Ava Bennett and Ethan Sterling Get Together (Continued)

Calling the cops would look awful. The people at the cocktail party hadn’t all left yet.

Victor Bennett forcefully pulled Hannah Bennett back.

"Let’s go. We’ll check the surveillance. Maybe we can see where Ava went."

After getting into the car, Claire Bennett still felt angry.

What did Ava Bennett’s disappearance have to do with her? If they couldn’t find her, they came to cause trouble for her instead. Psychos.

"I had Marcus Reed call Ethan Sterling’s assistant. They’re at the hotel, room 1112."

"Are you going to tell them that?"

Claire Bennett froze. "She really did hook up with Ethan Sterling?"

Although she knew perfectly well that Ethan Sterling was a scumbag, a bastard, she hadn’t expected him to be this awful. As long as someone threw herself at him, he’d take whoever came, was that it?

Seeing how furious she was, Julian Sterling pinched her chin with one hand and lifted it. Narrowing his eyes, he leaned down close to her in a dangerous way.

"You’re mad?"

"Because of Ethan Sterling?"

Claire Bennett caught a huge whiff of jealousy and slapped his hand away irritably.

"How blind would I have to be to still look twice at Ethan Sterling when I’ve got you in front of me?"

"Even if you have no confidence in me, you should at least have some confidence in that face and that body of yours, okay?"

At the cocktail party, those lust-crazed women had practically wanted to stuff their eyeballs into Julian Sterling’s clothes when they saw him, and she hadn’t even said anything about him attracting bees and butterflies everywhere.

Julian Sterling ignored all that and pressed down on her to kiss her.

"Since you’ve talked me up so much, then tonight neither of us is allowed to work. How about it?"

He hooked a strand of Claire Bennett’s hair, luring her with his eyes.

Claire Bennett looked speechless, but damn it, she was still seduced. What Ava Bennett, what Ethan Sterling.

So what if they’d gotten together? So what if Ava Bennett really became the young mistress of the Sterling family? Either way, it had nothing to do with them anymore.

"Mm, Julian Sterling, you bastard!"

"Don’t bite my neck, don’t bite!"

"What if Grandpa Sterling and the others see it when we go back? You may have no shame, but I do."

Back at the hotel, after Ethan Sterling finished and came out of the shower, he put on his clothes, looking as though he was about to leave.

Seeing that he was leaving, Ava Bennett sat up wrapped in the blanket.

"Ethan, you’re leaving already?"

"Won’t you stay with me a little longer?"

Ethan Sterling curled his lips into a smile, but the smile didn’t reach his eyes; there wasn’t the slightest ripple in them.

With little patience, he coaxed, "Be good. There’s still a lot at the company that needs me to handle. Get some rest. Once you’ve rested, then go back."

Ava Bennett was somewhat unhappy with how heartless he was after sleeping with her, but when she thought about his status, and how the two of them had only just confirmed their relationship and things still weren’t stable, if she threw a tantrum now, she’d probably ruin the hard-won relationship they had just established.

For the sake of swaggering in front of Claire Bennett in the future, she temporarily swallowed her displeasure and nodded obediently.

"All right, then I’ll be good and let you go work."

Faced with this face that somewhat resembled Claire Bennett’s, Ethan Sterling would sometimes also become dazed for a moment. He now had everything he could want, and he had driven Julian Sterling away and become the Sterling family’s new heir.

Hadn’t Claire Bennett married Julian Sterling back then because she had her eye on his status and position? Now the situation was nothing more than him and Julian Sterling switching places.

Compared with who he had been back then, Julian Sterling now was probably even worse off. Why couldn’t he win Claire Bennett back and have her return to his side?

For some reason, a rare trace of guilt arose in Ethan Sterling’s heart, so he took the initiative to ask Ava Bennett out.

"Another day, I’ll take you out to dinner, just the two of us."

The moment Ava Bennett heard that, she instantly brightened, and the little bit of dissatisfaction in her heart vanished along with it.

"Okay, then you have to keep your word."

"Ethan, you’re so good." She tilted her head up and offered her lips again, kissing Ethan Sterling so intensely they could hardly pull apart.

After winning Ethan Sterling over, Ava Bennett was in a terrific mood. She wasn’t anxious at all even though the new store’s business was being squeezed by Maison Verne until it had no way to survive. Every day, her assistant came to her with the store’s sales figures to discuss things, visibly anxious, but Ava Bennett didn’t care in the slightest.

Thinking about Ethan Sterling, she would reveal an infatuated grin from time to time.

"Manager, the new store’s revenue has already hit a new low. If this keeps up, President Song will definitely be angry when he finds out. Why don’t we cut our losses in time?"

Earlier, in order to squeeze out Claire Bennett’s store, the two had opened at the same time. From securing the location to the follow-up promotion, Ava Bennett had spent quite a lot of resources, and the amount invested had also been very large.