Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 323

Chapter 323: The ‘After investigation ’
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While Keon was worried about the safety of Ariana, Mateo was rushing to investigate this matter. He stepped out of the Nelson mansion, closely followed by Penny who was looking at him with an upset expression.

“Where are you going, Matt? I thought that you were going to escort me to the ball!?” Penny was an inch away from shrilly shrieking and the only reason she held herself back was because people were looking at her and Mateo.

She didn’t wish to show her true face in front of so many people who took her as a kind, demure and gentle woman.

However, even with her mask strapped in place, Penny was finding it challenging to suppress her anger.

How could Mateo leave in the middle of the party just like this? What would others think if they saw her alone? Would they not think that Penny was not treated as well as she pretended and showed off?

She had always told her girlfriends that her family put her above themselves and their work because she was born with a sickly body.

They even wanted to use a live donor to save her life, but it was she who was too kind to do such a thing and thus refused her parents and brothers.

If Mateo were to leave now, then, her image as the favoured daughter of the Ashford would be ruined.

“I told you that I have something important to do at the studio,” Mateo answered Penny even though his patience was running low. “And I did escort you, didn’t I?”

Once he was finished speaking, Mateo rolled his eyes and then turned to walk away but Penny couldn’t let him leave like this.

“Then what about me?” Penny asked in a hushed voice. “Are you going to leave me alone here?”

“I asked you to return with me, Penny,” Mateo said to the woman who was bent on harassing him. “But you said that you said that you wanted to stay. So I decided to leave on my own, but now you are refusing to let me do that too.”

” Do you want me to miss my appointment and continue accompanying you to a silly party?”

Penny did not agree, but she did not disagree either.

After a very long pause, she said to Mateo, “Can you not stay an hour or so with me, Matt? Just a bit more hours, once Mister Adrien cuts his birthday cake we can go back.” Her voice was half coaxing and half whining.

Even though Penny was an Ashford, she still held the Nelson in reverence. Not to mention a bunch of her friends were having a blast inside the ballroom.

She would rather not be the only one returning home and missing all the fun.

“Penny, do you seriously not understand the meaning of ‘urgency?’ When I say it’s urgent, it means that I have to rush to my studio, no matter what,” Mateo was not even surprised at her selfish request, in fact, this was how Penny had always been.

He was just tired having dealt with her all evening.

Penny pursed her lips, she wanted to say something more, but then Mateo’s phone started to ring and disrupted her.

“Hello?” Mateo answered the call with a frown. He nodded before saying to the person on the other side, “I will be returning shortly, please ask him to wait for me.”

With that, he turned on his feet and started to walk away.

“Mateo!” Penny shrieked when she saw that the man had left her behind and was already headed towards the parking lot.

She stomped her feet on the ground and looked at the entrance of the ballroom where the party was being held. Her gaze flickered as she continued to look at the glamorous decorations and her brother who was heading back.

In the end, Penny turned on her feet and walked inside the ballroom decisively. She didn’t get a chance to speak with Nicolai tonight, even though the two of them were under the same roof.

She would rather not leave without getting an opportunity to snare Nicolai and have him whipped around her little pinky.

On the other side, at the small storehouse which was away from the main mansion of the Nelson family.

“Did you find every single one of them?” Noah asked Edward as he picked up a golf club and polished it with a clean rag.

Edward looked at the men who were tied and thrown on the dirty ground of the storehouse.

He clenched and unclenched his fingers before honestly replying to Noah, “We have caught each one of these bastards, Master Noah.”

Noah hummed as he picked up a golf ball and walked over to where the men were lying on the floor. He handed the ball to Edward who crouched down and placed it on the head of the man at the center.

“Now…what were you doing here?” Noah asked in an awfully calm and civil voice, but it sent a jolt of terror down the spine of the men who were caught.

“We were just —— we were just here to have some fun——AHHH” the man screamed in terror as Noah brought down the golf club which hit the side of the man’s forehead.

The sound of bone cracking echoed in the silent storehouse.

Pain shot throughout the body of the man who was on the floor as blood started to ooze from his temple.

“I will give you one last chance,” Noah said as he brought his club down. “What are you doing here?”

The man eyed the end of the golf club with fear in his eyes. When he accepted this job, he didn’t think that he would end up being caught by such a high-profile and dangerous man.

Just as he was hesitating, Noah raised the golf club—

“We were hired! We were hired by a woman,” the man couldn’t stop himself and blurted out the truth in his panic.

Noah, however, didn’t stop and smacked the golf club right across the jaw of the blabbering man.

“And who is this woman?”