Benjamin didn’t know how to act around Serena, save smiling at her, telling her to let it all out, and gathering her in his arms.
He offered to be the shoulder she leaned on in her moment of weakness, and he wasn’t above doing it a second time. Her sobs pained him more than he would ever admit out loud, but he squashed down every urge he had to just seek out Gregory and give him the beating of a lifetime.
Then, as she opened up to him about what had happened during dinner, he found himself rising to his feet, ready to teach the stupid warlock a lesson.
But then, she asked him to stay, and Benjamin was only a man - a man in love at that.
He just gathered her tightly in his arms and nuzzled her wet hair.
“The lasagna is going to get cold,” she let out in a whining tone after some t
