Breaking Free, Loving Again -The Flash Marriage with Mr. CEO novel Chapter 97

Ryan’s mouth opened, but no words came out. His mind was swirling with guilt, regret, and confusion. He had tried to justify it to himself before, but now, standing before his mother’s raw, unfiltered rage and grief, he had no defence.

Beca shook her head, stepping back as if repulsed by her own son. "If Arwen had died that day, Ryan, you would have been responsible. You left her to die!" She wiped away a stray tear, her hands trembling as she held herself, trying to contain the flood of emotions threatening to overwhelm her. "The son I raised… wouldn’t have done that."

Ryan’s voice finally broke through, weak and pleading. "Mom, it wasn’t like that. It happened so fast. I didn’t realize …"

"You didn’t realize?" Beca’s laugh was hollow, bitter. "You didn’t realize you left her there to suffer while you saved someone else? I almost thought that maybe Arwen was exaggerating it to reason her actions, that maybe she misunderstood what happened. But now …I see it was worse. You didn’t just hurt her, Ryan. You abandoned her.

And now, you were pretending as if you care. Like she meant something for you. Like you would have stirred a war to have her in your life."

Ryan took a shaky step forward, trying to explain, but Beca raised a hand to stop him. "Don’t," she hissed, her voice low but full of fury. "I don’t know who you have become, but you are not the man I raised. And if Arwen never forgives you, I wouldn’t blame her."

With that, she turned her back on him, her posture stiff with hurt and anger, leaving Ryan standing alone in the garden, his guilt hanging heavy in the air.

"Also, Ryan, Arwen has moved on. Now your desperation won’t change anything. You have spent so long taking her for granted that you didn’t even realize how and when everything got over between you two. You let her down, not once but every time." Beca paused as she remembered Arwen’s resolute expression. "She is not coming back. Not anymore —not just because she is no longer your finacée.

But because she has someone else wife now. Someone else who treats her better. The sooner you accept that, the better."

Ryan’s brows furrowed, feeling the ground beneath his feet slip away. "Someone else wife?" he asked, horrified at just the thought of it.

But Beca didn’t stay to answer him. She walked back inside, leaving him to his own turmoil. As he stood there, the weight of her words pressed down on him.

Someone else’s wife? Did Arwen marry someone else? The thought was more unbearable than he had thought.

Shaking his head, he denied it. No, that can’t be true. She couldn’t marry someone else other than me. She has always wandered around me. If not for marrying him, there was no way she would have indulged him so much.

With that thought, he ran his fingers through his hair. His gaze dropped back to the velvet box there. "Arwen, that can’t be true," he murmured to himself before reaching to take the box in his hand.

Opening it, he looked at the familiar ruby inside, "Arwen, this belongs to you. And if I have to make you wear this again then I would do it. Happily." He muttered to himself before leaving the garden with determination in his eyes.

On his way out, the butler stepped to ask him about the lunch but before Mr. James could say anything, Ryan was already off.

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Meanwhile, Arwen has returned to Winslow estate, when she overheard someone whispering in the corner.

"Is it true?"