Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 487

Chapter 487: She is dead
Trigger warning: Sensitive content ahead.

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Ariana’s face started to turn pale by the second, as she found it too hard to breathe with so many people crowding around her.

Someone in the crowd shouted, “Drag the two out on the streets! Let everyone see this adulterous couple.”

“That’s right!” A man reached out to grab Ari’s hair, and a few men went to pull her arms and legs. They have been eyeing her for a long time. And now that they had gotten a chance to put their hands on her, how could they let it slide?

“AHHH!” Ari screamed in pain when someone pulled her by her hair. She could feel the hands and fingers of men touching her arms and her thighs. Some even tried to grope her bosom as well as her bottom.

She tried to fend herself against these men, but someone raised his hand and slapped her on the cheek.

“Who are you acting chaste for? Do you think that we don’t know what you have been doing?” One of the men sneered in Ari’s ears. “What’s wrong? We don’t have enough money? But a whore like you will open her legs for pennies, right? I do have pennies.”

The crowd seemed to have gone crazy; someone pulled Ari’s hair, while someone tried to hit her on the face. They called her names as degrading as possible while Aiden tried to pull Ari away from harm’s way. However, there were only two of them, and more than twenty people were against them.

“Strip her and throw her on the streets for stealing the husbands of innocent women,” roared another woman in the crowd.

“Let go of me!” Ari tried to struggle against the men, whose courage was emboldened by the words that the woman had spoken.

However, no one was willing to listen to her words.

“Who called the police!?” Two officers came running into the apartment building.

“Police! Hold up!” The other officer shouted.

However, no one was willing to listen to something that they had said; all of their attention was on Ariana. The leering men tore her shirt open, causing buttons to pop and fly all over the ground before the fabric fell to the ground.

Some tried to undo her lingerie as well, but before they could touch Ari any further, Aiden pushed them away. He pulled Ariana behind him and at the same time called the police officers,

“It’s me!” he said to the officers. “I am the one who called you.” Just now, when he saw that the crowd had gone wild, Aiden had called the police helpline in hope that these people would be able to restrain the crowd.

“Please stop them!” Aiden exclaimed while looking at the people in the crowd. Though they were crying for justice, he knew that no one cared about the truth. They only cared about settling their own grudges and taking advantage of the situation.

As he spoke, he glanced at Ariana, who was clutching her throat; tears glistened in her eyes, and Aiden had no idea whether it was due to the degrading humiliation that she had gone through or because she was in so much pain that she couldn’t even breathe.

He turned to look at the officers before showing them his ID. He said to them, “I am her doctor, and I only came to drop my patient back to her home; she is not feeling well, as you can clearly see.”

“But these people are not listening and have taken the law in their hands without any evidence.”

The officers frowned when they heard Aiden’s words; they also sensed that there was something wrong with Ariana because she did not seem to be pretending. Instead, it seemed like she was truly in pain.

The one on the right turned to look at the crowd who was causing trouble and questioned sternly, “What the hell are you doing?”

Arabella, who had not expected Aiden to call the police, was stunned at first, but then she quickly threw the pot of blame on Ariana’s head. She said in a loud voice such that even the pedestrians could hear what she was saying, “This woman is a whore! A mistress who spoils the marriage of other women. And this man is spewing lies; he is one of her lovers and is worried that his wife will catch him, so he is going through all this song and dance to prove that the two of them are innocent.”

She blinked her eyes innocently and added, “We are just trying to give justice to a poor woman who came crying to us for all the wrong deeds that this bitch has committed.”

She spoke as if she were the messiah of weak and vulnerable women.

The officers frowned while the onlookers started to record the video of what was happening.

Aiden tried his best to shield Ariana behind him; he knew that even if the world had changed and had become advanced, women were still treated the same.

If someone was to find out that Ari was labelled as a mistress, her life would be ruined.

“They are assuming things; there is no proof in their hands.” Aiden tried to calmly assert his claim. “And even if they had any evidence, they do not have the right to kill or punish anyone.”

The officers agreed with him. One of them turned to look at Arabella and said to her, “That’s right, no matter what the case. You cannot take law in your hands; how dare you hit and raise your hands on a woman without any evidence to back your claims?”

“You should have left these matters to the police.”

Arabella frowned in annoyance when she heard the officers question her. She was just trying to get rid of a woman with no background and questionable character. Why was it proving so hard?

“Officers, I—”

“Arabella! What in the blazes are you doing?” Mister Garner, who had read the messages in the group created by his wife, returned in a hurry when he realised what Arabella was going to do.

Did she even know the man with whom Ariana was involved?