Trouble in Paradise by Three Way

Chapter 0021

The beeping sounds of someone entering the password suddenly stopped. A voice laced with anger came through from the other side faintly. "Open the door."

I had been huddled on the floor in fear. My fingers that I'd been clenching stiffened. As I breathed a sigh of relief, a hint of resentment arose in my heart simultaneously. I denied the person outside entry. "Go away, Nicholas." "Ariana, it's me. Your mother is very worried about you. She asked Nick and me to come and check on you." Claudia's cheerful voice came from outside the door.

I lay on the floor and bumped my head against the cool tiles gently in exasperation. I could feel a splitting headache coming on. Nicholas knew exactly what was bothering me, yet he brought Claudia along just to annoy me! Nicholas knocked again. He was confident that I would let him in. "Ariana, let's talk inside."

He must have tried many passwords while I was asleep earlier. Was it really that hard to guess? If he had spent a little more time on me, he would have figured it out.

Soon, I heard a phone call outside. Nicholas was calling Beth and asking her to arrange for someone to come over and open the lock.

J didn't want my home to be broken into, so I raised my voice and said, "Claudia, let me talk to your brother alone, okay?"

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"Do you not like me anymore, Ariana? Tell me what I'm doing wrong. I'll change my ways," Claudia said while sobbing.

In the past, if she had cried in front of me whenever she felt wronged, I would have dropped everything to comfort her. But now, I realized she didn't need me at all. When she cried in front of me, she probably did it to get Nicholas' attention. I struggled to stand up. Then, I looked through the peephole to see Nicholas persuading Claudia patiently. "Wait for me in the car, please."

Of course, Claudia didn't want to Nicholas had to put his arm around her shoulders to steer her to the elevator.

They moved out of my line of sight, but my eyes still reddened as sadness washed over me. Some people would cry and call their exes when they were drunk. But the more intoxicated I was, the more clear-headed I became.

anything to fall back on if I

slowly slid to the floor. I hugged myself as misery filled me. At that moment, I felt so

wait for my secretary to bring someone to open it?" Nicholas' voice rang

barely audible voice, "The

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beeps, everything

had no choice but to open the door a crack and look at Nicholas defensively.

deeply while staring at my miserable form on the floor. He looked exceptionally handsome with his cold and

of us spoke, and I had no intention of inviting him in. Finally, as the hallway's motion-sensor light went out, he grabbed

calm as he said, "Brenda called my mom and asked me to bring

call? Stop joking, Mr. Hawk. You and your

you feeling wronged?" He yanked me up from the floor and stepped in with one swift movement. I stumbled and felt my vision going dark before my stomach churned due to being pulled up suddenly without warning. Ignoring my discomfort, Nicholas held my chin and forced me. to look up. "Whether you feel wronged or not doesn't matter to me. Don't affect me and my family. The Hawk family doesn't need an unruly daughter-in-law." He gave me a rational

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between us."

out to brush the wet hair off my

Therefore, I turned on the light by the door to

go of me right away. He glanced at his hand and the floor.

But to him, I, along with

stomach churned violently, so I turned and ran to the bathroom. The next thing I knew was

that was mostly dark and only partially lit while watching me coldly. He had no intention of coming in, judging from the way he kept his distance. "Don't worry, I just had too much to drink. I'm not pregnant." I

were, I wouldn't acknowledge a bastard child,"

to me, Mr. Hawk? If not, you can leave." I looked at him and kept my distance as