A Bride’s Revenge: No Longer The Back Up by Cozy Season

Chapter 16

“Ariana, did he apologize?” Belinda asked.

With Belinda questioning her like that, Ariana purposely cocked her head to glance briefly at Brian.

Seeing that Ariana was about to speak, Brian suddenly realized that she might be harboring ill will toward him and that she could spout nonsense to Belinda. So, he quickly rushed forward and grabbed Ariana by the arm, roughly yanking her to her feet.

“Grandma, I’ve got something to discuss privately with Ms Torrey. We’re going upstairs.”

With

that, Brian tugged Ariana up the stairs with huge strides.

Everything had happened so suddenly. By the time Belinda finally realized it, she shouted at Brian, “Brian, you imbecile! Ari is a woman! I’m not going to forgive you if you bully her!”

Brian pulled Ariana to the second floor and threw her onto the bed. Then, he locked the bedroom door behind him.

to do,

against the side of the bed and looked at Brian, standing at the door, with mischievous eyes. “What if Ms. Granger learns about this? It’s going to break her heart. She’s going to be

“Ariana Torrey!”

said coldly, “Who gave you

course, I had to come here to visit her,” Ariana said, looking up at him. Although Brian was using force against her, he wouldn’t dare to harm her for

in him. “You’re not scared that

you’ve been attacking the Torreys for the past few days, haven’t you? You did so many despicable things to us, and it’s all just to see me begging you for mercy, isn’t it? So, why would you strangle

He said, “At least you seem to know what’s good for you. So, show me. How exactly are you

down on the couch nearby. He then took the wine

Ariana just got up from the bed and said slowly, Welton Factory, Central City–There’s a monthly overseas trade fair there, and I remember that Lodge Co. has a huge auction hallin that area. Tens of billions of dollars worth of prized items are being traded there every year. Mr. Lodge, I’m sure that you’re very familiar

location Ariana mentioned. The places she brought up were all part of Lodge Co.’s black market supply

to less than a handful of people in Lodge Co., let alone someone like Ariana who barely knew anything about the outside world. Also, even if the top management people knew about it, none of them knew the details that Ariana

continued, “I hope that you’ll stop it with your funny business against the Torreys, Mr. Lodge. Otherwise, I can and I will publicize the dirty

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