Breaking Free, Loving Again -The Flash Marriage with Mr. CEO novel Chapter 67

"You want me to help with the lawyers?" Daniel asked, shaking off his surprise.

Ryan frowned at his attitude. "You have nothing else to say?"

Daniel glanced at the notice letter again, flipped it to the other side, and then shrugged casually, "There is nothing else to say. I saw it coming. I just wasn’t entirely sure. But I should have trusted my gut feeling."

"What do you mean?" Ryan’s jaws tightened, and Daniel leisurely set the notice letter back on the desk.

"Didn’t Arwen already warn Delyth about this?" Daniel reminded Ryan "Last time, she said that if Delyth could not prove her accusations, she would face consequences. Delyth can’t just walk away after putting such a big blame on someone."

"For God’s sake, Dan, you can’t be serious. Delyth was suffering when she put the blame on Arwen. She wasn’t in her right mind. I am sure Arwen knew that too, yet she deliberately escalated things to push Delyth further into distress," Ryan argued, frustration lacing his tone.

But Daniel remained calm. Laughing lightly, he asked, "What does Delyth’s distress have to do with Arwen? Why the hell should she care? You are the one who said Arwen is the vicious one. And now, you want her to play saint —kind-hearted to forgive everyone’s mistakes?"

"Dan, that’s not it. If not the kind, Arwen could at least try to be humane, especially when she pretends to be so."

Daniel rubbed the tip of his nose, letting out a dry laugh. "Humane? Where was the humanity when your innocent Delyth wrote a post and directed all her ire at Arwen? Or are we going to forget how dangerous that could have been for Arwen?"

Ryan couldn’t deny it; he knew crowds could be dangerous. That’s why he had rushed to help Arwen. "It was dangerous, Dan, but nothing happened to her. She left safely, didn’t she?"

Daniel stared at him, dumbfounded. "Ryan, are you even listening to yourself? You are defending the mob that bullied your fiancée. You are ready to excuse strangers’ attacks on Arwen because of Delyth’s feelings." He paused, letting out an deep exhausted huff. "You are impossible. I can’t believe I never saw this before."

"Dan —"

Before Ryan could say anything, Daniel raised his hand to stop him. "Ryan, I think I will lose the last shred of respect I have for you if you keep talking. So, let’s avoid it. Delyth has been sued, and of course, she will need lawyers. I will give them a call and ask them to come here. Let me know if you need my assistance with anything else, because I won’t be able to help you readily with this."

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On the other side,

Arwen was staring at herself in the mirror, reminiscing about the sincerity she had seen in Aiden’s eyes. The way he had promised himself to her. Everything felt so real that, for a moment, it seemed as though he wasn’t offering a beautiful possibility for the future, but was trying to rewrite something that had once been written and then had faded away.

She was lost in her thoughts when the sound of her phone ringing pulled her out of her reverie. She turned to check, only to find her father calling. A smile curled her lips as she took the call.

"Dad!" she greeted exuberantly.

But from the other end, she heard her father’s sigh of relief, as though he had been holding his breath. "Arwen, my precious."

She was confused. "Yes, Dad. What happened? Are you okay?"