Want My Womb? I'll Make You Childless novel Chapter 114

Chapter 114

As she pondered, a commotion erupted outside the door. The sound of colliding furniture mixed with hurried footsteps shattered the tranquility of the office.

Clara and Ryan exchanged a glance. Ryan raised an eyebrow and started toward the door, but it was abruptly thrown open from the outside.

“Ms. Bennett, Mr. Carter, he, uh, he said it was urgent and that he needed to see you. We couldn’t stop him…”

The secretary stood behind Ethan, her face pale, hands twisting nervously in her skirt. She looked at Clara with a terrified expression.

Just moments ago, Ethan had practically bulldozed past the reception desk, storming his way into the CEO’s office. The menacing aura he exuded kept the entire administrative department from intervening.

“It’s okay, go back to work.”

Clara gave the secretary a reassuring smile and waved her off. Watching the secretary leave with obvious relief, she finally looked up at

Ethan.

Ethan was still wearing one of his custom–tailored suits, his tie perfectly knotted.

But the usual cool, aristocratic air about him was now overshadowed by an icy frost. The oppressive aura radiating from him was almost tangible, as if freezing the very air in the office.

“What do you want?”

Considering the recent disputes between Anderson Industries and the Carter Group, Clara didn’t see any reason for her and Ethan to

meet.

“I need to talk to you.”

Ethan’s voice was icy, his gaze cutting past Clara to fixate on Ryan, who stood behind her. A simmering rage ignited in his eyes, a look that could have burned holes right through Ryan.

“Get out. I want to talk to her alone.”

Ryan smirked, a sardonic edge to his voice.“Clara’s office. Last I checked, you don’t get to call the shots here.”

He paused, slowing his speech, each word dripping with mockery.“Besides, who are you to tell me what to do? Why would I listen to you?”

“You-!”

Ethan choked on the words, his face contorted with fury as he glared at Ryan. His hands clenched at his sides, his breathing growing heavy and ragged.

Nothing grated on him more than seeing Clara and Ryan together. Catching them alone in the office like this sent his anger skyrocketing. Only the urgency of the matter at hand kept him from exploding right then and there.

Clara watched the man before her, struggling to contain his fury, and a flash of irony flickered in her eyes. She knew his anger stemmed from finding her alone with Ryan in her office.

“Ethan, say what you need to say. There’s nothing I can’t say in front of Ryan.”

Ryan chuckled almost imperceptibly at that, the mockery in his eyes softening into a hint of warmth.

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Ethan’s face, on the other hand, darkened considerably, his jaw clenched tight. After a long moment, he took a deep breath, his chest rising and falling sharply as he fought to suppress his anger.

He strode into the office and plopped down heavily on the sofa opposite Clara, pulling a financial newspaper from his briefcase and slamming it onto the coffee table. The headline blared the story from last night’s Chicago news about him offering a guarantee for

Natalie Parker.

“You’re the one who leaked this, aren’t you?”

“Do you have any idea how much Carter Group’s market value has dropped since you pulled this stunt? How many potential partners are now sitting on the fence?”

He leaned forward, his voice laced with coercion.“Clara, do you have to be so ruthless? Can’t we leave any room for compromise here?”

Clara watched him, amused and incredulous. “Didn’t you hold a press conference to clear things up?”

“Even used Anderson Industries‘ past loopholes to strike back?”

“Now you’re coming to Anderson Industries for answers? Seriously?”

Do you

have no shame?

Ethan was momentarily speechless, a flicker of awkwardness crossing his face before he sighed, his tone softening.

“Clara, can’t you try to understand where I’m coming from?”

“My mom got dragged into that leak case because of Natalie Parker. Carter Group’s stock price had already taken a hit, and now the board and senior management are all over my back, questioning me and the entire Carter family.”

“And with the stunt you pulled, if I didn’t do something, I’d have no way to answer to the board.”

Clara laughed, a low, scornful sound that cut through the silence of the office.

She straightened up, leaning forward to meet Ethan’s gaze, her eyes sharp enough to pierce through his facade. “Ethan Carter, are you serious right now? Why are you acting like the victim here, expecting me to sympathize with you?”

“Carter Group was the one that listened to Emma Anderson’s lies, suppressed Anderson Industries, cut off our lines of credit, and drove our suppliers to our doorstep demanding payment.”

“I couldn’t just sit back and let Carter Group bankrupt Anderson Industries, could I?”

Anderson Industries was first targeted and suppressed by Carter Group, and then Ethan exposed our environmental issues.

Everything she’d done was self–preservation. How dare Ethan Carter come to her with this nonsense!

“Clara, I know how much Anderson Industries means to you. How could I ever let it go bankrupt?”

Ethan sighed, feigning helplessness.

“Ha!”

Clara burst out laughing.“But everything you’ve done is pushing Anderson Industries right to the brink of bankruptcy!”

If Ryan Walker hadn’t stepped in with financial backing and helped smooth things over, there’s no telling where Anderson Industries

would be now!

Her gaze was so sharp that Ethan was momentarily speechless. He steadied himself and said coldly, “What’s done is done. There’s no point in arguing about it now.”

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With that, she turned her gaze away from Ethan and called out towards the door, “Security, please ‘elcort Mr. Caner out.”

Ethan’s face turned ashen, his chest heaving with barely suppressed rage.

But he maintained a veneer of composure, refraining from an angry outburst, instead fixing Clara with a dark, menacing stare

“Clara, you’d better think this through. Given Anderson Industries‘ current situation, I could crush it like a bug if I wanted to. Don’t push me to take action against you!”

In the past, Clara might have given his threat some weight; in Chicago, Ethan certainly had the power to destroy Anderson Industries

with ease.

But with Natalie having implicated Ethan, the National Security Agency would inevitably come knocking again.

This time, he likely wouldn’t be able to wriggle free so easily. Why should she let herself be threatened by him any longer?

Besides, Carter Group had already started moving against Anderson Industries!

“Oh.”

Clara nodded without expression, her tone as flat as if she were discussing something trivial.

“Please do, you can leave now.”

There was a commotion at the door. Ethan glanced at the security guards preparing to enter, then gave Clara a deep, resentful look.“Clara, you’re something else. How did I never realize you were so stubborn?”

“We’ll see. I’ll be waiting for you to come begging!”

He stood up, straightened his suit jacket, glared at Ryan Walker, then turned and walked out of the office, his footsteps heavy with suppressed fury.

The office finally fell silent.

Ryan Walker, who had listened to the entire exchange, walked to the water dispenser and poured a glass of warm water for Clara.

Clara took the glass and smiled weakly.“Sorry you had to see that.”

Ryan looked at the bitterness in Clara’s smile, a flicker of sympathy in his eyes. “Don’t say that. If it’s a joke, it’s Ethan Carter’s joke.”

“Yeah.”

Clara nodded, not saying anything, just lowering her head and drinking the water. The warm liquid slid down her throat, but it couldn’t warm the coldness in her heart.

Ethan was indeed quick. The next day, before dawn, Clara was jolted awake by a frantic ringing.

She rubbed the sleep from her eyes and grabbed her phone. Seeing the storage room manager’s name on the caller ID, her heart sank with a foreboding sense of dread.

“Mr. Bennett, we have a problem! The storage room has been sealed off!”

The manager’s anxious voice burst through the phone the moment she answered. “This morning, before daybreak, a group of uniformed people arrived, claiming that the raw materials stored in our warehouse didn’t meet safety standards. They presented the sealing order immediately. We couldn’t stop them!”

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Clara’s heart plummeted. She shot up in bed, her voice trembling slightly.“What did you say? Sealed off? Which storage room?”

“The big one in the suburbs!”

The manager’s voice grew more frantic.

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“It contains the raw materials for several large orders we were preparing to deliver to East Group and Southern Machinery. If we can’t ship on time, the penalty for breach of contract will be millions of dollars.”

Clara hung up the phone, skipping her morning routine, threw on a coat, grabbed her car keys, and raced to the garage.

By the time Clara Bennett had rushed to the storage room, weaving through the gathering crowd, the sight of the official seal plastered across the gate and the stark yellow police tape strung around the perimeter forced her eyes shut. A surge of fury, raw and untamed, threatened to consume her.

After a long moment, she wrestled her emotions into submission, opened her eyes, and scanned the anxious faces of her employees, their hushed whispers painting a canvas of fear. She strode over to the storage room’s supervisor.

That storage room held more than just the raw materials for several major orders; it housed the very foundation of Anderson Industries‘ production plans for the next six months.

With the storage room sealed off, the inability to fulfill those orders on time would not only trigger crippling penalties but would also tarnish Anderson Industries‘ reputation. Clara knew that a cascade of cancelled orders would surely follow.

After a long moment, she wrestled her emotions into submission, opened her eyes, and scanned the anxious faces of her employees, their hushed whispers painting a canvas of fear. Taking a deep breath, she strode over to the storage room’s supervisor.

The supervisor was pacing back and forth, sweat beading on his forehead, a portrait of utter desperation. Seeing Clara arrive, his face lit up with the hope of salvation, and he hurried to meet her.

“Ms. Bennett, thank goodness you’re here! You have to do something!”

“What happened exactly?”

Clara struggled to keep her voice even, masking her own turmoil to project an aura of calm for her staff.

“Did they specify which raw materials failed to meet safety standards? Did they present any kind of test results?”

“No, ma’am.”

The warehouse manager was practically stomping his feet in panic.“They just showed the seizure notice, said they got a tip–off and need to seal it off for detailed testing. That’s all they said! They won’t answer any of our questions!”

“Ms. Bennett, someone’s definitely trying to screw us over!”

“We mainly do machining, not chemical production. How could we possibly have raw materials that don’t meet safety standards?”

Clara frowned, her hands clenched into fists at her sides.

She knew without a doubt, this was Ethan’s doing.

The thought of Ethan yesterday, claiming they were a team, a married unit, now seemed utterly ridiculous.

So, when his interests are at stake, they’re a “team,” and she should be understanding.

But when she doesn’t comply, when she doesn’t submit, he threatens her interests and suddenly they’re not a team anymore?

Clara had never been so disgusted by Ethan’s double standards!

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“I’ll figure out a way to resolve this as soon as possible.”

Clara patted the manager’s shoulder.“Calm everyone down. Tell them not to panic or cause any trouble.”

With that, Clara turned and walked away, her mind racing, trying to figure out what to do.

Just then, Evan Taylor approached her with several uniformed officers.

“Mr. Taylor?”

Surprise flickered in Clara’s eyes.

“Ms. Bennett.”

Evan smiled at her, then introduced Clara to the group, “This is the head of the team responsible for sealing off our storage room.”

He was deferential, deliberately emphasizing the word “our,” and gave Clara a wink.

“I happen to know these guys a little. We were just about to head back to the storage room to double–check if there really are any raw materials that don’t meet safety standards.”

“After all, we mainly deal with mechanical weighting, not chemicals, so there shouldn’t be any non–compliant materials.”

“If you’re busy, you go ahead and take care of things.”

“Okay.”

Clara understood. She watched as Evan led the men to tear open the seals and enter the storage room. She felt a wave of relief, but also a

sense of frustration.

She was probably causing Ryan Walker even more trouble this time.

She was racking up favors left and right, and she had no idea how she would ever repay them all.

Turning back around, her face was now sharp with determination.

Ethan Carter, if you’re going to be heartless, don’t blame me for being ruthless.

She pulled out her phone and dialed Attorney Brown’s number. He answered quickly.

“Ms. Bennett.”

“Attorney Brown, I need you to draft a lawsuit for me.”

Clara stood at the entrance of the storage room, staring down at her toes, letting the cold wind whip strands of hair around her face.

“Yes, ma’am.”

Attorney Brown’s voice turned serious.

“I need you to draft a lawsuit based on the evidence you found regarding Ethan Carter concealing the surrogacy agreement from me. I want to sue him for forcing me into illegal surrogacy.”

“Please compile all the evidence and hand it over to the police, requesting that they open a case.”

Clara Bennett narrowed her eyes. During the divorce proceedings, Ethan Carter had challenged her to prove the authenticity of that evidence, hadn’t he?

Having the police open an investigation directly would be far more efficient than going to the trouble of proving it herself, wouldn’t it?

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