"Who are you?" Claire took a step back and looked at the man blocking her with annoyance.
"Miss. Chloe, Mr. Bradford would like to see you, please come with me." He was Jason's man. "Mr. Bradford? The owner of DA Group? But I'm in a hurry, he doesn't know me anyway." Claire pretended not to recognize him and turned to leave, but several men in black suits immediately surrounded her. Claire suddenly turned pale. "What do you want?" She snapped. "Mr. Bradford wants to see you, don't be afraid." "But what for? I don't know him." Claire began to shake, "Step aside, I have to go." "Come with us to meet him and we'll see if you know him or not." Paul came and motioned for the guards to take her. Claire immediately panicked, "Let me go, why are you being so pushy? I don't want to see him, I don't want to. Let me go... Help, help..." She didn't want to look at Jason because she hated him so much. * * * At the Bradford house. Just as Jason arrived home, the butler entered his study with two cute little children. They were about the same age and looked alike. Calvin was the brother, short hair, fair skin, and handsome. But the little boy had a sullen look on his face, even though he was only five years old. He was cold like Jason. The other one, Kimberly, is his sister. She's a beautiful girl, her face is a little round and she's very sweet. She looks very friendly. No matter how cold Jason's demeanor was, when he saw these two children, he immediately softened. "The principal just called me and said that you two had another fight at school," he said to the two children. "It's not our fault!" Kimberly replied angrily, crossing her arms over her chest. Calvin rubbed her head and gently comforted her, "Don't worry. I already beat him." Jason smiled and leaned back in his chair. "What the hell happened? I'm sure my kids don't fight with others for no reason." "They said I didn't have a mom." Kimberly began to cry, "What does he mean, I don't have a mother? I didn't come from a rock. And my friends said my dad doesn't love me either because he never picks me up after school. Jason said nothing, just sighed and was distracted. Arthur, the butler, saw the situation and comforted the two children, "You have a mother, it's just that... she lives far away from here, it's not easy for her to visit you." "Where is she?" Kimberly looked at him wide-eyed. Arthur thought for a moment. "Somewhere. Surely you will meet her one day." He didn't know what to say because it was hard to come up with a believable lie. Just then Paul ran in. "Sir, Miss Chloe is here." Jason was a little nervous. He looked at the butler, "Arthur, take both Kim and Calvin into the bedroom." "Yes, sir." As they walked out, Calvin turned his head and looked at his father, "Dad, where's my mom?" Jason was silent for a moment and replied, "I'll tell you later." "Why later? Why not now?" "If I tell you now, she'll be in danger." That was always the answer. Calvin was a little disappointed and could only follow the butler. "Let me go, I don't want to see him. I don't want to see him. Let me go... Let me go!" Claire was still rebelling as the men led her into Jason's study, and the two children briefly crossed paths with her. In the hallway, Calvin looked curiously at the panicked woman, "Arthur, who is she?" Arthur looked at the woman with a furrowed brow and replied to Calvin, "She's just a crazy woman who insulted your father. Let's go back to the room, she will hurt you if she manages to escape the guards." Calvin even turned around to see the woman being sent into his father's study. He was shocked and thought, "This woman is not crazy. She was obviously sane, but she was angry that they were forcing her. So who was this woman?" "I don't want to meet him, I don't know him, why are you forcing me? let me go!" Claire panted and was speechless when the door to the room finally opened and she barely dared to look at the man sitting in the chair. Everyone walked out and closed the door, leaving her and Jason inside. Jason watched her reaction in silence, his hands clenched on the table. She's still alive. She deceived him for over 5 years and all this time she was hiding in prosperity? Sandra, a maid and the only eyewitness, was still in a coma. She was also injured in the head and hadn't woken up yet, while they couldn't find Alice, but Claire was living peacefully alone somewhere else instead? What kind of joke is this? "Who are you? What do you want from me?" Claire asked angrily, still pretending not to know Jason. Jason stood up and smiled at the beautiful face of his ex-wife who had become even more beautiful. "I just want to talk to you, why are you so scared of me?" Claire's beauty used to be that of a gentle and natural woman, while this Chloe's face looked so modern. She had the features of an actress in a movie. Claire fell silent and raised her eyebrows in defiance, though she was actually trembling. "Why should I be afraid of you?" Jason smiled. Since when did Claire have such a rude and defiant attitude towards him? Seeing that she was still very stubborn and unwilling to confess, Jason put his hand on her chin, but in the next second, Claire pushed his hand away roughly. "Don't touch me, asshole!" She shouted so angrily, as if Jason's touch had disgusted her so much. Jason narrowed his eyes, grabbed her by the collar and said, "Claire, stop pretending, do you think I don't recognize you?" "I'm not Claire, you're wrong. My name is Chloe. Are you out of your mind?" Claire glared at him even more angrily. Jason looked at her face. "You think I won't recognize you if you change your name, your voice, even your face, huh? I told you, even if you go to hell, I can find you." To Claire, the look in Jason's eyes was still full of hate, just like five years ago. He spoke as if he wanted to kill her again and again. He hated her so much that he couldn't let her live another second. But what had she done? If Jason had really looked for evidence, he would have known that she was innocent. His mother could have just fallen or been attacked. He probably knew that too, but he deliberately wanted to get rid of Claire just to be with Alice, right? Unfortunately, Alice was missing. That was the only thing that upset him, so he took it out on Claire. "Why are you silent? Can't you find another reason to lie?" Jason challenged her. Claire suddenly didn't want to deny him anymore, her sadness and hatred exploding at the same time. She boldly looked into Jason's cold eyes and smiled emotionlessly, "Are you disappointed that I'm still alive, Jason?""Are you disappointed that I'm still alive, Jason?" Claire raised her chin in a challenging manner to Jason.Jason didn't react immediately, then he shouted angrily, "Of course, everyone thought you were dead, even me..." He paused for a moment, not continuing, then said, "But you lived happier than anyone in the last few years?"Claire felt a sense of irony, her broken body wouldn't be able to work one day, but Jason thought she was living a good life?It was only natural that a person who was blind 5 years ago was still blind until now."Claire!" The man was angry and resentful, exploding at the thought of his last five years. The fact that she was still alive upset him greatly. "Tell me honestly, what happened during the fire five years ago? And Alice, where did you hide her?"All he cared about was Alice, right?Claire looked at him stubbornly, "Her disappearance has nothing to do with me.""Impossible!"Hearing that, Claire gave him a cynical smile instead. Of course he didn't be
Inside the women's prison.Claire Wynne slowly reached the door with a big belly.She had been locked up for two days and had eaten nothing because of that man.A piece of bread was kicked near the door and she reached out her red hands to pick up the hard, dirty bread and ate it bit by bit.Suddenly the door opened. "Claire Wynne, you have a visitor," a prison guard said.Without time to think, Claire was roughly dragged and pushed into the visiting room.Behind the door, she finally saw the man she had loved for ten years."How is your mother?" She asked sadly."How dare you ask that!" Jason Bradford suddenly grabbed her by the neck and looked extremely cruel, as if he wanted to kill her. "Because of you, my mother will never wake up again. It's okay that you tricked me into sleeping with you and kidnapped Alice. I can let all that go. But how dare you hurt my mother when she loves you so much!"Claire could only shake her head. She had loved him since they were in college, but she
"Ah!" Claire woke up from her nightmare.She immediately touched her stomach, but her flat stomach made her sad.There was nothing there because her child had died in the fire.It had been five years since that day, but she repeated the same dream every night. The nightmare where the flames almost took her life.Thick smoke surrounded her and consumed her, her baby was pale and not breathing, and Jason's cold and cruel appearance also appeared.Whatever was in that nightmare had killed her. Although five years had passed, when she thought about it, she could still feel the pain.Suddenly, the phone rang and it was a call from Laura."Damn, the opening ceremony is about to start, why haven't you come yet?" Laura grumbled as soon as Claire answered the phone.She was Laura's personal assistant. Laura had some activities today and Claire had to be at the hotel before the promised time.Claire hurried off and a few minutes later the taxi pulled up right in front of the hotel. Claire got o
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 La