Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 287

Chapter 287: Dual Investigation (2)
But——

Nicolai narrowed his eyes. His memory might be the shittiest one out there but he did recall the dog of Serpents telling his partner that killing and hurting Ariana was not allowed.

“Why though?” Nicolai’s eyes fell on the woman’s face who was sleeping quietly next to him. His eyes gleamed with a teasing glint as he pulled Ariana’s head on his shoulders before turning to look at Patrick.

“Pat,” he called out and the man turned to look at him through the rearview mirror.

“What, Nico?”

“Can you do a little digging for me?” Nicolai said to Patrick while skimming his fingers through Ariana’s hair who mumbled something before burying her face into his neck.

And if Nicolai didn’t stiffen like a cat who stepped on catnip. Then change his name. He was willing to permit that because he did stiffen and he stiffened to the point that he even slowed his breathing down.

“What kind of digging, if it’s Nelson——”

“Not the Nelson,” Nicolai had no interest in Noah. Even if he did have some, it was not important. If Serpents were targeting Ariana then it was much more important than Noah Nelson.

His eyes narrowed when he raised his gaze and met with Patrick’s. He then said, “Take a look at the Serpents’ past dealings including the Harlows. Find out if they have ever gotten close to one another.”

Patrick furrowed his brows but nodded nonetheless.

***

At the Nelson Corporation, Noah walked through the carpeted corridors. His lips were set in thin and anyone who saw him knew that there was something wrong with him.

Fortunately for the employees who were working overtime——Even if Noah was splintering and falling to the point where he wanted to crash and burn, he didn’t lose his patience with anyone.

He was as calm as he could have been at that very moment.

However, that patience only lasted until he reached his office. Once the door of his office was shut, Noah took off his suit jacket and hurled it on the ground.

“Investigate! Investigate everything from the top to bottom!” Noah ordered Brandon with a hint of impatience in his voice. “I want to see what Ariel has been doing in the last few years, including the day when she left the country.”

He wanted —— no he needed to know what that woman had been up to for the past three years and what else he had lied about to him.

Brandon crouched down and picked up the jacket that Noah had thrown on the ground. He dusted it off before saying, “It is going to be difficult, Noah. Three years have passed.”

“The only fucking reason you know the truth about the lies that Ariel has told you in the past is because rosy hair is really rare and she knows details despite not being the one who saved you.”

“It doesn’t take a lot of wits to put one plus one together but finding out the truth behind her sudden departure is going to be difficult. Why Ariel left, who helped her leave etc etc …this is not something that I can find after three years. ”

Brandon was not going to take such a heavy responsibility especially when he knew how furious Noah would be if he couldn’t track down everything.

The man wanted nothing less than perfection in everything.

Noah glared at him and Brandon knew that he was freaking serious about this investigation.

“I not joking, Brandon,” he said and Brandon rolled his eyes.

“I am not joking with you either,” Brandon stated firmly. “It’s not my fucking fault that you were a dick to Ariana for so many years. I told you did I not? I fucking told you that she loves you and she is nothing like what Ariel and Glynn told you about her.”

“Just how many times did I tell you to leave yourself a way out but did you listen? No! You were blinded by your hatred for her.”

He threw the jacket on the couch in the office before saying, “I will do what I can, Noah. But you might as well be prepared to interrogate Ariel.”

Brandon turned on his feet and walked out of the office, Noah watched him leave before closing his eyes. However, the fire burning inside of his chest was hard to control at that very moment.

Ariel’s lies, Ariana’s indifference —— what else was waiting for him?

The memory from a few hours ago crept inside of his head and he recalled how Ariana chose Nicolai over him.

The thought alone was enough to make him suffocate. Like a vice his own thoughts curled themselves around his heart, as the thorns that protruded out of them dug into his flesh.

Higher and higher the thorny vines went until he could no longer breathe.

Noah choked on his own thoughts and memories as he raised his foot and kicked the table which fell on the floor with a thump.

“Ariana!” He screamed as his body swayed forward. “Why! Why did you never say anything!” If only she had told him, if only she had held on a bit more ——

Why? Why doesn’t anyone love him? And if they do, why don’t they keep loving him?

‘Noah, you have to work harder. If you want to prove yourself, then you need to do more. This is nowhere enough, when I was six, I was already past this level and you are now ten.’

‘My poor baby…listen to your dad alright? I know you are working hard but Noah —— you are a Nelson. You are my grandson, you have to work harder than the rest. That’s the only destiny that you have.’

‘Can’t you do any better than this? No wonder, your dad was embarrassed when he was made to marry that mother of yours. It must be her lacking genes that you can’t even do half of what your dad and uncle could do.’

‘Noah! Noah…you have to become the best out of the best,’ his mother had clung to him one night, a wild look in her eyes which scared the eight-year-old Noah. ‘If you don’t —— then I will have no choice but to die! They all laugh at me, Noah! They laugh at me because you are not good enough.’

‘So work hard, my son. You have to work hard and listen to your mother —— if you don’t then I will have no choice but to kill myself because I cannot keep up with this humiliation.’

‘I——I could have been so many things but I chose to marry your father and sacrificed my happiness for you. You will not let me down, right? Right?’

And little Noah couldn’t tell his mother that he too was dying a little under the weight of hopes and dreams that were placed on his tiny shoulders.