Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 311

Chapter 311: Meeting Mateo
And while Penny was already thinking of a way to keep her status as the heiress of the Ashford family either by hook or by crook——- Ariana was headed towards the ballroom of the Nelson mansion.

But whether it was due to the alcohol that she had drunk just now or something else, Ariana felt everything in front of her become a blur.

There was an inexplicable surge of heat inside of her body and even if Ariana had never dabbled in such things before, as a doctor she noticed her abnormalities at once.

“Drugged…they actually drugged me?” Ariana tried to walk smoothly out of the ballroom, her eyes moved left and right as she searched for Nicolai.

She knew that her sister would make a move on her, but she never thought that Ariel would be so ruthless. They were sisters after all, even if they never got along—— they shared the same blood.

Though Ariana was angered by the disgusting actions of Ariel and Glynn, she wasted no more time by looking for the two of them.

This was not the time for her to fight for justice.

She had to get out of there and as much as she despised the idea of relying on someone else, Ariana knew that only Nicolai could help her.

Since the two of them came together, Ariana had no other options in front of her if she wanted to return home.

Get away.

She needed to run away.

‘I can’t breathe.’

‘When will these things stop happening to me?’

Ariana shook her head, trying and failing to shake away the heat that was bubbling inside her body like molten magma.

While being crushed by her head, she stumbled forward unsteadily. With her vision blurring, Ariana had no idea where she was going. As she tried to find her way through the crowd, she bumped into someone and apologized,

“I——I am sorry,” Ariana raised her head and looked at the man in front of her, but she could not see him clearly, as his entire face was blurred.

“Watch where you are going. It will not kill you,” the woman who stood next to the man spoke to Ariana in a harsh voice.

The woman thought that Ariana, who looked so beautiful that she could enchant any man, purposely bumped into Mateo, in an attempt to seduce him.

She had seen many women using such tactics, her being one.

Mateo, on the other hand, paid little to no heed to the woman beside him. With a glass of wine in his hands, he looked at the woman who had bumped into him.

“Mom?” Mateo called out instinctively but then stopped himself just in time.

Though the woman in front of him resembled his mother to the point where he was almost certain that the two of them were made from the same mould—— he knew that she was not his mother.

Kaylyn Ashford was a beautiful woman and despite maintaining her youth well, there was no way his mother could ever look so young. So who was this woman in front of him?

The woman raised her head and met his gaze. Mateo sucked in a breath as he peered in those light blue eyes, which were similar to his father’s.

“You——are mistaken. Now if you will excuse me,” the woman said to him before pushing him away lightly with her small hand. Mateo noticed that her little pinky was slightly crooked, even this little detail matched with his mother.

His mother was also born with a crooked little finger.

Before he could even digest the information pushed on his head, the woman walked past the crowd in a zigzag pattern.

Mateo, who was shocked by his boots, could not recover from his shock for a long time. By the time he snapped out of his daze, the woman had walked away.

“Master Mateo, would you like to accompany me to the garden?” The woman who stood next to him was upset when she saw how Mateo was still staring in the direction in which the beautiful woman left.

She tried to attract his attention by saying, “I am not wearing anything underneath my dress.”

“Good for you …” Mateo muttered as he shoved the wine glass in the hands of the woman and then rushed in the direction where the pink-haired woman left.

He jogged past the crowd while his head moved left and right, he was searching for the woman who resembled his mother so much that he couldn’t ignore it.

There were also those enchanting eyes that reminded him of his father.

That woman was like the perfect love child of his parents.

But like a mirage disappearing, that woman seemed to have disappeared as well. Like she never existed.

“Fuck!” Mateo cursed as he brought both his hands to his and forcefully pulled at the strands of his hair. Why did he stand inside the ballroom like an idiot just now? Why did he not stop that woman right away!?

He pinched his brows and then turned his body to the side harshly.

“No, it’s not over yet,” Mateo muttered as he took out his phone. He called his assistant and said to him, “Hello, yeah it’s me. There is something that I need you to do…find someone for me.”

Away from the ballroom and at the back of the garden of the Nelson mansion, Ariana stumbled past the corridors. The light was shimmering in front of her before turning into tiny bokeh points, which moved further and further away from her.

Just like her splintering sanity.

She used to take extreme pride in the fact that she could control herself and her emotions at all points, but now with the cocktail of drugs and alcohol, her entire being was on the verge of breaking down.

And could anyone tell her why the fuck she was looking for Nicolai like a drowning woman?

Why did that motherfucker come into her life?

Would her life ever return to how it was?

“I need to get a grip,” Ariana muttered just as she stumbled into someone again. She apologized, “I am sorry——”

“Watch where you are going, you fucking bitch.”