LOGINClaire laughed.“No, he treats me very well. He's just a little aloof and not very talkative.” Sandra suddenly leaned closer, smiling mischievously as she whispered,“You and your boyfriend have been living together for so long... have you two slept together?”Claire's face immediately flushed red.But there didn't seem to be any need to hide it.She nodded.Sandra leaned even closer and whispered again, “So... how did it feel?”Claire frowned slightly. “Not that great.”Sandra burst into laughter.“Really? Is your boyfriend not good at it? That shouldn't be possible, he's so young...”Claire quickly interrupted her.“It's not that he's bad. It's just that he's too good. I can't handle it.”Sandra covered her mouth and laughed.“I see.”The two of them chatted all the way to the company.That entire day, Claire barely wanted to get up from her chair, as if she were glued to it.She kept yawning as well.Anyone who didn't know better might have thought she was suffering from withdrawal
Claire panicked and quickly looked away.The noise coming from next door only grew louder.She shut her eyes and silently began counting backwards in her mind.Ethan stared at Claire's back and slowly reached out his hand.Just as he was about to touch her, Claire suddenly threw off the blanket, jumped out of bed, and rushed into the bathroom.Ethan quietly withdrew his hand.Claire sat on the toilet, planning to calm herself down for a while.But then, an even more explosive voice drifted through the wall.Sandra said sweetly, “Honey, you promised to learn how to cook. That's why I agreed to play with you.”Her boyfriend's deep, husky voice replied, “Yeah... I'll learn."Claire froze.Had they... moved into the bathroom too?Soon after, the sounds grew even more intense.Claire's face flushed bright red, heat spreading through her whole body.Good heavens.The soundproofing in this apartment was terrible.What was the difference between this and watching a live adult film?Luckily, s
Sandra originally wanted to greet Ethan, but when she saw the cold expression on his face, she tactfully looked away.Instead, she began complaining to Claire about how exhausting moving was.“My back is killing me. This is even more tiring than working overtime.”Claire asked, “Where's your boyfriend? Didn't he help with the move?”Just as she asked, the bathroom door opened.A man stepped out. Perhaps from the heat of working, he was only wearing a white T-shirt. His arms were bare, both covered in tattoos.Claire froze.She hadn't expected Sandra's boyfriend to look like this.Sandra's boyfriend had picked her up from work a few times before, but Claire had never seen him in person.Beside her, Ethan's expression instantly darkened.Sandra happily ran over and grabbed the man's arm, pulling him toward the door.She was just about to introduce him when Claire suddenly felt her arm being pulled back.She bumped straight into a firm chest.Looking up in confusion, she met Ethan's cold
Ethan looked at her in surprise.“This necklace is worth fifty million.”Claire withdrew her hand and leaned back in her chair.“I know.”At the restaurant earlier, she had gone to the restroom and secretly searched for it on her phone.The necklace's original price was fifty million, and it was a one-of-a-kind piece.If it were auctioned now, the price would probably be even higher, definitely over a hundred million.She had just refused something worth more than a hundred million.Her heart ached just thinking about it.But she truly didn't dare accept it.This necklace meant too much to Katherine.Sooner or later, she and Ethan would divorce. Taking something so meaningful from someone else felt like inviting bad karma.Ethan silently watched her.He wanted to see through her…to understand her completely.Everyone said Claire was vain and that she had only been playing with his feelings.Was she really that vain?Faced with a necklace worth tens of millions, she had returned it wi
Ethan didn't think much of it and stepped aside to make a phone call.Claire, however, felt extremely depressed.All she had wanted was to secretly marry Ethan, receive a sum of money, and become a carefree little rich woman.But now, more and more people were getting involved, and more and more complicated relationships had to be handled.Just thinking about it gave her a headache.She secretly hoped her mother-in-law disliked her and refused to come at all.That way, everyone could avoid the trouble.A few minutes later, Ethan returned.“My mother is taking the earliest flight tomorrow morning."Claire's heart sank completely. Roseline, satisfied that her goal had been achieved, stopped paying attention to them and stood up to leave.After seeing his mother-in-law out, Ethan turned back and walked toward Claire. His dark eyes settled on her.“You seem like you don't want my mother to come.”Was it really that obvious?Claire hesitated for a moment before stammering, “I'm... scared.”
Claire stepped forward and stopped in front of Ethan. “My mom is staying at the hotel next door and asked me to go over.”Ethan had originally come back to grab a change of clothes, but now that didn't seem necessary anymore.“I'll go with you.”“No need.” Claire waved her hand dismissively. “I'll go face Roseline's wrath myself. Honey, you stay home and behave.”With that, she walked past him toward the elevator.Ethan stared at her retreating back for a moment. Only after Claire entered the elevator did he turn and head inside, closing the door behind him.—Claire arrived at Roseline's hotel room.“Mom, this place is pretty nice,” she said as she walked in. “Much better than our tiny apartment. Even the bed looks more comfortable.”Roseline snorted.“You could have lived in a bigger house and slept on a more comfortable bed. But who told you to find a poor boyfriend? All those years I spent raising and teaching you have gone to waste.”Claire walked over and hesitated briefly befo







