Breaking Free, Loving Again -The Flash Marriage with Mr. CEO - Chapter 236

Chapter 236: Are you competent?

Chapter 236: Are you competent?

Ryan paused briefly before saying empathetically.

“Uncle Idris, I know I didn’t treat her right and made some mistakes that I shouldn’t have.

But for my mistakes, you can’t support Arwen’s reckless decision of marrying some stranger who’s not capable of treating her right.”  Idris’s steps slowed at his words before coming to a complete halt right before the door.

Seeing him stop like that, Ryan thought that his words had finally made some positive impact on the man.  But just when he would have continued it, Idris’s sharp voice snapped him, forcing reality right on his face.  “Who are you to decide that?” Idris asked, slowly turning around to face him again.

His gaze was as sharp as ever, giving no concession to Ryan’s empathetic attitude.  Ryan’s brows furrowed.

“What do you mean?” he asked, for a moment confused about what the man was referring to.  Idris’s expression no once changed.

He simply stared at him and repeated in a way that clarified his question to Ryan.

“I asked who are you to decide if he is capable of treating Arwen right or not?

Did you meet him and guessed his incapability?

Or have you seen him treating her wrong and unfairly as you treated her once?” At the reminder, Ryan’s expression hardened.

“Uncle Idris, I asked someone to look into his details.

He is a man thrice your age, clearly married Arwen to reap some advantages off her.

What can be more wrong than his intention?”  “No,” Idris shook his finger at him and then continued, “It’s not him that is wrong.

It’s you.

You are wrong to investigate something that’s not related to you.

So, it’s not his intention that’s wrong, rather yours.”  “Uncle Idris, do you know what you are saying?” No longer able to take it, Ryan felt frustrated.

Running his hand through his hair, he said, “I was concerned about Arwen that’s why I asked someone to investigate that man.

How can I be wrong?

Shouldn’t my concern seem more understandable here?”  “It doesn’t,” Idris said without any hesitation.

“Arwen is my daughter.

If anyone who truly has the rightful right to get concerned about her, it should be me, her father.

And after me, it would be her husband.

Not you.

You are her ex-fiancé, so you better realize your place the same as you realize your wrongs and mistakes.”  Saying that, he turned again to leave.

But his steps came to another halt as if forgotten something to mention.

Looking back at Ryan, over his shoulders, he said, “And yes, Ryan,” he began.

“Arwen is my daughter, my own flesh and blood.

I believe her more than I believe anyone else.

I might not know who she had married, but if it’s her choice, I will willingly support her -not because I believe in the man she had married, but because I believe in her choice.

She won’t choose and fight for wrong.”  His eyes then shifted slightly to look at Catrin.

He didn’t say anything, but the disappointment in his gaze was clear and Catrin didn’t miss to notice it.

Turning back, he left, closing the door shut after him.  Ryan’s expression was one of that being wrong.

Idris’s biases against him today have cut right through him -not because his opinion mattered to him.

But because he knew every word he said was right and true.

Right now, he has no right over Arwen.

But will that stop him at anything?

No, he wouldn’t give up that easily.

Not even when the world will oppose him.

He treated Arwen wrong and he will make it right with everything he has.

He won’t let her choose wrong.

He won’t let her walk away from him.

At least not until he makes her see how much he was suffering for her and to revive their future together.

He was sure once she saw it, she would come back to him.  “Ryan -” Catrin began, but just when she did, Ryan turned to him, interrupting her.  “Do you also believe the same?” he asked.  Catrin frowned and seeing her like that, he spoke again, this clearer than before.

“Do you also think that man is better than me?”  Catrin didn’t speak for a while, and Ryan took her silence as her hesitation.

His fists clenched and he nodded, ready to leave.

But right when he would have made that obvious, Catrin spoke, her voice laced with a sharp edge as if with her words, she was not just making it clear to Ryan but herself as well.  “Ryan,” she began.

“I chose you for Arwen, not just because you are Beca’s son but because I believed you were best for her.

I have seen you grow.

How can anyone else be better than you?” Her gaze then darted to look towards the door through which Idris had just left.

“Idris is just upset.

To him, right now, except Arwen, no one is right.

But I am her mother, I know Arwen was being reckless in deciding things for herself.

But she is not alone to be blamed.

You share the responsibility as well.”  Ryan’s brows furrowed and seeing him like that Catrin nodded, “Yes, Ryan.

You pushed her to that path -the one she should have never chosen.

You made her believe how wrong of the decision you were.

You left her with no choice but only one way to break free.

And she chose right what she saw was available for her.”  “But Aunt Catrin, we can let her live with that decision when we can help her revert it back,” Ryan said, his tone edged with impatience.

He knew he was wrong and he needed no more reminders for that.

For one day, he had enough already.

He just wanted Arwen back.

“Not when we know how bad of a decision it could be in the long run.”  Catrin paused, her gaze fixed on Ryan with a kind of pity that felt like a dagger.

“Revert it?” she repeated, her voice colder now.

“Are you competent to do that, Ryan?

I don’t think so.

You can’t be -not when you are letting another woman exhaust all your time and energy.”