Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 454

Chapter 454: Will you help me hide a body?
Nicolai stepped inside the penthouse. His gaze flickered to the couch but when he didn’t notice Ariana waiting for him, his brows furrowed instinctively.

‘Did she leave already?’ Nicolai thought to himself. He took out his phone and called Ariana. If she was still on her way, maybe he could go and bring her back. In fact, if she hadn’t barred him from looking for her at her apartment, he would have gone to fetch her there.

However, the second he called her, he heard Ariana’s phone ring. The sound seemed to be coming from upstairs.

Nicolai raised his head and pulled the phone away from his ears to hear it clearly and to ascertain. The sound was indeed coming from upstairs.

“Ariana?” Nicolai called. A frown settled on his forehead.

Why was Ariana not coming to see him, if she was in the penthouse? He thought before walking towards the long stairs at the end of the living room.

He climbed the stairs, his footsteps were firm in every step that he took. As he reached the top of the stairs, he stopped walking. Narrowing his eyes, he took a whiff of the peculiar scent lingering in the air.

Blood.

He walked over to his bedroom following the scent which had permeated the very air of the hallways.

“Ariana,” he knocked on the door as his worries intensified. Did she get hurt? Did she touch something that she shouldn’t have? Or did she fall and get herself injured?

His Pallas was not a weak and vulnerable woman, Nicolai would never make the mistake of taking her as one but sometimes— she seemed as if she would break at the smallest and lightest touch.

However, Nicolai never showed it to Ariana because he knew the second he made these feelings of his known, Ariana would flee.

“Ariana!” Nicolai raised his voice, a hint of panic in his voice as he knocked on the door. “Open up, princess.”

Inside the room, Ariana raised her head and looked at the door which was shut close. Her eyes were hollowed but at the same time, relief washed over her heart when she heard Nicolai’s voice.

Scrambling to her feet, she walked over to the door and opened it.

“Nico—” she began but Nicolai reached forward and clasped her cheeks in his hands. Worry and fear marred his face as he looked at her face, “Where does it hurt? How did you get hurt? Pallas why are you not careful with yourself? Look at this now—”

“Nicolai .. I killed…I killed her…” Ari blurted out. She couldn’t stop the words that were pressing against her lips. With a scared expression, she blabbered, “I ki—killed her… I didn’t want to but I— I just couldn’t stop myself.”

“Killed?” Nicolai repeated but before he could ask her anything else, his gaze fell on the corpse that was lying on the floor of his bedroom. He carefully peered at the face of the woman and his brows raised when he realised that it was none other than Mrs Harlow.

What was this woman doing here? How come she found her way inside this place?

However, he squashed his questions in the face of Ariana’s fear and worries.

“Alright calm down, some of us want to kill our parents sometimes. You just did it literally, it is alright — some parents are stuck-up assholes and deserve an end like this… We can do something about this.”

Ariana glared at him through teary eyes. She said waspishly, “This is not — the time to make jokes like this… I — I never wanted to kill her. But she crept behind me and came with a gun to shoot me to death. Sh-she wanted to kill me and tried to stab—stab me …something took over me and I… and I — I stabbed her back…” Words simply failed Ariana when she thought about the rage that she had felt when she drove that statue inside Mrs Harlow’s chest.

She truly wanted to hurt this woman and it scared her to the point that Ariana was still trembling.

“I— I didn’t want to kill her… I had no other choice.”

Nicolai pressed his hands on Ari’s shoulders. He looked at her and spoke in a soft voice, “Calm down… Breathe… in and out…”

However, Ariana continued to stare at the corpse of her mother and her tormentor, who continued to stare at the ceiling. The more she looked at Mrs Harlow, the more terrified and guilty Ariana felt.

What was she going to tell Aaron? Mrs Harlow might be a woman with a rotten heart but she was a kind mother to Aaron who had been kind to her. What was she going to tell him?

“ARIANA!”

Ariana snapped out of her daze and turned to look at Nicolai who was staring at her. “Breathe,” he spoke in a commanding voice. “You are turning blue.”

Only then did Ariana realise that she had been holding her breath causing her lungs to burn. She took a shuddering breath and Nicolai smiled at her.

His gaze was fixated on her wound as he said to her, “Come with me. We need to treat your neck.”

When he thought about how Mrs Harlow snuck inside the penthouse and attacked Ariana, Nicolai felt a hint of annoyance. The woman was lucky that she was already dead or else— he would have given her a death much harsher than this.

Ariana frowned.

“This is not the time to care for my neck..what are we supposed to do about her— her body .. there is no pulse… I can’t save her— I couldn’t…”

Nicolai sighed. He stirred her inside the bedroom and pushed her on the bed. “Pallas, it seems like you have never watched a murder mystery before. You first need to take care of yourself and the evidence — before burying the body.”

“If you step outside with blood on your body and clothes.. what would others think?”

Ariana parted her lips to say something but a second later, she pursed her lips and nodded before taking her gaze away from the corpse on the floor.

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