Breaking Free, Loving Again -The Flash Marriage with Mr. CEO novel Chapter 33

Gianna was truly freaking out. She didn’t want Arwen to marry Ryan, but she certainly hadn’t wished her to marry a complete stranger either.

"Anna, I am not cracking jokes. I am serious as well," Arwen said calmly. Then, getting up, she walked to the dining table to pour herself a glass of water.

Sipping it slowly, she continued, "If I weren’t serious, how could I have signed the marriage certificate today?"

"Exactly, my point! Why did you do that?" Gianna asked, as if she was in agony trying to understand what had driven her friend to make such a decision.

Arwen turned to look at Gianna and gestured for her to take a seat on the sofa first. "Sit down, I will tell you what all happened." She walked back to sit as well before reaching for her phone. After tapping it a few times, she showed Gianna an image.

"What the fu*k? That ass*le actually slept with that b*tch just a night before marrying you?"

"I am not sure," Arwen said honestly, and Gianna rolled her eyes at her.

"What’s there to be unsure about? Isn’t the evidence right in front of you?"

"Delyth is not worth trusting." Arwen replied, and Gianna scoffed. _{freeweɓnøvel.com}

"As if Ryan Foster is?"

Arwen shook her head, "He isn’t, but I don’t think he would cheat like that. At most, he might go out on a date, but not sleep around. If he had, Delyth wouldn’t be so insecure even after having all his attention."

Gianna rubbed her chin. "So, you mean Delyth—"

"I said I don’t know, There can be a ’maybe’ amidst this all." Arwen didn’t like making accusations unless she was sure, and right now, she wasn’t.

"If that’s the case, shouldn’t you have clarified things with Ryan instead of marrying a stranger like that?" Gianna knew how serious Arwen had been about marrying Ryan. If it wasn’t his betrayal that made her take such a bold step, then what else had?

"There was no point in clarifying something I had already known," Arwen smiled and shook her head again. "Ryan might have been with me all these years, but even a blind person could tell I wasn’t in his heart. I just couldn’t see it. He left me to die, and that’s when I realized how little I meant to him. I decided to let him go that day, but was under the pressure from my mother."

"But today was different. I had the upper hand in the situation. If I hadn’t used it, I would have lost the only chance I had. So, I took it. It was just marrying a stranger. I have heard that, in ancient times, people did that often, for various reasons."

Arwen explained it as rationally as possible, and for a moment, even Gianna thought it might have been for the best. But then, when she recalled what Arwen had actually risked, she shook her head, circling back to square one.

"Arwen, don’t try to manipulate me. Sure, in the ancient times, people arranged marriages with strangers, but we don’t live in that era anymore." Gianna reasoned, then added, "And if you really wanted to escape the situation, why didn’t you just fake it? That would have been safer and smarter. Why did you have to make it real? "