Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by His Rival - Chapter 73

A light punishment
Noah sighed, feeling a tinge of annoyance. He did not understand his mother, don’t get him wrong. He loved this woman as she was the reason he was even walking on this planet, but occasionally she could be beyond confusing.

When Ari was living in the house, Mrs. Nelson wanted nothing more than for her to disappear. As if she never existed, even when Ari tried her best to serve her, Mrs Nelson ignored her as if she were odourless air that couldn’t be seen or smelled.

But now that Ari was gone, his mother wanted him to bring her back.

Not that he did not try, he did try to contact her.

However, Ariana switched off her phone the very day she ran away. But Noah knew that her social was active as one of his friends told him, as for how he came to know about it?

His friend heard Leila mention it to someone at the café. The one where Ari was working before she went missing out of nowhere.

That was how he found out that Ari was active on her account, never in his life did he think that one day he would be regretful about not following that woman’s social media account. Since he couldn’t call Ari, who disappeared like a ghost, he could only text her on her Bell account.

He had already re-checked those texts that he sent Ari over the past couple of weeks, and she dared to leave him to Read.

[Call me when you are done with this stunt.]

[Text me back when you are done trying to bury your head in the sand. If I were you, I would save myself the trouble and come back home. This will not work.]

[If you stop running away, we can give our relationship a try. I am willing to get along with you cordially.]

[Ariana, enough is enough. Do you really think that I am going to like these actions of yours? If you don’t answer, then you are only making trouble for yourself. Do you think I cannot track you down? I can.]

[I am not into this hard to get foreplay, Ariana. Come back home, you know that grandfather’s health is not good at the moment and you are putting his health in a compromising situation.]

[Patience is my forte but don’t make me come after you.]

[I am serious Ariana, I want you back home where you belong.]

That was the last text that he sent her, and it met the same fate as the ones that he sent earlier. Ari did not reply to even one of them, she read them —— all of them, but she did not even bother to type a single word in response. Ari had no idea that she was playing a dangerous game, as he was running out of patience.

Noah spared a glance at his panicking mother, and stated in a calm and placid voice, “Do you think she will come back just because I asked her?” There was a bitter note in his voice.

He had left no stone turned. However, Noah didn’t receive even a single piece of information about Ari. Now that the two of them were divorced, Noah was afraid that Ariana had slipped out of his control completely. Fully. Undoubtedly.

‘Who dared to hide that woman?’ Noah couldn’t help but think with a frown. He was the most powerful man in the city, it should have been impossible for Ari to hide from him, but someone had helped her. This was something Noah was even more certain about, but who?

Though he suspected Nicolai many times, Noah couldn’t find a reason for Nicolai to help Ari.

Not to mention, the two of them were not even acquainted.

He raised his hands and placed them on Mrs Nelson’s shoulders before saying, “I will try my best, Mother. But I think you should be prepared for the worst.” And he should also prepare himself. Once his grandfather was out of the recuperation centre, he wouldn’t leave Noah alone, given how much he liked Ari.

With that, he glared at Glynn and walked out of the room, he did not spare another word for Glynn, but that only made her even more nervous.

Noah’s silence was worse than his anger.

Glynn turned to look at her mother, whose expression was not good. No, in fact, it would be right to say that it was terrible.

“Mother, I swear I was only doing this for our family. That woman does not deserve to be our——”

“Silence, Glynn,” Mrs. Nelson interrupted her daughter from speaking any further. “Do you think that I am a fool? Your actions have caused your brother to lose his shares and the peace I have tried so hard to maintain.”

Glynn pursed her lips. A frown coming to appear on her forehead, she said, “What is the point of keeping superficial peace when no one is happy?”

“No one is happy?” Mrs Nelson barked a mock laugh as she raised her hand and poked her daughter on the forehead. “What is the point? The point is that we were safe, had a normal life, and we just had to maintain the status quo. If only you hadn’t stirred the pot, nothing would have gone out of control. But now!”

She pulled away, ignoring the glaring red mark on Glynn’s forehead that was caused by her sharp nail as well as the shock and confusion in her eyes.

Mrs. Nelson towered over her daughter who was sitting on her bed and stated coldly, “Your actions were selfish and simply idiotic, it makes me wonder if you have learned anything from that incident.” Glynn stiffened upon hearing the words of her mother. She looked at the glare that her mother was pointing at and shivered.

She quaked, “Mother…please don’t … I will try to do better. I will not do this again.”

“I said quiet!” Mrs Nelson was livid as well as worried. Now she only hoped that the man wouldn’t find out about Ari leaving the house, but she knew that he would.

“Harrison! Harrison!” Mrs Nelson shouted, calling the butler while ignoring the pleas of her daughter.

Harrison came running up the stairs before coming to a stop in front of Mrs Nelson.

“What can I do for you, Madam?”

Mrs. Nelson glanced at Glynn, who shook her head with tears and terror on her face. However, they did little to quench the anger of Mrs Nelson, who said to Harrison, “Miss Glynn seemed to be having a hard time controlling her actions and emotions. Take her to the discipline room. I hope this time around she will learn her lesson.”