Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 434

Chapter 434: Who among us?
‘This couldn’t be happening,’ Ari thought to herself, a drop of sweat trailed down the side of her temple as she raised her hand and pinched the space between her brows.

“Is that all you have to say, Miss Ashford?” Ari asked with an annoyed sigh. She knew that getting involved with Nicolai was going to be troublesome.

But she never thought that a few hours of letting her temptation and irrationality take over her sensibility, were enough for her to feel the bitter bite of reality.

Penny frowned upon hearing the annoyance in Ari’s voice, as this was not what she had prepared herself for.

She had thought that Ari would be angry enough to hit her, maybe scold her with harsh words and tell her how she was crossing her limits.

That way, she would then prove to her brothers and Nicolai that Ari had a face that she hid from everyone and was not as innocent as she made herself look.

Penny stared into Ari’s eyes which still had some of her earlier annoyance left, however, there were no traces of anger or resentment. Ariana was calm, despite the disrespect that she had shown to her.

‘What’s her game?’ Penny thought to herself as gritted her teeth. The more she looked at Ari, the more she realized that she could not understand her. And this made her feel powerless.

Her provocation was met with contempt, and Penny did not seem to like it in the least.

As she was used to having everything playing according to her rhythm for she knew how to manipulate anything and everything, Penny did not like the fact that Ariana’s reactions were against her wishes.

What Penny did not know was that unlike her, Ari never had any thoughts of marrying Nicolai. Nor did she ever think of relying on a man again.

Penny, who had depended solely on her father and later her brother, could never understand the desires and ambitions of a woman like Ariana, who believed that there was more to the world than just clinching a rich man and marrying him.

Her accusations thus fell on deaf ears as Ari didn’t even take them as an insult for she had never wanted or even imagined herself as Nicola’s bride.

From the beginning of her entanglement with Nicolai, she knew that she would only be taken to his bed and not to the aisle.

When Ari did not hear any response from Penelope, she sighed and spoke in a cold voice, “If that was all that you wanted to say then I do not see the need to continue this conversation any further.”

She turned to one side and was about to walk away when—

“Are you that content after becoming a whore?” A sneering voice called from behind and Ari felt the strings of rationality that were holding on to the remains of her senses, strain.

She twisted her body just enough to look at Penny sideways before saying in an overly calm voice, “What did you say?”

Penny scoffed as she crossed her arms in front of her not-so-generous bosom, which she had contoured heavily. “I said if you are so happy being a whore that you don’t seem to mind my words? You must be. I mean, if I were in your shoes then I would be too embarrassed to even raise my head.”

“But then again,” with a superior expression, she raised one shoulder and shrugged, “Maybe this is something that women of your class like doing? After all, becoming a man’s whore is the only way you can enjoy the riches, right?”

Ari stared at the woman for two seconds before she burst out chuckling.

“What—what is the meaning of this?” Penny asked with a start. “Why are you laughing, aren’t you embarrassed…”

“It seems like Miss Penny is forgetting who I was married to in the past?” Ari asked as she turned to face Penny completely. With her lips curled in a sneer she remarked, “I was going to let you walk away with your pride intact but if you are going to sell it for me for pennies, who am I to refuse?”

“Excuse me? What is that supposed to mean?” Penny felt Ari’s jibe and straightened her spine. Her eyes flashed with anger as she opened her mouth to retort, but Ari swooped down.

As she was taller than her, Ari had to bow at least four inches to look at Penny in the face.

“I was married to Noah Nelson, Miss Penny. And I can assure you that there were a bunch of women jumping up and down in front of me claiming that Noah was bedding them,” Ari said to the woman and Penny’s face turned pale as she understood where Ari was taking the matter to.

A satisfied smirk settled on her face as Ari pulled away from Penelope. “I have no idea why a mighty woman like you is stooping so low to such tactics, but whatever suits you.” she shrugged in the same manner as Penelope.

She tipped her head at the woman before adding the last injury, “And I assure you, I am not the kind of woman who would beg a man to bed her. And even if I was —if a man were to throw me out of his room and house, I would have enough self-respect to not crawl back to him like a lowlife.”

“So between the two of us who is a whore here?”

SLAP!

The sound of a ringing slap echoed in the parking lot as Ari raised her hand and touched the side of her lips. A trail of blood dripped down the corner of her mouth as Penelope’s nail had scratched her.

“How dare you!” Penelope felt humiliated like all her clothes had been stripped bare of her skin and she was pushed to stand in the street stark naked. “How dare you say such things to me!”

“PENNY!”