Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 219

Chapter 219: Torn hearts
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Lexie was satisfied with the answer of the woman, she was glad that Ariana knew her position without her doing anything too extreme.

“You really do not need to do something so bothersome,” Lexie said to Ariana even though she had entirely different thoughts going on in her head. “But if that is what makes you comfortable, then do as you please.”

She stood up from the stool on which she was sitting and patted her plated pale pink skirt. Lexie then turned to look at Ariana who was wiping her medical equipment with a sanitizer and a clean cloth.

After a small pause she added, “Grandpa Nelson came back yesterday. If you have the time, you should go and visit him.”

Ariana paused in her actions, after a second she nodded and then continued with her work. “I understand, I will——”

However, at that very moment, her phone rang and Ariana reached forward to pick it up. However, her actions were too quick, and it surprised Lexie who glanced at the phone and then at Ariana.

Something flashed in her head as she smiled at Ariana who looked back at her and explained, “No, this is because I was worried that there was an emergency.”

“There is no need to worry, Ariana,” Lexie said with a sweet smile on her face. “You and Noah are divorced already, so even if there is someone else, I don’t think you need to explain anything to anyone.”

With that, she patted Ariana on the shoulder and added, “I will be going now, I will see you at Grandpa Nelson’s birthday banquet?”

“I guess so,” Ariana answered the woman who clapped her hands and said, “Perfect.”

Ariana watched Lexie walk out of the small examination room and then turned her attention to her phone. Her heart was thudding as she opened it, however as soon as she opened the phone, the beating of her heart skidded to a halt when she saw Ariel’s name.

Damn it.

It was her sister.

[Ari, I know that the two of us separated on a sour note, but there is something that I want to say to you. Can the two of us meet? There is this bag that I wanted to buy if you could come and see me in the mall——-]

Ari deleted the message without reading any further. Even though she found it difficult to go against her old habits she put her family before herself, she would never do something so foolish as to go where Ariel asked her to meet.

She raised her hand and rubbed her head, “What am I doing ?”

However, even though she ignored the message, Ariel must have seen the read notification and immediately sent another message to her.

[Come on, Ari, you are being a bit too much. Stop acting like a coward and come meet me.]

Coward. That was right, according to her family, she was indeed a coward.

There was only one person who called her a warrior.

She wasn’t concerned about being called a coward, it was not a big thing to her. But someone just had to push her buttons and call her brave.

Now she fucking hated being called a coward.

[I am not a coward, I just don’t want to see you. Stop badgering me.]

After she was done sending the text to Ariel, she closed the chat window and then scrolled down the texts until she found the very name that she hated more than being called a coward.

She tapped on the name and looked at the conversation that she had started three weeks ago. After that very day when Nicolai touched her in every way he absolutely had no right to do so, and yet, he had gotten angry at her when she wanted to tell him that it was not something she liked.

Her :

[Hey, I wanted to apologize to you, Mister De Luca. From your reaction I perceive, you thought that I was saying something rude about you, but I only meant to say that it was not something that I wanted. I really did not mean to disrespect you, I am sorry if it sounded like such.]

[This is Ariana Harlow.]

Nicolai read those messages, but he never replied to her, this was over three weeks ago. Including the time when she handed a share of debt to the debt collectors who came knocking on her door.

Of course, Ariana did not have a million. She could only hand them her entire salary, with only two hundred dollars for herself kept aside.

Though the men said a few harsh words, they did not hurt her.

It was most probably because Nicolai asked them not to.

In three weeks, Ariana had been keeping an eye on the messaging app, just in case she missed a text.

Like just now.

She had no idea why she was even waiting for Nicolai to text her, was it because she felt upset that she might have said something hurtful?

“What on earth is wrong with me?” Ariana muttered as she closed the texting app.

For three weeks, Nicolai’s touch and his burning gaze had tormented her. Like a broken record, the scene that took place at the De Luca house kept appearing in her head.

The way he touched her, held her and looked at her —— it kept replaying in her head again and again.

Every night when she was alone, Ariana would cover her face and question how she lost control of herself. She had actually slapped a man by letting her temper get the best of her.

She had never even raised her voice. And who did she slap? Her creditor and the leader of the phantoms.

“Ariana, there were so many ways to die, why did you have to choose the most brutal one?” Arian muttered.

This thought was alone to torment her, but it was not enough as Ariana couldn’t help but remember how she had yelped and groaned against the man.

She had groaned.

Gosh.

It was as if another entity had taken over her body and Ariana hated it, every bit of it.

But the thing that she hated even more was that she had said something that pushed Nicolai to the point where he almost punched her.