Want My Womb? I'll Make You Childless novel Chapter 91

Chapter 91

The two officers pushed through the crowd and entered the room. Following Margaret Carter’s gesture, they saw Natalie Parker lying pale in the hospital bed. They frowned, exchanging a meaningful look.

Could this woman, wrapped in bandages and as white as a sheet, really be a murderer?

The lead officer tapped on his notepad, his eyes filled with doubt.“Ma’am, you’re accusing her of murder. What’s your evidence

Margaret Carter’s face fell. She’d been so blinded by rage that she’d forgotten all she had was her father–in–law’s dying words. He hadn’t even said Natalie’s full name, and there wasn’t any written or recorded proof.

She opened her mouth, her voice laced with desperation.“My father–in–law… my father–in–law said it himself. She cut the oxygen

tube!”

“Verbal testimony isn’t enough to convict someone.”

The officer paused his pen over the notepad, his gaze sweeping over the crowd of onlookers.“Do you have any surveillance footage, witnesses, or other physical evidence?”

Margaret’s throat tightened, and she couldn’t utter a single word.

She didn’t.

The onlookers‘ gazes shifted, their expressions toward Margaret changing.

“Calling the cops about murder without proof? This old lady’s gotta be crazy!”

“That girl’s all banged up. How could she hurt an old man?”

“Maybe she’s just picking on her because she’s alone and trying to bully her!”

Those words made Margaret’s cheeks burn, so humiliated she could barely lift her head.

The officer closed his notepad, his tone turning stern.“Ma’am, filing a false police report or abusing police resources carries legal

consequences.”

“Don’t go around accusing people without evidence. We’ll let it slide with a verbal warning since it’s the first time, but next time, we’ll prosecute you to the full extent of the law!”

Once the two officers left, the onlookers jeered at Margaret for a while before gradually dispersing.

Margaret stood in the hospital room, helpless.

She didn’t understand. She had said the same things about Clara Bennett before, and Ethan had called the police, resulting in Clara’s arrest and detention. Why didn’t it work when it came to Natalie Parker?

Why didn’t it work when it came to Natalie?

Natalie Parker watched Margaret’s discomfiture, her usual docile demeanor gone. She suddenly chuckled softly, the laughter filled with undisguised triumph, a stark contrast to her earlier pitiful appearance.

“Auntie, don’t try to call the police without evidence. It’s a waste of social resources and a disgrace to the Carter family. It’s just not

worth it.”

Margaret, already filled with pent–up anger, couldn’t hold back any longer after being provoked. She rushed forward to hit her.

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“You bitch! How dare you laugh!”

“It was you who harmed the old man!”

Natalie, prepared for this, raised her hand and pushed Margaret in the chest.

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Margaret, being older and in a fit of anger, wasn’t careful and was pushed back two steps, crashing heavily against the edge of the bed.

“You!”

Clutching her aching back, Margaret Carter pointed at Natalie Parker, spewing, “So you were faking your injuries! You viper!”

“Viper?”

Natalie raised an eyebrow, her gaze dripping with mockery.“Auntie, pot calling the kettle black, don’t you think? You think the things you’ve done are any less venomous?”

“What things have I done?”

Margaret rubbed her lower back, demanding, “Make yourself clear. What have I done?”

Natalie narrowed her eyes, lowering her voice.“I heard that back in the day, to win over Eth’s father, you disregarded the woman’s wishes and personally delivered a woman he had his eye on right into his bed.”

“Later, when you found out she was pregnant, you secretly drugged her, trying to force a miscarriage, but the child was still born.”

“To show how magnanimous you were, you took that child to raise as your own, but you locked his biological mother away in a Psychiatric Hospital, until she completely lost her mind.”

Upon hearing this, Margaret Carter staggered, her face ashen, staring at Natalie as if she were a ghost. She had kept this matter extremely secret; no one knew about it except her late husband.

“H–How do you know all this?”

Her voice trembled.

So many years had passed, and yet the secret had resurfaced.

Natalie smirked, her eyes gleaming with hidden meaning.“Oh, I know much more than that.”

After all, she’d been receiving support from the Carter family since she was a child. Having spent so many years in their home, she’d learned quite a few things.

Of course, she understood the personalities of the Carter family members even better, like Margaret – extremely selfish and self–serving, yet always hiding behind the guise of doing things for everyone’s benefit. Pathetically foolish, but also impulsive, and yet, when real trouble came, she was the most cowardly of them all.

Her sudden confrontation today must be because of Clara.

The thought of Clara thwarting her plans time and again ignited a spark of hatred in Natalie’s eyes.

“You’re suddenly here to cause me trouble. Clara sent you, didn’t she?”

“We don’t have to be enemies. You hate Clara, and I want to deal with her too. Why don’t we join forces?”

A flicker of suspicion ignited within Margaret.“Join forces how? I would never allow you to marry into the Carter family!”

“Marry into the Carter family?”

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Natalie burst into laughter as if she’d heard the funniest joke, bending over with mirth.“Oh, Margaret, you overestimate the Carter family. I never even considered marrying into it.”

“My issue with Clara is about something she possesses. Once I get what I want, I’ll go abroad and never come back.”

“Why would I give up my amazing life abroad to marry Ethan Carter?”

Margaret stared at her for a long moment, unsure what to make of it.

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Seeing her hesitation, Natalie pressed on, “I’ll give you some time to think it over, but you better be quick. I can’t guarantee I won’t say something I shouldn’t.”

“And until you’ve made up your mind, it’s best not to do anything rash. I don’t want a repeat of today.”

Margaret, unnerved by Natalie’s viperous gaze, felt a chill crawl through her bones. Unable to stay a moment longer, she turned and stumbled out of the room.

Clara left the hospital and, as Nova AI, walked into her office, where Benjamin immediately greeted her.

“Clara, I’ve got some good news.”

He handed her a file.“Grand Horizon Tech wants to partner with us on the Blade civilian project.”

“We checked them out. They’re clean. The head is from a family of prominent business people with strong ties to the government, very powerful.”

Clara took the file and began to read. Benjamin continued, “They’ve asked to meet several times and seem very interested. They offered to cover 30% of the initial R&D costs and give us 15% of the profits as a tech royalty.”

“Those are good terms.”

Clara tapped the file with her finger, a slight frown creasing her brow.“But the ‘Blade‘ project involves U.S. Department of Defense technology. The final decision rests with them.”

She looked up at Benjamin.“You can discuss the collaboration, but I’m swamped lately.”

Her divorce hearing was in three days, she still needed to investigate the truth behind her mother’s car accident, and she had to keep an eye on the company’s R&D data. She wouldn’t be free until after the divorce hearing.

“Mr. Hayes, see if you can schedule something three days from now.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll set it up.”

Benjamin nodded. “They’re very eager and said they’re flexible with our schedule.”

After Benjamin left, Clara stood there for a moment, then picked up her phone and made a call.

“Ms. Bennett, what’s up?”

Chris’s voice came through the receiver.

“Detective Evans, I wanted to ask if there’s any update on the investigation into the person who deliberately rear–ended me?”

Chris turned serious at the mention of it.“It’s not going smoothly.”

“I checked the surveillance footage. He was indeed following you and deliberately crashed into you while you were waiting at the red

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“But the driver is tight–lipped and refuses to tell the truth. Without evidence, we had to release him. However, we did find an overseas transfer into his account before the accident. We’re tracing the source of the funds now.”

“Do you have something in mind?”

Clara considered her suspicions and was silent for a moment before slowly saying, “I suspect the person behind this isn’t just Natalie Parker, or rather, not *only* Natalie Parker.”

She took a deep breath and explained how Diane Bennett had fabricated a recording after her mother’s car accident.

“If it weren’t for that recording back then, I would always feel that Diane Bennett was inextricably linked to the whole thing.”

“Diane Bennett?”

Chris’s voice paused slightly.“Is that the one from the Bennett family in Boston? Do you have any leads to support your suspicion?”

“Not yet.”

Clara’s tone was tinged with helplessness.“But I’ll find a way to uncover the evidence. I’m just calling to let you know what’s going on.”

“Understood. So, that money might not be simply overseas funds, but possibly domestic funds converted into foreign currency and

then brought back in.”

Chris’s voice was firm.“I’ll have people investigate in that direction. We’ll keep in touch if there are any developments.”

After hanging up, Clara rubbed her churchs in frustration.

Indeed, without evidence, even if she was seventy or eighty percent certain that Diane Bennett was behind it, she couldn’t do anything. If she wanted to get to the bottom of this, she probably needed to find someone else.

With that thought, Clara dialed Attorney Brown’s number.

“Attorney Brown, I need you to investigate Diane Bennett for me. Focus specifically on who she was in contact with sixteen years ago.”

There was background noise on the other end, and Attorney Brown sounded busy. After a moment, he said, “Understood, Ms. Bennett. I’ll look into it as soon as possible.”

“Also, your divorce case with Mr. Carter is scheduled to go to court in three days. I’ve prepared an outline of the court proceedings and sent it to your email. Please review it when you have time.”

“We have a very strong chain of evidence in this case. The recording you sent me last night has also been submitted as supplementary evidence. I am very confident that we will win and secure most of Mr. Carter’s personal assets for you.”

After hanging up, Clara leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes. The sunlight streamed through the glass window, bathing her in

warmth.

The living room of Carter Estate was exceptionally quiet. Even the servants tried to avoid making any noise as they moved about. Ethan Carter sat on the leather sofa, his hand gripping his phone. He stared at the court hearing notification on the screen, a chill emanating from him.

“Useless trash! You can’t even handle this little thing!”

The shrill rebuke shattered the oppressive silence in the living room. Margaret Carter reclined on the other end of the sofa, her feet

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propped up on a footstool, as a servant carefully massaged her lower back.

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Her back had been acting up all day ever since Natalie shoved her, causing her old injury to flare up, the pain almost unbearable. She couldn’t help but complain to Ethan, “I just don’t understand why you were so hung up on Natalie Parker.”

“You were so hung up on her even when she went abroad, and now she’s barely back in the country before you two are in contact again, and you even missed your grandfather’s last moments because of her.”

Thinking of Natalie, she couldn’t help but think of Clara.“Looking back, Clara was so much better. She always took care of everything for us. Knowing my back was a chronic problem, she even took a massage class. Over the years, thanks to her, my old injury had improved a lot.”

Hearing her words, Ethan frowned impatiently. Just as he was about to speak, Lucas walked over to Margaret with a plate of fruit, taking small steps.“Grandma, have some fruit to calm down.”

Margaret’s expression softened slightly, and she touched his head.“Our Luke is so sensible. No wonder he was born to Clara.”

She picked up a grape from the plate and took a bite, frowning.“What’s wrong with the grapes this year? They’re not nearly as good as they used to be.”

Ethan looked up, his gaze fixed on the fruit plate.

In the past, Clara had always taken care of all the food and utensils in the Old Estate. The fruits were specially ordered from farmers and delivered. How could anything bought randomly in the market compare to that?

Thinking about this, he suddenly realized that if Clara really divorced him, these little things he had never cared about might become

unattainable luxuries.

The idea lingered in his mind, making him feel restless.

No way.

He also wanted to see Clara and talk to her again.

“Luke, come with me for a bit.”

Ethan stood up and grabbed his jacket.

In the underground parking lot of Nova AI, Clara stepped out of the elevator after finishing her overtime work.

She saw Richard and Victor standing next to a car, both their similar faces wearing smiles that could only be described as ingratiating. Clara wanted nothing more to do with either of them. She pulled out her phone, did something on it, and her car slowly pulled out of its parking spot.

“Clara, you’ve grown up so much. You look more and

more like your

mother.”

Richard walked up to Clara, his eyes reddening. “Your mother and I both want you to be happy. Maybe you should reconsider the divorce with Ethan?”

Clara shot him a cold look, the kind and loving father from her childhood memories gradually merging with the hypocritical man

before her.

“I think I made myself clear on the phone. And stop bringing Mom into this.”

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It felt like they were desecrating her memory.

“Clara, don’t be like that.”

Richard chuckled.“I know Ethan hasn’t been treating you well. It’s understandable you want a divorce.”

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“But the family really needs the Carter family’s support right now. We put a lot of effort into securing this partnership with them.”

“If…”

Richard hesitated, a flicker of uncertainty in his eyes, before finally steeling himself.“If you really want to divorce Ethan, I hope you’ll

have another child with him first.”

“That way, when the two children grow up, one can inherit the Carter family fortune, and the other can inherit the shares your mother left behind. It’s a good arrangement, isn’t it?”

Clara felt a wave of disgust, a churning in her stomach.

Was Richard even her biological father?

How could he so casually suggest she have another child with Ethan, just to strengthen the ties between the two families?

“Richard, what do you take me for? A breeding machine?”

Clara scoffed.“Get out. I don’t want to see you again.”

Now, Clara, don’t get upset. Your dad’s just looking out for you. A woman like you, divorced and childless, how will you stand on your own two feet in Chicago?” Victor chimed in, trying to smooth things over.

“My life is none of your concern,” Clara retorted.

Clara glanced at Victor, a sneer twisting her lips.“As if I needed another reason to be disgusted by this family.”

With that, she yanked open the car door, ready to leave.

Richard’s patience finally snapped. The smile vanished from his face, replaced by barely concealed rage. “Clara, you better think this through!”

“Do you still want the shares your mother left you?!”

“If you don’t agree, I’ll make sure you never see a penny of your mother’s inheritance! Not only that, I’ll have your name changed and strike you from the Bennett family tree. You won’t be a Bennett anymore!”

“Disowned?”

Clara whipped around, her eyes blazing with contempt.“I stopped considering myself part of the Bennett family a long time ago!”

She took a deep breath, got into the car, and glared at Richard with a look that could cut glass.

“Every single share my mother left me is rightfully mine.”

If

you ever use that to threaten me again, I swear I’ll burn it all down. Nobody wins!”

Richard’s face darkened even further.“You dare threaten me?”

“You’re the ones who pushed me to this.”

Clara yanked open the car door, slid inside, and started the engine. Without another glance at the two men, she sped away, leaving them standing there with matching sour expressions.

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The silence of the parking lot was shattered by a ringing phone.

Victor answered, his eyes lighting up with surprise at whatever he heard on the other end.

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His face instantly brightened, the dark clouds replaced with a sunny disposition. His voice dripped with an almost sickeningly sweet eagerness.“Director eagerness. “Director Collins, rest assured, we’ll be there on time! Thank you, thank you so much!”

Hanging up, he turned to Richard, bubbling with excitement.“Dad! It’s happening! The person in charge of the Blade project agreed to meet us! We’ll get the exact time later!”

Richard’s anger instantly evaporated.“Really?”

Seeing Victor nod, he excitedly paced back and forth, before hurrying to ask, “Were you able to find out which company is developing Blade?”

Victor shook his head.“I tried asking around before, but it’s classified. They’re being really strict about it.”

“I heard Director Collins mention that several people were investigated by the National Security Agency because of this project. No one dares to leak any information now.”

Speaking of that, Victor paused. Before… Olivia was taken in for questioning by the National Security Agency, supposedly because of a leak.

Could it be just a coincidence?