Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 274

Chapter 274: Ethereal not beautiful
“Noah! Noah, you need to calm down,” Brandon stretched his arms in front of Noah when he saw him staring at Ariana and Nicolai with that murderous gaze of his.

He was staring at the two of them like he wanted to obliterate something or someone ——more like a certain someone.

“He is touching her!” Noah breathed out, his teeth were crushed against one another as he stared at Nicolai dragging Ariana by her wrist.

He was so fucking insufferable. The way he touched and teased Ariana even when she told him not to, Noah couldn’t help but find Nicolai frustratingly annoying.

“Why is she even allowing him to put his hands on her, that boorish man just doesn’t understand the meaning of no! She should keep that man at arm’s length,” Noah hissed under his breath.

He looked like a man who had lost the last and only bottle of his favourite liquor and was now suffering from withdrawal symptoms for the day.

And Brandon didn’t know whether he was ready to take care of a drunken man —— one who had lost the chance at love.

He was not paid enough to keep up with this bullshit alright?

“Can we just go back to the company? I believe we have tons of things to do, other than stalking your ex-wife,” Brandon said to the man, but Noah was in no mood to listen to anything at the moment.

With his jaw clenched, and his face scrunched up in raw fury, he walked past Brandon. His feet never faltered as he chased after Ariana and Nicolai.

“Noah! You can’t go after her—— and you are going after her,” Brandon stomped his feet on the ground while rubbing his forehead.

‘I must have done some really heavy sins for me to meet and befriend someone like Noah,’ thought Brandon.

A part of him did not want to chase after Noah, but when he thought about how unstable that man was currently, Brandon sucked in a breath and turned on his feet before calling out,

“Noah, wait for me!”

The two men hurried after Nicolai, who brought Ariana to the finest boutique of the mall as well as the Lonest City.

“Woah, he really knows how to spoil his woman,” Brandon muttered as he stepped inside the boutique.

It was a beautiful shop and with one glance anyone could tell that only the rich and privileged could afford to purchase any sort of clothing from this boutique.

With its creamy beige walls and golden lights and chandeliers that were scattered all over the shop’s roof and corridors, it looked classic and beautiful.

Brandon, however, closed his mouth the second when Noah glanced at him. He seemed to have said something wrong in the heat of the moment.

While Noah glared at his assistant and best friend, Ariana made her way to the front of the shop with Nicolai.

Her eyes fell on the several mannequins that were standing against the wall. Each one of them was dressed in the finest dresses made from the finest materials.

These dresses were something that Ariana could only see and not touch. Even when she was Mrs. Nelson, she was only given the bare minimum and nothing else.

As long as she did not bring embarrassment and humiliation, her mother-in-law did not care about anything and even taught her to think of her family before anything else.

“Mister de Luca, this shop seems costly,” Ariana whispered to the man after looking away from the dresses that were placed on display.

She wasn’t allowed to wear them when she was Mrs. Nelson and now that she was a nobody how could she wear something so expensive?

“It’s not expensive,” Nicolai said to her without an ounce of worry on his face.

‘Of course, it’s not expensive for you. But my wallet would commit suicide if I were to purchase something from this shop,’ Ariana thought worriedly.

“What a pleasant surprise, Mister de Luca,” a woman walked over to where Nicolai stood with Ariana. While Nicolai was studying all sorts of dresses that would look fire on Ariana ——

The latter was panicking. If not for the fact that Nicolai held her wrist like shackles were tied to her wrist, Ariana would have turned on her feet and run out of the shop.

Maybe that was the reason Nicolai continued to hold her even though she asked him to let go of her.

“Sybil,” Nicolai greeted the woman with a kind smile and Ariana, who was fretting about the cost of the dress, paused and turned to look at the woman in front of them.

Sybil was a beautiful woman, with dark red hair tied in a bun——- she was dressed in a white blouse neatly tucked in her black pencil skirt and heels that could stab someone to death if she were to step on them.

And she was the kind of beauty Nicolai would totally take to his bed.

That left a bitter taste in Ariana’s mouth as she did not like the idea of meeting with one of his exes.

However, in the middle of her train of thought Ariana inwardly gasped and her eyes widened.

‘Why does it matter to me if this man has slept with her?’ Ariana questioned herself and unfortunately for her, the answers that she reached were enough to leave her shaken up.

“How may I help you today?” Sybil asked as she glanced at Ariana with a scrutinizing gaze. However, it was for only a second before she looked away.

“I need a dress.”

“For yourself?”

“Hilarious Sybil,” Nicolai rolled his eyes before putting his hand on the small of Ariana’s back and pushing her forward. “For her of course.”

Sybil frowned lightly before turning to look at Ariana who sucked in a breath, prepared to be thrown out of the boutique.

But then she heard Sybil say, “Nico, you know that I don’t get involved with the women you are dating. The last time I was kind enough to give a discount to one of your women, and she tore a million-dollar dress just because you broke up with her.”