Chapter 29
Visiting an Old Friend
Naomi Pierce greeted him in surprise. "Uncle Song, what are you doing here?"
Hearing her voice, Victor Bennett snapped back to himself.
He took a moment to recognize her. The girl in front of him was Fran's daughter, the daughter of the maid who worked for his family. She was the same age as Claire, and she used to often come to the Bennett family home with Fran to play.
Naomi Pierce was well-behaved and obedient, and he had always had a fairly good impression of her.
"I'm here to visit an old friend." Victor Bennett showed a kindly smile.
Claire Bennett resented him and had always been trying to distance herself from him. Before Claire Bennett forgave him, he chose to respect her wishes, which was why he answered so vaguely.
"I see. I'm here to visit a good friend too."
Naomi Pierce didn't think much of it, and she never connected Claire Bennett with Victor Bennett. After all, Claire Bennett came from an ordinary background and had only a mother in a vegetative state. During the four years she and Claire Bennett were in college together, she had already figured all that out clearly.
The two only exchanged a simple greeting before Victor Bennett entered the elevator and left.
Naomi Pierce stared at the elevator doors in a daze.
The date of her engagement to Ethan Sterling was fast approaching, but she still wasn't pregnant. When the time came for the banquet, she had no idea how she was going to bluff her way through it.
Naomi Pierce pulled herself together and headed toward Claire Bennett's hospital room.
Inside the room, Claire Bennett had the blanket pulled over her head.
Victor Bennett's sudden appearance had brought back memories of her childhood. After he left, all the loneliness and resentment that had built up over the years came crashing down on her like an avalanche, and her emotions finally broke apart.
So she could only hide under the blanket, not letting anyone see her vulnerability.
Just then, Naomi Pierce pushed open the door to the room and walked in, only to see a little mound bulging up on the bed, with Claire Bennett seemingly hiding inside.
She frowned and stepped forward, wanting to yank the blanket off.
Unexpectedly, Claire Bennett was gripping it tightly. Naomi Pierce put more force into her hands, but Claire Bennett refused to let go in the slightest, as if she had grown together with the blanket.
Under the blanket, Claire Bennett thought Victor Bennett had come back and was fighting her for it.
Anger surged up from the bottom of her heart. During the final tug, she suddenly let go and shouted furiously, "Are you done yet or not!"
Naomi Pierce had just given it a hard yank and hadn't expected Claire Bennett to let go. She lost her balance and fell backward, landing flat on her face.
When Claire Bennett saw Naomi Pierce on the floor, she froze.
She hadn't expected it to be her.
Naomi Pierce climbed up from the floor and looked Claire Bennett up and down for a while, as if checking how her condition was.
Claire Bennett's face quickly turned cold as she asked, "What are you doing here?"
After getting hurt, she actually had thought about who had tampered with things to harm her.
The biggest suspect was Naomi Pierce!
After all, she was new to Chicago and unfamiliar with the place. The only person she had a grudge with was Naomi Pierce. It couldn't be that Ethan Sterling disliked her enough to want her dead, could it?
Although Ethan Sterling was a bit of a scumbag, he wasn't vicious to that extent.
Right now she was still lying in a hospital bed and didn't have the time to deal with Naomi Pierce for the moment. Once she got better, she would settle this score with her properly!
When Naomi Pierce saw that Claire Bennett was only wrapped in bandages and had one hand in a cast, and that she still spoke with plenty of strength, she couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.
She hadn't expected Claire Bennett to survive.
But looking at the thick bandages on her arms and legs, maybe she had already been crippled. The Sterling family would never marry a crippled woman.
The corners of Naomi Pierce's lips lifted slightly into a pleased smile.
Claire Bennett clearly saw the curve of Naomi Pierce's mouth, and at once she was certain that the person who wanted her dead was Naomi Pierce!
What a vicious snake of a woman. She had already stolen her boyfriend, and she still wouldn't let her off.
Claire Bennett's face darkened as she said, "If you don't want people to know, don't do it in the first place. Don't think you can get away with this. Watch out before your own schemes blow up in your face!"
Seeing Claire Bennett's icy gaze, it was as if she had seen through everything she had done.
For a moment, Naomi Pierce felt guilty inside.
But then she gathered her nerve again. So what if Claire Bennett knew? She didn't have any evidence. Kevin Parker was the one she had ordered to do it.
Kevin Parker liked her and had tried to get with her in secret many times.
There was no way she would pass on Ethan Sterling and say yes to him, but she could use his feelings for her to make him do things for her. And when the matter came to light, Kevin Parker would definitely be the one taken away, so she wasn't afraid of him coming after her.
Claire Bennett's threat was completely useless. Naomi Pierce felt that Claire Bennett was like a little kitten yowling, without the slightest bit of presence, and it looked extremely ridiculous.
"Claire, what are you talking about? How come I don't know?" Naomi Pierce laughed fearlessly, her eyes full of contempt.
Her gaze fell on Claire Bennett again, and she sighed regretfully. "Sigh, you're really pitiful. Your hands and feet are both injured. I wonder whether you'll even be able to come to Ethan's and my engagement banquet... If not, why don't you come in a wheelchair?"