you recently? Have you been eating well and staying healthy?”
“Everything’s good,” Martina replied.
After the short conversation, Miguel still couldn’t let go of Martina’s lifelong affair. He asked, “By the way, how is your relationship with Benjamin? When are you planning to have your wedding ceremony?”
Wedding ceremony?
Yes, she had been with Benjamin for six years, and according to common sense, they should get married and have a wedding ceremony.
But Benjamin never talked to her about anything related to marriage, not even once.
Miguel didn’t hear a response and his tone instantly became cold, “Could it be that their family is thinking of backing out?”
Thinking of some old things from the past, Miguel couldn’t help getting angry, “You are the fiancée personally chosen by Benjamin’s grandfather!”
In these past few years, Miguel had always been dissatisfied with Benjamin and often mentioned wanting to have a talk with him when he comes to LA.
However, Benjamin was always busy and not even Martina could see him often.
Martina was afraid that continuing the topic would only expose bad news and that her father would worry about her situation if he found out. So every time, she would say that Benjamin was good to her and the Walker family treated her well.
Taking a deep breath, Martina withheld the fact that she left the Walker family from her
father.
Six years ago, when she resolutely came to the Walker family, her father was already worried. Later, Benjamin never expressed his positive attitude towards their relationship, and Miguel had been asking to visit, but Martina had always refused.
If Martina were to say that she had left the Walker family now, her father would probably be eager to rush over immediately.
“Benjamin treat me well, and our relationship is stable. We’re probably going to have a wedding soon. I’ll talk to him when he comes back,” Martina said, holding back the pain that felt like suffocation in her heart.
Miguel finally calmed down and said, “Okay, that’s the right thing to do. We two should have a good talk.”
Martina responded with an “okay“. Miguel was probably happy to talk about marriage, and couldn’t help but say, “When Benjamin comes back, bring him home. There are still many relatives who haven’t met him yet.”
Martina’s family was very ordinary. Her father, Miguel Martinez, was the vice–president of the local agricultural and sideline products distribution association, and he was about to become the president. Despite his success, the Martinez family had humble origins as common farmers in the previous generation.
Speaking of the fate between the Martinez family and the Walker family, it was really predestined.
When Benjamin’s grandfather, Jack Walker, was young, he loved outdoor adventures and. would go wherever danger existed. However, during one of his explorations in the Sandia Mountains, he was unfortunately injured and became trapped in a trap halfway up the
mountain.
Martina’s grandfather, Antonio Martinez, happened to discover the trapped exploration team, and he was the first to pull the seriously injured Bob out and carry him to the county hospital, before calling on local people to rescue the others.
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Antonio was in good health when he was young, and he was able to carry Jack, who was heavier than himself, on his back for sixty miles up the mountain road, all the way the county town. This timely treatment of his injuries allowed Jack to keep his legs, and he
was grateful to his lifesaver from that day on.
Originally, the two families had wished to arrange a marriage between the next
generation of children, to further cement their relationship. However, both families only had one son in the next generation, so the marriage had to be pushed back to the generation of
Benjamin.
This was the origin of Martina’s relationship with Benjamin.
Martina had always known about the arranged marriage since childhood. After turning 18, she moved from New Mexico to LA for college, and Jack Walker was particularly happy about it. He immediately decided to invite her live in the Walker family and cultivate a
relationship with Benjamin.
Martina still remembered the first time she met Benjamin. He was playing the piano. upstairs, and the beautiful and melodious sound echoed in Martina’s heart. The girl blushed and felt sweet inside. Later, Benjamin came downstairs, and Martina nervously sat on the sofa.
That was the first encounter between the two after turning 18. With just one glance, Martina was unable to extricate herself.
Looking back now, in Benjamin’s eyes over the years, it seemed that everything had
always been calm, even their feelings for each other were as plain as when they first met.
After finishing the call with her father, she was about to throw away the old SIM card
when a call came in.
She looked and her heart skipped a beat. Her eyes couldn’t move away. It was
Benjamin.
Thump thump… Martina’s heart beat faster and faster.
More than half a year ago, Benjamin went to Berlin to develop foreign markets, and only
returned twice in the first two months. It had been almost ten days since their last
conversation.
Benjamin was very busy and almost flew to various parts of the world every day. His phone was mostly held by his assistant, so even if Martina called, it was usually futile and
rarely a coincidence.
As time went on, even Benjamin’s assistant team had some minor grievances with her,
sometimes even deliberately not answering her calls.
At first, when Martina was deliberately troubled by those assistants, she would be
unhappy and then call to question them. Later, she got used to it, but
there were still
rumors that Martina was a clingy person with a bad temper, and that’s why Benjamin
deliberately didn’t come back.
Martina let the phone ring continuously and kept eating the pasta.
teng the panth
