Breaking Free, Loving Again -The Flash Marriage with Mr. CEO novel Chapter 123

The next day, at Foster Ventures, Ryan was sitting and working behind his desk when Daniel entered, pushing the door of his office.

Ryan glanced up to look at him briefly, noting the exasperation on Daniel’s face, but chose to ignore it and returned his attention to the document on his screen.

"Ryan, what do you think you are doing?" Daniel asked, coming to stand right in front of him. "Is this all you have learnt from your regrets?"

Ryan looked up at him leisurely, and then shrugged. "I don’t know what are you talking about, Dan. What did I do?"

Daniel’s fingers clenched, though he managed to keep his cool. "You very well know what I am talking about Ryan. Don’t act dumb. What did you post on your social media page? Are you even serious?"

"I am serious, and that’s why I just agreed to the truth. How is that wrong?"

Daniel could no longer make sense. Shaking his head in disbelief, he asked, "Really? That’s what you truly think."

"Dan, I just stated what happened back in university. It’s not like I lied. How is that wrong?"

Daniel stared at him before sighing. "You didn’t lie, Ryan, but you didn’t say it all as well. You know your words didn’t clarify things, rather they now have put Arwen in netizen’s criticism. Now everyone will think Delyth was the one who suffered, and that Arwen was the one who took you away from her."

"So?" Ryan asked, his tone unbothered. "Isn’t that right? I proposed Delyth during the university, but Arwen had forced us into the engagement."

"Ryan, you know it wasn’t her. It was never here. It was both of your families that pushed you into this arrangement. She never claimed to love you so much that she would take you from another woman. Or, I would better say, she never said that she was dying to marry you. It was you, who never had the courage to refuse, and you blamed it all on her."

Daniel hadn’t planned to say it bluntly, but it was the truth. He had thought Arwen loved Ryan, which is why she agreed to marry him. But only recently, he realized that she had never expressed that outright. They had all assumed she loved Ryan deeply based on her actions alone.

Her gestures of care and concern around him had seemed like love and affection. But only after he saw her with Aiden did he realize that there could be a different explanation. Arwen’s gestures towards Ryan had always felt forced, as if she was doing what she was expected to do, playing the role she had been pressured to accept.

Ryan gritted his teeth. "If I didn’t refuse, neither did she. Wasn’t that enough to tell that she deliberately made everyone accept the arrangement?"