Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 344

Chapter 344: The height of shamelessness
“You know, I knew that your mother ate something really, really wrong when she was pregnant with you,” remarked Nicolai while glaring down at Penelope. “However, I never knew that she drank several toxic chemicals mixed together like a cocktail. What the hell are you even talking about?”

Penelope turned around and looked at Nicolai with her eyes brimming with tears. She said to him, “Do you think I am wrong too, Nico? I thought you would understand me. When we were young, you promised me that you would bring me a heart and help me get better.”

“You said I was a funny and amusing girl, and it would be a shame for me to die.”

It took three damn whole minutes for Nicolai to remember this promise, and it was damn tiring and difficult with Ariana staring at him from behind.

And once he recalled that particular memory he wanted to curse. Which by the way he did after two seconds —

“Fuck!”

Nicolai whipped his head and turned to look at Penelope as if he were staring at a psychopath. He said to her, “I was fucking ten! A ten-year-old says plenty of things. I even said that I was going to be a superhero, do you see me flying around in a cape?”

Upon hearing his words, Penelope did not respond, instead, she lowered her head.

For Nicolai, those words might have meant nothing, but for her, those words brought indescribable warmth that Nicolai might never understand.

Back then he was her only friend.

“I am going to tell this to your brother, Penny,” said Aiden with disapproval written on his face. “I really — did you have to do this? Your name is already on the priority list for heart transplants next year, we are certain that you will find a suitable heart.”

“You really did not have to go through such lengths. Do you even realize what the Ashford family has to face because of your actions? Years of reputation will go down the drain if the media were to get even a whiff of this nonsense that you have done.”

Nonsense? Why did everyone think that she had done something wrong? She just wanted to live a normal life, and how could the life of a small doctor be compared to hers?

In fact, Ariana should be glad that a person of great importance like her was willing to take her heart and use it.

Why—why did she have to struggle so much? If she had silently gone with her, nothing would have happened. Nicolai wouldn’t be looking at her as if she were the lowest of the low scum.

Blinded by her own greed and feelings, along with fear, Penelope refused to admit that what she did was wrong.

“I was just doing this to help her!” Penelope smacked her hands on the floor underneath her. She raised her head and glared at Aiden. “Her family doesn’t like her, she has tons of debts, and she was even divorced by the man she married for her sister.”

“With a family like that, even if she stays alive, she will only suffer.”

“A life like that, isn’t it better to die? I was even going to pay back her debts such that she wouldn’t have to worry about anything. What did I do wrong? I am the daughter of the Ashford family!”

“While she is a nobody, why can I not use her for my survival? Ain’t I the important one? I am more indispensable than she could ever be! Her parents will not grieve her death if she dies, but mine will!”

Ariana sucked in a sharp breath. Not because she was shocked by the shameless claims that Penelope made, but because what she said was indeed correct. Her parents …they might really not grieve for her.

‘Maybe they will think that the money that they got after selling my heart, was too little instead,’ thought Ariana with a downcast expression.

“Hey…you really are not going to shut up, are you?” Nicolai asked with a raise of his brow. He looked at Penelope and sneered, “If you dare repeat those words, I promise that I will make the ten million dollars which you think are pennies to you and your family into a rather big fortune.”

Penelope, who was acting like a spoiled child, suddenly turned quiet. She raised her head looking shell-shocked, and she stammered, “You—for her…you are standing up for her? How can you stand up for her?”

“Why the fuck can’t I? And forget about her, if you had said and done the same thing to anyone, I would have done the same thing!” Nicolai snapped angrily. “It is one thing if she was willing but when she is unwilling, how can you force her?”

“You of all people have no right to say that to me, Nico. You are a fucking mafia Prince for god sake’s!”

Penelope realised a bit too late that she had said the wrong thing-

She started to say something else, but Nicolai cut her off. “So fucking what? You are damn right, I’m a fucking mafia prince. But who do you think you are?”

“Without your damn surname you are nothing, Penelope.”

He breathed like a wild bull before snarling, “And before you get some freaky ideas, Ariana owes that fucking debt to me! That is my dumb fucking money, I will collect it as I want and how I want. Who are you to meddle in my business?”

“Nico—”

“Shut up. I don’t want to hear another word from you for the night, you better go back home or else I will forget all about my manners and cut your face into pieces,” Nicolai threatened Penelope.

Ariana thought that the woman would ignore or maybe scoff at Nicolai’s threat as she seemed to know Nicolai and Aiden.

But contrary to Ariana’s expectations, Nicolai’s words seemed to propel Penelope into moving. She really did not say another word as she climbed to her feet and quickened her steps down the parking lot.

Nicolai watched Penelope leave, once he saw her stopping in front of her car, he stood up from the floor and turned to look at Ariana.

“Are you okay, Pallas?” He asked, his hand stretched out and reached forward. Nicolai pushed Ariana’s bangs aside and frowned when he saw that the bump on her head had swelled in a rather ugly way. “I should have fucking twisted that arm until it became useless.”