Breaking Free, Loving Again -The Flash Marriage with Mr. CEO novel Chapter 25

"Aiden."

Arwen blinked, as if she had expected to hear something else. Her brows furrowed, but then she heard him speak again.

"That’s my name," Aiden said before continuing, "And if you don’t remember me well enough, it only means we haven’t met before."

Even though he had said it that way, Arwen sensed a bitterness in his tone as if the words didn’t sit well with him. "Really?"

"Sir, ma’am, are we going to wait here for more time?" Emyr asked, not understanding why the couple had suddenly stopped halfway. His gaze shifted between Arwen and Aiden, completely lost.

Just when he was about to apologize for interrupting and walk away, he heard his boss say, "We aren’t waiting. Go and get the car ready."

Emyr nodded promptly as he took a step towards the car, but then Arwen spoke up, "I might not be able to come with you."

The moment she said that, Emyr felt the dark cloud looming overhead. He didn’t dare to look at his boss because he knew that one glance at him now might terrify his poor soul.

Emyr could only pray for the lady. She had unknowingly poked the sleeping dragon, and he feared the consequences.

Arwen didn’t know much about Aiden, but she had gathered a few observations thus far. First, his looks were nothing but a trap –he could lure you in without you even realizing it. Second, he was much more than what he seemed. She hadn’t missed how the magistrate’s demeanor shifted as soon as Aiden played his first card. And third, his mood was very unpredictable.

It changed so quickly that it left people in a whirl of confusion.

Just as it was doing to her now. Aiden has seemed fine a moment ago, but now, his expression carried a sense of betray, as if she had stabbed at his back.

"We are married now." Aiden said slowly but firmly, reminding Arwen again. "Since we have decided to make this real, there is no way I am letting you slip away just after we have just walked out of here."

"I am not slipping away," Arwen replied without hesitation. "I know we are married. Even though no vows taken and no love shared, I know what I signed up for, and I am not planning to back out."

"Then what is it?" Aiden asked, frowning slightly. He realized that as the reality of the situation was sinking in, she was becoming hesitant. He knew she needed time to adjust. if it had been someone else in his place, he might have given her that space and time to adjust.

But he was no such person. When it came to her, he was selfish to the core. He would allow her anything and everything –except the choice to leave him, even for a second.

Arwen sighed. She might have been confused, but with his eyes boring into hers like that, she understood why his mood had changed. "Aiden, I don’t think I got a chance to properly introduce myself. I am Arwen Quinn. Although we took the decision of getting married in a rush, I am not having any plans of backing away from it now. I made a choice and I won’t step back from taking responsibility for it."

She hadn’t fully grasped it before, but after giving it some thought, she did now. One must take responsibility for their choices. Arwen had made hers when she chose to escape a loveless marriage with Ryan, and regretting that or running away now wasn’t an option.