Chapter 370
Don't Come Showing Off Petty Tricks
Claire Bennett's face darkened, and she barked in a low voice, "Stop!"
The men dragging Sienna Shaw along saw that someone actually wanted to interfere and stop them, and looks of appraisal appeared on their faces.
Claire Bennett was dressed casually and looked fairly young. Her delicate little face was cold, yet it was hard to look away from her.
When the men saw that it was just a weak young girl trying to stop them, their expressions immediately turned arrogant, and one of them curled his lips into a lewd grin and said, "What? You want to meddle? You think you can meddle in my business? Fine! If you want to interfere, you can trade places with her!"
The men weren't blind. A top-tier beauty like Claire Bennett would sell for far more than Sienna Shaw, and they naturally knew how to do the math.
Sienna Shaw lifted her eyes to look at Claire Bennett in front of her. After recognizing her, panic appeared on her face, and she hurriedly said, "Manager Song! Why are you here? Hurry up and leave! These people are not good people! Go, now!"
Claire Bennett's expression was steady, her eyes icy as she looked at the men before her, and she did not leave at once.
Seeing that Claire Bennett actually wasn't leaving, the men immediately laughed darkly. "Little girl, have you thought about what we just said? You take her place and come with us, and we'll let her go."
Sienna Shaw shook her head frantically in desperation. "No! You can't switch with me. Claire Bennett, hurry up and go! Go!"
At Sienna Shaw's words, a harsh gleam flashed across the men's eyes. "Who told you to run your mouth? Looking to die?"
Just as they were about to make a move on Sienna Shaw, Claire Bennett spoke up. "Wait!"
The men looked at Claire Bennett, waiting for what she would say next.
"How much does she owe you?"
Unexpectedly, the first thing this woman asked was how much was owed. Could it be that she wanted to pay the debt for her?
One of the men said fiercely, "Five hundred thousand!"
Sienna Shaw hurriedly shook her head. "No, that's not true. At first I only borrowed twenty thousand dollars. They multiplied the interest that many times over."
"Cut the fucking crap. If we loan money without charging interest, are we supposed to live on air?"
The man looked at Claire Bennett and shouted angrily, "So are you going to trade places with her or not? If not, you can pay her debt for her!"
Claire Bennett did not have that much money on her. The money she'd gotten from selling the ring had already been used to buy the bracelet for Grandma Sterling, and right now the most she could come up with was twenty thousand dollars.
She knew these people would not show any mercy at all, but that didn't mean there was nothing to negotiate.
As long as she let them see the benefit down the line.
Claire Bennett analyzed the situation calmly for a moment, then settled her thoughts and said, "Her money will be paid back to you, just not right now. I can help her pay back the principal first. You take the principal and leave."
The men had just been about to shout back in refusal when they heard Claire Bennett add, "If you take her away now, I will pursue this to the end too. Then not only will you not get any money, you'll also be asking for trouble. You might as well believe me."
"Hahaha! You little girl, you think you can fool me? I grew up getting conned. Don't come showing off petty tricks like that in front of me."
"Exactly! This bitch already can't pay back the money, and you're still expecting her to pay later? That's a fucking joke!"
One of the men let his gaze roam over Claire Bennett's body and said with a grin, "Let's stop wasting words on her and just take her too. With a face and body like that, forget two hundred thousand—she'd probably fetch double."
Claire Bennett remained unafraid in the face of danger. Calmly, she took an employee badge out of her bag.
"I'm a department manager at Sterling International, Sterling Group's Chicago branch. I'm here now to have her come work for me, so of course she'll be able to pay back the money! If she still can't pay when the time comes, then come directly to Sterling Group and find me."
Naturally, the men were no strangers to the name Sterling Group. In New York, who didn't know Sterling Group?
It was the foremost wealthy family!
Just hearing the words Sterling Group was enough to make them weigh things carefully.
Could what this woman was saying be true?
"Boss, what do we do now? Are we still taking this woman back or not?"
The man in the middle viciously smacked the back of the man-who-had-spoken's head.
He snapped in a low voice, "Take her where? Better to avoid trouble than invite it. If this woman really is a manager at Sterling Group, then someone who made it to that position is definitely highly valued. Sterling Group might get involved then, so we'll do what she says!"
"Yes, yes, yes. Then we'll let them off for now."
After that, Claire Bennett took out her phone and transferred money to them. Only then did they leave, cursing under their breath.
Only then did Sienna Shaw fully process that Claire Bennett had just saved her!
She looked at Claire Bennett excitedly and cried in a choked voice, "Manager Song, why are you here? And you even gave them money just now. They're a bottomless pit. If you give it to them this time, they'll ask again next time!"
Otherwise, the interest wouldn't have snowballed to this point.
Claire Bennett looked at Sienna Shaw in front of her. She had not changed much from a few years ago, only she looked thinner now and a bit more worn down. It was clear that she probably had not been living very well.
She smiled and said, "It's okay. I'll think of another way for you when the time comes."
Sienna Shaw no longer knew what to say and could only shed tears silently.