Marriage Without Love: Sir, Please Stop novel Chapter 13

Chapter13 Mr. Shaffer Invited You

It's one o'clock at midnight.

Outside the house was a world of ice and snow. Cold wind was howling and the snowflakes on the window lattice were condensed into ice.

Inside the house, it was quiet warm with fire burning briskly in the fireplace.

Catalina slept soundly, hugging the warm quilt and the doll her mother gave her.

Suddenly, there were hurried footsteps outside the door.

Immediately, there was a knock at the door.

At first, Catalina thought she was dreaming, so she ignored it. And then she turned over and continued to sleep.

Then the pounding started up again on the door and was getting more and more urgent.

Catalina opened her eyes.

Her eyelids get so heavy because she was sleepy, "Who is it?"

"Mrs. Shaffer, it's me, Wendy."

Wendy is the personal maid that Ralph arranged for Catalina in this house.

"Come in."

Catalina rubbed her eyes and sat up.

Glancing at the new Chinese-style double-sided wall clock on the wall, Catalina's brows twitched twice and lay back on the pillow.

What?

Knocking on the door at one o'clock in the morning. Isn't it a death call?

Wendy pushed the door open, "Mrs. Shaffer?"

She approached the bed lightly, squatted down, and called Catalina in a low voice, "Am I disturbing you?"

Catalina lifted her heavy eyelids, looking at her with an air of grievance, "What do you think? It's one o'clock now. I was just dreaming..."

Wendy was sorry.

She clung to Catalina's ear and whispered: "Mr. Shaffer invited you to his room!"

"Ah?"

Catalina sat up immediately, being wide awake, "Who called me?"

"Mr. Shaffer."

Wendy replied and added, "Mr. Shaffer invited you to go to the Lake Compound"

"..."

Catalina blinked, thinking that she was dreaming.

"Mrs. Shaffer, get up please, Mr. Shaffer's maid has been waiting for you outside the door for a long time."

"No, he asked me to go to his room at midnight? Isn't it too weird?" Catalina hugged the silk quilt tightly.

Wendy brought her a long padded jacket for her, and smiled:" This is not strange at all. You are the wife of Mr. Shaffer. Isn't it natural for him to invite you to his room?"

"No, no, absolutely not."

The more Catalina thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong, so she simply grabbed the quilt and lay down again.

"Mrs. Shaffer, what are you doing?"

"Wendy, tell the maid and say that I can't get up and we'll talk about it tomorrow."

"If I could, I would do so as soon as possible!"

Wendy squatted down again at Catalina's bedside, "Mr. Shaffer said that if you refuse to go, the maids in your room, including me, will all be punished!"

"Ah?"

Catalina frowned.

"Yeah." Wendy nodded.

"Isn't this too overbearing?"

Catalina sat up.

"Then what can we do? Here, Mr. Shaffer's words are the imperial edict, and no one can disobey it. You will understand in the future."

Wendy said, putting the padded jacket on Catalina' shoulder.

Catalina had no choice but to throw off the quilt and get out of bed.

In fact, she was clear in her mind!

Because, wasn't she, Catalina, a study companion of Bennett when she was a child?

However, everyday life is changing. Catalina never thought that one day she would be "promoted" to become the better half of Bennett.

This could truly be called a dream-come-true, right?

However, it was unknown whether it was a good dream or a nightmare.

But one thing was certain: the relationship between them would only be a dream.

After getting up, Catalina followed Bennett's maid to the Lake Compound with nervousness.