Worship The Ground You Walk On novel Chapter 4

At the luxurious banquet, guests were toasting each other. The delicacies and fine wines made an extravagant scene.

Claudia was an illegitimate daughter, but she came from a rich family. She had been on enough occasions like this since she was a little girl, but she always disliked them because she was a quiet and peaceful lady.

She became even more isolated when she was unable to speak.

She let Ben hold her wrist tightly, and dragged her to socialize with different people. She heard those people's compliments and watched their flattering smiles, and then she smiled back. After a while, her face muscle felt stiff.

Finally, they ran into Ben’s best buddy, Sean Dunphy. They had a nice drink together. Claudia took the opportunity and got away from the banquet. She needed to get some fresh air.

She found a nice place to catch a breath, but soon she heard a woman with a low but shrill voice asking her.

“You must be lonely staying here alone.”

Claudia turned back and saw Amber walking towards her.

They were both from the Evans family, and they shared the same Dad. Amber was the elder sister. She was the flower that was admired and cherished by the family, while Claudia was like repellent grass that nobody cared about.

“You should be grateful that Ben would let a mute and a bastard be here with him. Do you understand?”

Amber's arrogance was like a fire that was going to swallow everybody.

She approached Claudia and cast a disdainful glance at her. The red wine in her glass was swirling as she moved. The color of the wine perfectly matched her lipstick.

Claudia didn’t want to be here and be ridiculed. As she was about to leave, Amber stopped her and said, “Ben and I grew up together. We've known each other for ages, you know that, right?”

Claudia also had known Ben since they were kids.

The two sisters were both his childhood friends.

That was no surprise.

Claudia looked at Amber with disappointment in her eyes.

“That was why most people thought Ben and I would make a perfect couple,” Amber whispered slowly.

Then she opened her mouth like a vicious snake and uttered a few words into Claudia’s ears.

“I'll be the one Ben loves the most! You don’t deserve him!”

Claudia turned her face away from Amber. She was clenching her fists so firmly that her nails scratched her palm.

“I don’t deserve him?”

She wouldn’t have ended up so miserably weren’t it for Amber and her mother’s vicious set-up which turned her into a mute. She and Ben could have had a much better relationship.

Amber leaned to Claudia and whispered to her in a low voice that only the two could hear, “You are just his so-called wife. You’ve never been the one that’s in his heart.”

Claudia paused for a second. Before she said anything, Amber started to tilt the glass in her hand.

Cold wine poured down from the glass. It looked beautiful.

Claudia took a step back to avoid it, but when she looked aside, she was astonished.

Amber was pouring the wine on herself.

Claudia wondered what she was doing.

In that white low-cut full dress today, Amber looked so pure and innocent, like an angel. She poured a whole glass of wine on herself, right on her chest...