Chapter 374
He's Jealous
When Claire Bennett's body went limp and weak, Julian Sterling picked her up and carried her toward the bedroom.
Then he set her down on the bed.
Light, scattered kisses fell beside her ear and across her cheek, brushing her skin as if there and not there, as though filled with endless attachment.
The room was a little brighter, and only then did Claire Bennett clearly see the man in front of her. It really was Julian Sterling.
She curled her lips into a smile, reached out to touch his face, and asked, "How did you get here? And hiding here in my apartment—you scared me. I thought since I'd been gone from home so long, a thief had broken in."
Julian Sterling lifted a brow. "A flower thief?"
His gaze fell on Claire Bennett's face with the invasive intensity of wanting to tear her apart and devour her whole, then slowly moved downward.
Hearing what Julian Sterling had called himself, Claire Bennett couldn't help blushing.
What nonsense was he spouting!
Propping up his head, Julian Sterling let his deep gaze rest on her and asked casually, "Where did you go today?"
Although he and Ruby Sterling had played "private detectives" for a while today, Julian Sterling still wanted to hear how Claire Bennett would explain it. Would she hide the fact that she had dinner with Zane Cole?
"Mm... I went to see a former coworker today, and then I went to the hospital to visit my mother..."
Claire Bennett told him everything that had happened earlier, but she left out the important part afterward.
Julian Sterling's brows couldn't help knitting tightly. His finger landed on Claire Bennett's rosy lips, pressing harder to give her a small punishment for not telling the truth. "And? You're not finished."
Claire Bennett looked puzzled. "I-I'm done."
Why was he suddenly asking her that, like she'd done something wrong? She'd only gone to dinner with Zane Cole. It wasn't like she'd done anything shameful, and Julian knew him too, so why was he suddenly questioning her like this?
At that thought, Claire Bennett suddenly thought of a possibility.
Could it be that Julian Sterling actually knew she'd gone to dinner with Zane Cole, and now he was jealous?
Using the moonlight to study Julian Sterling's expression, it really did seem a little like that. Claire Bennett's eyes shifted slyly, and she decided to test him.
When Julian Sterling heard that Claire Bennett still wasn't telling the truth, a heavy feeling surged up in his chest.
Originally, he hadn't taken the dinner between Zane Cole and Claire Bennett too much to heart, but now she had actually chosen to hide it, and that made him very unhappy.
It was as though Claire Bennett had not opened her heart to him.
Julian Sterling's eyes darkened. He seized Claire Bennett's slender wrist and pinned her hand above her head, then continued punishing her.
Dense kisses rained down, leaving Claire Bennett a little unable to cope.
Soft, broken sounds slipped from her mouth, making her feel unlike herself, and filling her with embarrassment and shy humiliation.
"Julian Sterling, let me go first." She couldn't help starting to twist and struggle.
Unfortunately, her struggling was futile. She had already angered the man just now; now it was too late to negotiate.
Their first time had been when Claire Bennett had been drugged, and back then she had felt nothing at all. The second time had also been when her body was in an abnormal state. This was the first time she had been with him while so fully conscious.
Claire Bennett felt both afraid and unable to stop wanting it.
In the end, with her mind full of all kinds of wild thoughts, she was thoroughly devoured by Julian Sterling.