Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 340

Chapter 340: Penelope uses brutal force
Penelope stared at Ariana with her mouth agape. Her face turned red in anger. She looked as if she were going to explode any second.

It took her a long time before she could recover from the harsh words that Ariana spoke to her.

“Do you not understand what I mean, Miss Harlow?” Penelope questioned Ariana. She let out a soft simpering laugh and said to Ariana, “I know that you are feeling overwhelmed, but I am indeed speaking the truth. If you agree to sign the live donor agreement, I will hand this ten million check to your family.”

“Everything is prepared, all it needs is my signature and nothing else.”

Ariana looked at the woman in front of her with an amused expression on her face. She now understood what Naomi meant when she said that after taking a bite of the chocolate bar, she could control her temper.

With the sweet delight in her system, even though Ariana wished to drive her fist in the face of the woman who was speaking words more foolish than a drunk man, Ariana somehow managed to control that very urge.

“I suppose you need immediate care, Miss Ashford. I will advise you to go and seek medical care at once,” stated Ariana in a polite manner. “I can assure you that I have no desire to sell my heart or my life for a mere ten million dollars. In your eyes, this sum might be enough to haggle for my life, but I apologize.”

Ariana stared right into the eyes of the woman before adding in a cold voice, “I might be poor and in debt, but that does not mean that I will give away my life for it. Everyone is entitled to live, and I don’t think you have the right to make the decision for me.”

She did not give a chance to Penelope to say anything and thrust it back into the hands of the crazy woman who had asked her to sell her heart.

With that, she turned on her feet and walked away from Penelope. This woman gave Ariana a weird feeling. It was challenging to explain, but it was similar to envy, anger and silent accusations.

Neither of those feelings made any sense, as Ariana was meeting Penelope for the first time in her life.

Penelope, who was rejected stared at Ariana, her lips curled in a vicious and disbelieving smirk. She crumpled up the check in her hand before chasing after Ariana.

She reached her in just a few strides and caught Ariana’s arm. Penelope turned Ariana forcefully around and glared at her maniacally.

“Do you know who I am?” She asked in a more or less hysterical voice.

Ariana looked at the hand of the woman with which she was holding her arm. It was like a vice, her long fingers with well-manicured nails dug into her skin and Ariana frowned.

Penelope was hurting her.

She tried to pull her arm away from Penelope. Ariana said to the woman, “Let go of me.” Her voice was even, and even her actions were polite.

“I asked you something,” Penelope hissed in a low threatening voice. “Do you know who I am?”

“And I asked you to let me the fuck go!” Ariana forcefully tugged her hand away from Penelope. She did not care about the woman when the latter stumbled and Penelope’s assistant had to help her straighten up.

She had asked Penelope to let go of her nicely, and the woman had not listened to her.

Penelope had never been treated like this before, she was so furious that she almost couldn’t control her rage. She actually nearly fell in front of Ariana.

If this was one of her servants, she would have broken the very hand with which Ariana had caused her to fall. How dare she treat her like this when she has nothing compared to her?

For Penelope, this was unacceptable. She raised her head and looked at Ariana, who despite her lowly bearing looked down at her like she was superior to Penelope.

‘This won’t do…I cannot let this woman find out the truth,’ thought Penelope. Ariana had an aristocratic bearing on herself, and this was when she didn’t even know that she was the Ashford family’s daughter.

What if she were to find out the truth? Ariana was treating her in such a manner despite being unaware of her origins. If she were to find out the truth—

Penelope shivered in fright.

No. She could not allow Ariana to find out the truth.

“Have you lost your mind?” Penelope questioned Ariana angrily as she stood up straight and levelled Ariana with a hard glare.

Her lips were twisted in a malicious sneer, “How dare you treat the daughter of the Ashford family like this? You lowly and poor bitch!”

“Do you even know that even a single nail of mine is pricier than your entire existence, as well as that of my family?”

The more she spoke, the more fervent Penelope became. Her eyes popped out of her sockets as she said to Ariana, “How dare you push me like that?”

“So, what about it?” Ariana raised her voice, feeling more and more annoyed with each passing second. “So what if you are the daughter of the Ashford family? Do you mean to say that the Ashford family is above the law?”

“You can demand my heart, but I can’t even push you away for the sake of my safety.”

Ariana took out her phone and turned on the camera. She sneered and said, “Go on. Say what you just told me, and I will post it for everyone to see. I want to see whether your family is so great that you can do anything that you want.”

“Stop recording me!” Penelope’s eyes widened when she realized what Ariana was doing. She covered her face and stepped behind her assistant, who was just as startled.

The man looked at Penelope who hid behind him and then turned his attention to Ariana before saying to her, “Miss Harlow, stop recording!” He couldn’t hide like Penelope, so he could only raise his hands and cover his face.

“What’s wrong?” Ariana laughed angrily. “Were you not shouting how great your Ashford family is? Come on, say ‘hi’. Tell everyone how the Ashford family can force anyone to become a live donor just because they have money.”