Julian Sterling Is Wes Mercer's Boss

So what if he said he's the boss??

Wasn't Claire Bennett supposed to guess Julian Sterling's identity and realize that he'd been hiding who he was from her all along?

Claire Bennett's reaction right now was way too abnormal!

Seeing the shocked and conflicted look on Ruby Sterling's face, Claire Bennett simply said, "Just now I heard that Wes Mercer is an orphan, so there definitely wasn't anyone to sign for his surgery. His injuries are so serious, and he needed surgery right away. If we said we were his coworkers, or his friends, maybe they'd keep going back and forth with us for a while longer..."

"So we might as well just say we're his boss. That way the hospital wouldn't ask too many more questions and could arrange the surgery immediately."

"..." Ruby Sterling's mouth twitched.

For a moment, she didn't know whether to praise her brother for having disguised himself too well before, or say that Claire Bennett trusted her brother too much.

In any case, Claire Bennett simply did not believe at all that her brother was Julian Sterling!

She didn't know whether to be happy or worried.

After Julian Sterling finished paying the fees, the group returned to the hospital room together.

After all, he was an assistant who had been with him for many years. Recently, hospital rooms had been a little tight, and there was no way to get him into a VIP room, so he could only stay in a three-person room. Julian Sterling told him to get some proper rest first, and after a couple of days, once a bed opened up, he would help make arrangements so Wes Mercer could move into a VIP room.

At the same time, he hurriedly made a call to urgently bring Marcus Reed back so he could take over Wes Mercer's work.

At this time, Wes Mercer had already finished his knee surgery and returned to the hospital room. Aside from the steel pins in his knee, which looked somewhat alarming, and the red swelling on his face from the bruising, he didn't seem to be in any other discomfort.

Looking at Wes Mercer's miserable state, Ruby Sterling couldn't help asking, "Wes Mercer, how did you end up like this?"

Wes Mercer covered his face, and his eyes instantly turned red, pain surfacing in them. "I... I broke up, and then when I was driving home, I got distracted and accidentally crashed into another car. That's how this happened..."

Claire Bennett and Ruby Sterling had both been hurt by cheating before, so they could understand the pain of heartbreak.

Seeing the pain all over Wes Mercer's face, both Ruby Sterling and Claire Bennett felt a little bad for him, and Ruby Sterling couldn't bring herself to keep asking and reopening his wound.

She could only comfort him: "Don't be so sad. There are plenty of women in the world. A breakup isn't that big a deal. The next one will be better."

Claire Bennett immediately chimed in, "Exactly. People always say when you're unlucky in love, you're lucky elsewhere. Maybe if things go badly in love, things will go well at work. Maybe you'll get a promotion and a raise, and then you'll realize a breakup is no big deal.

Ruby Sterling quietly glanced at Julian Sterling.

Her brother was Wes Mercer's boss, after all. A promotion and raise would have to be decided by him.

Hearing his wife speak, Julian Sterling nodded and said, "You will get a promotion and a raise."

After all, he'd ended up like this because he was impersonating him. It more or less counted as a workplace injury, so Julian Sterling was willing to give some compensation.

Ruby Sterling: "..."

Had her brother really turned into a wife-spoiling maniac?

Just because of one sentence from Claire Bennett, he was giving his assistant a promotion and a raise?

Ruby Sterling started silently thinking to herself that if she held tight to her sister-in-law's thigh in the future, would she be able to get even more benefits too?

After Julian Sterling said that, he remembered what Wes Mercer had said just now about the breakup.

Before, he had known Wes Mercer was dating Willow Lane. It was precisely because he was taking Wes Mercer's feelings into account that he hadn't made a move against Willow Lane. Otherwise, given how many times she had targeted Claire Bennett, he would have kicked her out of the company long ago.

He looked at Wes Mercer and suddenly asked, "She found out?"

Wes Mercer knew Julian Sterling was referring to the matter of him impersonating President Sterling, so he let out a faint sigh and then nodded. "Mm."

"Found out what?" Ruby Sterling asked, completely confused.

While enduring the pain from the car accident, Wes Mercer said, "I'm not as good as she imagined, and I'm not as rich as she imagined, so she couldn't accept it and broke up with me. I can't blame her for that either. After all, I was the one who deceived her."

Although Willow Lane had been the one to come on to him first, he had fallen for Willow Lane too.

Now that everything had come out, being dumped by Willow Lane made him deeply upset too. He felt utterly miserable.

Everyone there understood Wes Mercer's words differently.

Julian Sterling knew that Willow Lane had dumped Wes Mercer because she had misunderstood his identity, while Ruby Sterling and Claire Bennett only half understood and simply thought that Wes Mercer had been dumped because his girlfriend looked down on him.

Claire Bennett felt that there was nothing wrong with being an assistant. Julian Sterling was an assistant too, yet she was very content and happy, believing that the future was something you earned for yourself.

As for his looks... she looked again at Wes Mercer's swollen, bruised face and couldn't really tell anything.

Although she couldn't clearly see what he looked like, judging from how he seemed, he probably wasn't ugly. In the end, the only conclusion Claire Bennett could come to was that Wes Mercer was just too miserable.

The group stayed in the hospital room for quite a while, and only when it got late did they say goodbye and leave.