Chapter 128 - Hot Mess

Jasmine

Benjamin took a bathrobe and put in on me. 

I was freezing and… I guess that he was distracting me, because he still did not go along with my requests.

"I rather you got male servants." I said as I narrowed my eyes. Benjamin groaned a little. "You are serious, aren't you?" He said from under his long lashes. I nodded yes.

"Fine." He said with a huge frown. "Rabia can stay though." I said and winked. 

Benjamin shook his head and wrapped his arms around me. He kissed the tip of my nose and rearranged my hair. "Now will you please go checkup on Saphira and Zachary." He ordered me more than he asked me.

I sighed heavily. "Really?!" I complained. "Yes really." He said seriously. I pouted my lips like a sulky child and Ben pecked my lips. "Let's get dressed first." Benjamin crookedly smiled at me and placed his hands on my baby belly.

"They are getting cold." He smirked.

Saphira

"I am no substitute for Benjamin." Zach said agitated as he was packing his bag. "And I swear that I know that I have put myself in that position for far too long, but like I said; the problem is that you and Benjamin both want someone who isn't fully committed to you." He said like it was an obvious fact like he threw his red sweater in his leather bag.

I sighed. "What are you talking about." I said. "Don't me stupid." He fired at me. "We all know that Jasmine did not intend to marry that guy; she even admits in plain sight that she did not want to get married… The only thing she is fully invested in, is her books. And you…" He said with disgust. 

"You keep running after a guy, who from the get go was obviously not someone who was a 100% committed to you." Zachary ranted on.

"That's bullshit!" I said a little too loud.

"Whatever!" Zach Said putting the bag around his shoulder. "Don't you remember how he was with your cousin all the time? Is that what you call fully invested in someone… And then we did not even know who the guy was all this time… Even I was tricked. Man… Saphira, how could you be this foolish. Even after he admitted that he loved Jasmine more. Don't you see how the guy pursuits her? That is what men do when they truly want a woman." He said Barging out the door.

"You are acting like he never loved me." I yelled after him. Zachary turned around and took me by my shoulders. "No I did not say that he has never cared for you, but I am saying that you were never IT for him. He was just not that into you and you can spin it however you want…" He said is a hoarse voice. 

"But it was I-" He said tapping on his chest. "Who has been on your side even when you did not deserve it." His green eyes held mine. 

"It was me that loved you, unconditionally. I was the one that had to see you lure at him all the time and witness how he treated you. And even then." He said tapping his head, making clear he found me stupid. 

"I stood there, watching you run after him again and again, even now that he is married, you keep going after him." He said backing out the door again. "What a fool you are…" He said as he slung is bag around his shoulder again. 

"Do you know what the greatest joke is… I stand here.. lecturing you on what kind of fool you are, but I am doing the exact same thing. Against all better judgment." Zach said, his voice was thick with emotions.

He turned around and walked away.

"Zach wait!" I yelled at him through the hallways. 

Staff members looked at me in confusion. "Zach please!" I said out of breath. 

Zachary was heading down the hotel to get out of here. The halls seemed confusing to me, as I run after him in nothing but my bathing suit. 

"Zach!" I yelled again.

"Zachary I love you!" I screamed on the top of my lungs before he closed the elevator. He seemed to contemplate, but then the doors of the elevator closed and he was gone.

I fell to my knees on the thick red carpet. I sobbed so hard that all people came out of their room to look what was going on. 

A red haired woman gazed down on me. "Are you alright miss?" She asked concerned. Before I could answer, the elevator opened again and Zachary walked up to me.

"You're still here?" I asked breathless.

He sighed and dropped his hands in defeat. Zachary shook his head and helped my get up. "I love you too, you idiot!" He said and wiped my tears away.

We stood there for the longest moment. Our eyes were closed and our foreheads rested against each other. We were both out of breath. 

Benjamin

How had I gotten myself in this situation? Jasmine was laying beneath me, eying me lustfully. She expecting me to make love to her, while all I could do was think about Saphira and if she would be okay.

Zachary probably would of left, like the coward he is and I could not stand the fact that Saph would be all alone and probably crying. 

Jasmine's hands glided across my chest and then traveled up to my face. She took my face in her hands and guided my lips towards hers. 

She kissed me with so much passion, but I did not feel I could return the same intensity. 

I looked down on Jasmin's milky skin. Her full breasts were alluring me and I smiled when my eyes found her stomach.

"The mother of my children." I said as I traced her belly button. "I am more than that aren't I?" She whispered.

I sighed and shook my head. I truly did not know why she always needed the conformation that she was everything to me.

"That and so much more." I agreed after her expression turned a bit anxious. 

"Honey…" I said softly. "Yes." She said as she slowly got up and wrapped her arms on me. I took her in my arms and replaced her feet around my body. 

Jasmine let out a soft moan in response and kissed the hallow beneath my ear. "Ah honey…" I tries to say again and she traced her tongue up and down my neck, while knotting her fingers in my hair. 

"Habibi." I said breathless. I could not surrender myself to her right now. I had to keep my mind clear. 

Tracing my fingers across her jawline, I took her face in my hands. "Love will you please check up on her." I pleaded. 

"Arghh Really? Benjamin!" She said in resentment. 

I breathed out slowly. "Please." I begged her. 

"Would you have sent her after me if you would have chosen her over me?" Jazz asked me skeptically. 

"What?!" I disclaimed. "Well…" She prompted. 

"Woman!" I said pinning her down on the bed, with her hands above her head. "In what universe would I ever pick anyone over you." I breathed against her lips. Her mouth parted, inviting me in, but I was not going to give her what she wanted.

"Huh… Tell me now." I demanded. She was quiet.

"Now go checkup on her, because I agreed I will not see her without you. If you don't go then I will go and you will probably follow me there, so-" I said just inched away from her mouth.

Jasmine slapped me in my face with her flat hand. 

I felt my jaw muscles tighten as I was literally stunned by her course of action. 

I just stared at her and she stared back.

"You can stare at me all who you want, you are not scaring me your majesty." She said in anger. "If you think that threatening me to go see her alone, when I don't comply with your demands, after we just agreed you would no longer give special attention to any other female than your family, myself included, will give me more respect for you…. You are dead wrong." Aggravation colored her tone. 

I let myself fall flat on the bed. I was no longer capable of handling all her drama and pinched my eyes shut.

"Well… why are you going to lay here?" She continued her drama scene. I did not react. After a while she started again. "Why are you ignoring me?" She asked in a smaller voice. 

"I am concentration very hard to try and not go along with this hot mess you are creating for us." I said as calm as I could. 

"Now I am a hot mess?!" She states offended.

I just breathed out slowly through my nose, with my eyes still closed.