Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 459

Chapter 459: Kindness and Death (2)
When the clock struck midnight, Nicolai stepped out of the elevator. He was carrying the suitcase which held Mrs Harlow’s body calmly while Ari walked behind him nervously. Her eyes flickered here and there while she tried to act confident.

The two of them headed past the lobby to the car that belonged to Nicolai. He shoved the suitcase in the back of the car before slipping inside the driver’s seat.

Ari, on the other hand, couldn’t help but say, “How can you be so nonchalant?”

“The more confident and calm you are, the less people will doubt you,” Nicolai told her with apparent ease. “The more you fidget around the more people will doubt you. So it’s better if you act more confident.”

As he spoke, he gunned the engine and pulled the car out of the parking slot before driving out of the parking lot.

However, as Nicolai turned left, a car that seemed to be waiting for him all along drove right behind him keeping a suitable distance.

Inside the carriage, Ari asked Nicolai, “Are you sure about this ?”

“Do you have a better suggestion, Princess?” Nicolai raised his brows as he turned to look at her. “If you do, then you can let me know. We can work on it.”

“I don’t… I just think it’s a bit risky to leave the body in the cremation hall… Who knows when it might get burned?” Ari felt nervous thinking about someone detecting something amiss. What if Mr Harlow or Aaron noticed something and filed a missing complaint for Mrs Harlow?

“I get what you are saying. But burying her is out of the question. The graveyards are strictly monitored, with two gangs’ rivalry being high on the peak,” stated Nicolai. “The police officers are out for us. If anyone sees us approaching the graveyards, I assure you that we will be caught.”

“Burying her in the mountains? It won’t work either because the rain washes away most of the soil. There is another option which includes dumping her body in the ocean but for that, we need to wait for some time,” Nicolai explained.

“The ocean is an eight-hour ride from here, and we can’t just take an aeroplane. Do you even know how bad the smell will get by then? If you don’t, then I assure you Pallas. By the fifth hour, you and I will be locked in the prison.”

“As this body has been left in the open for more than six hours already. If we wait anymore— it will only prove even more troublesome to handle it.”

“The cremation house is our best bet. Because it will be too much of a coincidence that we left the city on the same day when she went missing.”

Ari wasn’t at ease after hearing his explanation, if anything she realized that there were several dangers in hiding the body at the cremation hall. They could be caught right away or the body of Mrs Harlow might not even get cremated in time and someone might find her.

“How many bodies have you dumped in the cremation hall?”

“Why?” Nicolai glanced at her sideways. “Do you have any more bodies that you want to take care of?”

“Of course not! How can that be possible?”

“Who knows?” Nicolai remarked, with a raise of his brow. When Ari stared at him without speaking, he shrugged and said, “I have dumped a few bodies there and to answer your question I was never caught.”

By a few, he meant he had dumped more than twenty bodies in the cremation and the only reason he stopped for now was because he couldn’t fall in a loop.

If he were to follow a set pattern, the officers might catch him the next time.

Once they reached the place, he stopped the car at the back, where he usually did when he needed to dispose of a body. He carried the suitcase with him while Ari chased after him.

The cremation hall was eerily quiet as she looked around her.

No wonder, Nicolai said that it was a good place to hide a body. The entire place was silent with not a single person in sight, it was as if they were the only ones there.

“Make sure that you make no noise,” Nicolai told her as they crept to the side of the building where he located an old door which was locked by an even older lock.

Ari watched the man pat his pockets before turning to look at her. He asked, “Do you have a hair clip?”

Hearing his question, Ari hurriedly took out the hair clip from her hair and handed it to him.

He took the hair clip and then turned it in the lock. With a click, the lock opened and Nicolai ushered her to get inside the building.

“Careful now,” he said to her as Ari almost stumbled over the overgrown vines that were scattered all over the door.

“Is this place — no longer operating?” That would be the last thing she would need.

Nicolai shook his head before saying, “It is up and running. But the funds of this place are a mess which is why most of the guards and workers don’t pay attention to the working of this place until someone asks them or the smell gets too bad.” he added teasingly.

“I feel jolly good now that I know that my freedom depends on how bad this place smells,” stated Ari with a cool voice.

“Don’t look so cheerful,” Nicolai said to her. “I will start thinking that you are taking this too seriously.”

“Nico—”

The sound of footsteps echoed to their right, and Ari stiffened. All the thoughts ceased to exist as she peered in the direction from where the sound of footsteps was coming.

A circular orb of light was floating in front of her, which started to get closer and closer until it was only a few feet away from her when —