Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 264

Chapter 264: Penelope questioning her lineage
In an expensive penthouse in a building in the middle of Lonest City,

A young woman had just stepped inside the room that belonged to her brother, she peered around the silent room and patted her bosom when she saw that her brother was still busy with socializing and hadn’t returned.

“Oh, thank goodness, I thought I would not be able to sneak out,” Penelope muttered as she headed out of the room that was connected to the living room while her brother’s room was right across her room.

She was dressed in a mini black dress that hardly reached past her upper thighs with killer heels.

Her long blonde hair was curled and tossed behind her back, while her green eyes held a lustful look in them. Which only became even more prominent as she had brushed a smoky makeup on her eyes.

Penelope slowly and carefully made her way out of the suite, she had wasted hours preparing for the meeting with Nicolai. She did not want anyone to interrupt her while she was heading to meet the man of her dreams.

Though she knew it was too late, good things only happened at such hours. Like getting roughened up in Nicolai’s bed.

However, just as Penelope tiptoed around the tea table, the sound of a ding echoed in the now-silent penthouse, which caused her to jump three feet in the air.

“Goddamn it!” Like a cat whose tail had been stepped, Penelope jumped in the air feeling angry and frustrated as she turned to glare at the culprit which was none other than a small smartphone.

“What in the world, why did Keon leave his phone here?” Penelope muttered as she made her way to the device which was alight with a bluish hue. She was used to peeking at her brother’s phone and didn’t feel anything wrong with it.

Penelope picked up the phone and carelessly skimmed through the notifications that was until she reached the message that was left behind by Emil.

[Brother, did our parents have another child?]

It was a simple message with a joking undertone but as Penelope looked at the woman whose face was much too similar to her parents, she felt like all the air had been knocked out of her lungs.

To Emil, Ariana looked similar to just their mother, but Penelope was a woman, and she was quick to notice even the smallest detail.

She, with one glance, could see that the woman in the picture shared the same blue eyes as her father. Even her nose was a perfect copy of Mister Ashford.

All of a sudden, it became laborious for Penelope to breathe.

‘Miss Penny is beautiful but ——compared to her brothers and parents, she doesn’t look as beautiful.’

‘You are right. Even her blonde hair and green eyes—— if not for the fact that her DNA matched with Madam… I would have thought that she was not her daughter.’

‘It is rumoured that she takes after the previous matriarch.’

‘The previous matriarch indeed had blonde hair, but she was too beautiful. Miss Penny seems to be lacking something.’

‘I sometimes wonder, is she really the Ashford daughter?’

Penelope, who was born with distinct features from her parents and brother, was often condemned by the socialites and the servants.

Yet, her mother had comforted her by telling her that she took after her grandmother who had blonde hair and green eyes.

And Penelope had never ever questioned her lineage but now ——

“Why …why does this woman look so much like the mother?” Penelope bit her lip until it started to bleed.

Before she knew it, her fingers had already decided. With a quick swipe, she sent the picture of the woman to her phone and then deleted the messages as if they never existed.

However, even after deleting that message, Penelope felt her body tremble with unease.

“This… I have to investigate this woman,” Penelope muttered distractedly. Her eyes were filled with crazed thoughts as she immediately called her assistant, “Hello, yes. There is something I need you to do for me, and don’t tell this to my brothers.”

Her eyes were determined as she said to her assistant, “I have found a donor for my heart surgery. However, I am afraid that my brothers will stop me. So just try to get the blood sample of that woman, along with her nails and hair for confirmation. We need to be careful until the end, after all. What if her heart doesn’t match my body?”

Once she was done, Penelope ended the call, her hands were shaking so much that it was hard for her to hold the phone between her fingers.

She hoped that the woman just held the resemblance to her mother and nothing else. But if that woman was more than that, then——

A ferocious look flashed in Penelope’s eyes. “Since you have already lost everything, losing your life shouldn’t be a big loss, no?” Her lips curled up in a sly smirk.

Penelope straightened up and then fixed her appearance. Penelope was only playing around when she said that she wanted to marry Nicolai.

Though there was determination, there was no desperation in her pursuits.

But after reading that message, Penelope was desperate.

“I need the de Luca name behind mine, no matter what,” Penelope gritted her teeth as she said those words. Only when Nicolai was by her side, would she be able to kill that woman without leaving a trail behind.

The Ashford family was neutral, but the de Luca family was active in the underworld. With Nicolai helping her, it shouldn’t be a problem.

Penelope marched down the corridor after she stepped out of the elevator, her gaze fierce and sinister.

“Nicolai de Luca, now you have no choice other than marrying me,” she muttered. Since she had no choice but to bring Nicolai to her side, then that man had no choice either.

“Achoo!” Nicolai, who had just stepped out of his company sneezed loudly, he wiped his nose with the back of his sleeve and muttered, “Is it Pallas who is missing me?”

When he thought about Ariana, a sweet smile spread on his lips and Nicolai didn’t waste his time before texting Ariana,

[Are you asleep?]

It took a while for the woman to respond.

[It is two O’clock at night and I had a morning and evening shift, you better have a very good reason for texting me, Mister de Luca.]

His smile widened even more as Nicolai responded ——

[Just wanted to greet my favorite woman before anyone else.]

[Fuck the right off, Mister de Luca.]