Chapter 79 - Two Can Play That Game

Saphira

I had never felt more betrayed in my life. I had hours, days, weeks and months with this family, and they had never taken the time to tell me who exactly they were.

I took my phone out and called Benjamin. His phone went over, and that was different. He did not pick up his phone and I continuously tried again.

All those little remarks, about him being a prince came back to me. He even once suggested he was prince charming and could arrange a white horse.

I always thought he was just joking around, but little did I know.

"How long have you known?" I asked Sierra. My head exploded so badly.

She rolled her eyes at me. "Saph, I honestly don't want to be mean to you, so please don't take it that way, but you know he and I grew up together right?!" She blankly stared at me.

My grandfather folded his newspaper and put it down on the glass sidetable. "Ladies." He said. "Whether who knows him longer, who he had dated in the past, or who he had not…" He sternly looked at us.

Sierra and I shared a glance. Our grandfather never intervened in matters as these. "The two of you have to understand that none of that matters now!" He grumbled.

I did not dare to breathe. "You ladies should respect the fact that you are talking about a married man. He is not any of yours and he will never be again, in any way." My grandfather roared to us.

"But grandfather…" Sierra said in a very small voice. I had never seen her like this. "What now." My grandfather grumbled. "Benjamin is a Saudi prince, he could take many wives." She said.

My grandmother dropped the plates which she was holding before. They all clattered to the ground.

"What?!" He said. My grandfather looked at my uncle. "Is this how you raise my bloodline? Is this how you are insulting me?" He yelled.

My uncle froze in place. We all stared at each other. When I found Sierra's eyes, I saw that she was crying.

She ran up the stairs and I followed her. "Go away Saphira." She cried. I sighed heavily. "Why are you crying?!" I demanded to know. "Why am I crying? Are you serious Saphira? What is wrong with you? Are you mental or something? I have loved Benjamin since he was a boy. I have imagined a life for us. Thought of names for our children. He was supposed to be married to me. When we were little our family arranged that we would be so, when we were older. Only…" She paused.

This was all very new to me. Nobody ever cared to share this information with me. Would I have started, whatever we had with him, if I had known about this?

I don't know… probably not.

"Only…" I prompted her to continue. Sierra opened her mouth and then closed it again.

She was crying feverishly.

I could honestly not tell if I was angry with her for crying over my boyfriend, or that there was something inside of me that actually felt really sorry for her. Maybe both I decided.

"I never knew, Sierra." I sighed. "I know." She said. "I should of told you…" She said as she closed her eyes. "I was a fool." She admitted. "Its just that I was always so sure of him… so sure of us and then you came and-" She closed her eyes again, fighting back the tears.

"We were just always together… and when we were not, he always called me or texted me. If he went so see the sultan, I was always invited." Sierra breathed.

She folded her knees to her chest. "Did you ever ask him If you... If he and you…" I felt awkward asking her this, but I felt like I should. Had I not been in this same situation with him. Being with him, but we were actually not an official couple….

Sierra shrugged. 'He escorted me to every dance I ever had. He bought me jewelry for my birthdays, we often had dinner by candle light. I massaged him when his back hurt. I knew his family and they love me." She said.

"I'm sorry." I mouthed. I did not like admitting this, but she was family and she had not been the only one who was wronged.

"I'm sorry I have wronged you." I told her. "If I am brutally honest, I have always suspected there was something going on between the two of you." Tears fell down my cheek. I felt so guilty telling her this.

"Hearing this now, I can't imagen the pain you must have felt this entire time." I squeaked.

"You are being too kind now." Sierra stated. "What I have done to you, is truly not something I am very proud of." She said not looking at me.

"I knew Benjamin was a very jealous man and that Zachary is in love with you. I took advantage of that… and for what?!" She said as she raised both her hands in the air.

"He had never even considered me as his bride. It was never me in the first place. I could kill him." She said.

I frowned. "Well Sierra, I don't think that there is a guy in the whole world, who would be worth going to jail for." We both snickered.

"But…" I said trailing of my sentence, cooking up a devious plan. "I think we should team up, and get back at him." I said as I grinned. "What do you have in mind?" Sierra smiled back.

"Well I think that Benjamin needs a lesson, on how not to treat the woman in his life. And I actually think that the Jasmine girl should get the chance to know who he is." I rushed my words.

"Ah…" Sierra said. "Finally I can see that you are family after all.." We both snickered.