Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 613

Chapter 613: Want him dead (2)
Another ten hours passed by and Nicolai could feel himself going crazy; if not for the fact that he couldn’t rush in the emergency room, he would have done it by now.

Throughout these hours, he continued to plead with the big brother in the sky, asking him to not take his only light away from him; as long as Ariana came back, he would take her monsters down one by one until she could breathe without feeling disgusted by her own existence.

Until she was willing to love herself just as those who cared for her loved her.

What happened to her was not her fault. It never was. She was a victim of fate and those with twisted mentality.

The doors of the emergency room opened and Aiden stepped out; his eyes were exhausted and his actions were sluggish as he took off the cap and pulled down the mask off his face.

Nicolai jumped to his feet, his heart thudding in his chest when he saw the dull look in his cousin’s eyes. Please tell him that it was only because Aiden was tired and nothing else—

“Aiden…” Nicolai’s voice was strained with numerous emotions as he spoke to his cousin. “How—how is she?”

“We managed to deal with the wound and repaired the tendons that had been cut. Fortunately, Ariana didn’t have enough strength due to being drugged and her heart was not injured. She was very lucky that no damage was inflicted to the heart or the important veins.” Aiden smiled a little. “But she lost a lot of blood and her pregnancy made things a bit complicated.” he paused and added, “I believe you will need to keep the embryo under scrutiny for the next three months and abort it in case it was harmed by the drugs, because as a doctor I will not suggest giving birth to a deformed child.”

“Then she is —”

Aiden smiled at Theodore before responding, “She is alright, her condition is stable but we will keep her in the emergency room for tonight.”

“Oh dear lord, thank you —thank you,” Kaylyn clasped her hands and knelt on the floor as if in prayer. She was crying and smiling while she thanked the lord for bringing her daughter back to her. As long as her daughter was alive, as mother Kaylyn wanted nothing more than that.

Aiden also told them about considering the psychiatric help but Nicolai was no longer listening. The breath that he was holding finally left his lungs with a whoosh and he staggered back before coming to a stop and leaning against the wall behind him.

She was alive.

Thank lord. She was alive.

He slowly slid down and crouched on the floor with a relieved look on his face.

She heard him. Fuck.

She heard him begging.

Nicolai wiped the tears that were cascading down his cheeks with his arm and the back of his hand. Fucking fuck, she finally listened to him. Though it took both of them to come to a stop in front of death’s door, she finally listened to him.

Fucking fuck!

The emotions that had come to a halt with only one overwhelming the rest finally roared to life, clasping hold of his heart in a whirling tornado, which beat only for the woman who had clasped hold of it.

He could hear the prayers filled with thankful words and sighs of relief around him but Nicolai was not foolish enough to think that this was the fucking end of the entire mess that started way before he was even born.

And the same could be said about the Ashford family and Noah.

He raised his head and saw his mother heading over and immediately got to his feet before rushing to her.

“Did you catch that bastard?” he asked, stopping Inez away from the scene.

Inez glanced at her son but instead of answering, she raised her head and looked at the emergency room before asking, “Is she alright?”

“Yes, Mom. She is doing alright.”

“And what about the child?” Inez asked with a worried look in her eyes. “Zena told me that she is pregnant.”

Nicolai pursed his lips and ran his finger through his hair. “We don’t know. Aiden told me to bring Ariana to the hospital for the next three months and keep the child under scrutiny.”

His eyes were filled with regrets and anguish when he said to his mother, “The child could have been out of danger, Mom. They were supposed to be born with love and care, not being put in danger the very second they even took form.”

“Don’t worry,” Inez released a shuddering breath. “We will do everything in our power to make sure that the child will be born normal. If not, then we can only leave this matter in the hands of fate.”

Nicolai swallowed and nodded. After he brought Ariana to the hospital, he called his mother and asked her to deal with Maximus, as he knew that the man must have some dealings with Jeremy, given how hard he tried to make Nicolai marry Penelope.

In return his mother asked him to calm down and breathe. But how was he supposed to do that when his heart was fighting for her life inside the emergency room?

That’s when he couldn’t stop himself and confessed in front of his mother, though he knew that she would be upset with him because he had opened himself to threats and dangers by making a woman his weakness Nicolai didn’t care.

What he wanted was to get his hands on that bastard who had taken Ariana’s childhood, her smiles, her freedom, her life—her everything—from her. He wanted Jeremy fucking annihilated if that was what it took to make Ariana breathe once again.

Maybe his mother sensed his anxiety and patted him on the shoulder before saying, “Don’t think too much. Regal has already tracked that man down, and Kayden is driving there as we speak. I am sure that with your cousin tracking that bastard down with his identity disclosed, it wouldn’t take long for him to be captured.”

Nicolai ran a hand over his face and spoke in frustration, “I can’t wait anymore, Mom. I need to see him floundering in his blood like he left Ariana to suffer all her life. Killing him is not enough; I need his head decorated in a mantlepiece!”

“I know, son but you need to think of Ariana and your child,” Inez told him as she held his arms. “Think about what Ariana will go through if she wakes up and finds out that she is going to be a single mother with her child’s father thrown into prison?”

“Damn it!” Nicolai cursed as he drove his fist into the wall, drawing blood. “Just tell Kayden to hurry up before I lose my patience, Mom. And you know I have the shittiest patience in this whole wide world.”

“I know,” Inez’s eyes flashed as she promised. “We will naturally make the arrangements as required, son.”

The two of them were discussing the matter in a silent corner when a hand reached out and clamped on Nicolai’s shoulder. He whipped around only to find Noah standing behind him.

“Are you planning something? Then I want in.”