I Stopped Checking, Then Found His Affair Chapter 05

I Stopped Checking, Then Found His Affair Chapter 05

“Clara Sterling!”

Julian Vane lunged toward the window.

He knelt on the floor full of broken glass, but still failed to catch the falling figure.

He could only watch as that figure fell, a blossom of blood splattering across the roof of the podium building

below.

Sienna Brooks covered her mouth, swaying so much she could barely stand,

“Clara…”

Tears fell once again, but this time, no one cared.

Julian Vane was in a state of disarray; his knees and hands, scraped by the glass shards, were bleeding

profusely.

But he didn’t care at all, and stumbled out.

While following the ambulance to send Clara Sterling into the ward.

Both of them sat outside the door, looking completely lost.

Their eyes, which previously held only each other, were now fixed solely on the door.

But the resuscitation did not go smoothly.

The doctor issued several critical condition notices.

When Clara Sterling was finally sent into the ICU, the doctor could only sigh incessantly,

“The patient’s will to live is very low. If possible, it’s best to have someone important to her accompany her.”

After several days of waiting, Julian Vane no longer looked well-dressed.

Instead, his eyes were bloodshot and he was unshaven.

Upon hearing the doctor’s words.

The image of Clara Sterling’s utterly desperate gaze as she clutched the photo frame and jumped flashed

through his mind.

His face turned white instantly, and the steps he intended to take forward were frozen in place.

“Right, right… we can call her father and mother.”

A hoarse female voice sounded in his ear.

It was Sienna Brooks.

She dialed Arthur Sterling’s number with uncontrollable trembling.

But she only received a busy tone.

“Pick up the phone…”

While Sienna Brooks was anxiously waiting for the call.

Julian Vane seemed to realize something.

He called his assistant,

“Clear all negative news regarding my wife, restore her reputation, and is the medical team I rearranged for

my mother-in-law ready for handover?”

But the other end of the line was silent for a moment before the assistant spoke hesitantly,

“Mr. Vane, Mrs. Martha Sterling… she passed away from a sudden illness caused by the harassment from

netizens.”

The moment the voice fell.

Both people present froze.

Sienna Brooks’s hand loosened.

The phone hit the smooth floor with a dull thud.

But it also broke the silence of the scene.

“What did you say?”

Julian Vane asked hoarsely.

He knew exactly how important her family was to Clara Sterling.

And because of that.

His current terror was even more complete.

But the assistant did not take back the words; instead, another bombshell was dropped,

“Mr. Arthur Sterling-Professor Sterling-he also died of a sudden heart attack due to the pressure from the

previous trending searches.”

In this moment.

Time seemed to slow down.

Simultaneously, they both recalled the image of Clara Sterling sitting paralyzed on the floor, her eyes hollow

as she looked at her phone.

Rumors and slanders, when placed upon an ordinary person, are a mountain.

Regret instantly crushed Julian Vane’s sanity.

“What have I done…”

On the day he was confronted by Clara Sterling.

He was merely shamed into anger and wanted to punish her a little.

To make her stop making such a scene over him and Sienna Brooks.

The girl he had adored since his youth.

He couldn’t bear to hurt her every time.

But Clara Sterling was indeed like her name.

She had her own steadfast principles and was unshakeable in what she believed.

So when he first accidentally cheated with Sienna Brooks and found it addictive.

He was panicked and afraid.

He couldn’t imagine what Clara Sterling would do if she found out he was involved with her best friend.

But Clara Sterling was too perceptive.

Or perhaps love and its absence are truly obvious.

Even the slightest shift in love, between two people who were once so deeply in love.

Is as glaring as if seen through a magnifying glass.

He simply decided to go all the way.

Completely embarking on a path of no return.

He even went as far as to prevent Clara Sterling from discovering his mistress.

Repeatedly obstructing her, even harming her every time she actually found a clue, just to stop her.

Countless times, as he looked at the pale face of Clara Sterling on the hospital bed.

He thought, heartachingly and pathologically,

As long as I can keep her, any means will do.

We love each other anyway; we’ll turn the page eventually.

Until he was caught in the act with Sienna Brooks by Clara Sterling.