Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 302

Chapter 302: Kiss the prettiest
“Do I need to answer this question?” Ariana was lost for words. “I didn’t even choose anything yet.”

“You always chose truth in truth and dare, Miss Harlow. So I thought that you would pick it again this time,” Brandon smiled at her and remarked, reminding her of the many times they had played truth and dare. “You never once chose dare, but if you want——”

“No,” Ariana stopped Brandon from handing her a dare. She was not good with dares especially dares that made her do something that she did not like, Ari was a woman of habit, control, and integrity.

She didn’t like stepping out of the box and picking a dare would most certainly mean that she would have to step out of her comfort zone.

With her hand raised she pinched the bridge of her nose. It wasn’t because she found the question a nuisance, it was because Ariana had no idea whether she even knew what love was.

When she was chasing Noah, Ariana believed that she knew what love truly was in its purest form.

But ever since she stopped looking at the man whom she had once believed to be in love with, through tinted glasses —— Ariana was no longer certain about her desires and feelings.

Now she questioned whether love was just an illusion or if it even existed.

Her skin, however, prickled and the feeling of being watched stabbed her in the chest. Ariana lifted her head, and her eyes met with two violent and intense gazes.

What were these two men thinking, looking at her with such … a challenging gaze?

What in the world was this supposed to mean?

Noah stared at her with a desperation which Ariana was certain that she was imagining. It was impossible for Noah to feel desperate, especially when it concerned her.

However, he wasn’t the only one looking at her., Nicolai who was sitting beside her, also had his eyes on her.

And if Ariana was being honest, the circumstance she was placed in sent her into an epic panic and for some reason, she felt her heart flutter.

As for what those foreign feelings were, which were making her heart flutter, Ariana did not pay attention to them.

She couldn’t pay attention to them.

Her muscles started tightening and Ariana picked up the wine glass in front of her. She took a sip of the liquor in the glass and suppressed a wince when the alcohol burned her throat.

No sooner did she finish gulping down the sip of liquor that she felt the gazes of the two men change. Nicolai’s eyes exploded in a myriad of violent emotions, and rage started to radiate from his body in intense waves.

Noah, on the other hand, stared at her with that silent and oppressive gaze of his, the more he stared at her, the more Ariana could feel her chest constrict.

She could feel her heart being gripped by fear, and this fear was similar to that of a prey who was being eyed by the predator.

The intense emotions of these two men chained her to the chair on which she was sitting, making her fidget.

‘Why are they looking at me like that?’ As the two men pinned her with their gazes, Ariana felt an unfamiliar anger rippling through her as she continued ignoring the two men, who continued glaring at her.

What the hell do they expect from her? She had never led Nicolai on, and Noah? What was he upset about?

Why were they even looking at her like they expected something better from her?

Ariana, however, misunderstood the reactions of Nicolai and Noah.

Noah, who had been anticipating an answer from Ariana, couldn’t accept her silence. For him, Ariana’s silence was equivalent to non-verbal acquiescence.

He thought and believed that his ex-wife seemed to have grown tender feelings for the man beside her, which caused him to become upset and anxious.

Nicolai, on the other hand, was sulking like a child because he thought that Ariana refrained from answering Brandon’s question as she was still in love with Noah.

The two men with their assumptions ended up creating their own tragedies due to their overthinking.

The only person on the table who was filled with glee at that moment was Ariel. Her eyes remained fixated on Ariana, who had taken a sip from the glass which she especially prepared for her dear little sister.

“Alright, it’s my turn now,” Ariana ignored the blaming and accusatory glances that were aimed at her and reached out to pick up the bottle.

She twisted it such that the bottle rolled five times and came to a stop in front of Ariel.

Ariana cursed her luck before saying, “Truth or dare?”

“Dare, I have always been a bit on the bolder side,” Ariel replied with a sweet voice. However, she didn’t forget to take a jibe at Ariana even in that small window of opportunity presented to her.

Hearing her response, Ariana curled her fingers around the wine glass that she was holding. She narrowed her eyes subtly and commanded, “I dare you to stuff as many grapes as possible in your mouth.”

Ariel cared a lot about her image, which was that of an elegant and pristine woman. So when she heard Ariana’s dare, she knew that she was trying to embarrass her.

However, the dare was harmless, and she couldn’t refuse, especially not after saying such bold words.

Furious, she could only stretch her hand towards the fruit bowl and started plucking the purplish grapes that were sitting inside the bowl. Bit by bit, she filled her mouth with grapes until Ariel could no longer fit them in her mouth.

She filled her mouth until she started resembling a gluttonous hamster.

Once she was done, Ariel heaved a sigh of relief and started taking out the grapes from her mouth. She was worried that someone would see her like this, however unbeknownst to her, someone snapped her picture.

“There, I am done with the dare,” Ariel pretended to be unbothered even though embarrassment was simmering in her heart.

She then picked up the bottle and just like Ariana, she twisted it around such that the bottle rolled three to four times. It stopped in front of Noah.

Seeing this, Ariel’s eyes brightened.

‘What a perfect timing.’