All Chapters of Mr. Sterling, Your Wife Wants the Baby, Not You: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

For the first time, he truly understood how suffocating Claire's life had been.To anyone watching from the outside, Sienna was the one who looked openly chosen, openly favored, openly loved.Was that what love did?Did it make a person fearless enough to behave like this?Even as the other woman?Claire knew nothing about what had happened after she left.By the time she caught up, Dr. Harold Kane had already driven away.With no other option, she turned and headed back inside.On her way upstairs, she saw Adrian and Sienna coming out together.Sienna shot her a cold look, then slipped her arm through Adrian's and walked off with him.Adrian was still on the phone and did not so much as glance Claire's way.He probably assumed she had been talking behind Sienna's back and was displeased.Claire no longer cared what Adrian thought.That night, Ryan organized a dinner.No one bothered to hide the fact that Sienna had been rejected.With her lips pressed together, she said softly, "I hon

"If wedding bells are ringing soon, Senior, you have to invite us."Damien walked over, shot Claire a glance, then tipped his head with a light laugh. "And if Mr. Sterling doesn't send invitations, I will. Don't worry, everyone."Sienna immediately smiled with graceful restraint. "Mr. York, enough. We're here for work today."That poised, polished response only won her even more approving looks."Mr. Pierce didn't come?"Sienna asked the question suddenly.Around Claire stood the HexaLife staff who had come to coordinate the project. At once, several pairs of eyes turned toward her. Everyone knew that aside from Julian, Claire was the one leading HexaLife's side of things.Claire looked over. "Do you need something?"Sienna remained perfectly composed. "If Mr. Pierce isn't here, then who's making the decisions?"For a joint project this important, someone at Claire's level should have been little more than a supporting presence. Otherwise, wouldn't that be handing Claire a level of cre

Damien glanced at the unreadable man beside him. “You’re really not going to step in? There are only so many good men out there. Claire’s still married, and she’s letting another guy hover around her like that?”Adrian turned his head slightly.At that moment, Claire got into the car and looked at Julian with a bright, open smile.It was real. Unforced. Her eyes curved when she smiled, and that small dimple appeared at the corner of her mouth.He had seen that smile countless times before.Claire used to laugh easily.Especially that first time she had called him her husband. He had only looked at her without saying a word. Embarrassed, she had quickly smiled at him just like that, trying to smooth over the awkwardness as though nothing had happened.The memory passed through his mind and was gone just as quickly, leaving nothing behind.Adrian’s expression did not change. He looked away, lowered his eyes, and lit a cigarette. “It has nothing to do with me.”Sienna happened to catch th

By now, Sienna was clearly the person who knew the most, so every eye in the room turned toward her.Sienna seemed to snap back to herself. She lifted her head, then let a hesitant, troubled look settle across her face. “All I know is that she’s married, but she’s also... very close to Mr. Pierce.”The room erupted into whispers the moment she finished speaking.“You’d never know it just by looking at her. For a byline that was never hers to begin with, she’s really willing to go that far and sell...” The speaker stopped short, suddenly aware of how ugly the rest would sound out loud.But no one needed the sentence finished. Everyone understood exactly what had been left unsaid.Sienna watched the mood in the room shift. These were all serious researchers, people who spent long days and longer nights in the lab. Seeing their anger rise, the corner of her mouth lifted almost imperceptibly.Then she left without another word.The question of whether Claire should be replaced was never se

And yet...Her gaze lingered on the contact name she still hadn’t updated.For the first time, seeing it made her genuinely uncomfortable.She did not reply right away.Instead, she opened his contact, deleted the word Husband, and only then sent her response.No time.Adrian replied with a single word.Okay.That was the entire exchange.Dismissed, just like that.He did not try to persuade her. Did not add a single extra word.As if saying anything more to her would have been a waste of time.And yet when it came to Sienna, even in the HexaLife and Hawthorne University work group, he could be endlessly patient, always coordinating, reminding people of details, smoothing everything over.After all these years, Claire had almost developed a reflexive dread of Adrian’s clipped little replies. Fine. Okay. Mm.Now that divorce was finally on the table, she should have been numb to it.But seeing that answer still struck the same old place inside her, the tiny hidden thorn buried deep in t