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"Hello, Benny. We meet again here." Benny was stunned after seeing the woman sitting at one of the seats in the café where he had planned to meet Robert. Benny's eyebrows furrowed in astonishment because he had no idea that this woman who was familiar to him would come to this place. "Bella?" Benny's tone sounded a little low, implying surprise and surprise. "Why are you here?" While Benny was looking around, Bella was just propping up her chin with an innocent smile. Benny couldn't find Robert here. Even though he thought the address of the cafe he visited was correct. Robert should have come because they had also made an agreement on the time of arrival to the location. "I don't know why you look confused like that, Benny," Bella said with an equally confused expression. She also deliberately moved her lips forward. "Shouldn't you be happy to see me? I haven't come and seen you for a long time." Benny was still dumbfounded for a split second looking at Bella who didn't seem to feel guilty. During that time, Benny could not say anything. He was still trying to digest what Bella's reason was in this cafe, why Bella could be in the place where he and Robert's meeting agreement was, and since when did Bella come to this place? "How long do you want to stand there, Benny?" asked Bella while straightening her sitting position and stretching her arms before folding her hands in front of her chest. Bella raised both eyebrows with a slightly cynical smile. Still feeling confused, Benny sat down in his seat as he looked around. Benny did not expect that Bella also came to this cafe. "You didn't answer my question," Benny replied. After sitting down, he immediately leaned his position a little closer to Bella. "Since when and why are you here?" Bella frowned with an innocent look. She realized that Benny looked confused and disturbed by her arrival. But Bella didn't care about that at all. Bella was secretly happy to be able to see Benny's figure again after all this time the two of them had not met. "Don't you want to ask how I'm doing?" Bella threw a question back with an artificially pitiable expression. "I don't need to know how you're doing, Bella. If you're not feeling well, that's the risk of what you did to me and Asleena," Benny replied while shaking his head slowly and firmly. Looking at Benny who had a look of tension on his face, Bella dropped her pitiable expression. Bella sighed heavily. She felt a bit sorry for herself after knowing that Benny did not give her a warm attitude at all. "I wouldn't have acted like that if you hadn't silenced me or told me to leave," Bella replied in a sulking tone. "Even if it wasn't for you being married to Asleena, I wouldn't have bothered you so much." "What kind of ridiculous excuse is that." Benny laughed sarcastically, laughing at Bella as he straightened his seat. "If you had known I was married to Asleena, you wouldn't have bothered us. Why do you still continue your wrong actions?" Bella looked at Benny as if she didn't expect him to say such a sentence to her. Bella sighed heavily for the umpteenth time as her shoulders slumped limply. "My actions were not wrong, Benny. You promised me marriage. Of course I came to collect your promise. Even you suddenly left when we were engaged, and married another woman without my notice." "You cheated on me three times behind my back, Bella. How can I continue a relationship with someone who cheated on me?" Benny asked emphasizing his sentence despite his calm tone. "So, do you think you're doing the right thing by just leaving me?" asked Bella, her tone sounding sarcastic. Benny didn't know why Bella was acting like that to him. Even though Benny also knew that Bella actually realized her mistake. But now, what Bella said seemed to not want to be blamed by Benny. "So you came to collect my promise to marry you? Are you crazy?" Benny asked sarcastically as well. "I may no longer intend to collect on that promise. I know you won't and you're already married to Asleena. But I just want to make sure that if I can't be with you, then other women can't be with you either, Benny," Bella replied with a sardonic smile at the end of her sentence. Benny sighed heavily at Bella's words. I don't know when the woman he knew as a gentle woman turned into a harsh woman like this. Benny did not expect why Bella could not accept the fact that he was already in a relationship with another woman. "You're terrible, Bella. Stop your crazy actions," Benny said. "What else are you planning to do to Asleena?" Bella frowned, thinking for a few moments. Actually, Bella didn't think about what she was going to do to Asleena. But what Bella thought at that time was how Benny could be separated from Asleena so that no woman would have a relationship with Benny. "I don't know. I don't have any plans for Asleena," Bella replied, then moved her sitting position forward while supporting her chin. Her smile curved in a meaningful way. "I don't believe that you said you didn't have any plans for Asleena. If others saw the expression on your face right now, they would have thought the same thing as me," Benny replied with a serious look. Bella actually chuckled after listening to Benny's words. Somehow the more Benny tried to push her, the more Bella's adrenaline felt challenged. "If you can't say the right thing, at least don't act like you understand people, Benny. You don't know anything," Bella replied, deliberately speaking in a calm tone. Benny let out a rough breath. He knew that no matter how evasive Bella tried to be, she had plans for him. "I don't care what you have planned, but if you bother Asleena one more time-" "Oh my. You're very protective of Asleena, Benny," Bella replied, cutting Benny off. She made a face as if she was surprised. After that, she looked touched by Benny's words. "I feel that Asleena must be very lucky to have someone who protects her so much. It feels like the more you try to defend and protect Asleena, the more I want to do something to you guys." Benny looked at Asleena with wary eyes. Benny understood that Bella was just trying to provoke his annoyance. "Ah, so you still want to do something to Asleena? Are you curious how I can protect her?" Benny asked with a challenged expression. "You haven't acted this way towards me during our relationship, Benny. Now you seem to really care about Asleena," Bella replied with a cynical, jealous expression. "I care about you, Bella. You're the one who doesn't realize how much I care because you're too selfish. You feel that I should do everything according to your wishes, and have you ever tried to see from my point of view?" Benny asked, emphasizing every sentence. Bella was a bit surprised when Benny had said his long sentence like that. For a split second, Bella was just dumbfounded with an expression of disbelief. She remembered that Benny almost never expressed his feelings to that extent when the two of them were still in a relationship. "You're the one who doesn't want to admit that you can't adequately fulfill your partner's affection needs. I try to understand from your point of view, that's the reason why I always invite you to have a serious conversation to assess how our relationship is progressing," Bella said. "But you always take it lightly. Several times you just said, 'it's just your feelings,' or, 'there's no need to think about unimportant things'. You've even said that what I'm feeling is too much. Is that how you try to understand your partner?" When Bella expressed her feelings, Benny was silent. Benny watched Bella intensely. He wanted to hear how far Bella thought about him. "You always say that's how you treat people, you say you're not very talkative and not romantic. Then when I see another woman, Asleena, being treated the way I want to be treated, of course I don't accept it," Bella continued on her previous words. Seeing the look in Bella's eyes that radiated pain, Benny honestly also felt an uncomfortable feeling. Benny was speechless at that moment. All he did was flinch to hold back the glimmer of guilt arising in his chest. "Ah, have I hurt you so much with my uncaring attitude?" Benny then let out his voice after thinking about digesting Bella's words. "Why are you still asking?" Bella smiled sarcastically. "I apologize if you harbor so many uncomfortable feelings after you were with me," Benny replied. "But you know it's all in the past. I also actually realized there was something I did wrong to you, so I made up for it with my treatment of Asleena." Bella smiled sarcastically as she exchanged a brief glance. "Atoning to Asleena so that you don't hurt others again after you realized you hurt me?" Benny's eyebrows furrowed. It suddenly occurred to him that Bella was beginning to misunderstand his conversation. "It can't be like that. I don't want it to be just me who has felt the pain, but someone else gets the happiness I want first," Bella replied with an expression that further implied her devious plan. "What are you going to do?" Benny's tone implied wariness. "Anything to make other people feel the same way," Bella replies. Benny nodded his head after hearing Bella's words. "Alright. If you really want to do something to Asleena, just do it. I feel very sorry for you because you can never make peace with the situation," Benny replied. Bella's smirk gradually faded when she heard Benny's words. Bella felt somewhat offended by Benny's words. "What?" Bella asked.