Breaking Free, Loving Again -The Flash Marriage with Mr. CEO novel Chapter 317

Although she had asked, she didn’t wait to get his reply on that. Already turning, she walked back to the coffee table to grab her phone. "I will call and tell her now. Give me a moment," she said, ready to dial the number.

But before she could press the call button, Aiden smoothly took the phone from her hand. He was standing behind her so when he snatched it from her, he didn’t see her reaction.

Arwen didn’t turn, nor did she make any effort to take back her phone. She simply closed her eyes, as if steading herself against the emotion that she didn’t want to show.

"What are you doing, Aiden?" she asked, her voice tinged with quiet exhaustion. "Let me make a call now. Or, later it won’t look nice to refuse."

"You don’t need to refuse," Aiden said, his voice calm yet resolute. He leaned forward and placed the phone back on the table, his presence lingering behind her.

The moment Arwen felt his proximity, she stepped to the side and turned to him with her brows furrowed in confusion. "What do you mean? If I don’t refuse, then do you want me to go there alone?"

Aiden held her gaze for a second before nodding. "Since you have already confirmed it with her, refusing again wouldn’t be right. It would make you look bad. They might feel bad and I am sure you wouldn’t want that."

"What about you?" Arwen asked, interjecting him. "Won’t you feel bad if I go alone? I might not have asked her, but I can already tell you that Ryan’s presence there is not impossible. And even though you would want me to avoid it, I wouldn’t be able to do so if I go there alone. Knowing that, do you still have the heart to send me there … alone?"

Her words were meant to test Aiden, but instead of showing the displeasure, his lips curled at the corners in a warm smile that reassured her of something that she quite couldn’t put a finger on.

"I can’t bear to leave you alone for even a day, Moon," he murmured, his voice laced with something deeper, something unshakable. "But if by asking whether I trust you enough to let you go and meet your ex alone, then believe me, I trust you more than I trust myself."

Arwen blinked, caught off guard by the unwavering uncertainty in his tone.

Seeing her momentarily speechlessness, Aiden smile deepened. "Moon, I may act possessive at times, but I am not insecure. No man’s presence in your life can make me doubt what we have. Because I am certain — just as certain as I am of my own existence —that you are the only one for me, and I am the only one for you. If that weren’t the case, we wouldn’t have come together the way we did."

He said, and even though she wanted to argue, to tell him he was being impossibly arrogant, she couldn’t. Because deep down, she knew he wasn’t wrong. He was stating the truth. After having him in her life, no one else holds the chance with her.

And seeing him being so confident about it, how could she retort.

"You are ridiculously confident, aren’t you?" she asked, flipping her hair over her shoulder in a huff.