Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 601

Chapter 601: Only by killing him (2)
When Nicolai woke up the next morning, he found Ariana nuzzled against him. With his arm wrapped around her waist as she mumbled something in her sleep.

His eyes glimmered with a hint of unhinged madness as he brushed the strands of her hair aside and looked at her peaceful face. If he didn’t know it earlier, then he was sure of it now. He couldn’t fucking breathe without this woman.

The one thing that he enjoyed, he could no longer even think of enjoying it unless it was with Ariana. Unless it was her body against his, then he might as well live his life like a man who was worried about his chastity belt.

She fucking broke him in ways that he could not explain or bring up.

His mind was a freaking mess as he pulled away from her, maybe it was the lack of his warmth or touch but Ariana stirred in her sleep as she turned over and looked at him.

“Where are you going?” she asked with confusion and drowsiness laden in her voice when she saw him dressing up.

She looked distraught and confused like a child who had been dumped in the middle of the street. Like she had no idea what she had done to deserve this.

Ariana sat up straight, her hand reaching for the periwinkle blue silk robe. She draped it over her body and got down from the bed. Her eyes stared up at him warily as she asked, “What’s going on, Nico?”

“Nothing,” he told her. Not trusting himself enough to not drag her and make her say those solemn vows here and now. He had never felt insecure or so terrified about anything in his entire life but Ariana had a way to make him feel less sure of himself.

Like he was fucking replaceable.

And maybe he was.

Who was he trying to fool? was fucking replaceable.

But she couldn’t do that; he wouldn’t let her.

“Just—just don’t let any other man touch you.”

“Are you still upset about Trey?” She asked with a frown. “Or is this about Noah? I told you that I am his assigned doctor and he is my patient. I don’t go out of my way to meet with him. And we are exclusive, aren’t we? I wouldn’t do that to you.”

“One can never be sure of it.” Even his fucking dad left him with words like how Nicolai was just fucking difficult to stay with and he just couldn’t do it anymore because he wanted someone normal.

Not a fucking unhinged bastard like him.

And this came from a cheating bastard like his father; compared to him, Ariana was fucking angelic.

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

Nicolai didn’t answer; instead, he turned around on his feet before walking out of the room.

“Wait!” Ariana chased after him, her feet padding across the carpeted floor and good thing that he covered the entire floor with it because she had a habit of walking without slippers when she was nervous. Like right now. “You are leaving?”

“Yeah.”

“How can you?”

He wheeled around and looked her in the eyes before saying, “What’s the fucking problem? You have left me countless times without even saying goodbye. At least I fucking stayed with you till the morning and didn’t bolt once I was done using your body.”

Ariana stiffened as she stepped forward and said to him in a docile voice, “I told you I am sorry.” Her expression was etched with pain.

“And that’s just supposed to make me feel better?”

“Why are you doing this?” she asked this time with two pink blotches on her cheeks. “I am trying to make it work and you are just pushing me away. I have told you and explained it to you many times that Noah and I have nothing. He is my patient and saviour, that’s all. I will never think of going back to him.”

“He and I have never done anything to let you down. I have never done anything to let you down in ways you fear—I told you everything from the start, didn’t I? Then why are you so hung up on Noah?”

Because he was a fucking insecure prick.

“Then tell me this.” He turned to face her completely. “If I were to kill him right now, would you stop me? Will you cover for me or will you save him?”

Her body went stiff as she looked at him like she was trying to find traces of whether he was joking. When she didn’t, her eyes hardened, and she stated,”He saved my life, Nicolai, that too, by putting his life on the line. You cannot expect me to watch you kill him when he had done nothing wrong to be killed.”

“He touched my sister! That’s a low blow.”

“And you touched his fucking ex-wife! No, you did more than just touching me. If you ask me, that’s even more of a low blow than touching your sister!” She snapped and Nicolai hated to admit it, that she was right. But just because he knew that she was right, it didn’t mean that he was going to admit it.

She then softened her voice before saying, “Can’t you just let your sister and Noah live their lives, Nicolai? While we live ours? If you accept them, then Noah will also let go of the grudges that he has against you. Is there a need for you to be this stubborn?”

He swallowed thickly before saying, “My sister is not someone whom he can touch recklessly. She deserves way more respect than being fucked by a man who doesn’t even love her. Because if he did, then he would have approached her with respectful intentions —”

Nicolai knew that he had said something wrong because Ariana’s face went pale as she scoffed at him. Her lips curled up just like how they did when she was about to defend her pride or die trying.

“And I can be touched recklessly? Are you forgetting how you pushed and pushed and pushed until I gave in? So I can be tossed around and cornered as you please but your sister is way above me and deserves the freaking respect you expect Noah to show her, which you never showed to me? Do you dare say that your intentions were anything but evil when you approached me? Did you listen when I said no? No! You pushed your way in my life until you became a part of me,” She questioned, her voice thick with anger and her body trembling with the sheer rage that she was feeling at that moment.

“Is it so freaking hard for you to accept that Zena likes Noah? I don’t care that he married her so why can’t you accept it as well?”

“She is my sister!”

“Who is an adult! She can make her own decisions, like you always push me to make mine. One that favours you. Do you even realise how hypocritical you sound? You don’t want Noah to intervene between us but you won’t let him and your sister on their devices when she said and I quote, She has fallen for Noah. You are not a child, Nicolai. You cannot believe that everything will happen according to your wishes.”

“There is no such thing as the best of both worlds!” Ariana snapped harshly. “Is it so difficult for you to accept her marriage with Noah when you can have me by your side? Isn’t it enough that I am with you? If you accept her marriage, then you can be with me without any more obstructions.”

Her eyes darkened as she questioned, “Or am I not worth this gamble?”

Seeing that he was not saying anything, she stepped back and said, “It seems like you have already made your choice, haven’t you?”

“And so have you,” Nicolai retorted as he turned on his feet and walked out of the penthouse even though every cell of his existence was telling him to turn around and take Ariana with him.

But he knew that if he did it, he would only hurt her worse than he had now.

Maybe this entire shit show would end if he were to deal with Noah Nelson once and for all.

On top of that, he needed to see his psychiatrist before he did something like locking Ariana Ashford in a fucking cage like a fucked-up psycho.