All Chapters of Mr. Sterling, Your Wife Wants the Baby, Not You: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

Sienna had not expected Ryan to go this far for her.Especially not in a room like this.This was not just support. It was practically a public endorsement, a way of stamping her place into the room for everyone to see.A faint flush rose to her cheeks as she tilted her face up toward Adrian beside her.“Adrian, don’t listen to Ryan,” she said softly. “He’s just fooling around. There are so many people here.”The room lit up instantly.“Cross-cup drink!”“Cross-cup drink!”“Kiss her with the wine!”The chanting rolled in waves.Adrian rested an elbow on his knee, idly swirling the champagne in his glass between long fingers. “Ryan’s the guest of honor tonight.”Ryan clinked his glass lightly against Adrian’s. “So what if I am? Nothing matters more than seeing a friend happy.”Everyone here belonged to the same private circle, people who all knew one another well behind closed doors.They had all heard the rumors that Adrian had married unusually young.But not one person in that room t

Claire did not think she was making a fuss over nothing.Her not-yet-ex-husband was standing right there, and even so, every instinct in him was to protect another woman. If she did not stay hard, she would be trampled straight into the ground.She could rely on no one.Even if all she could do was go down fighting, it was still the only way she had left.Clearly, no one had expected Claire to be this unyielding.A flicker of irritation crossed Sienna’s eyes.She had assumed Claire would lower her head and know her place. Wasn’t that how she had always been? Quiet. Compliant. Never fighting for anything.If the footage really came out, would that not make Sienna look as though she had deliberately framed her?“Claire, enough.” Ryan’s voice was already edged with impatience. “Sienna already said she was willing to let this go. Why are you still making trouble?”He truly believed Sienna had been more than generous.And Claire still did not know how to appreciate it.Claire looked at Ryan

Claire looked at Adrian, his face so calm it was almost ruthless.His coat was warm on her shoulders, and somehow the cold still sank straight through to her bones.“You want me to be Sienna’s shield so you can keep playing house with her?”If Claire went back for the family dinner, then Sienna would be spared any trouble from Madam Sterling.Adrian did not deny it. “Isn’t family harmony what you always wanted? Does it really matter what’s holding it together?”“I’m not a stepping stone in your relationship with Sienna, and I’m not a tool. I’m not going back.”Claire kept her voice as steady as she could.She slipped off his coat, handed it back, and strode into the hotel.If he thought she would sacrifice herself just to make it easier for him to protect Sienna, he could forget it.Adrian turned slightly and watched her retreating figure.Claire had more temper than she used to.This kind of open defiance was new.Still.He did not think much of it.She would go back.The next morning

She turned to the buyout amount.Fifty million.Well.That was generous.Claire studied the terms for a long moment, then suddenly looked up at Madam Sterling.“So this means that whatever happens to me in the future will have nothing to do with the Sterling family, correct? The Sterling family won’t interfere with my life, won’t acknowledge me, and the boundary remains absolute?”Madam Sterling looked troubled. “This is for your own good too. I can promise you that once the divorce is final, I have ways of erasing any record that you were ever married. That way, if you choose another husband later, there will be no burden hanging over you.”For her own good.Claire almost laughed.She understood perfectly well what the Sterling family was doing. They wanted to make sure she could never cling to them again in the future. And if Adrian refused to let go of Sienna and insisted on marrying her one day, then the cleanest way to handle it would be to erase Claire’s history with Adrian entir

Claire froze.She had not expected Adrian to say something like that.Her first instinct was to fire back and tell him the truth, that it was not embarrassment or discomfort at all. She simply found him tainted now.But before the words could leave her mouth, Adrian’s phone rang.Claire glanced over.The caller ID read baby again, the same sickeningly doting contact name.Adrian noticed where she was looking.He immediately angled the phone away from her and walked back into the sitting room.Claire understood.He would not allow her even the smallest glimpse into anything that had to do with the woman he loved.She looked at the coat Adrian had left behind and, in the end, did not touch it again.Leaving it where it was, she stood up and walked away into the wind and snow, out of that place that seemed to cut straight through to the bone.Inside the sitting room, Madam Sterling’s expression darkened the moment Adrian came back in.“This time you’ve gone too far. If you can’t deal with