Breaking Free, Loving Again -The Flash Marriage with Mr. CEO novel Chapter 197

"Arwen, what do you mean? And how are you talking? Did you forget I am your mother?" Catrin’s frown deepened at Arwen’s words. Something about her felt different today. The Arwen she knew wasn’t like this. She might have acted confident everywhere else, but in front of her, her mother, she was always hesitant, always seeking approval.

But the woman sitting before her now bore none of that meekness. Instead, she exuded an air of aloofness and distance that was almost chilling.

"Mother?" Arwen’s lips curled up in a mocking smile as she shook her head. "I think it’s something that you are forgetting here, Mrs. Quinn. We severed all the ties last time when I came to this place of yours. You said you regretted having a daughter like me and I agreed to step out of your life for good."

Catrin’s eyes narrowed, her expression hardening. "You think it’s easy to break relations like that, Arwen?"

"Well," Arwen shrugged in nonchalance. "I thought it would be difficult, but it didn’t turn out to be so impossible after all. In fact, it feels quite liberating. I feel now longer under someone’s cage —someone’s control anymore."

"Arwen!" Catrin’s fury flared. She never knew Arwen was so capable of getting on her nerves until today. "Mind your tone. I birthed you, you can’t talk to me like this! And why are you even here today? Didn’t you say that you would never come back home —ever? Regretting already?"

Arwen paused, fixing her gaze on her mother. Just when Catrin thought her words had finally silenced her, she saw her daughter’s lips curl again into a disdainful smirk.

"What are you smiling at? Do you know how disrespectful that is?" Catrin snapped.

But her flare of anger didn’t faze Arwen. Instead, she met her gaze evenly and replied, "Aren’t you too full of yourself, Mrs. Quinn? I mean, how can you even think I came back because I regretted the only right decision I ever made in my life?"

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"Mrs. Quinn, for your clarification, let me tell you," Arwen said sharply, her voice cutting through the tense air like a blade. "I no longer consider this place as mine. If I haven’t made this clear the last time, I am doing it now. Kindly remember it from hereon. And for what I am doing here today. Well, I have come to represent my husband here. Didn’t you cordially invite him over the call earlier."

Catrin’s face hardened. "If I called him, he would have come. Why did he even send you?"

"He didn’t send me," Arwen replied without any hesitation. "Since I accepted your invitation on his stance, I felt it was only right if I visit you here today. So when I came here to your place, I came here not as the daughter you lost, but as his wife, his mRs. Winslow. I hope I made it very clear to you now."

Catrin’s thoughts spiralled, her brows furrowing in disbelief. Meanwhile, Arwen recalled the call when she had let Mr. Carl think he was speaking to Aiden, though it had been a member of Winslow house staff.