Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 590

Chapter 590: Her Comeuppance
Nicolai raised his head lazily and looked at the woman beside him; he was running low on patience to begin with and Penelope was not making it any easier for him to stay calm when he wanted to bolt the fuck right out and see where the fuck Ariana was.

“What?” he asked with a casual tone, which pissed Penelope off.

However, she still maintained a sweet smile as she said to him, “Can you please focus on me? Everyone is looking at us, and it’s really weird that you, being my fiancé, are looking everywhere but at me. It’s embarrassing.”

“And what does your embarrassment have to do with me?” Nicolai fired back. “Did you suffer from short-term memory loss when I wasn’t paying attention to you? Because why the fuck would you think that I would pay attention to you when you forced me to get engaged to you?”

“You promised—”

“And I am fulfilling it. Aren’t I standing here?”

Penelope wanted to say something more but then another round of pain shot through her leg and arm, heading straight to her skull. It was much more severe than before. It was as if she was getting electrocuted.

Why was this happening to her? Even though she looked down on others and hated Ariana, it was that woman’s fault that she disrupted her peaceful life. But even then, as someone whose heart was weak and who found her perfect match, Penelope had tried to be fair and had tried to be understanding without forcing Ariana to death.

She was much more merciful than some people who would kill others to live their own lives peacefully. She had shown others kindness and had been polite to others who didn’t deserve it, so why was this happening to me?

She didn’t deserve any of it.

Nicolai looked at the woman who had gone silent with her face twisting into a painful smile and he questioned, “What did you do now?”

“Nothing—nothing, I am f–fine,” Penelope gritted out even though her eyes were now brimming with tears. Even though she didn’t make a show of it, everyone who stood in the hall was now eyeing her worriedly as they could see that there was something wrong with her.

Kaylyn looked at Penelope, whose face was contorted so much that she looked like she was about to faint. Even though she was angry with Penelope, this was the daughter she had raised from childhood till today. She couldn’t ignore her.

She turned to look at Theodore and said to him, “Should we halt the party for a few hours? It’s not necessary to hold the ceremony now, is it?”

“I think so,” Theodore agreed with his wife.

Even if Penelope had done a lot of things that had let them down and broken their hearts, they couldn’t simply turn their back on her when she was in pain.

“Keon, go and bring your sister down,” Theodore said to his eldest son, who nodded and walked up to the stage.

He looked at Penelope, who was bent double, and reached out to hold her. “Come down, Penelope. We will go on with the ceremony after you start feeling better,” he said to her as he thought that Penelope was feeling sick due to her heart acting up again.

However, as soon as he touched Penelope, the woman stiffened before letting out a painful cry, “AHHHH!!”

This cry was not only filled with pain and anguish but also the humiliation that Penelope knew she was going to face soon.

Keon let go of her left arm and stared at her in shock; he couldn’t help but question, “What’s the matter with you?”

However, Penelope was in so much pain that she couldn’t even speak. She almost staggered to the floor because her head was swooning due to the sharp pain that was bursting within her head like pulsating bumps.

Seeing her like this, both Keon and Nicolai reached out to hold her. Even though Nicolai had his own qualms and grudges, he knew when to take them out.

However, the two of them had no idea that Penelope was force-fed poison that had started weakening her body. The second they reached out to hold her by her arms, the left arm that was first to start rotting broke with an ugly crack that echoed in the entire hall that suddenly went eerily quiet.

“ARGHHH!!!” Penelope screamed once again as she almost passed out because of the pain that she was suffering from at that moment.

“What the—” Nicolai stepped back as he looked down at the left arm, which was dangling limply on Penelope’s side. He looked at her arm before looking up at the woman who was lying pliantly against Keon before reaching out and pulling the gloves that Penelope was wearing.

The second Penelope’s arm came into view, and someone gasped in horror in the crowd.

“Why d—does… why does it look like it died?”

These words snapped Penelope out of her daze, and she looked down. When she saw that the glove that she was wearing had been removed, her face twisted, and she screamed with tears trickling down her cheeks, “Who asked you to remove the glove!? Why did you do it!?”

Nicolai, however, didn’t care what Penelope was saying to him. His eyes were staring at the arm, which seemed to have died and then he looked around the banquet hall.

Earlier he thought that Ariana just didn’t want to see him playing along with Penelope before launching the final attack but now that he had seen Penelope in this condition, he knew that Ariana’s absence was not so simple.

He looked around the hall but when he did not see Ariana, he turned to look at Penelope and questioned, “Where is Ariana? What did you do to her?!”

Penelope gritted her teeth when she heard Nicolai’s question; she knew that her scheme was about to fall through but when she thought about how her life and death depended on whether that man got his hands on Ariana or not, she ground her teeth and refused to confess.

Instead she said to Keon, “Look at this, Keon. I am in so much pain and yet he is not even willing to care for me.”