Breaking Free, Loving Again -The Flash Marriage with Mr. CEO novel Chapter 490

Arwen let her finger intertwine with Aiden before tugging him to take his step forward with her.

"Haven't you all been guessing about him?" she asked, letting her eyes match with everyone there. "Here, you go. Meet him."

Ryan's gaze settled on him, his eyes flashing with a kind of recognition that left him frozen.

Him.

Could he be the one he was thinking of?

Just the possibility of it was enough to make his stagger …

He kept his gaze fixed on him, trying to confirm. But he simply couldn't.

Catrin, on the other hand, was also taken off guard. All the while she had been thinking that Arwen married some old, greasy man, but this … the man who stood next to her now was surely young and handsome. And his aura … it was not simple.

Idris also stared at Aiden and then at the way Arwen held his hands. Although she looked defiant at the moment, he still didn't miss how her shoulders looked much more relaxed when she stood with him. She looked safe and comfortable.

And what else does a father want more than to see his daughter safe and comfortable in her life?

He didn't need to check the man who stood there … Just looking at how he made Arwen comfortable with his mere presence was enough to vouch for how he might have been treating her back at home.

The worry that had earlier contorted Idris's face eased away, making him look much more relaxed.

But Catrin didn't share the same feeling. Her face only contorted with fury as she stared at Arwen holding hands intimately.

"Arwen, what's the meaning of all this?" She pointed at their joined hands. "Leave his hands. People are watching. And Ryan is here. How can you hold someone's hands like that?"

Arwen chuckled, but it didn't carry any humor. She stared at Catrin before looking down at her conjoined hands with Aiden's.

"Are you asking about this?" she asked, raising their hands in the air. "Oh, I think I didn't quite introduce him right. See, here," she gestured to them to look at the ring on Aiden's finger. "He is wearing my ring, and that makes him mine. So if I am holding on to someone who is mine, what does that have to do with Mr. Foster or someone else who is here?"

"Arwen, I will say this for the last time —"

"Don't!"

Before Catrin could say it, Arwen interrupted her sharply.

"Instead, listen to me say this the last time." Her voice rose, making everything around pause for the moment. "My engagement to Ryan has long been over. And it was I who ended it … very decisively and rightfully. Now, no matter how obsessed you are, I am not liable to feed your obsession with my sacrifices."

"I have severed my ties with you, and that makes me free from your control. I don't belong to the Quinn family … I don't belong to you. If in this world I truly belong to someone, then that's me and," she paused before giving a brief glance to Aiden on her side, "my legally wedded husband. The rest others doesn't matter."

Aiden didn't say anything, but his reassuring gaze was enough to assure Arwen.