Marriage Without Love: Sir, Please Stop

Chapter 25 Catalina's Condition Got Worsened

Chapter 25 Catalina's Condition Got Worsened

"That's impossible. Impossible..."

Catalina quickly denied her thought.

In the next second, she walked to the edge of the lake and walked down the steps. She waved her

hand into the lake and tried to make the ugly doll move in her direction following the water's movement.

It was cold winter. The temperature of the water was cold. Within a few seconds, Catalina's hands

turned red due to the coldness.

However, she didn't seem to feel the coldness at that moment. She didn't even care if the water was

splashing on her. She just couldn't wait to get the doll back.

When Wendy rushed back with the tools, Catalina had already successfully salvaged the ugly doll from

the water.

She went back to the room with the wet ugly doll in her arms.

"Mrs. Shaffer, you're soaked!" Wendy was concerned about her.

"I'm fine."

Catalina was looking for a hair dryer as soon as she returned to her room.

"Stop drying it up. Why don't you just change your clothes?"

Wendy naively thought that she wanted to dry the clothes on her body.

"I'm fine. Let's dry it first!"

Catalina turned on the hair dryer and blew on the ugly doll while saying, "It needs to be completely

dried. Otherwise, it will get mildewed within a few days."

Seeing how Catalina was taking care of it carefully, Wendy smiled gratifiedly, "I just see how you fight

with Mr. Shaffer all the time, and I thought you really didn't care about each other!"

Catalina stopped blowing the doll when she heard those words.

She was in a trance for a while.

Then, she heard Wendy continue, "Look, a rag doll reveals the feelings between you two."

"Our feelings?"

Catalina smiled awkwardly and continued to blow the doll in her hand, "What kind of feelings do we

have? I don't have any feelings toward him and he would never feel anything about me too."

"Well, you can keep telling yourself that naively. Let me help you to dry it up. You should go to change

your clothes now. Otherwise, your flu might get worsened."

Wendy took the hair dryer from Catalina and said with a smile, "Mrs. Shaffer, you are right. The doll

made by Mr. Shaffer is really ugly."

Catalina went inside her dressing room to change her clothes and said, "Don't you afraid that he might

listen to this and ask you to leave again?"

Wendy stuck out her tongue playfully and asked with a cheeky face, "Mrs. Shaffer, do you want to

name this doll?"

Standing in front of the full-length mirror, Catalina blurted out, "The Ugly Doll."

"Huh?"

Wendy held the doll in one hand and the hair dyer in the other, standing in front of the dressing room,

and said, "The Ugly Doll? Are you not afraid that Mr. Shaffer might find out?"

"That's the truth!"

Catalina walked out of the dressing room and continued, "It's ugly."

Wendy was speechless.

She didn't know what to say.

She couldn't help but wonder what happened to Mr. Shaffer.

...

In the past two days, Catalina's condition had improved significantly after taking the medicine on time.

Unexpectedly, her condition deteriorated rapidly after the incident with the doll during the daytime.

At night, she couldn't stop coughing and her temperature soared to over 104 °CF.

Wendy was terrified. She went to look for Ralph and Dr. Hood hurriedly.

After Ralph got the news, he rushed to the Lake Compound immediately.

"Mr. Shaffer!"

He stood outside the room and greeted Bennett respectfully.

Inside the room, Bennett responded in a deep voice, "What's the matter?"

"Mrs. Shaffer's condition is getting worse. Wendy said that she is having a high fever and it is going up

more than 104 °CF. Her cough is getting worse. Would you like to go and check her out?"

Bennett's movement of turning the pages of the book froze slightly.

The next moment, he resumed his movement and said, "No."

"But..."

"Don't you hear me?"

Bennett's tone suddenly became serious.

"Yes."

Ralph dared not speak anymore.

He bowed his head and left.

In fact, Ralph had heard about the ugly doll's incident today.

He remembered all the dolls as they were carefully selected by him, but he didn't have any impression

of that ugly doll.

If his assumption was right, that ugly doll was probably made by Mr. Shaffer.

He presumed that Mr. Shaffer secretly put his ugly doll into the box of dolls this morning with the

excuse that he would like to check on them. So then no one would have noticed it. Unexpectedly, the

thoughtless Mrs. Shaffer gave it away to somebody else.

No wonder Bennett got so angry!

Ralph sighed and left the Lake Compound.

When he arrived at the door of Catalina's room, Dr. Hood was just arriving with his medicine case.

At the same time, Catalina's bedroom door was pushed open from the inside, and Wendy ran out

crying, "Mr. Hood, Mrs. Shaffer has been soaking in hot water but she still claims that she feels very

cold! What should I do? Please hurry up. Come in!"

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"What's going on?"

Suddenly, a low-pitched questioning voice came from behind.

Everyone turned around in surprise.

They could see a slender figure, dressed in a long fur coat, approaching them from not far away

passing through the wind and snow.

Bennett looked gloomy. His eyebrows frowned tightly and he looked cold.

"Mr. Shaffer!"

Everyone greeted him respectfully.

Wendy still jittered in her heart when she saw Bennett again. She was trembling and dared not to raise

her head.

"What's going on inside?"

Bennett asked Wendy.

Wendy answered honestly, "Mrs. Shaffer has been complaining about feeling cold just now. I thought it

might be better for her to take a hot bath, but she was getting colder after soaking in the bathtub. She

couldn't stop shivering. I think she might have caught a cold when she was trying to get the doll out of

the lake this afternoon..."

Wendy brought up the matter of picking up the doll purposely.

But she didn't know if Mr. Shaffer heard her words. He opened the door expressionlessly and stepped

into the room.

Wendy followed quickly after him.

Ralph and Ryker were about to enter the room too, but they heard Bennett say in a gloomy and cold

voice from the inside, "All men wait outside for me. No one is allowed to step in without my order,

Otherwise, I'll break his leg!"

After Ralph and Ryker looked at each other, they silently took back their feet simultaneously when they

were about to step into the room.

Bennett walked directly to the bathroom without even knocking on the door.

He saw Catalina shrink herself into a ball, curled up in the bathtub, and shook uncontrollably.

Bennett frowned tightly.

"It's cold..."

"It's cold! Hiss..."

Although Catalina was soaking in hot water at a constant temperature of 104 °CF, she felt as if she was

in an ice cave, and her lips turned blue.

Seeing Bennett walking in, she couldn't think of anything else. Her wet eyes were full of pain, like a

wounded elk. She looked at him beggingly, "It's so...so cold..."

She was freezing cold and couldn't think straight.

Under the high fever, she gradually lost consciousness.

Bennett lowered her eyes. He couldn't think thoroughly at that moment and didn't care about the

etiquette between different gender. He stepped forward, reached out with both arms, and pulled

Catalina out of the water.

"Ah!"

As soon as Catalina left the bathtub, she cried out of coldness.

In the next second, her wet body went straight to the warmest place, which was his arms.