Chapter 252
Urging Her to Lower Her Head and Admit Her Mistake
The designers who normally worked at the same company as Claire Bennett all had their mouths hanging open, too shocked to say a word.
Only after quite a while did someone mutter, "Holy crap, am I dreaming? Claire Bennett is Queen? The legend has been right beside me this whole time?"
"Not dreaming! I just pinched myself hard, and it hurt like hell, so Claire Bennett really is Queen!"
"She's way too low-key, seriously. I want to go ask for an autograph!"
Molly Lee covered her mouth in shock and stared at Claire Bennett in disbelief, as if she had been frightened, and stammered, "D-Director Bennett, y-you... you're that Queen?"
Faced with the shocked stares coming from all directions, Claire Bennett remained calm and composed, standing where she was without the slightest change in expression, and did not deny that she was Queen.
Just now, she had thought Naomi Pierce had found someone to impersonate her.
She had never expected that exposing her identity would actually put her in the spotlight. Could it be that she'd changed her ways?
Quite a few reporters were skeptical about Claire Bennett being Queen, and someone asked curiously, "That young lady is Queen? She's that young?"
Someone said doubtfully, "Yeah, I'd heard before that Queen was an instructor at St. Royal Academy. There must be some mistake."
"Is she really Queen?"
"She probably is. Maison Verne is promoting it like that—how could it be fake? If it were fake, would they dare to do this so openly? Aren't they afraid of being exposed?"
Hearing everyone grow suspicious of Claire Bennett, Naomi Pierce secretly curled her lips upward where no one could see.
The less they believed it, the more they would investigate Claire Bennett's identity. She had deliberately publicized it on such a grand scale— the more high-profile it was now, the more humiliating it would be for Claire Bennett later.
Unexpectedly, the reporters only questioned it briefly before quickly accepting the result.
In an instant, quite a few people crowded around Claire Bennett to interview her.
"Miss Bennett, may I ask if you really are Queen?"
"Why did you suddenly disappear years ago? And why have you reappeared this time to sell rings?"
"Could you reveal anything about your future plans?"
"Will you continue selling things in the future?"
When Naomi Pierce saw that these reporters had no real doubts at all and did not even keep pressing with questions, and were actually treating Claire Bennett as Queen, her face darkened with anger on the spot.
Shouldn't they at least have questioned it a little?
With a dark expression, she lowered her voice and said to Yoyo beside her, "How is it? Has Mr. Mike arrived?"
Before Yoyo could speak, the phone in her pocket rang. She immediately took it out and answered. Whatever the other person said, she seemed to let out a sigh of relief and smiled as she nodded repeatedly.
After ending the call, Yoyo leaned close to Naomi Pierce's ear and whispered, "Manager Pierce, Mr. Mike said he's here."
After hearing that, Naomi Pierce's gloomy expression eased quite a bit.
She looked at Claire Bennett inside the ring of reporters, a dark curve lifting at the corner of her lips, then turned and quietly instructed Yoyo about something.
Yoyo nodded at once. She squeezed her way toward Claire Bennett and quickly broke through the crowd.
She raised a hand to cover her mouth and whispered in Claire Bennett's ear, "Director Bennett, I'm really sorry. Manager Pierce was worried this new product launch wouldn't be able to proceed on schedule, so she released false information saying that Queen would be coming..."
Yoyo's strange behavior drew quite a few reporters' glances, but they couldn't hear what she was saying and could only watch in confusion as she whispered secretly with Claire Bennett.
After hearing Yoyo's words, Claire Bennett's eyes suddenly turned cold.
She knew what Naomi Pierce was trying to do!