Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 478

Chapter 478: Mayhem (2)
“It’s not alright.”

After a short pause, Leila turned to look at Mrs Baker before saying to her, “There is a big problem that we might as well not discuss, Mrs Baker.”

Ryan who had been smiling till now turned to look at Leila, his lips set in thin line and even though he did not say anything it was clear that he was tense which was a given since his posture was way too stiff.

“Leila, there is no need to bring such matters up, is there? Our parents want us to get married and as this is their wish, should we not uphold it?” Ryan said to the woman. He was persistent, as if wanting to erase the past which had turned the entire situation upside down for him and Leila.

In his eyes no matter with whom he spent his nights with, he was going to marry Leila in the end. As there was no future where she did not exist by his side, for him –Leila had always been his and his own alone.

And he didn’t want that to change.

Hearing his words, Leila smiled bitterly. Just because he wanted to erase it, would the past get erased so easily? If it could, then she would have done it before him. She would have wiped their memories and his touches off her body including the false promises that he made to her.

She said to him, “I am not the one who brought it up. It’s you who is pushing me.”

“I am pushing you?” Ryan echoed. He slowly straightened his spine before saying to Leila, “I am just trying to make things right, why do you have to–”

“Did I ask you to make things right?” Leila raised her head and looked Ryan sternly in the eyes. “You have always made my decisions for me, did I ever say anything to you? You wanted me so you cajoled me with your sweet words even when I told you that I was not prepared you made me sleep with you. I was barely eighteen back then and yet I trusted you and your words.”

“Even then I told you that you should take care of the precautions and not do anything that might hurt us —but what did you do? You did not listen to my words, doing what you wanted and when I got pregnant, you fed me a pill against my will!”

Ryan stared at Leila as if he hadn’t expected her to say these things so directly. He thought that she would brush it under the rug like he had and not fuss about it.

He said to her, “I did it because I wasn’t ready–”

“I did not need you to be!” Leila hysterically retorted. She clenched Ari’s hand taking strength from her best friend before saying, “I told you that I can take care of the child alone, but you were afraid that your freedom will be taken away from you. That my parents will make you marry me and take responsibility, so you went ahead and killed my child.”

Now everyone who was eavesdropping on their conversation was hanging to every word that was being spoken by Leila. Even Mister Baker who was shaking hands with his colleagues and acquaintances, was looking over to where they were sitting.

Ryan noticed their gazes as well which embarrassed him, he sarcastically said to Leila, “Isn’t that the truth? Back then you wanted me to marry you like a fool which is why you wanted to keep the child.”

His face turned into a scowl as if he was looking down at a scheming woman.

Leila gritted her teeth and told the truth to the spoiled snotty heir of the Baker family, “No, the reason I wanted to keep the child was because that was my first pregnancy and with my weak physique it was dangerous for me to abort the child.”

“Or else do you think that you are someone so refined that I would want to carry your child till full term,” Leila’s eyes turned red but she refused to cry. “Because of your selfish actions, my body was further damaged! And now I don’t even know if I will ever be able to become a mother.”

Ryan’s expression turned baffled for a moment before comprehension dawned.

He rose to his feet but Leila was faster, she got to her feet and said to the rest, “I am sorry for ruining the mood of the party.” however she was not at all apologetic, Mrs Baker had used this party to pressurise her into marrying her son and Leila had used it to reveal the secrets that she had been hiding for years.

She turned on her feet and ran out of the hall while Ari who was sitting rose to her feet as well. She was about to chase after her but someone beat her to it.

“What are—”

“Let him go,” Nicolai said to Ari as he clasped her wrist and pulled her away from the mess. “Mateo will take better care of her than we can.”

Though Mateo was a harsh man, he understood the depths of human emotions much better because of the field in which he worked.

“But he–”

“Pallas, how many times have I told you? There is no need for you to hold every little thing against someone for a long time. People can change sometimes, unless they are born assholes,” Nicolai told Ari who wanted to refute his words but there was a cry of outrage followed by a loud bang which stopped her.

“You bastard! How dare you do such a thing to my daughter!” Mister Kelly, who had never expected the truth to be like this, charged at Ryan. With his fist raised he hammered it on Ryan’s face. “How could you when we all trusted you?”

Screams of agony and fear echoed in the banquet hall while Nicolai pulled her out of the room. Ari wanted to stay but there was no way for her to go to Leila when the crowd was shunting her to one side.

Even Kaylyn who wanted to reach her couldn’t find her way leading the two of them to be separated once again.