Claire Bennett Likes This Type

She hadn't expected Julian Sterling to show up right after she'd been talking to Sean Shaw about him. She could only bite the bullet and introduce him. "Sean, this is the man I had the flash marriage with."

She had already told Sean Shaw everything that had just happened, and he should know Julian Sterling's identity, so she didn't elaborate further.

The moment Sean Shaw saw Julian Sterling, his eyes suddenly turned cold.

A moment ago, Claire Bennett had said she'd found a man to pretend to be Julian Sterling, but the man in front of them was the real Julian Sterling!

It was true that very few people had seen Julian Sterling, but recently Old Mr. Sterling had been having him participate more and more often in Sterling family affairs.

Sean Shaw had also been gradually taking over the Shaw family business, and he had once accompanied his father to a banquet where he'd seen Julian Sterling from a distance.

He was not at all unfamiliar with the name Julian Sterling.

After all, that was the man everyone was always praising, the kind of person people like them would have to curry favor with in the future.

Why had Claire Bennett thought this man was a driver working for someone else? And how had she even gotten involved with him?

There were only two possibilities.

First, this man had lied to and deceived Claire Bennett.

Second, there was some misunderstanding between them that had led Claire Bennett to this mistaken belief.

But the engagement banquet had been so long ago. Even if there had been some misunderstanding, it should have been cleared up by now. Yet Claire Bennett still thought this, which left only the first possibility.

As he thought this, the way Sean Shaw looked at Julian Sterling grew colder and sharper.

Claire Bennett vaguely sensed Sean Shaw's displeasure. She felt a little helpless and didn't know why he had suddenly become unhappy.

Was it because she'd rushed into marriage with a stranger?

With a dark expression, Sean Shaw said to Claire Bennett, "Claire, come with me for a second. We need to talk."

He had to question her properly. This matter was not that simple.

"Sean..."

Before Claire Bennett could refuse, Sean Shaw had already left the booth and walked off to the side.

Left with no choice, she could only give Ruby Sterling and Julian Sterling an awkward smile and say, "You two sit here and wait for a bit. I'll go talk to him."

After saying that, Claire Bennett walked toward Sean Shaw.

As soon as she got close to Sean Shaw, she heard him demand bluntly, "Claire, you've really got some nerve!"

"I know. But I had no choice." Claire Bennett sighed, lowering her head like a child who had done something wrong.

She knew what she had done was extremely risky, and absurd too.

But at the time, she'd been pushed that far. If she hadn't found a man to pretend to be Julian Sterling and had gone alone to Ethan Sterling's engagement banquet, she would probably have carried a humiliating stain in her life forever.

Ever since childhood, she had always been stubborn and unwilling to admit defeat.

Her father had treated her mother badly, and she would rather leave the Bennett family and stay with her mother, enduring the hardship of going from a Bennett family heiress to an ordinary girl from a single-parent household, just to stand up for herself.

And now, when it came to Ethan Sterling, she had still made the same choice.

She threw everything else aside just to fight for her pride!

Seeing Claire Bennett like this, all pitiful and miserable, Sean Shaw finally softened a little, and his expression eased somewhat.

"Fine. What's done is done. Pursuing it now won't help anything."

Sean Shaw said sternly, "I'm asking you: do you really know him? Do you know everything about him? Are you sure he hasn't been lying to you?"