Chapter 227
Played for Three Hours
"I heard she even wanted, after it was all over, to make all the socialites in Chicago come watch. By then Claire would be completely ruined and wouldn't be able to show her face around here anymore. She's such a bitch!"
Just thinking about what Kelsey Lee had done made Ruby want to hack her into pieces. If she hadn't wanted to wait for her brother to deal with it, she would have taken care of that woman herself long ago.
She actually dared to try to harm her sister-in-law. It was absolutely unforgivable!
"Bring her here," Julian Sterling said in a deep voice.
A huge group of bodyguards in black suddenly stormed into the banquet hall, frightening all the socialites present. None of them knew what was happening.
After coming in, those men headed straight for Kelsey Lee and, without the slightest mercy, dragged her outside.
As the host of this gathering, Hazel Lewis saw these people barging in like bandits and even abducting someone in public, so she immediately stepped forward and asked, "What happened? What are you doing?"
Kelsey Lee was practically scared out of her mind.
When she saw Hazel Lewis, she quickly reached out to her and shouted, "Miss Lewis, save me, save me, hurry and save me..."
"Mr. Sterling is handling business. Everyone irrelevant, move aside!"
After throwing out that line, several bodyguards forcibly took Kelsey Lee away from the scene. The socialites around them were all terrified, and no one dared step forward to stop them.
When Hazel Lewis heard the words "Mr. Sterling," her expression turned grave.
In Chicago, the name Julian Sterling was like thunder in everyone's ears, but not many people had actually seen what he looked like. She had once heard her father mention Julian Sterling.
Her father had met him once while discussing business, and after coming back he kept praising him nonstop. He had even said Julian Sterling was the most capable man of the younger generation, and that perhaps the future focus of the Sterling family would be on him.
A hot-blooded young man with wealth and power was enough to draw a woman's attention.
Hazel Lewis had long been curious about him, but unfortunately there was almost no video or photo material of Julian Sterling available.
She knew Kinley Estate belonged to Julian Sterling; she just didn't know how Kelsey Lee had managed to offend him.
After suppressing her thoughts, Hazel Lewis followed the bodyguards from earlier.
Deep down, Kelsey Lee already had a vague feeling that the person looking for her was Julian Sterling.
When she was forced into the room and saw the two servers kneeling on the floor, fear rose in her eyes.
Julian Sterling sat in a chair, a vicious glint in his eyes as his gaze lightly fell on Kelsey Lee. "Who gave you permission to touch Claire Bennett?"
"Julian... I... I didn't..." Even now Kelsey Lee still wanted to lie and deny it. She felt that as long as she refused to admit anything, it definitely wouldn't be traced back to her.
A pitiful expression appeared on her face. She wanted to use it to soften Julian Sterling's heart, but the man in front of her didn't even give her a proper glance.
When Ruby heard that, she trembled with rage. Pointing at Kelsey Lee, she angrily rebuked her, "You are unbelievably vicious! How dare you do this to Claire."
"It was already a mistake for my mom to bring you in to impersonate me. Not only did you pretend to be me, you also used my identity to bluff and swindle people, and now you've framed Claire too. Is there anything you haven't done?"
Kelsey Lee shook her head repeatedly. "No, listen to me..."
Julian Sterling had no patience. He frowned and said, "Shut her up."
The bodyguard behind her immediately stepped forward and covered Kelsey Lee's mouth. She instantly became mute, able only to stare at Julian Sterling with tear-filled eyes.
Julian Sterling looked at the two terrified servers on the floor. The two of them immediately continued kowtowing in fear. "Mr. Sterling, we were wrong. It was this woman. She was the one who ordered us to do it. We didn't know we were touching your woman. Please let us go."
When Kelsey Lee heard the two of them identifying her, she made muffled "mmph mmph" sounds and shook her head violently in denial.
Expressionless, Julian Sterling said to the two men, "You want me to let you go?"
A glimmer of hope rose in their eyes. They thought that maybe Julian Sterling, being magnanimous, would let the two of them off since Claire Bennett hadn't actually been violated.
Julian Sterling's face remained calm and unreadable as he said indifferently, "Take good care of this woman. If you do well, I'll let you go."
The words "take care" sounded rather loaded.
How could the two servers not understand what he meant? If they wanted to get out of this, they had no other choice.
It was just switching to another woman to play with anyway; there was no loss for them at all.
One on the left and one on the right, they went forward and dragged Kelsey Lee toward the back room. At that moment, Kelsey Lee's mouth was freed again.
She cried out miserably, "Julian, you can't treat me like this! My dad has worked for the Sterling family for so many years. For his sake, you can't let people ruin me..."
Julian Sterling didn't even blink.
What she should be grateful for was that her father worked for the Sterling family. Otherwise, today's outcome would not have been this simple.
Very quickly, Kelsey Lee and the two men disappeared from before their eyes. Not long after, Kelsey Lee's screams came from inside the room. "No, no, don't... I'm begging you..."
Julian Sterling looked at Cameron Quinn and said coldly, "Take Ruby home first."
"Mm, got it." Cameron Quinn nodded.
Julian Sterling stepped toward the outside. As the door opened, Hazel Lewis was startled badly, and her gaze immediately collided head-on with Julian Sterling's.
The man's eyes swept over her with indifference, without the slightest pause, and he simply walked away.
Watching Julian Sterling's tall, noble back as he left, admiration surfaced in Hazel Lewis's eyes, her young heart stirred.
So he was Mr. Julian Sterling!
Just as her father had said, truly outstanding among men, noble and extraordinary!