Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 130

Chapter 130: Throwing bets
“This is not going to end well,” Zena could already see where this situation was going to head, given that her brother was not going to back down.

Neither would Noah as he came especially to warn Nicolai.

Zayden, on the other hand, was amused by the tension rising in the room. He seemed quite interested in who would throw hands first. He turned to Zena and said, “Zen, why don’t we make a bet? If Noah throws hands, then I will win and if Nicolai does, then you will win?”

Hearing his words, Zena was speechless. Was this the time to make bets?

Seeing that she was uninterested Zayden clicked his tongue. He turned to look at Jon, and he questioned, “What about you, Jon? Dare to make a bet?”

“I bet two thousand dollars on Mister de Luca,” Jon had heard about Noah and his temper. He was the kind of man who did not raise his voice even when he was on the verge of losing his temper.

How could he raise his hand on Nicolai?

“Then I will bet on Noah,” Zayden leaned back as he watched the show unfold in front of him. He was acting as if one of the two men was not his cousin.

Noah ignored the subtle whispers behind him. His gray eyes stared at Nicolai who stared right back at her. The only difference was that Noah was scowling while Nicolai looked calm.

“Mister De Luca, I believe you are not aware what kind of woman, my wife is,” Noah spoke after a long time. “She is angry with me. Something that I will accept, but one of these days her anger will subside, and she will return to my side. I hope that this will clear your head which had been muddled.”

Nicolai’s lips curled up. He knew that Noah was confident, it was reflected in his gaze. However, Noah’s confidence was doomed to shatter.

If anything, if there was someone who did not understand Ari, it was Noah and not him.

“Then why are you here?” Nicolai offered with a shrug. He clasped his hands behind his head and stated, “If you are so confident of your wife’s affection for you, then there is no reason for you to ask me to back off. Because no matter what, your wife will still choose you in the end, right, mister Nelson?”

“Nico…” Zena wanted to stop her brother as she could sense that he was attacking Noah’s self-esteem as a man.

However, Nicolai glanced at her and she had to swallow her words back.

Seeing that his sister had turned silent, Nicolai turned to look at Noah. He waited for Noah’s response as he wished to hear what this man would say.

‘Let’s see how deep your understanding of your wife is, Mister Nelson,’ Nicolai thought while moving his chair left and right with his feet.

The ability to speak seemed to have been stripped off from Noah. He stared at Nicolai for a long time. That’s right, if he were so confident that Ari would come back to him, what was he scared of? Why did he come here to ask Nicolai to back off?

Inwardly, Noah knew that Ari would not come back. This was why he did not want Nicolai to help Ari. Only when she had nowhere to go, would she turn to look for his help.

The pawn that he had raised, needed to rely on the king alone but if there was another king, why would the pawn follow him alone?

Noah seemed to have jolted awake. He stared at Nicolai who curled his lips and stated disdainfully, “It seems like you are finally awake from the daydream.”

His words made Noah’s expression turn livid.

“If I am daydreaming then what about you?” Noah sneered coldly. “Do you believe that Ari would agree to be with you? Mister De Luca, you need to wake up as well. After all, you cannot give Ari what she deserves.”

“How do you know that if I don’t have the chance?” Nicolai stated proactively. He looked at Noah and then stated calmly, “You couldn’t give her what she wanted in the past three years, I should at least be given three months. Who knows maybe you will see her carrying my child?”

BANG!

THUD!

The sound of a chair falling on the floor followed by the sound of someone getting punched in the face echoed in the room.

Zayden clapped his hand and said to Jon, “I won the bet, now hand me the money.”

Jon sighed as he looked at Noah who had lost his temper for the first time and then took out two thousand dollar bills before handing it to Zayden.

“If you are done can we step in now?” Zena asked while looking at her cousin with disgust on her face.

Nicolai was being held by his collar by Noah and Zayden was busy counting the money he won.

“He won’t die from just a punch,” stated Zayden calmly as he pocketed the dollar bills. He then stood up from the couch and stared at Nicolai who seemed to be laughing in the face of pain. “If you take a closer look your brother is enjoying this.”

“Hit me more, more, more!” Nicolai said to Noah with a child-like glee, “What’s wrong? Can’t hit me anymore? That’s so boring. Are you even a man?” He continued provoking Noah, however the latter seemed to have woken up from the sudden haze of anger.

He pushed Nicolai back who stumbled and raised his hand to touch the blood that was dripping down from his nose.

“Aww man, I hope you did not crook my nose. It’s natural,” Nicolai joked as he wiped the blood with the napkins he had taken from the box on his table.

“Stay away from Ariana, she is not the kind of woman you can play with! If I see you next to her, I will——”

“You will what? Tell me. I am curious,” Nicolai jumped past the table and came to a stop in front of Noah. “You will do what? Kill me? Burn me? Bury me?”