Female Novel
Chapter 79 How Much Money You Are Worth
Chapter 79 How Much Money You Are Worth
She frowned and there was sweat on her forehead. She complained, "Bennett, don't you think you
should lose some weight?"
"Do you have the nerve to criticize my figure when you are not strong enough?"
"Don't you know that I can just throw you on the ground?"
Catalina retorted and then impatiently pushed away his arm on her shoulder.
Bennett looked at her with his charming eyes and draped his arm over her slender shoulder again.
Catalina was amused and annoyed at the same time.
However, the small move of Bennett softened her heart and made her surrender.
"I'll help you up. Use your own strength at the same time."
"...okay."
Bennett murmured in response with a heavy nasal voice.
Clenching her teeth, Catalina supported his arm, grabbed his wrist, and tried to lift him up.
Unexpectedly, he suddenly pulled back his arm towards his chest, and Catalina was caught off guard
and fell into Bennett's arms.
Bennett hugged her, and they both fell onto the Persian carpet.
Catalina ended up lying on his chest.
Her hands touching his sturdy chest muscles, her cheeks blushed in an instant.
She felt awkward and wanted to detach herself from Bennett's embrace immediately.
As soon as she propped herself up with her arms, his hand that was resting on her back suddenly
pushed her back into Bennett's embrace.
With a sound, Catalina fell heavily back into Bennett's arms.
The two of them were intertwined, and they could feel the warmth of each other's bodies.
Their hearts were beating hard like drums at the same rate.
There was romantic chemistry between them...
Catalina's face turned red.
"Are you getting up or not?"
Catalina glared at Bennett who was teasing her.
However, Bennett didn't let her go. Instead, he tightened his arms and replied, "You still haven't
answered my question."
"What question?"
"Did you come back because I told you to? When did you become so obedient?"
"..."
Catalina's face was pressed against his chest. She felt as if she was burning inside, and there was
sweat on her nose. She replied, "Ralph tricked me into coming back. He said that your injury was
infected and festering, and you had a fever. The most annoying thing is that you were throwing a
tantrum and refused to treat your injury."
Bennett frowned his eyebrows and said unhappily, "Why is refusing to treat my injury equal to throwing
a tantrum?"
"Isn't that true?"
"Didn't I got injured for you? Shouldn't you be responsible for taking care of me and come back?"
Of course, Catalina was trying to provoke him by saying these words deliberately.
It was all because Ralph lied to her that night.
"What did you say?"
Unsurprisingly, Bennett became furious. He grabbed her chin with the other hand, forcing her to look up
at him, and said, "Catalina, how could you say such heartless words? Aren't you guilty at all? Where is
your conscience?"
"But it was you who tricked me first."
"I tricked you? When did I trick you?" Bennett was livid.
"You hid behind me and scared me! If you hadn't played a prank on me, how would I have fallen into
the mud pit?"
"..."
"You see, again you are speechless now!"
Bennett was so angry that he couldn't say a word.
"Catalina, you are a total idiot!"
After scolding her with a grim face, Bennett pulled her away from him without hesitation.
Then he got up and walked inside the room with a blank expression. He said, "Come here and apply
the ointment on my injury!"
Catalina got up from the ground and grumbled, "Bennett, you lied to me again!"
Bennett had already taken out the medicine kit and sat on the sofa. He added, "Go wash your hands."
"..."
What a nuisance!
Following his instructions, Catalina went to the washroom and washed and sanitized her hands.
"Rub the soap on your hands three times, five minutes each time."
Outside the door, Bennett reminded her in a serious voice.
Catalina gritted her teeth and looked at herself in the mirror, rubbing her hands angrily as if she was
running his head.
Twelve minutes later, Catalina shook the water off her hands and left the washroom.
"Three minutes short."
Bennett looked at the watch on his wrist, his brows furrowed.
"That's enough!"
Catalina couldn't take it anymore. She said, "Either let me apply the ointment or I'll just go."
"..."
Bennett's eyebrows twitched with anger.
Since when had she dared to bargain with him?
In the end, somehow, Bennett managed to suppress his anger.
He put his legs on the table in front of him and turned his face away to look outside the window. He
said, "Come here!"
He was still acting in an arrogant and domineering manner.
Catalina pouted and walked over.
However, Catalina knew that it was the biggest concession he could make that he didn't force her to
wash her hands for another three minutes.
Catalina squatted in front of the table and glanced at his fair-skinned feet. She asked, "Well...did you
wash your feet?"
Bennett's face turned grim. He asked, "Are you complaining that my feet look dirty?"
"..."
Why was that?
Why couldn't she complain about him?
However, given this guy's obsession with cleanliness, maybe his feet were even cleaner than other
people's faces!
Look at his delicate little feet. The nails were neatly trimmed!
They were even more neatly trimmed than her fingers.
Truly meticulous.
Catalina took out the wound healing solution and cotton and began to apply it to his injury.
His foot injury had already scabbed over and it would probably fully heal in another two days.
Of course, even without applying the medicine, it would be just fine in three days.
It was really hard to imagine how Ralph could make up such things as infection, festering, and fever.novelbin
The point was, Catalina actually believed it!
Indeed, just as Bennett had said earlier, she was such a fool!
"It's done."
In less than a minute, the job was finished.
Catalina packed up the medical kit and clapped her hands. She said, "I should go now."
"Where are you going?"
Bennett asked with a sullen face, pretending that he didn't know where she was heading.
"Of course, I'm going home."
Catalina replied naturally. "By the way, I forgot to tell you that I'm going to live in the Pallwich
International Community from now on. I've already rented a house over there."
Bennett crossed his arms over his chest and looked at Catalina with a mocking expression. He said,
"How much do you think you, Catalina, are worth to me?"
"What do you mean?"
Catalina frowned, looking somewhat displeased.
"I gave you 150 thousand dollars, but we were only married for less than five months. Do you think
you're worth over 30 thousand dollars a month? Which rich man outside is willing to offer you this
price?"
"Bennett, you're being unreasonable!"
"Which word I said was unreasonable? Do you think you're worth the money I spent?"
Each word Bennett said pierced deeply into Catalina's heart like a sharp knife.
Her heart ached.
Therefore, in Bennett's eyes, this marriage was ultimately just a transaction.
And for him, Catalina was just an item with a price tag.
"Fine."
The humiliating words from Bennett completely aroused Catalina's fighting spirit.
"Just 150 thousand dollars, right? Consider that you have lent it to me, and I'll try to pay it all back to
you!"
"1.5 million dollars!"
Bennett looked down.
"What?"
Catalina thought she heard it wrong.
"Five months have passed and there is interest. Catalina, I have already shown you mercy."