Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 495

Chapter 495: Love
The smile on Penelope’s face washed away. She turned to look at her mother and tried to make her stand up for her, “Mother listen to him. I just made a small comment and that too out of concern for Miss Ariana, why is Emil treating me as if I had said something wrong?”

Kaylyn’s lips were set in a thin line, even though she believed that Penelope meant no harm, she could not help but blame her slightly. Emil was indeed correct, Ariana suffered in place of Penelope, so the least Penelope could do was to treat her with courtesy.

The way she spoke was incorrect and improper.

However, Kaylyn still held herself back and said to Penelope, “Go to your room, Penny. I know that you are having trouble wrapping your head around this matter. We will talk about this once Ari wakes up.”

Though she didn’t force Penelope, her tone was crisp and firm leaving no room to retort.

Penelope looked at her mother with a disbelieving expression. How could she turn her back on her so quickly? Ariana had just returned home, she didn’t even integrate herself into the family like she had done all of these years by catering to the needs and wants of her parents.

“Mother,” Penelope called out to Kaylyn. She wished the woman would turn and look at her but Mrs Ashford only had eyes for her biological daughter. She did not look at Penelope for she was worried about Ariana and could not even hear anything other than what Aiden was telling them.

Seeing that her mother was not listening to her, Penelope felt her heartache. She wanted to say something but she was warned by her father who looked at her with a light glare.

“Penny, go and take a nap. We all need some time,” Theodore said to the young woman whose expression turned more and more distorted. She wanted to ask Theodore what was there to even think about this matter. She was the one who grew up in the Ashford family, certainly, she deserved to stay in this house and family much more than Ariana.

So what if she shared the same blood as them? She was neither as elegant nor well taught as her. She did not deserve to be an Ashford.

However, when Penelope saw that no one was paying attention to her, she pursed her lips in anger and turned on her feet before marching towards the door of the room. Inwardly she was cursing the people of that apartment building for not making a move soon. If they had been a tad bit faster and careful then this would not have happened!

Penelope placed her hand on the knob when the door burst open and in came a man covered in blood.

“How is she?” Nicolai asked behind him was Doctor Stoll who was bobbing up and down in his wake. He walked past Nicolai the second he arrived in the room before heading towards the bed where Ariana was lying.

“Step aside,” he said to Aiden before taking out a vial from his pocket. “This is the medicine to calm her nerves. She should be fine after this.”

Doctor Stoll told the Ashford family. He never thought that Ariana Harlow whom he took as a normal woman would actually have such a background.

“What happened to her?” Emil asked once Doctor Stoll was done pouring the medicine down Ariana’s mouth.

“It’s something that you need to ask her, Mister Emil,” Doctor Stoll would never do something as unprofessional as relaying the private information of his patient to someone else. Even if they were her family.

And the past that Ariana was hiding was so disgusting and inhuman that Doctor Stoll dared not to say it out loud.

He couldn’t say it.

“What do you mean by that we need to ask her?!” Nicolai raised his voice as he turned to look at the elderly doctor. “You have spent hours with her and you know better than anyone what her condition is and why she is like this. And yet you are saying that you cannot tell us the reason behind her condition?”

“Mister de Luca, I understand that you are upset but I am her doctor and she is my patient, there is a reason why she has placed her trust in me. I cannot betray her trust by telling you everything.”

“Then you can at least tell us the cause behind her condition,” said Mateo.

But Doctor Stoll shook his head as he stated in a calm voice, “I am sorry. But this is against my ethics.”He wished he could tell the truth to the Ashford family but he had seen what happened when Ariana reached her breaking point and that too because she lost her pride.

Who knows whether she could even take it again or not?

“Then what can you even tell us!?” Nicolai demanded as he stepped forward and clenched the collar of Doctor Stoll, almost lifting him from the floor.

“Nico!” Aiden caught Nicolai by his waist and pulled him away from Doctor Stoll. “What do you think you are doing?” he said to Nicolai who simply glared at Doctor Stoll.

Doctor Stoll rubbed his neck and coughed.

He raised his head and looked at Nicolai before saying, “There is only one thing that I can tell you. Miss Ariana is fragile after the constant abuse that she has received at the hands of her mother. It’s because of this and some other factors that she has entered a shocked state, I will ask you to not agitate her any further by asking what happened and why she went into this weakened state.”

“It might make her heart stop.”

A woman like Ariana might not be able to go through the same thing all over again.

Nicolai’s eyes widened as he questioned, “You mean to say that she nearly stopped breathing because the trauma was too heavy for her to withstand? Or did she remember something that she shouldn’t have?”

He knew Ariana long enough to know that she was not the one to fall that easily. If she was then she would have been the one who died that night instead of Mrs Harlow. There was something else that he did not know, something that sent his Pallas in full-blown panic mode.