Chapter 482
He Started Losing Before He Even Got in the Game
Claire Bennett didn't know what he meant. Why wouldn't he tell Grandpa Sterling about this? Could lying to him possibly be a good thing?
If he found out later that it was all fake, then he might get even angrier.
When Julian Sterling saw the expression on Claire Bennett's face, he knew what she was thinking. Ruby Sterling had accidentally said the wrong thing just now and brought up marriage. Even though Claire Bennett hadn't shown much on her face, he knew that a wedding was something a woman wanted most in her lifetime.
So did Claire Bennett want a grand marriage?
Originally, he had planned to fake a divorce to throw Grandpa off, but he hadn't expected a man with designs on Claire Bennett to appear at her side so quickly.
Julian Sterling felt that if he didn't do something soon, Claire Bennett might end up becoming someone else's woman. A girl as outstanding as her was bound to have plenty of people coveting her.
With that thought in mind, Julian Sterling walked over, pulled Claire Bennett into his arms, and asked in a low voice, "You still haven't answered me. Do you really want to be with Zane Cole?"
At that moment, at the doorway of the hospital room.
Zane Cole had just learned that Grandpa Sterling had already left, so he immediately rushed over to find Claire Bennett and, while he was at it, expose Julian Sterling's fake car accident.
He hadn't expected that when he got to the door, he would see the two of them embracing, with Julian Sterling asking Claire Bennett if she really wanted to be with him.
His steps halted, and he did not go in any farther.
Even though he knew he shouldn't hold out any hope, deep down Zane Cole still had a tiny bit of it. Maybe Claire Bennett would tell Julian Sterling that she wanted to be with him.
Inside the hospital room, Claire Bennett was held in Julian Sterling's arms, her nose filled with his familiar cool, clean scent.
Her feelings were complicated and chaotic, and she didn't know how to answer.
They had obviously already separated, so she should have told Julian Sterling, just like she had at the restaurant, but when the words reached her lips, she suddenly couldn't say them.
Actually, she couldn't bear it either, could she?
"Claire, I know now." Julian Sterling suddenly let out a low laugh.
Claire Bennett looked up at him. "What do you know? I didn't say anything."
"I know you can't bear to be apart from me."
Hearing Julian Sterling say that with a smile, Claire Bennett's cheeks flushed red, and she snapped angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about? It's not that I can't bear it. Anyway, we already..."
"It's not that you can't bear it. It's that I can't." Julian Sterling lowered his head, his eyes tender and lingering as he looked at Claire Bennett, and slowly said, "I'm the one who can't bear to be apart from you, so don't be with Zane Cole, okay?"
Claire Bennett's heart trembled. "Then what about us..."
"Just now, Grandpa and I made an agreement. Grandpa agreed to let us stay together."
Only after hearing Julian Sterling's words did Claire Bennett suddenly understand. No wonder Grandpa Sterling hadn't looked angry at all just now. So that was what it was. Maybe it was because of her pregnancy that Grandpa Sterling, who had been so resistant to her before, had actually relented and agreed.
Claire Bennett felt somewhat emotional inside.
Zane Cole stood at the doorway watching for a while, and his mood suddenly sank.
So Claire Bennett had never seen him at all. The man in her heart was still Julian Sterling. Even if she was temporarily separated from Julian Sterling, she still liked him.
There had never been any room between them for him to wedge himself in.
Even with Quentin Sterling's situation in the mix, perhaps in the end that obstacle wouldn't be any problem at all.
Zane Cole laughed at himself.
He had lost. He had started losing before he even got in the game.