Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 563

Chapter 563: Are you jealous, princess (2)
“Oh, sweetie,” Inez chuckled with a hint of sympathy. “You are right; I did teach my son to respect women. But you forgot a very important thing—I taught him to respect women who deserve it.”

She shook her head in Inez’s face as she softly mused, “But a woman who blackmails him into marrying just because she is too scared to stand up on her feet and face the obstacles in front of her? No. I will never ask my son to respect a woman like that.”

“So, never think that,” she tapped her ring finger. “The ring on your finger will be the end of everything. My son cannot be restrained unless he wants to be restrained and believe me when I say this, Penelope. You don’t have what is required to keep my son.”

Once she was done speaking, Inez smiled at Penelope and walked out of the office. Her heels clicked against the floor and each tick pierced through Penelope’s heart like a sharp dagger.

Zena walked over to where Penelope was standing and came to a stop next to her before smiling at her. She leaned in close and scathingly remarked, “It seems to me… you have even less respect in this family compared to me.”

“You—” Penelope glared at Zena, who smiled back at her. She said, “Don’t be so angry. I didn’t mean anything by these words; I was just letting you know the reality of your situation lest you think that you are in a much better situation than me. When the truth is contrary to your expectations?”

Zena turned around and left without caring about the fuming Penelope, whose face changed again and again.

Mistress? Doesn’t that mean Ariana still had a chance?

“Achoo!” Ariana brought her hand to her nose and sneezed lightly. She glanced at her patient, whose blood she was drawing and apologised to her, “I am sorry.”

“It’s okay,” the woman smiled at her without taking any offence.

Ariana smiled back a bit apologetically before finishing drawing the blood. Once she was done, she stepped out and handed the sample to the nurse. However, just as she finished handing the vial, she heard the nurse say,

“Are you alright, Doctor Harlow?”

“Yes, why?” Ariana paused and turned to look at the nurse, who was looking at her with a concerned look on her face. “Do I look like I am sick?” She asked with an edge to her tone.

“No,” the nurse shook her head a bit frightened because of Ariana’s loss of temper. “It’s just that a few nurses think you are losing your temper quite quickly these days… Is everything alright with you?”

“What does that—” Ariana caught herself right before she could say anything harsh. She furrowed her brows and massaged her forehead before saying to the nurse who looked scared, “I am sorry… you are right; there is indeed something wrong with me. Don’t worry; I have got my tests done, so we will see what’s wrong.”

The nurse nodded before taking her leave while Ariana sighed and went to finish the rest of her duty. Six hours later, when she was done with work, Ariana collected her reports and stepped out of the hospital.

She thought of calling Nicolai when a new notification caught her attention. A bit surprised, she tapped on it only to see a redhead clinging to Nicolai while he was sitting on a stool in the pub with a wine glass in his hands.

“That damn—” Ariana closed her eyes and released a sigh before closing her phone. She couldn’t help but feel annoyed with the fact that she was losing her temper at the smallest thing.

While she had her eyes closed, someone snuck close to her before grabbing her and hugging her tight.

Ariana’s eyes snapped open as she looked up at Nicolai, who was hugging her so tight that he was almost making it impossible to breathe and said to him, “Easy on the hug, will you?” She patted him on the back.

As she spoke, she pushed him away lightly before looking around the parking lot. The last thing she needed to shoot her temper through the roof was Matt or Keon catching them.

“Are you annoyed?” Nicolai asked, noticing something wrong with Ariana.

“I am not annoyed,” Ariana stated with a snort.

“But you sound so mean.”

“Oh, do I?” Ariana said in a slightly mocking tone. “Maybe you did something that you were not supposed to do?”

“Did I?” Nicolai frowned. “When did I do anything? In fact, it was you who pushed me away just now.”

She smiled at him before turning the phone around such that it faced him. On the screen, Nicolai saw a photo on social media that showed him the reason for the entire mess. A redhead—one that he used to bed in the past but couldn’t remember her name for the love of the lord—was hugging his arm. She was smiling at the camera while making kissy faces.

The caption underneath read: Tonight xoxo.

No wonder Ariana was in a pissed-off mood.

“Do you want to explain yourself?” She asked in a calm tone that showed that she was enraged.

“I didn’t meet with her, I swear,” Nicolai raised his hands in the air. “I didn’t even go home today—I had too much work on my hands. This picture is an old one… way before I met with you. She just posted it today. Fuck, I don’t even remember her name.”

“One of your playmates?” she asked in a sweet voice.

“Ex-playmates,” Nicolai replied promptly as he corrected her at once. “I barely remember her if you hadn’t brought her up, I would have not even recognised her if I saw her now.”

“And yet she is pretending that you met with her tonight?”

Nicolai grinned at her words as he said, “Are you jealous?”

She didn’t smile at him, only raised her baby blue eyes and muttered, “If you call the desire of breaking her and shoving it right up your arse as jealousy, Then yes, I am.”

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Hey, my lil fairies. I have a little exciting news. Thanks to your support, I got an opportunity to attend a Web Novel event. It’s a big thing for me because I never thought I would sit in a plane. Ahaha. It’s all thanks to you guys. I love you all.

I am still preparing, which is why the publishing schedule got disrupted but I will be back on track after the event.