Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 67

Mad hound
“What do you mean by that, you were only repaying a debt? Not that it matters, more importantly, why would you take a loan from that Mad Hound? Do you not hear the rumours? The brother-in-law of the mayor borrowed a large sum of money and couldn’t pay it back, so Nicolai caught that man and had him auctioned as a pervert. By the time that man returned he was half crazy,” Danny said to Ari who blinked her eyes and questioned,

“Wasn’t he the same man who sold off young children to the rich and the influential?” Ari’s remark was met with a glare as Danny rubbed his forehead with his fingers.

“Jeez, I cannot believe you. For that man, you are now quibbling with me?” Danny ran his fingers through his hair as he harshly remarked, causing Ari to sweat drop.

“I am not quibbling with you,” Ari picked up the cup of hot cocoa and then took a sip of the warm drink. Her insides warmed up a little and the sting she felt after finding out that the divorce was finalized felt a bit better. “It’s just that you are overreacting.”

“Hah? You were the one who got entangled with that madman, and you dare to say that I am overreacting?” Danny stated affronted, he couldn’t believe that Ari was really acting so calm even though she was now in a rather vulnerable situation.

God knows how scared he was when he saw Ari sitting with Nicolai. If not for Jace being there, his soul almost left his body. Nicolai De Luca was not a normal man, he was a highly-strung sadist with a touch of hedonism. He chased pleasure more than anything in his life. For him, laws, rules, and the lives of others were just pawns that could be used for his amusement.

He knew this because he was a lawyer, and he was acquainted with the lawyer who dealt with De Luca’s cases.

Knocking someone’s teeth, tying someone behind his car and driving it for three miles. Smashing a wine bottle on the crotch of the man who tried to get handsy with his sister, Nicolai’s hands were covered with all sorts of crime.

That man lived his life with only one motto —— face violence with even more violence. He was the kind of man who wouldn’t ease down and deal with things calmly. Nicolai was someone whose instinct was to punch someone until blood was drawn. How could he not worry when his friend was seen together with a man like him?

He was not being judgmental, but Ari was far too sweet and kind for Nicolai, who was born with chaos in his blood.

Ari also knew that Danny was worried about her. She patted him on the arm and explained, “He helped me on the day when I ran away from the hospital, if not for him, I would have been caught by the bodyguards chasing after me before I got divorced.”

“It would have been troublesome. This is why I treated him to a little something, to repay him. Didn’t I do this to make sure that we will have as little to do with another as possible?” Ari remarked. However, in her mind, she was a bit nervous because she still had two meals left that she owed Nicolai.

Just this small interest caused her so much trouble, who knows what kind of chaos was waiting for her in the future?

“Are you sure, you are fine?” Danny asked her. He wasn’t asking her this just because he saw her with Nicolai, but also because he knew that Ari was now divorced. He was sitting just a table behind Ari, as he wanted to see what Nicolai was doing with his friend. In case Ari was in danger, he wanted to step in the fastest possible way.

Even if it meant that he was knocked out cold!

He still remembered how he almost jumped on that rude man when he called Ari all sorts of names. If not for Jace holding him back, he would have certainly fought with that man for sure.

“Haha, I am sure. What’s the worst thing that can happen?” She was already divorced with no job and no money. There was nothing that could go any more wrong than this.

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“It will be damaging for both companies if you cancel the contract now,” Noah said to the tall and gangly man who sat in his office. His expression was stern as he tried to explain the matter to Mister Jones. “I understand that you are disappointed with the stock that was delivered to your company, but I assure you that it wasn’t under my command. The flimsy products that were sent to your warehouse were a fraud committed by another branch. I have already punished that man and recovered the real stock. I even sent it to your warehouse.”

Mister Jones smoothed his bushy moustache and then remarked, “This is not a matter of refund or not, Mister Noah. The stock that was delivered to my warehouse was defective, and it caused me a giant loss as we couldn’t sell that flimsy set of lingerie and dresses in our shop nor could we export them. Do you even know that a small mistake on your part has caused us a headache ?”

Noah rubbed his forehead, feeling the same headache throb in his head.

The man who caused this mess was his uncle, the brother of his mother —— because that man wanted to make a benefit for himself. He exchanged the quality products for degrading ones thinking that no one would find out but, Mister Jones was an experienced businessman, how could he not decipher that the quality of the products had changed? Not only did he find out about the fraud, but he also decided that he was going to cancel the order as well as the contract.

Now his uncle was crying at home saying that he was momentarily confused and nothing more, but Noah was not fooled. Once he was done dealing with Mister Jones, he would deal with his maternal uncle. No matter what his mother said to him this time around, Uncle Charlie had to leave!