Breaking Free, Loving Again -The Flash Marriage with Mr. CEO - Chapter 291

Chapter 291: I care about my husband the most.

Chapter 291: I care about my husband the most.

“Husband,” Arwen began, slowly curling her lips in a forced smile, “you are scaring me.”  Aiden looked at her, as if amused.

He leisurely took his glass of water.

“Am I?” he asked sipping on it before saying, “But I am just asking a simple question.

How could a question scare you like that?”  She swallowed.

Of course, he was just asking a question.

But does he have to make a simple, casual question sound so dark and dangerous?  “It’s just a simple question,” Aiden said again.

“It could not be that hard to answer, could it be?”  Even though he knew she didn’t forget him willingly, he couldn’t bring himself to ignore that she made another man an important part of her life when it should always be him.

He couldn’t hold a grudge against her.

But he was a grudgeful person and he wouldn’t let anyone escape if they ever tried to even think of scooping her away from him.  And Ryan Foster has recently been doing that.  How could he ignore his audacity?  Arwen coughed a bit before clearing her throat.

“Of course, it’s not difficult,” she said, continuing, “What I meant to say was that you misunderstood it.

Ryan is not my ex-boyfriend,” she said, pressing a smile on her lips, though that smile clearly seemed forced.

“He is my ex-fiancé, to be more exact.”  Saying that without whole without stuttering anywhere even for a second, she thought she needed to be applauded.

Because given how he was sending her hints of coming destruction, she felt it so hard to focus.  “Ex-fiancé?” Aiden repeated and Arwen hummed, not thinking much.

But her senses awakened the moment her gaze caught his jaws ticking slightly.  Wait!

Did she say it wrong?  She tried to recall her words from a second ago and her brows drew slightly in confusion.

Her words… they shouldn’t have sounded wrong.  Right when she was thinking if her words had hit it wrong, she heard him say.  “Is ex-fiancé sound more intimate than ex-boyfriend?” He said, his voice came laced with a layer of frost that once again made Arwen shiver.

Before she could refuse or say anything, she heard him add.

“Then I will rephrase my question and ask Mrs.

Winslow again if she is scared that her HUSBAND would bully her ex-fiancé?”  Definitely not!  Why would she care about that?  What was this man even thinking?  And no matter whatever he was thinking, did he really have to scare her like that?

Hasn’t he always been the gentle and understanding one?

Where did he get swapped today?  And wait a second, why were his words making him sound like the wife who was confronting her husband for having an affair outside?  While Arwen was still thinking all of it, Aiden had leaned towards her.

She only realized their proximity when her chin was directly lifted to meet his intense gaze.  “Do you care?” he asked again.  Arwen quickly shook her head.

“Of course not!” she said, no more beating around the bush.

She realized that it wasn’t the time to battle around and make this worse, rather it was the time to surrender first before the enemy took over the command.

So, she quickly said, “Why would I care about my ex who was merely a past?

If I truly have to care, I will care for my husband, who is my present.”  Aiden still held her chin.

Neither did he leave, nor did she pull away.  Though her words eased him a little, it still didn’t ease the burn he was feeling inside about the relationship she once shared with Ryan Foster.

He stared into her eyes to make sure that he heard what she meant.  “But didn’t Mrs.

Winslow just get offended when I called her ex-fiancé as her ex-boyfriend?” he asked, not forgetting the way she jumped to correct him at that.  Arwen blinked at that, stupefied.

So, this was all about it?

Not knowing whether to laugh or cry, she reached out to hold the hand that was on her chin before removing her face from his hold.  “Of course, I have to correct you on that, Mr.

Winslow?” she said, this time with much confidence.

“How can you wrongly address my ex?

You know that might stir up another misunderstanding.

Ex-boyfriend and ex-fiancé shares different kinds of intimacy and situation.

You can’t use them interchangeably.”  She said and Aiden narrowed his gaze at her.  Taking in a deep breath at his deep gaze like that, she quickly said, “Okay, I will explain to you how they are different and why I jumped to correct you there.”  Aiden didn’t interrupt her and let her continue and she began, “See, ex-boyfriend could be said to be a boyfriend that I choose all willingly with my interest and liking.

But it’s not the same with an ex-fiancé, given that a fiancé could also be an arrangement set by one’s family.

And hence the intimacy the two relationship shares could be greatly different.”  “So, your ex-fiancé was just merely an arrangement for you and you never had any feelings for him.

Is that what you are trying to say?” he asked and for a second, Arwen almost said a ‘yes’.  But then she halted.

Was Ryan truly just an arrangement?

To her, he seemed to be one, given how her feelings were so different for him than it was for Aiden.

But then she couldn’t be entirely sure about it because she was yet not sure about Aiden itself.  She knew that what she felt for him was deeper than what she had ever felt for anyone.

But was it love, or just something that would turn out to be love in future -she wasn’t sure.  And since she wasn’t sure, how could she lie to him?

Looking at Aiden for a quiet moment, she studied his face.

Suddenly her lips curled up, and the next she leaned in and wrapped her arms around his shoulders drawing him close.

Placing her lips over his, she kissed him.  “What I mean to say is that I care about my husband the most.”