Chapter 3. She Doesn't Want to Meet Him

In a room where cleaning supplies like brooms and others were kept, Claire cowered in the corner and hid, shaking.

"I really want to kill you."

"It's better that you die here."

"I told you not to get pregnant! This child doesn't deserve to be born."

The truly painful and cruel words spoken by Jason came back to her mind and made Claire cry with a broken heart as she lowered her face to her knees.

From the beginning of their marriage, she did everything to please Jason because she loved him, but all she got from Jason was humiliation, coldness, and disgust.

Even after they were married, Chloe, Jason's ex-girlfriend, continued to lie and provoke him, and Jason still chose to believe Chloe.

He never believed Claire.

It hurts, but Claire holds on, hoping that one day Jason will love her.

In recent years, after surviving death in a prison fire, Claire believes that Laura was still unpopular and attracted little media attention. So it was impossible for her to meet Jason if she followed Laura when they were in different countries.

But she never realized that the movie Laura was going to star in was sponsored by the DA group and Mandy was one of Laura's co-stars.

So now there was no way for Claire to continue this work.

In the warehouse, there was only a phone light that kept flashing.

It was the eleventh call Laura had made since Claire had left the hotel.

Claire slowly picked up her cell phone and answered it. But strangely, there was no voice on the other end.

Claire was annoyed and immediately said she wanted to quit, "Laura, I'm sorry, there's a problem. I want to stop working today." She spoke carefully and added at the end, "You don't have to give me this month's salary.

There was still no response, just a deep breath that seemed heavy and held, also somehow familiar.

Claire was confused and said, "Laura?"

"Claire Bradford!"

Claire jumped up and suddenly threw her cell phone down. She stared at the phone on the floor in fear, as if it were a monster.

It was Jason's voice.

How could it be? Why was Jason calling her on Laura's cell phone? Did he already know that she was Laura's assistant?

If that was the case, he would have come here immediately and sent her back to prison.

"No, I can't possibly go back to such a horrible place and be tortured like an animal again." Claire muttered to herself, shaking her head vigorously.

Thinking of the torture she had suffered and the smoke she had inhaled, she trembled with fear.

Jason must not find her.

* * *

Meanwhile, still in the hotel lobby, the supporting cast wanted to meet Jason from the DA's group, but no one dared to step forward when they saw his serious expression.

Laura spoke carefully, "Mr. Bradford, my assistant is a bit clumsy, if she offended you, I hope you can forgive her.

No matter how good an assistant she was, she did not want her future ruined by Claire. She didn't even know how her assistant upset Mr. Bradford. It was enough to upset her.

Seeing Mr. Bradford getting more and more serious, Laura was very nervous and added, "Actually, even though she's my assistant, I don't have a relationship with her. A friend of mine just asked me to hire her."

"Where did she come from? " Jason looked at her with a sour look that scared her.

"I don't know her background. Her name is Chloe. But even though her face is very beautiful, believe me, she has terrible scars on her body. Her body is really horrible." Laura carefully revealed Claire's flaws, just in case Mr. Bradford took a liking to her.

Jason raised his eyebrows.

Mandy looked at him and said, "Jason, you may be wrong, Claire isn't very pretty, is she? She may look a lot like this woman, but her nose and eye shape are slightly different, she's definitely not Claire."

"Sir, we found something." Just then Paul walked in with a document on his iPad.

Jason took the iPad and looked at her picture first.

This Chloe was a very, very beautiful woman. Her nose was perfectly pointed, her cheeks were tapered, and her skin was very smooth. She was very similar to Claire, although her nose and eye shape were slightly different.

Claire's eyes used to be dull and she had puffy eyes under her eyes. Not bright at all like Chloe.

Is this a mistake?

The voice on the phone sounded hoarse, not at all like Claire's friendly voice.

But if she wasn't Claire, why did she run away as soon as she saw him, and... why did she look so familiar?

"Paul!" Jason called to his assistant without taking his eyes off the iPad.

"Yes, sir."

"Find her and arrest her now. Quickly!"

Mandy felt really uncomfortable because Jason seemed to have lost his soul. "Jason, why are you doing this, Claire is dead."

"Shut up!" Jason cut her off mercilessly, "I never believed that charred woman was her!"

Mandy took two steps back in shock.

They said that Jason hated Claire, but Mandy knew very well that Claire was the most special person to him.

He had always been cold to Claire, but he cared about her. He always said cruel things to Claire, but he often looked remorseful.

As soon as Jason left, the hall became noisy.

Laura was tapped on the shoulder by someone who said, "Laura, it looks like you're going to be popular, your assistant is Claire."

"Who's Claire? Who is she?" Laura asked confused.

"You don't even know Claire? She is Mr. Bradford's ex-wife who was supposed to have died 5 years ago. But they probably made a mistake and thought your assistant was her."

Laura replied with a half-hearted laugh, "That's right, they're probably wrong, it's ridiculous.

At that moment, Jason and Paul entered the surveillance room and checked to see where this woman named Chloe was. He remained very confident that it was Claire.

If it wasn't her, she wouldn't have run off like that.

"Sir, it looks like we're too late," Paul said when he saw Claire walk into the CCTV blind spot.

"Keep looking for her, if she's really Claire, she's not getting away from me."

Paul saw Jason's strange smile and didn't understand his boss's feelings for Claire at all.

If he didn't love her at all, why would he stay in front of her grave for three days without eating or drinking? And if he loved her, why did he seem to hate her so much?

By this time, Claire had already managed to leave the hotel through the back door. Because almost all exits were already guarded by Jason's men, but at this back door there was no one, so she rushed to run to the gate, but suddenly she was stopped by a man.