Betrothed To The Cold Billionaire

**Earlier that day**

She was startled by his act and tried to ask him what was wrong when he suddenly gripped her tightly by the neck.

“Who are you and where is Ariel?” He asked as he tightened his grip on her.

“What are you talking about Adrian? It’s me Ar…”

“Shut up!!” Adrian screamed cutting her off.Text © 2024 NôvelDrama.Org.

“You think I’m stupid?? You think I don’t know who my wife is??”

“Adrian, stop it. You’re killing me.” She said as she tried to breath but Adrian was blocking her airflow.

“You still don’t want to talk right? Okay…” Adrian muttered before releasing his hold on her. She breathed out in relief when she could finally breath normally.

When she thought that she was safe, Adrian suddenly grabbed her hair harshly. She screamed out in pain as she wasn’t expecting it but Adrian didn’t care.

He pulled her by her hair into his study while ignoring her loud screams that was attracting the presence of all te workers in the house. They stared at him in surprise as he pulled his wife by the hair into his study.

Though he had a mean and cold demeanor, he wasn’t known to hurt women talk less of his own wife. They wanted to butt in but they held themselves back because they might lose their job so they acted like they weren’t watching what was happening.

Adrian pulled her up and threw her on the chair before locking the door behind him. He turned back to face her with his cold and dark stare and asked;

“Where is Ariel?”

“Adrian.. why are you doing this to me? Don’t you know this can hurt the baby?”

“Don’t you fucking bring mine and Ariel’s child into this or you would lose your tongue. I won’t ask again, where is Ariel??” He said at the top of his voice.

Seeing that she wasn’t ready to talk, he got really angry. He walked towards his desk and pushed the drawer open. Adrain noticed how her eyes widened in fear when he pulled out a pistol so he chuckled within himself.

“If you are actually Ariel like you claim, you wouldn’t flinch when I point a pistol at you since Ariel knows I can never dream of killing her but you obviously aren’t her so I don’t give a fuck whether you die or live.”

“If you kill me, you won’t see your little family again.” The imposter suddenly said, courageously making Adrian smile.

“Is that what you really think? Threatening me with my wife and child so I don’t have to kill you huh??” Adrain asked a he cocked the gun and pointed it at her. He noticed the fear in her eyes even though she tried so hard to hide it.

“Don’t you want to see them again?”

“You know me too well to threaten me with their lives. You should know that with that, you’re making me more mad Alice.” Adrian muttered.

“How did you know??” She asked in fear as he had realised her true identity.

“Who else would be stupid enough to do this except you?” He asked but she remained quiet.

“I warned you didn’t I? I told you that if you try coming back into my life, I’ll make you suffer for it but what did you do? You had the chance to escape and live a good life elsewhere but you came running back to me. How stupid is that??”

“It’s only because I love you. Can’t you see it Adrian? Can’t you see what extent I would go through just so you would look at me as you do to Ariel?” She asked as she pointed at her botched body.

“No matter what you do or how many plastic surgeries you go through just to look like Ariel, you woukd never be her. You claim to love me but you betrayed my trust. You lied to me. You used me like some sort of puppet.. and all for what??” He asked angrily.

“I never lied to you Adrian.” Her words made Adrian scoff angrily.

“Wow.. at this moment you still have the guts to try to lie to me again?” He asked.

“I’m not Adrian. I know that I lied to keep the truth from coming out but at the beginning, I never lied to you. You even approached me first.”

“Seems like having a gun pointed at your face isn’t enough to scare you??” He asked as he placed his hands on the trigger. She didn’t flinch like she used too. Instead, she looked at him dead on the eye.

“You approached me first. I noticed you stare at my name tag everyday before you started calling me your savior. I didn’t really understand what you meant by that till I found out about what happened to you.”

“Also, you were the one that mentioned to me that I was the girl with you that day not me since I wasn’t even there.”

“And why would I do that?”

“I don’t know. Point is that you approached me yourself.”

“So if you knew that you weren’t the one there with me, why did you play along??”

“Because I loved you. I always did since the first day I saw you at our pre school but you never noticed me till after your incident. That was my only chance to be close to you and everything was going smoothly till that biitch came into the picture.”

“I don’t regret it Adrian. I don’t regret the lengths I had to go through to be with you. If I had another chance, I would do it again just so you can finally see me. I would always love you Adrian but if I can’t be with you, so would Ariel…” She muttered and brought out a syringe from her pocket.

She aimed it at Adrain and was about to attack him with it but Adrian was faster so he shot her hand. The syringe fell from her hand immediately and she held it tightly and screamed out it pain as blood oozed from the wound.

Amidst her loud and painful screams, Adrian’s phone beeped and he smiled when he noticed that Ariel’s whereabouts had finally been tracked. He straightened himself up and was about to leave the study when…

“It’s already late for that bitchy wife of yours. Right now, Oliver would have already had his fun with her.” She said as she laughed out hysterically.

Adrian didn’t say anything to her. He left her alone in his study as she kept laughing like a maniac. When he got to the living room, he noticed how most of his workers kept staring at him in fear like he had done something evil.

“Call the police to arrest that lady in my study and make sure she doesn’t escape.” He said to them while they nodded in fear.

He mobilized a lot of his guards and they left with him to trace his wife’s whereabouts.