Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 272

Chapter 272: Once mine, Now his.
Turned out that Noah indeed did not have enough of the torment. Like some third-grade stalker, he asked Brandon to drive to the mall where Nicolai had taken Ariana and if that was not enough, he even followed them to a men’s boutique.

“Are we really going to follow them like this?” Brandon asked while browsing some suits that were hanging on the rack. He could not believe that his boss, who had never cared for Ariana, was suddenly following her like an abandoned puppy.

“Shut up, Brandon,” Noah hissed while watching Ariana shake her head in exasperation. When Nicolai stepped out of the dressing room, in black pants that clung to his muscled legs and a jacket with accessories coated from top to bottom.

It would have looked even better if Nicolai had the tact of wearing a shirt that was not slashed in places, which showed off his muscular torso.

“Mister de Luca. Do I need to remind you that this is a formal event?” Ariana said to the man with a helpless tone. “You cannot attend an event like such while dressed as if you are going there to seduce someone.”

“Is it working?” Nicolai asked with a grin as he stepped close to Ariana. “That’s the important thing.” His face leaned close to hers as if he were about to kiss her.

Fortunately, Ariana pushed his face away just in time because ——

“Noah, that rack is going to snap into half if you keep holding it so tight,” Brandon said to Noah, who had at some point twisted the metal rack into something else with his hands. “We will have to pay for it.”

However, the rack was the last thing in Noah’s mind. His eyes followed Ariana, who was now picking up clothes for Nicolai as if he were a child who could not do anything on his own.

While Nicolai looked at Ariana with a gaze he had no right to have.

“Here,” he heard Ariana say as she chose some clothing and accessories for Nicolai. She thrust the pieces of clothing that she had selected for Nicolai and said to him, “I picked them up as per your tastes, Mister de Luca. I think these will suit you.”

Nicolai took the clothes and gave her an expression filled with reluctance.

“I don’t want to, it is such a hassle to wear clothes that cover me from top to bottom,” he whined. His lips were pouting, and a sullen look was on his face.

“That’s because you are a shameless barbarian with no manners and tact,” Noah muttered under his breath, flames were burning in his eyes as he watched Nicolai flirt with Ariana.

“Mister de Luca, can you be a bit more proper?” Ariana said with her arms crossed. “I came with you because you said that you were having trouble selecting your clothes for the banquet. So, shouldn’t you listen to me?”

“I love it when you talk to me in that bossy tone, princess,” Nicolai narrowed his eyes and blew a kiss in the air. Usually, Ariana would have glared at him, but this time around she only moved to one side as if dodging the kiss.

“Mister de Luca, can you just try on your clothes?”

“Of course,” Nicolai stepped close to the dressing room but then paused and turned to look at Ariana before saying, “Don’t we look like a married couple?”

Creak.

The sound of something breaking attracted the attention of the two, and they turned to look in the direction simultaneously. However, when they peered at the corner, neither of them found anything.

“What was that?” Ariana questioned with a frown while Nicolai narrowed his eyes before turning to look at Ariana. “Eyes on me, Pallas. You want me to get jealous of a clothing rack now?”

Ariana rolled her with an exasperated sigh.

“Try the clothes on, Mister de Luca.”

“Yes, princess.”

Behind the clothing rack where Brandon had pulled Noah down with him, Noah was seething with anger.

“Calm down will you?” Brandon hissed at the man beside him. It was bad enough that they were stalking Ariana, yet Noah had to almost announce to the world that he was stalking his ex-wife. “Do you want everyone to know that the CEO of the Nelson corporation is doing something as shameless as chasing his ex-wife?”

Noah gritted his teeth as he spat, “He called her his wife, you want me to stay quiet and do nothing about it?”

“Strictly speaking, you also are not entitled to call her wife without adding the prefix ‘ex’ in front,” Brandon reminded Noah. He didn’t want Noah to forget the position he was in at the moment.

“Do you really have to remind me of it?” Noah asked, squeezing the words through his teeth.

Brandon simply shrugged, he refrained from speaking, but his stance was clear.

The two men stared at one another before Noah peered over the clothing rack and watched the dressing room’s door push open.

Nicolai stepped out again but this time around he was not showing off his body like before, he was clad in a thin turtleneck shirt with dual jackets. The inner one was light grey while the outer one was midnight black with a red cloak that covered only half of Nicolai’s gigantic frame.

On its lapel, there was a delicate accessory that had a blooming red rose made of rubies and a golden frame, thin chains of gold dangled from it reaching Nicolai’s waist.

The red fabric on the left reached the floor and was strapped in place by a belt that had a majestic diamond edge.

Anyone could see that the one who picked the outfit for Nicolai had paid attention to his appearance closely and only chose the best.

“Do I look good?” Nicolai asked Ariana with a smile.

The woman standing next to his side nodded with a small smile as she replied, “You look wonderful, Mister de Luca. The accessory just needs some tinkering, that’s it.”

‘Does it look good?’ Noah was taken back to the time when he married Ariana. Similar to how Ariana had picked up accessories and clothes for Nicolai, she had done the same for him.

It was the first time he was returning to the office after their wedding and Ariana came to look for him with a small diamond brooch.