Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 221

Chapter 221: The incident from the past (2)
Ariana turned her attention to the screen of her phone and her expression changed when she saw who was calling her.

“Go ahead,” Jeremy was lying on the bed and didn’t see the name of the caller, with his hands placed on his abdomen he said to Ariana, “If it’s Noah can you tell him that I am not here? I would rather not hear his nagging. That would be so annoying.”

Even though Ariana’s emotions were in turmoil, she nodded and agreed with Jeremy.

“I will,” Ariana smiled and answered him before picking up the phone and striding out of the examination room.

She came to a stop in a corner where no one walked by and answered the call, “What is it, mother?”

The reason she answered this call was because Ariana knew that her mother could be stubborn when she needed something. Wasn’t this why she changed her number for the fifth time after she blocked her previous numbers?

“Ariana,” her mother’s hoarse voice came from the other side. “It seems to me that contacting you is getting harder and harder.”

“Then you don’t have to contact me,” Ariana smoothly answered while looking at the empty corridor. Once in a while, the silence would be broken when someone screamed in one of the wards.

A sigh came from the other side before Mrs Harlow started speaking, “Ariana, I do not understand when you will stop with the tantrum that you are throwing,” her words caused Ariana to clench her fingers so tightly that the phone in her hand creaked.

“However, I do wish that you will stop with your tantrum. We wouldn’t want another repetition of that incident, do we? After all, I heard that someone in your hospital broke their leg because of your actions.”

“It wasn’t my fault,” Ariana did not know how Mrs. Harlow knew about such things, but she wasn’t surprised as her mother often kept an eye on her. What she did and whom she met, Mrs. Harlow always kept watch on these things.

“Do you really believe that? I remember when you said the same thing when you were young and the next thing I knew was that your father and I had to kneel in front of the parents of that boy who almost died because of you. Do I need to be prepared for the same thing this time as well?”

Her mother’s words were like a whiplash as Ariana stiffened.

The memories of the past flickered past her head as she remembered what happened with the boy that her mother spoke of.

‘I like you, Ari,’ the man around the age of sixteen stood in front of her. His expression was shy and his lips pursed in a soft smile. He was holding a bouquet in his hands as he looked at Ariana. ‘Please agree to date me.’

Ariana looked at the young man whose brown hair was gelled back, and he looked decent with his light-brown eyes staring at her. However, Ariana had no desire to date anyone at the moment.

‘I am sorry,’ she said to the boy with an apologetic expression. ‘I don’t even know you. So even though I am grateful towards your feelings, I cannot accept your feelings.’

However, as soon as she finished speaking the demeanour of the young man changed. He stared at her with an expression that terrified Ariana. He took a step toward Ariana and Ariana quickly took a step back,

‘You don’t like me? You should be glad that I am showing you the affection that you might not receive from anyone,’ the boy spoke harshly causing Ariana to furrow her brows.

‘Isn’t this coercion? Since you proposed to me, I am entitled to refuse right? Why are you reacting like that?’ Ariana said to the young man. She turned to look at the sun that was setting on the horizon and became worried when she saw that the clouds were gathering in the sky.

‘It’s going to rain tonight,’ she thought. If she did not return home and started cooking then her mother would lock her in the basement again. Ariana did not want that to happen.

She turned her attention to the boy and said, ‘I will be taking my leave now. Once again I am grateful to you, but your feelings are something I cannot accept currently.’

With that, she turned to leave when she heard the boy say,

‘If you leave without accepting my proposal then you will regret it!’

Ariana did not take his words to heart as she was not worried about getting bullied. Something like this was normal to her but if she were to get locked in the basement on a stormy night then she wouldn’t be able to sleep.

However, just as she stepped past the door, something came hurtling and ——

BAM!

The young man ran past her and jumped down the stairs, his body rolled on the sharp stairs more than just a few times. While he rolled down his head crashed into the sharp edge of the marble stairs and his leg got twisted when it got entangled with the metal railing.

‘NO!’

Back to the present.

Ariana stood in the corner of the corridor while trying to suppress the surge of emotions in her heart. Everything was fine, she was in control —— the past was different from the present.

“Ariana, I suppose you should return home,” her mother said to her imperiously. “The last thing I need is you killing someone while trying to reach for something that you cannot achieve. In the past, you almost killed someone and now someone got hurt because of you, will you really stop when someone dies because of your actions?”

“I did not do anything wrong!” Ariana snapped. She was not wrong in the past or in the present.

“You! When did you learn how to persistently like that? I thought I taught you better than this?how dare you say such flaky lies to me, Ariana Harlow! “