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.

Standing in the center of the stage, he frowned as he looked

adjusted the angles of their cameras, all

Claudia and I ascended the stage, the cameras would

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

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

past me. As she

over me.

the next instant played

I would lose my balance and tumble down the stairs after she knocked into me.

collapse to the ground...

second. Everything that came into my view became exceptionally

he frantically shouted

with a loud thud. As blood began pooling on the ground, I felt as if my heart had been hollowed out. My

"Ariana!"

he saw the blood gushing from beneath me. His hands clasping my shoulders trembled as he tried to comfort me. "It's going to be okay. Everything

flashing lights were so