Trouble in Paradise by Three Way

Chapter 0169

A gasp suddenly escaped Claudia's lips. Then, a series of muffled noises echoed on the other end of the phone.

"Nick!" It sounded like the phone was being hiddr making the voice. come through indistinctly.

Sternly, Nicholas began, "The doctor says they can't find your anywhere. What are you doing?"

Claudia quivered, "I... I made a call.

"To whom?"

"I called Ariana..."

There was a brief silence on the other end at the mention of my name. His voice grew colder as he pressed, "What do you have to talk to her about?"

"I want her to expose me, so the people online will criticize me and not Ariana. I saw that Zachary was crying outside his ex-wife's house, and it blew up on the internet again.

"I don't want Ariana to be bullied because of her work. She just won a lawsuit."

really trying to manipulate the

This matter is under my control. You don't need to

trembled uncontrollably, and I eventually switched to speaker mode. I frantically turned the volume up,

manage the complex emotions of anger and anxiety swirling inside

your sake, but Ariana seems to have a big issue with

wouldn't bother," Nicholas suddenly said,

her. But Nick, are you really planning to

beeping noises indicated that the call was suddenly

another woman? My hand, resting on my lower

to Nicholas's side. I had been taking birth control pills every time we were together. But I hadn't prepared

my fingers, I quivered, "Dad, Mom, it looks like

partners over and over again. My

having a child with him under the influence

devoted son. He would never go against his late father's

smiled wryly and muttered to

children with someone else, he

with was forgetting him, and time would help with

figure as tood up. Someone shouted at me from across, "Oh my God, you scared me to