Chapter 4

Where had Ethan gone in the middle of the night?

For some reason, panic rose in my chest.

At that moment, I faintly heard voices outside, and because I was worried a burglar had broken in, I rushed to the door without even putting on shoes and opened a crack.

The moment I saw the scene in the living room, I could not describe how I felt.

I only felt that the summer air conditioning and the floor under my bare feet were like falling into an ice cellar.

Claire sat on the sofa with messy hair and red eyes, as if she had been crying for a long time.

Ethan stood in front of her, his expression terrifyingly cold.

“Are you done?” he said in a very low voice.

“If you’re done, go home.”

“I’m sorry, Ethan, I regret it, so can’t you give me one chance?”

Ethan coldly pulled his sleeve back and was using Claire’s phone to call someone.

“Hurry up and come get your fiancée, and don’t let her come to someone else’s front door drunk in the middle of the night!”

Not long after, hurried footsteps came.

I opened the door crack a little wider and realized I actually knew this man.

It was Sebastian Ford, who also lived in this villa district.

He was the only son of the biggest tourist resort developer in New York, and his family background was even more prominent than the Carters’.

Looking at his anxious, red-rimmed eyes, I could not help sighing inwardly.

How much good karma had Claire built up in her past life? She had been a little poor in her teens, but in college, Ethan paved the way for her and nearly lived and died for her.

Now, after going abroad and polishing her résumé a little, she directly made this heir of the Ford family worry over her.

People really were different from one another, and I did not go out to create a famous old-love-new-love disaster scene before quietly closing the door.

But then a message from my best friend suddenly popped up on my phone.

[That bitch Claire got drunk at a bar tonight and cried into the camera while confessing her love to Ethan, and the video has already been posted online!]

[I’ve never seen such a disgusting woman, and now that she’s almost thirty and her career isn’t going well, she probably regretted everything after seeing you and Ethan being happy together!]

I cut off her outrage and sent her the living room scene I had just filmed.

[Claire seems to have a boyfriend, and it’s Sebastian Ford.]

[Holy shit! Does that bitch have some kind of poison on her that lowers men’s IQ? Is Sebastian Ford blind or what?]

After hearing the sounds outside gradually disappear, I quietly returned to bed.

However, early the next morning, I was woken by the sound of arguing outside.

I opened the door half-asleep and saw Ethan’s parents sitting on the sofa with ashen faces.

They must have seen today’s trending topic.

“Get Claire Summers out of New York right now!” Ethan’s father said sternly.

“What the hell was that video of her crying in a bar last night? The shareholders are all asking about this!”

“She was the one who abandoned you and went abroad back then, Ethan, so don’t be foolish, and now she’s actually using such low tactics to ruin your marriage with Lily!”

“If you don’t clean this up properly, don’t blame Carter Group’s official channels for blacklisting her!”

After dropping those words, Ethan’s father left.

Ethan clenched his fists and turned around with red eyes, only to suddenly see me.

“Honey?” A trace of panic flashed through his eyes.

“The trending topic has nothing to do with me, and Claire is already engaged to Sebastian Ford, so I don’t know why she keeps pestering me like this.”

“I’ll handle this properly.”

Ethan had already been gradually taking over Carter Group, and after this incident, he seemed to have truly gone head-to-head with the Ford family.

He personally dragged me into several couple endorsements for the company, improved the corporate image, and secretly stole the Ford family’s business to pressure Sebastian into sending Claire away.

Until one month later.

That day, a group of us had just finished gathering at a private club, and when Ethan and I opened the door of the private room, Claire suddenly stumbled out from the end of the hallway.

She wore a white dress, her clothes were disheveled, and there were scratches and blood marks on her face.