Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 283

Chapter 283: Complicated
“Go inside the car and wait for me, Pallas,” Nicolai ignored the man and turned his attention to Ariana who stood behind him.

His giant figure shadowed Ariana behind him completely, making it impossible for Noah to even get a glimpse of Ariana.

“Get out of my way, de Luca!” Noah hissed at the man in front of him. His voice was thoroughly controlled, but Ariana felt and knew that Noah was furious.

The calmer his voice became, the more enraged he was.

This was what she learned from that incident.

“Go Pallas,” Nicolai repeated, his voice brimming with confidence as he stared at her with a grin on his face. “I will handle this.”

Ariana glanced at him before turning to look at Noah, when their gazes met ever so slightly, Ariana waited for the thumping of her heart or the light tremors that passed through her body every time Noah looked at her.

But they didn’t. It was surprising that she felt so indifferent towards him.

‘It scares me,’ Ariana thought as she turned her back on the man. She had loved Noah for thirteen years, but the second she chose to stop loving him, those feelings that used to torment her seemed to have vanished altogether.

Was it because she was so flawed that even love was as intense as a burning lamp?

A little blow and all the passion would be extinguished?

Maybe—— She didn’t even know how to love someone properly.

How will you, be when you are so broken?

Have you ever seen a monster love anyone?

The voices in her head stirred with a sweet delightful sigh and Ariana had to tune herself out of the world and her own mind to stop them.

Or else she would drown and suffocate with no one to save her.

“What are you doing, de Luca?” Noah fists a handful of Nicolai’s shirt, which was a sorry excuse for clothing as the shirt was torn and ripped in places.

Even a rag would look better than this.

“I have you your shot,” Nicolai raised his hand and then tugged Noah’s hand off his shirt. “You said that Pallas would choose you in a heartbeat, but she didn’t. In fact, she looks like she wants nothing to do with you.”

Noah growled in Nicolai’s face as he pushed him away from himself, wrenching his hand free at the same time as Nicolai stumbled.

“You think that by keeping her away from me, you can make her choose you? You think that if I am not by her side, she will pick you, de Luca?” Noah curled his lips in a disdainful sneer.

His eyes stared at Nicolai with a gaze that dripped with pure condescension.

“Ariana is a woman who likes to keep her reputation pristine and clean. Similarly, she also likes to keep her body clean and pure, do you think you are deserving of her?”

“You and her are the opposite. I am surprised that you believe that you even have a chance.”

Nicolai gritted his teeth. He was a confident man, alright. The last time he had an inkling of self-doubt was when he was sixteen and his cousin, Kayden, told him, that he fucked women better than him.

That was how Nicolai went on a rampage of fucking more women than Kayden, including the fuck buddies of Kayden. Before having them confess, he did it better.

What? He was not going to let that man stomp on his pride as a man. That was some serious shit.

But once he crossed twenty, those little instances where he lost belief in himself were gone and replaced by even more outrageous confidence.

However, at that very moment, Nicolai could not say a word in retort because Noah was right. Pallas was simply too pure, too pristine and clean.

If he was the mad hound of hell, then Ariana should be the finest angel of heaven. The two of them did not match in the slightest and yet, Nicolai did not want to let go of her.

He knew that he was unworthy of Ariana, but he craved her more than he craved anything else.

Since he could not quibble back, Nicolai delivered a low blow to Noah.

“That might be the case,” Nicolai brushed the dirt off his collar before stating, “But I didn’t kiss another woman while chasing after Pallas.”

In fact, he couldn’t even get himself off if he did not dream of Ariana.

His words worked wonders as Noah glared at him as he was looking at a dead man. But Nicolai had no desire to die just yet.

So he smiled at Noah, provoking him even further.

“There is no need for you to feel so smug,” Noah said to him with a biting voice. “You heard what she said just now. Ariana had loved me for thirteen years, you are wasting your time, de Luca. She might be angry but eventually, she will be mine.”

“We will see about that,” Nicolai shot back as he moved back and forth on his heels before turning around and walking to his car.

Noah stared at the man who was walking away with a deep gaze before turning on his heels and storming away.

There were a bunch of things that he needed to clear up, but that did not mean that he was going to let this matter slide so easily.

Nicolai was not going to snatch Ariana away from him.

He wouldn’t let him.

‘Ariana Harlow, this isn’t over just yet!’

Ariana shivered while sitting inside the car, she rubbed her forearms feeling a bit annoyed for no reason.

“Are you alright?” Nicolai asked as he slid inside the back seat of the car. He sat next to Ariana before saying to her, “If you don’t like it then I can ask Patrick to lower the temperature of the air conditioner.”

“No, it is alright. I am fine,” Ariana shook her head feeling a bit uncomfortable but not sick. She had expected the chapter named Noah in her life to come to an end.

But somehow the entire situation seemed to have become even more complicated.