Claire Has Already Agreed to Him

After hearing Julian's words, Ruby steeled herself and gritted her teeth. "Julian, it's not like there's no way at all. I suddenly have a great idea."

"What?" Julian looked at Ruby.

Unexpectedly, Ruby reached out and forcefully shoved him hard toward the road.

Julian was tall, so although Ruby pushed him out, he did not look too miserable. At that moment, Ruby suddenly threw herself onto him and cried out at the top of her lungs, "Julian, Julian... are you okay? If something happens to you, how am I supposed to explain it to Mom and Dad..."

Hearing Ruby's cries, Julian suddenly understood what she was trying to do.

After thinking about it, he stayed still and cooperated with Ruby by sitting at the side of the road.

Inside the restaurant, Claire and Zane were talking when they unexpectedly heard Ruby's crying from outside.

She immediately stood up nervously and walked outside.

Something must have happened to Julian!

Claire came out of the restaurant. At a glance, she saw Julian and Ruby sitting by the roadside.

Seeing Ruby's red eyes and the way she was holding Julian and crying in utter grief, Claire's heart instantly sank to the bottom.

With cars coming and going here, could some kind of accident have happened?

She couldn't worry about anything else and immediately stepped forward to help Julian to his feet. "Julian, why are you here? What happened? Are you okay?"

Julian's expression was grave, and he only shook his head lightly.

Seeing that the timing was about right, Ruby immediately said, "Claire, my brother and I came to eat here. Just now, my brother got hit by a car. That car fled after hitting him, and I don't know what to do, boohoo..."

When she heard that Julian had been in a car accident, Claire's heart instantly leaped into her throat.

She hurriedly looked Julian over from top to bottom, checking his physical condition. Only after seeing that there were no obvious injuries on him did her raised heart finally settle.

At that moment, Zane walked out of the restaurant and immediately heard Ruby's words. When he heard Ruby say that they had come here to eat, a look of scorn appeared on his face.

Cole Medical Center wasn't even in downtown New York; it was in a relatively suburban area. For them to show up here for a meal was simply laughable.

They had obviously come for Claire.

Julian was already divorced from Claire, yet he had still brought Ruby over looking like a husband catching his wife cheating. What exactly was this supposed to be?

Although Claire had already checked Julian and found nothing seriously wrong with him, she had heard that some injuries from being hit by a car were internal and couldn't be seen, so she still wanted Julian to go to the hospital and get checked out.

"Let's go to the hospital and have a look."

Zane shot Julian a cold look, feeling even more unhappy on the spot.

The man looked perfectly fine. How did he look like someone who had been hit by a car? While he and Claire were eating here, they just happened to get hit outside? What a coincidence!

Julian saw the contempt in Zane's eyes.

Julian's deep eyes carried indifference as he looked coldly at Zane, making Zane realize in a daze that he had guessed right after all. This man had faked being hit by a car to use a self-inflicted injury ploy, trying to win Claire's sympathy.

Zane wanted to tell Claire about it, but when he saw the expression on her face,

it seemed as though she could only see Julian alone. Maybe no matter what he said to her now, Claire would not be able to take it in. He might even get saddled with the label of being jealous.

For some reason, Zane suddenly felt that he had lost.

Even before anything had begun between him and Claire, he had already lost utterly, with no possibility of anything further.

Claire grabbed Julian's arm and asked, "Are you really okay? Does anything hurt? Let's go to the hospital and get you checked out, okay?"

Because her own mother had died in a car accident, Claire was naturally extremely sensitive about car accidents.

When she heard that Julian had been in a car accident, she was completely unable to control herself and immediately imagined the worst.

Julian had originally found Ruby's self-inflicted injury ploy a little ridiculous, but he still couldn't help cooperating with her. Now, seeing Claire leave Zane behind to come and worry about him, a wave of warmth rose in his heart.

Claire actually still cared about him very much, and he felt a small trace of guilt deep down.

But when he thought about Claire being with another man, he instantly felt that even being a little shameless was acceptable.