Trouble in Paradise by Three Way

Chapter 0225

"Ariana!"

Claudia's eyes flared with fury as if she wanted to burn me to ashes in an

instant.

Infuriated, she shrieked, "Do you think you're safe just because you're pregnant?"

She was so enraged by me that she was practically hopping mad, but she couldn't do anything else aside from clenching her fists and glowering at me.

"A bastard! It must be a bastard! There's no way you could be pregnant. You clearly-"

"Claudia!" I interrupted, feigning a heartbroken expression. "I treat you like a sister. How could you curse my child like that?"

My heart pounded. It felt as if it might leap out of my throat at any time.

The door opened slowly, and the staff was gesturing for us to go on stage. Thinking about what was about to happen, I couldn't maintain my composure. I almost couldn't suppress the urge to cry. "Aspen... my dear Aspen... would you blame me?" I thought to myself.

right into Nicholas's line of sight. Standing in the

reporters adjusted the angles of their cameras,

Claudia and I ascended

and feigned a pained expression as I said, "Claudia, can

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the stairs. Knowing how hot-tempered Claudia was, I knew she absolutely wouldn't remain

as she squeezed past me. As she ran toward Nicholas, I

over me.

instant

lose my balance and tumble

collapse to the ground...

someone had pressed a slow-motion button while I was in the air for one brief second. Everything that came into my view became exceptionally clear. Nicholas, who always carried himself with a refined air, actually ignored Claudia for the first time and

he frantically shouted

blood began pooling on the ground, I felt as if

"Ariana!"

to help me up, but then, he saw the blood gushing from beneath me. His hands clasping my shoulders trembled as he tried to comfort me. "It's going

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