Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 472

Chapter 472: A little payback (2)
Ariana paused and turned to look at the man behind her; she blinked her eyes and waited for him to say what he wanted.

On the other hand, Noah looked at the woman standing in front of him with a feeling of helplessness surging in his heart. There were so many things that he wanted to say to her. But the second he parted his lips, he couldn’t bring himself to say anything. What was he supposed to say to her?

It was too late for him to say that, and Noah knew that even if he was to apologize to Ari now, there was no point in doing so—the two of them could never return to where they once stood.

“Are we okay?” In the end, Noah asked the one question that he always wanted to ask. After all, he didn’t want a future where Ari was not with him. Even if he was only watching her from afar, Noah wanted a future where Ari was with him.

Ari blinked her eyes and stared at the man who was desperately looking at her. She sighed before saying, “I will always care for you, Noah. But not in the way you want.”

Her words caused Noah’s lips to curl up in a mocking smile. He nodded as he remarked, “Because the care that you had for me belongs to someone else.”

“No,” Ari shook her head as she opened the door. “The two of them were never the same in my heart.”

As she stepped out of the office, Noah smiled ruefully before commenting, “It would have been better if you had just shot me dead, Ari.”

As for whether she heard his words or not, Noah had no idea; all he knew was that the second his ex-wife walked away, she took away not only her presence and scent—she also took away her warmth and care, which once belonged to him alone.

Ari, on the other hand, walked away without looking back. Since she had made her choice, she was going to stick to it till the end.

“Ariana Harlow!” A sharp, piercing voice called her from somewhere on the left, and Ari closed her eyes as she paused and released a heavy sigh before turning to look at the woman who was marching towards her.

“What are you doing here?” Mrs Mia asked while eyeing Ari distastefully; it was as if Ari was something that had snuck into her territory, and she was planning on the first and quickest way to get rid of her.

“I had something that I needed to discuss with Mister Nelson,” Ari replied honestly, as she did not see the point in lying.

Who knew the second she finished speaking, Mister Nelson sneered and said to her, “So you found out that Noah is getting married; is that why you decided to come sneaking in? But I am telling you that you should drop those sinister and upsetting ideas.”

“The woman who is going to marry my son is someone whom you could never surpass.”

She looked rather proud when she said those words.

Ari arched a brow before remarking in a sweet voice, “Don’t worry, Mrs. Nelson. I am not you, so I have no such thoughts towards a man who is not related to or on par with me.”

Mrs. Nelson had never even in her million dreams imagined Ari retorting her in such a way. Her eyes widened before her entire face flushed.

“How dare you!” Mrs Mia exclaimed, feeling embarrassed and humiliated. The past, which she had buried with great effort, was dug up because of Ari’s casual words; how could she not be upset?

“Did I lie?” Ari simply remarked with a shrug, causing Mrs. Mia to turn even more livid.

With her hand raised in the air, Mrs Mia brought it down to slap Ariana—when,

“Mom!”

Noah, who had just stepped out of the restroom, was stunned when he saw his mother raise her hand at Ari.

He marched over to where his mother was standing and caught her hand before pulling it down. He asked her, “What are you doing? How can you slap someone?”

Mrs Mia didn’t expect Noah to come out of the resting area. She thought that Ari was returning home after failing to meet with her son, who would have expected that the two of them were together.

This damned vixen thought Mrs. Mia angrily. ‘So this is what she has been planning!’

She turned to look at Ari and glared at her, who innocently looked back at her.

“You got it all wrong, Noah.” With a flustered expression, Mrs. Mia tried to shove the blame on Ari’s head. “I didn’t mean to do it. It was her who angered me, and she was the one who insulted me.”

“I merely stated the truth, Mrs. Nelson.” She turned to look at Noah before saying, “Can you clear the misunderstanding with your mother, Mister Nelson? For some reason, she seems to be thinking that I came here to seduce you.”

After Ari was done speaking, she turned to look at Mrs. Mia and added slyly, “And this was my first time replying to you, Mrs. Nelson. How are you going to justify all those slaps you gave to me when I never answered back to you?”

“You slapped her in the past?” Noah turned to his mother and questioned her sharply. He knew that he acted like one son of a bitch with Ariana, but his mother had always complained to him about how she had tried to integrate Ariana into their family, and she had repaid all of it with ingratitude.

Though he did not believe it, he never thought that his mother was harassing Ariana like such.

“No, Noah, that’s not what.”

Leaving behind Mrs. Mia to sputter, Ari walked out of the Noah corporation. However, the soft smile on her face was swiftly wiped clean when she noticed a certain mountain of a man standing outside, with his arms crossed and staring at her with two fury-filled eyes.