Two days later, I was sitting at a table with Benito and his lawyer. I had just signed the papers they had needed me to sign - it was mostly settlements - and now I was preparing myself to leave. I had not spoken to Benito since the incident at David's apartment; I had avoided conversations revolving around it. His lawyer said his goodbyes and hurried out of the room, leaving Benito and me alone.

"Are you okay?" he asked concerned, watching me put the copies of the settlements into my bag.

"Couldn't be better." I answered and forced a smile on my face. Benito eyed me and nodded with his lips pressed together.

"Please don't lie to me." he said, causing me to sigh in response.

"Okay, I'm not alright but I don't want to talk about it." I gave in.

"Okay, I respect that. What are you gonna do now?" he wanted to know. I shrugged and closed my bag.

"I don't know... Probably binge watch a show and drown myself in ice cream." I told him. Since the incident with David, I had fallen back into the pattern of isolating myself. This was a thing that I hated about myself and I wish I could've changed it but whenever I tried to go out or hang out with the girls, I canceled last minute.

"What about you?" I then asked.

"There's a spa here, I think I might check it out." Benito gave back and got up from his chair. I nodded in response and stretched myself, causing my lower back to crack loudly.

"Sounds like you could need some relaxation as well." Benito commented when he heard it.

"I do but I don't have the money to waste a day at a spa." I replied, getting up from my chair as well. Benito eyed me in amusement, then he walked over to the room door to open it for me.

"I paid for it anyways when I booked the room, so don't worry about that." he said. I looked at him in disbelief and started shaking my head. Although it sounded great, I had to decline because I was sure that it wouldn't be free for me.

"I appreciate the offer but no." I told him, walking towards the door as well.

"Oh, come on. You shouldn't be isolating yourself now and sometimes you can start taking things people offer you." he tried to convince me. The way he looked at me made it incredibly hard to say no, so I sighed and gave in. Maybe this would distract me at least a little bit.

"Fine, but only for a few hours." I finally said, causing Benito to smile widely at me.

One hour later, the hotel had brought us two bags with towels, robes and flip flops in them. Very much to my surprise, they did not charge Benito for taking me to the spa and so I was willing to maybe enjoy it. As we entered the spa area, we got greeted by a friendly employee who led us to the changing rooms. There was a bathing suit in my bag as well, apparently Benito had told them to burrow me one since I didn't bring anything. As I had changed, I looked at myself in the mirror. Ever since David had cheated on me, I had found things on my body that really bothered me such as my small breast and way to small hips. I honestly had never thought about that until I had caught him with his new girlfriend who had curves on end. Quickly, I put the robe over myself, slipped into the flip flops and put the clothes I had worn into one of the lockers in the changing room. Benito was waiting for me in front of the door; he was doing something on his phone. When he noticed me, he locked his phone and put it in the pocket of his shorts.

"Ready?" he asked. I nodded in response and followed him through the door that led to the spa. The friendly employee approached us again.

"We offer massages and all kinds of skin care if you'd like to try." he told us as he was leading us towards the pools.

"Thanks." Benito told him, then the guy hurried off.

"What would you like to do?" he then asked me. I looked around. Honestly, I was absolutely overtaxed with all of this. Although a massage sounded great, a relaxing face mask and just sitting in one of the pools was more tempting to me, so I pointed at the lady that was preparing masks behind her counter. Benito nodded and stretched out his arm, signalising me to lead the way. It took us around ten minutes to put the clay like masks on. The lady told us that there was a saltwater pool where we could go in with them on, so we went over there. I could feel my body relax as soon as the hot water surrounded me. I had my eyes closed but I knew Benito was also relaxing. He was sitting across from me, his head leaned back.

"I blocked Gabriela by the way." he mumbled, after five minutes of us just sitting there in silence. I opened my eyes and looked at him. He looked extremely relaxed and calm, something that was rubbing off on me the longer I studied his face.

"You did?" I asked surprised.

"Mhm. Blocked her number, her Insta, her Twitter and her TikTok." he responded and let out a sigh.

"That's good, right?" I said unsure if I should be happy about this information.

"I feel so much better since I know that she can't contact me anymore." Benito responded and opened his eyes again.

"How come?" I questioned. It surprised me that he had cut her off after telling me she was his weakness.

"Well, the way you didn't let seeing David directly affect you kinda inspired me." he explained. I pressed my lips together and looked at the bubbles coming out of the water.

"But it did affect me. I've been feeling like shit for the past three days." I told him honestly.

"I honestly don't understand how you were able to stay with him for that long and then I asked myself how I put up with her for so long." he said, scratching his head.

"He wasn't like that when I met him." I gave back adjusting my sitting position.

"Are you sure he hasn't always been such an absolute idiot?" Benito questioned. It made me smirk a little bit and it also made me think back.

"Maybe I was just blind but that's on me then." I replied, looking at my finger nails.

"Don't do this." he said and I could feel his eyes on me.

"Do what?" I asked, returning the gaze.

"You're blaming yourself for what he's done and how he treated you." he stated like it was the most obvious thing on the planet. Maybe I hadn't done so consciously but I definitely had subconsciously. I stayed silent and started chewing on the inside of my cheek.

"You're a gorgeous woman with a good heart and he's good damn stupid for throwing you away for the sad excuse of a girlfriend he has now, so stop blaming yourself, please." Benito said, causing me to blush a bright red. It was the nicest thing anyone had ever told me.

"You don't know me." I responded, shaking my head.

"But I saw the way you treated Lukas and that told me everything I needed to know." he countered. I looked at him and smiled a toothless smile but didn't say anything. "Besides, I would've definitely not danced up on you if I hadn't seen something in you." he then added slowly. Somehow all the doubts I had about my looks vanished with these words.

"Thank you." I mumbled, trying to avoid eye contact with Benito.

"Broken Hearts Club going strong." he said, causing me to laugh at him. He chimed in, before he let out a tired yawn.

For the rest of the day, we talked about a lot of things but mostly about what had happened that night in Vegas. Benito had talked to Anthony - the guy we had listed as our witness - and he told me what his dancer had told him.

"Anthony said we left to grab something to eat first and on the way we drove past the chapel. It was my idea apparently and you thought it was a joke until I made him stop at a jewellery store." he told me as we were getting a massage. Our beds were next to each other and we both had our eyes closed.

"You got a ring because you wanted me to take you serious?" I questioned in amusement.

"Apparently. Tony said I even full on proposed to you in front of the store and he said that I got a ring for myself as well." Benito responded and let out a relaxed sigh. I chuckled because honestly that sounded funny and maybe one day we were going to be able to laugh about it.

"And then?" I questioned.

"We grabbed food, went to the chapel, Tony got the license for us and then we got married. Tony said the employees thought we had been dating beforehand because we apparently got along so well." Benito told me.

"Do you remember if we made out at the club?" I wanted to know curiously.

"We did. I have a blurry memory of what happened at the hotel as well but I'd rather tell you that in privat." he mumbled. Again, I chuckled but stayed quiet. For a few moments, none of said anything.

"I'm asking myself why Tony didn't try to stop you. He could've prevented us from being stupid." I said, opening my eyes and looking at him only to find him already staring at me.

"He knows better than that. I'm a very stubborn person, especially when I'm drunk. Once I have an idea in my head, it's hard to convince me otherwise. I think the only one who could've stopped me would've been you if you had said no." he explained. A smile spread across my face. There was so much warmth in Benito's eyes, it made me feel comfortable. For the first time in the three months since Vegas, I was kind of glad that I hadn't said no. Benito had been right, I had needed a day like this and by the time that I got home, I felt a lot better. It had been less the spa, more spending time with him.