Reborn as Mr.CEO's Fat Wife-Chapter 854: I Have Had Enough of the Bitterness of Marriage

Chapter 854: Chapter 854: I Have Had Enough of the Bitterness of Marriage

Benjamin Jones quietly watched the woman in front of him, fragile in appearance yet determined in her gaze. He was often curious how this woman managed to successfully harness both soft and tough contradictory traits, which annoyed yet moved him.

Knowing that the woman’s next words would definitely displease him, Benjamin Jones finally nodded signaling her to continue.

Catherine Ford pursed her lips, "I don’t know how you confirmed that Alice is your child, but it’s clear you don’t remember me, and there’s no emotional foundation between us. What you mentioned about marriage, I... am not unswayed."

As she spoke, Catherine’s cheeks tinged pink with embarrassment. She had not felt romantic inclinations towards a man in a long time. Benjamin Jones was a man who could easily fascinate a woman, herself included. However, due to her previous marriage, she felt inferior, especially beside a remarkable man like Benjamin, admitting her feelings even brought a sense of shame.

After hesitating for a while, Catherine finally raised her head again, "But, Benjamin, I’m just an ordinary person, so ordinary as to be unremarkable. You liking me, even if it is genuine to an extent, can this small amount truly sustain a marriage? I’ve already reached beyond my grasp once with Foster Newman, and I’ve had my fill of the bitterness of marriage. So, if you think I’m decent because of Alice and that little bit of likeliness as a wife, then I’m sorry I can’t accept you, nor will I marry you."

Benjamin Jones listened to Catherine’s every word, feeling complicated and somewhat guilty. Today he had been too hasty and abrupt, mistaking the tipsy Catherine for the sober one.

How could he forget that this woman was like a timid hamster, cautious and shy.

Benjamin Jones looked at Catherine who, having spoken her piece, now hung her head low as if she wished she could bury it in her toes, "Today I was abrupt with you. Regarding Alice, as I’ve already made it clear before, I will not fight for custody, not now, nor in the future, you can be assured."

Catherine suddenly raised her head. Was this the man’s promise?

"But..."

The joy had no time to spread before her heart was lifted in suspense again.

Benjamin Jones saw Catherine’s startled look, sighed softly. "Let it be, let’s go back to normal. Get some rest early." He knew she wouldn’t believe him now no matter how much more he said.

"What?" Catherine thought he would continue, only to hear him suddenly give up halfway. What was he trying to say after all? But approaching him for clarification was clearly beyond her capability, leaving her only able to awkwardly utter a sound in response, dumbly watching as Benjamin rose to his feet and walked to the door, bewildered.

When Benjamin Jones turned back, he saw Catherine like this, unable to restrain a smile from recurling his lips, his tone carrying a hint of threat, "Behave, don’t run away again, or else..."

Catherine instantly became guarded, only to hear the man leisurely spit out two words, "Pay money."

"You..." Catherine looked at the man, annoyed and embarrassed.

The smile on Benjamin Jones’ lips deepened, but his next words were exceptionally serious, "And about you and Foster Newman, he was the one reaching beyond his grasp, he didn’t deserve you."

After finishing his words, Benjamin Jones didn’t linger. He turned around, left, and even closed Catherine’s door behind him.

Catherine stood quietly behind the door, the man’s last words echoing in her mind over and over, ’He was the one reaching beyond his grasp, he was the one reaching beyond his grasp, he didn’t deserve...’

Over the years, whether it was the villagers or her parents, intentionally or otherwise, they had expressed that marrying Foster Newman was her reaching beyond her grasp, the Ford family reaching beyond the Newman family. Gradually, even she started to believe that she indeed reached beyond her grasp, which led to everything that happened later, that everything was what she deserved.

But just now, Benjamin Jones had told her seriously and earnestly, he was the one reaching beyond his grasp, he didn’t deserve her.

After hearing so many negative remarks over the years, being affirmed like this felt unusual to her. If it had been anyone else, she might have thought they were just comforting her, but because it was Benjamin Jones, her heart uncontrollably trembled, even conjuring up an unstoppable sweet sensation.

But that moment was fleeting; reason returned, and Catherine remembered his previous words and collapsed to the ground, annoyed at herself. What was she doing just now? She had almost been swayed by that man again, regardless of whether Benjamin’s last sentence was true or not, the previous one definitely wasn’t false.

That means if she dares to escape, the other party will definitely claim damages against her. She particularly believes that if Benjamin Jones is willing, he could claim everything from her down to her underpants.

So right now, it seems she really can only continue to stay, just like the man said, keeping everything the same. But...how is that possible?

Catherine Ford sat dejectedly, only realizing that her suitcase was open when she tried to stand up, her legs numb. Then, the ambiguous scenes she recalled suddenly made her cheeks so hot that she wished she could bury her head in the ground. She had never encountered a man like Benjamin Jones, who plays the rogue with such seriousness, that in the end, it seemed like others were the ones seducing him.

Sigh!

However much she felt embarrassed and annoyed, things had already been decided. Catherine Ford fanned her face for quite a while and cooled down a bit before getting up to repack her suitcase.

At last, Catherine Ford went to bed at three o’clock. Only when the sky lightened did she start feeling sleepy, but she wasn’t asleep for long before being woken up by Alice’s little hands poking her.

Catherine Ford struggled to turn over and saw it was already seven o’clock. Jumping up quickly, she dressed Alice in haste and the mother and daughter washed up before heading over to Benjamin Jones’s place.

On the way there, Catherine Ford thought a lot. But when the door opened, the man was running on the treadmill as usual, showing no particular reaction to their arrival. Instead, Alice happily ran over to say hello to Uncle, then cheerfully tumbled around on her yoga mat.

Catherine Ford’s tense heart relaxed, and then she went to the kitchen.

During breakfast, the man still had his eternally icy expression, only softening his voice when talking to Alice.

Catherine Ford should have been happy, but for some reason, she felt uncontrollably sad, with a strong feeling of having been deceived.

Even though she had guessed yesterday that the man wanted to marry her because of Alice, not because he really liked the plain her, the feelings she wanted to show were still somewhat different.

Moreover, this emotion peaked when the man beside her politely called her Miss Ford after finishing breakfast, to the extent that her hand trembled while packing his lunch, mixing rice and stir-fried chili peppers together.

After packing lunch and taking Alice to the property management, Catherine Ford politely said to the man, "Lawyer Jones, please have Reed drop me off at the bus stop. That’s all I need."

Catherine Ford did not know Reed’s real name; she only heard Benjamin Jones call him Reed, so out of politeness, she referred to him as Brother Reed.

After hearing this, Benjamin Jones glanced at Catherine Ford and then scanned Reed without saying a word; Reed continued to drive with nerves tightened.

Catherine Ford felt disheartened and simply shrank back into her own seat, pretending to be a quail, and soon started dozing off due to a sleepless night, her head slowly nodding off.

Benjamin Jones noticed from the corner of his eyes and unconsciously shifted his body towards Catherine Ford’s direction, again and again, almost allowing Catherine to lean on him, but his phone suddenly rang, startling Catherine awake. She sat up bewildered and looked at the man, feeling something was odd but before she could figure out what, sleepiness overcame her yet again and she fell back asleep.

The tense man relaxed a bit and after opening the message, he saw his own mother eagerly asking about his love life. Benjamin Jones pondered for a moment before replying, "Still making efforts."

Then, as he put away his phone, he casually pressed Catherine Ford’s head onto his shoulder.

The bad mood from the night before and early morning instantly eased.

However, as they arrived at the usual meeting place and Catherine Ford still showed no signs of waking, Benjamin Jones turned his head and noticed the dark circles under the woman’s eyes, guessing she probably hadn’t slept at all the night before. He felt guilty and decided to have Reed drive the car into the underground garage.

Catherine Ford was really tired, but she also remembered she had overtime work. As the car entered the underground parking, she suddenly opened her eyes, found everything dim, and was confused for a moment about where she was. After a while, she sat up, "Where is this?"

"You’re awake." Benjamin Jones did not answer her question but raised his hand to check the time, "You don’t clock in on weekends for overtime, no need to hurry."

Catherine finally clearly saw the object outside the window, it was the underground parking lot. She was a bit annoyed that Benjamin didn’t wake her up, but then she thought that he didn’t have the obligation to do so. Turning her head to grab the insulated lunch box, she realized she was very close to Benjamin Jones. However, that wasn’t the key issue; the key was the oddly prominent dark spot on the man’s light grey suit shoulder. She subconsciously touched her mouth, then her face turned beet red.

Originally, Benjamin hadn’t noticed his shoulder. Feeling Catherine’s gaze, he looked over and his expression slightly changed, casting an indescribable look towards the woman by his side.

Catherine felt extremely embarrassed, "That... I’m sorry, it was not intentional."

She couldn’t understand how she, clearly sitting in the corner, ended up leaning on Benjamin’s shoulder. And not just leaning – why did her drool end up on his shoulder?

If one could choose between life and death at this moment, she wanted to die.

"Ninety-eight thousand." After a moment of expression collapse, Benjamin reported a number to Catherine. If his memory served him right, it’s only a week until the month they had agreed upon, by then this woman would definitely refuse to continue cooking for him. Without the necessary reason to meet, she might even avoid him, so extreme times call for extreme measures.

Catherine did not understand Benjamin’s meaning at first. It took her about three seconds to gradually realize that this ninety-eight thousand was referring to the price of the suit.

The shock nearly made Catherine unable to breathe!

"Nin... ninety-eight thousand? Why don’t you just go rob someone!" After catching her breath, Catherine couldn’t hold back and roared at Benjamin.

Reed, in front of them, shivered. Damn, what a ruthless boss; no wonder he could drive a girl like Catherine Ford to lose control.

Benjamin touched his ear, "This is the depreciated price."

Catherine, "..."

She was really furious, seriously suspecting that this man was retaliating against her!

"Take it off!" Catherine suppressed her rage and said to the man.

Benjamin gave Catherine an odd look and did not move.

Catherine took a deep breath, sensing the profound meaning in the man’s eyes, her hands trembling with anger, "Take it off, I will get it dry-cleaned for you!"

"Oh, it can’t be dry-cleaned." If it was dry-cleaned, then his next move would be spoiled.

Who knew that usually compliant woman would be like a bomb today, her anger flared up even more upon hearing his words, "Then just keep wearing it like that!"

Having said that, Catherine angrily got out of the car. Remembering something, she grabbed her lunch box and then slammed the car door shut with a bang.

Benjamin’s eardrums were sore from the shock, and he stared blankly at the furiously departing woman, then looked up at Reed, as if asking why she suddenly became so fierce.

Suddenly he felt that the idea of getting married was indeed impulsive. freeweɓnovel.cѳm

Reed looked at his boss with difficulty, as if saying, you allow yourself to be unreasonable but not others to be angry – is there such a rule in the world?

But he dare not say so, thus he euphemistically answered, "Maybe this is the real Miss Ford." So please don’t torment the girl anymore.

Benjamin was displeased by this, "She’s not like that, and why does she call you ’Brother Four’?"

Reed stiffened, "This... I’m not very clear."

Benjamin gave Reed a cold glance that contained a warning.

Seeing this, Reed thought that his job was getting harder by the day, so much so that he hadn’t noticed someone leaving behind their car.

Catherine angrily went upstairs, and even sitting at her desk she was still fuming. She had never seen such a scheming and detestable man like Benjamin Jones – it’s just a bit of drool on his clothes, and he’s extorting her!

Ninety-eight thousand dollars, how could he even say that number!

"Who has annoyed you?" Grace Clarke came in and saw an extremely angry Catherine, asking curiously.

Having been in the logistics department for so long, she had only seen Catherine angry because of Beauty Ford. She had never seen her this infuriated from her own issues.

"Ben... a pig!" Catherine almost let slip.

Grace chuckled upon hearing that, "Oh, it’s about a man, huh? What, did our little Catherine’s second spring arrive?"

"Get out, get out, there’s no second spring. Men are no good!" Catherine indignantly said.

Lewis who just came in protested immediately, "You can’t say that, look at me, look at me, I am an outstanding man."

After speaking, Lewis even winked at Catherine.

Catherine and Grace, "..."

Although Lewis is just in his early thirties this year, he looks much older, which is why he’s still unmarried. If you ask if he is a good person, he truly is, but... no one wants him.

The two women looked at Lewis with sympathy and then continued their chat.

The silently hurt Lewis sighed deeply, "I actually wanted to tell you guys a sensational piece of gossip, but it seems unnecessary now."

As he spoke, Lewis styled his exit, then walked heavily towards his desk. Grace, who loved gossip, quickly followed, "Hey, Lewis, don’t be mad, you were right, you are the top good man in our logistics department!"

"Hmph!"

"You are the best good man at LG."

"That’s more like it." Lewis regained some face and was a bit happier, then he quickly walked to Catherine’s desk with Grace, "I’m telling you, it’s almost confirmed that Rita Pansy is Lawyer Jones’ girlfriend."

"What?" Grace exclaimed, then immediately lowered her voice, "Lewis, don’t talk nonsense, how could that be possible?"

Catherine was also a bit perplexed.