SWNOVELS Chapter 2 A Repeated Farce
Chapter 2 A Repeated Farce
Catalina withdrew her hand and clenched it into a fist with indignation. Her pink chest heaved up and down, and she said, "Aaron Roach, we're done for good. I never want to see you again!" When Aaron heard that, a hint of sadness flickered in his eyes.
Aylin didn't expect Catalina, the cheating slut, would scold her innocent son so righteously. Just as she wanted to teach Catalina a lesson, unexpectedly, the door was kicked open, and several police officers in uniform rushed in. "We received a report that someone was doing illegal business here. Come with us to the police station. All of you!"
Catalina was glad that the police came in time, or she would have been beaten up by Aylin on the spot.
"Officer, you've misunderstood. The woman in the bed is my wife..." Aaron hastily stepped forward with a smile to explain.
However, Catalina was in no mood to listen to them.
She was exhausted and collapsed on the bed, with the piercing words of the police ringing in her ears, "illegal business taking place here..."
"So, did Bennett really treat me as a whore to vent his sexual desire?" She couldn't help but thought. Catalina closed her eyes, and the tears of humiliation trickled down her face. "Bennett, anyone in the world can humiliate and trample on me, but not you!"
Catalina stayed in the police station all night.
The next morning, she walked out of the police station with deep black circles under her eyes and a tired expression.
The snow outside glistened in the warm winter sun, and the light dazzled her eyes. Catalina could only raise her hand to block the strong light.
She walked towards the bus station while enduring the awkward pain in her lower body.
Because of Bennett, every step she took now made her feel like being run over by a heavy truck, sore and tired.
Ten minutes later, she finally got on the bus home.
She couldn't return to Roach's house, nor did she want to. What was supposed to be a simple marriage had turned into a ridiculous situation. The same boisterous farce that happened four years ago recurred.
Thinking of the absurd thing that happened four years ago and what Bennett had done to her, Catalina clenched her fists in deep frustration.
Tears of humiliation continued to well up in her eyes. Bennett had returned to exact revenge on her, using the same tactics from four years ago to once again tear her life apart and leave her in a bottomless abyss.
Leaning against the glass window and watching the snowy scenery outside slowly recede, it felt as though she was traveling back in time to four years ago. At that time, she was a vibrant and optimistic college freshman. She served as a maid for the Shaffer family, or a personal maid for Bennett Shaffer.
Bennett was born into a prominent aristocratic family. His grandfather was the founder of Shaffer Group. His father was even more eminent. He led the newborn Shaffer Group in the global economic field and created his own legend. His mother was also from a noble family. As a result, Bennett was destined to be extraordinary before he was born.
He was the youngest in the Shaffer family, so he was pampered by his eldest brother, Warren Shaffer, and his second elder sister, Shyann Shaffer.
However, Catalina, who was born into a poor family, was able to have a very superficial relationship with Bennett.
Because of his excellent performance in the group, her father was assigned as a personal driver by Bennett's father, Korbin Shaffer. And, under the subtle influence of her father, Catalina naturally became the personal maid of Bennett.
Catalina remembered that when she first met Bennett, she was ten years old, and he was twelve.
It was in May when the locust flowers were in full bloom, and the blossoms fell as the wind blew. A handsome youth was holding a branch of locust flowers in his mouth, resting beneath the tree with his eyes closed, enjoying a moment of peace and relaxation.
The mottled sunlight shone through the leaves and fell on his fair face.
He looked so cute.
At one glance, Catalina was stunned by him.
When she was eighteen, it was destined to be an extraordinary year for Catalina.
She remembered the day when she came back from school and her father brought her earth-shattering news. He told her that the Shaffer family had sent a marriage proposal in the name of "Mr. Shaffer" to her, and they would be married soon.
If she hadn't seen the mountain of betrothal gifts in her home with her own eyes, she wouldn't have believed it. Because she knew better than anyone that there was an insurmountable gap between her and Bennett, a gap like night and day.
But unexpectedly, she became his fiancee.
For Catalina, that day was probably the most beautiful dream she had ever had in her eighteen years of life.
Yes, it was a dream, only a dream.
It was not until a week before the wedding that Catalina accidentally knew that the so-called "Mr. Shaffer" in her father's words was not Bennett, but Bennett's most admired eldest brother, Warren.
This result was a bolt from the blue for Catalina.
However, she had no right to refuse, and the authority of the Shaffer family would never allow her to challenge it either.
Moreover, everyone knew that Warren was ill from childhood and suffered from congenital diseases. A fortune-teller once foretold that Warren would not survive his 25th birthday. He also said that if Warren wanted to survive, he had to get married before that, and Catalina was exactly the bride Warren had personally chosen to counteract his bad luck.
She was only eighteen that year, not even twenty.
If she had really married in such a peaceful way, it would be all right, but fate played a joke on her.
Nobody had expected that the grand wedding would end in such a way...
Warren became a vegetable because of Catalina.
As for Catalina, it was the most embarrassing day in her life. It was the most unforgettable pain in her heart, and it was the day she was most reluctant to recall.
It was also that day that Bennett changed her from a naive student to a slut disdained by everyone. She even became an enemy of the Shaffer family.
Afterwards, when everyone mentioned Catalina, they would habitually add some "magnificent" prefixes to her, such as slutty, cheap, dirty, etc. That year, she was only eighteen, and she was still a child.
Suddenly, the mobile phone in her pocket rang loudly, abruptly pulling Catalina's thoughts back to reality.
She breathed a long sigh of relief and found that her palms were already sweating.
However, when she saw the call reminder on her phone screen, her relaxed heart instantly tensed up again. "Catalina Grant!"
On the phone, Catalina's father, Cason Grant, cried out to her bitterly.
At the other end of the phone, Cason was so angry that he was wringing. "What do you want to do? What on earth do you want to do?"
Catalina didn't speak.
She bit her trembling lower lip hard in silence.
Once again, her eyes were wet with tears.
"Did the Grant family do anything bad to you? Why do you have such scandals again and again? Why were you always fooling around with another man on your wedding day? You did that four years ago, and four years later, you did it again. Tell me, Catalina! How hard do you want to embarrass the whole Grant family? Have you forgotten how miserable you made Warren? I thought you would at least learn a lesson, but why did you repeat the same thing four years later? Catalina, do you really want me, your father, to become a joke because of you?"
Cason's questioning words were like a blade stuck into Catalina's heart, making her teeth tremble in pain.
As her tears trickled down, she said, "It's Bennett..."
She gritted her teeth and cried, "It's Bennett! It's Bennett..."
She shouted bitterly in her heart, "It's Bennett who destroyed me!
Four years ago, it was him. Four years later, it's still him!
However, Bennett never knew that the devil who destroyed her and his brother four years ago was himself."