Worship The Ground You Walk On novel Chapter 44

Scott said faintly, but one could easily detect a note of sarcasm in his words.

Ben turned livid upon hearing the word "miserable". Seething with anger, he cast a glance at Claudia and grabbed her tiny wrist with his strong hand. He jerked her up and threw her into his arms.

Now that Ben was pressing her against his chest, Claudia was astonished. Before she could do anything, she heard Ben saying coldly above her head, “If it’s miserable to be my woman, I wonder who will make her happy?”

Scott snorted and turned to look at Claudia with his deep and watery eyes.

“What do you think, Mr. Crawford?”

His nonchalant air irritated Ben, who pulled a long face and asked with a threatening voice, “What do you mean by bringing this up all of a sudden, Mr. Palmer?”

“Nothing. I just feel sorry for Claudia!” Scott replied in a soft tone, as if he was having a chat with an old friend that he hadn’t met for years.

The next second, Scott’s eyes moved to Claudia and he sighed meaningfully, “What can you expect from a man who doesn’t love his wife at all?”

Claudia was amazed. For a moment, she felt that she was stabbed to the heart and got butterflies in her stomach.

Ben drew Claudia closer to him, which brought her back to her senses, and growled, “Don’t worry, Mr. Palmer. I’ll take care of my wife, and it has nothing to do with love.”

Which meant, Ben was just doing his duty as Claudia’s husband.

That was all.

Could Claudia understand Ben’s words in this way?

Suddenly, Claudia had an urge to throw back her head and laugh, but she held it back. How could she burst into laughter when she was devastated?

The storm was still raging when Ben and Claudia walked out of the restaurant. It was impossible for them to go back to town now, because the road closed, and the sea-crossing bridge was almost submerged by rising seawater. The news was constantly reported on TV.

Claudia sat on the passenger seat of Ben’s Rolls-Royce, looking uneasy and worried.

Although Scott said those words to provoke Ben, what he said did make sense.

Ben didn’t love her.

This was an established fact.

So naturally, he wouldn’t care about her feelings. But why did he come to the suburbs when it was pouring down outside?

Claudia didn’t dare flatter herself, but these thoughts lingered in her mind.

Suddenly, the phone rang abruptly in the tight space.

The moment Ben took out his phone, Claudia caught a glimpse of the caller ID out of the corner of her eye, and it was Hanna.

Ben answered the phone, his voice low and a little hoarse, “Yes?”

“Have you got Claudia? Is she OK? Is she caught in the rain?”

Since it was extremely quiet in the car, Claudia could hear clearly what Hanna was saying on the phone. Suddenly, she realized something.

It turned out that Ben didn’t come to the suburbs to pick her up voluntarily, but Hanna asked him to do so.

A man actually needed some other woman to remind him to take care of his own wife. How ridiculous!

But Claudia didn’t find it funny. She put her hand on her throbbing heart, gasping for breath, the lump in her throat choking her.

“She’s fine.”