Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 580

Chapter 580: In the warehouse.
When Penelope woke up, she found herself lying in an abandoned warehouse. The entire place was eerily quiet and yet she could hear the sound of whimpering, which spooked her out.

Startled, she looked around at once, for she had no idea where she was and how she arrived here.

“Ah, the sleeping beauty is finally awake?” Penelope heard a man speak and raised her head to look at him. The man was staring at her with a dark look in his eyes. He remarked, “Is this what you meant by doing a perfect job, Miss Ashford?”

When Penelope heard that cold voice, she shivered in fright. A few days ago, she received a call from an unknown number who asked her to meet.

At first she wanted to ignore the text, but then the man behind the text told her that he was the one who changed her fate and allowed her to live the life of comfort and delight.

He even promised to return her life to her without Ariana bothering her again.

The temptation was too enticing for her to ignore it; therefore, even if Penelope was suspicious and terrified of the identity of the man, she still responded to that message.

Though she had never met with Roman, Penelope knew that the man was quite dangerous, as he easily hooked her with one of the underworld gangs that were active and yet away from the eyes of the police force.

She and Roman immediately hit it off the second he asked her to become the link that would deliver Ariana to him and he, in exchange, would offer her the life that she had been living without any hitch.

The deal hit Penelope deep, and she agreed almost immediately.

And she even planned everything perfectly; she delivered Ariana’s photo to the local gang and paid them the fee to kidnap Ariana and dump her at the abandoned warehouse in the western suburbs. That was it; that was the plan.

As for what happened to Ariana after that, Penelope didn’t care. As long as she could get rid of that woman and gain the affection of her parents that was all Penelope cared about.

So, why was she here and with this man?

Her head was still spinning as she sat up straight from the ground and looked at the man whose face was covered with a mask.

“M—master Roman, what—what are you doing here?” Penelope asked with a stammer.

“That’s what I would like to ask you, Miss Ashford,” Roman sneered. When he received the message from his men that the hoodlums had dumped a woman at the outskirts, he was imagining the woman of his dreams lying and waiting for him to rescue her.

But when he arrived at the location, he found this dumbass.

Even with his toes, Roman could tell that this woman had made a mistake.

He reached out and knotted Penelope’s hair in his fingers and pulled her up from the ground. “Miss Ashford, I asked you to deliver Ariana to me and not serve yourself on a platter. So why are you here instead?”

Penelope grunted in pain when Roman pulled her by her hair; she suddenly realised that the plan that she had carefully laid out had gone awry.

“M—Mister Roman,” Penelope squeaked in a trembling voice. “Listen to me, I swear I did everything as you asked. It’s that—it’s Ariana. She saw the messages on my phone and must have noticed that something was wrong. She must be the one who alerted Nicolai; I am sure of it.”

After she finished speaking, she didn’t forget to beg with her hands clasped in front of her as she pleaded softly, “Let me go, Mister Roman. I promise I will not make a mistake the next time.”

“There will be a next time?”

“No—no, of course not.”

Penelope shook her head. She once thought that Nicolai was a dangerous man but in front of Roman, she suddenly realised what true terror truly meant. This man was simply on another level. The terror he incited was not a joke.

Roman stared at the terrified woman for half a beat but then his lips curled into a smirk as he pushed her away from him.

“Ack!” Penelope gasped in pain. She twisted her foot because of the fall but dared not say a word of complaint as she was worried that the man would do something even harsher to her.

She watched Roman with a tentative look in her eyes and wished that the man would leave her alone after all the pleading and begging she had done.

Penelope had never pleaded with anyone before and believed that as long as she lowered her head, the other person had to give in to her whims because she was that spoiled.

However, the man in front of her was not her adoptive father nor was her brother, who, despite saying harsh words, never intended to harm her.

Roman motioned for one of his men to bring something over and three minutes later the man was holding the small vial in his hands that Roman had asked for. Without even looking at the label of the vial, Roman took out the medicine in the vial and walked over to where Penelope was sitting.

“You—what are you trying to do?” Penelope realised that there was something amiss with the pill that the man was holding in his hands.

However, before she could scramble away from him, the man caught her by her jaw and pinched it so hard that her mouth instinctively opened on its own.

The pill, which was in between his fingers, was shoved inside of her mouth, leaving the bitter aftertaste to spread all over.

“Cough…cough…” Penelope clutched her throat with both of her hands as she tried to throw up the pill that was force-fed to her but no matter how hard she tried, nothing came up.

She raised her head and looked at the man in shock. She asked him, “What—what did you give me?”

“A little motivation?” offered the man innocently.