Breaking Free, Loving Again -The Flash Marriage with Mr. CEO - Chapter 293

Chapter 293: Maybe, I did.

Chapter 293: Maybe, I did.

“You need not have to tell me if you don’t want to,” Aiden said before he continued with his food.

His every movement, every flex was dripping with elegance.  Arwen stared at him for a moment.

If anyone would ask her to only sit there and watch him eating, she would willingly agree, given how good he looked even in such a basic act.  Her lips curled up slightly when she realized how easy was it for him to get her engrossed in him.

She shook her head as she thought back about his words.

He might have put it all up to her, but if she knew him even the slightest, then she knew that he needed to hear it all from her… that too willingly.  He didn’t want to force her to tell him something that she wasn’t comfortable in and that was the reason why the last time, he never let her talk about it in the car.

At that time, he asked her to explain because he wanted her to accompany him in his car, rather than sitting with others.  “You don’t have to always keep things upto me, Aiden,” Arwen spoke, leaning slightly forward to prop her head on one hand, letting her gaze rest on his face.

“You are my husband, and you have every right to ask me if there is something you want to know about me.

If I don’t want to tell you, I will refuse it.”  She said suddenly and Aiden’s forks and kife paused for a moment.

‘But what if I couldn’t bring myself to accept that refusal.”  Aiden had never said like that before and for a second, his words stunned her.

Was he scared of her refusal?

The question came into her thoughts before she could even think about it.

And the way, he avoided her gaze, she felt like that was the case.  He was scared…of her refusal.  Her heart melted at that, and she immediately said, ” And what if I never refuse you.”  Aiden stared up at her and she nodded.

“Yes, you wouldn’t know until you ask me about it.

And as far as I think, there is nothing that I will refuse because I know you won’t ask for anything that I am not willing to give.

I have faith in you, so you should also have faith in me.”  As she said that, he kept his gaze on her as if analyzing something in between her words.

After a moment, his demeanor eased and he nodded.

Setting the fork and knife aside, he reached for the napkin on the side when Arwen handed him one from her side.  “Though I wasn’t sure if Ryan would show up there, I was expecting him there,” Arwen began slowly.

Aiden looked at her and she smiled.

“Don’t look at me like that.

I knew and that’s why I chose that event and day to introduce you to everyone.”  Aiden didn’t speak after her, but he listened to her with all his attention which she appreciated.  “Ryan visited Giselle a few times which I wasn’t aware of.

And when I came to know about it, I realized that he had intentionally let people perceive our broken relationship wrong,” she said, her voice serious, clearly evidencing how much she disliked it.

“So that day, I just took the chance to make sure that everybody knew that we are nothing but strangers.

And that was all it was.”  He looked at her for a second and asked, “Did he even apologize to you?”  Arwen thought for a moment and nodded.

“He did,” she said and then added, “He even explained it all to me.

His explanations and reasons and all that he thought might make me understand him, but I still couldn’t bring myself to understand anything.

It all just felt like excuses that didn’t hold much of the value, so I didn’t take it seriously.”  A scoff left her lips.

“There was once when he didn’t take me seriously, and that day I just returned the favor to him.”  As she said that, her gaze darted to look back at Aiden who had been staring at all this while, his expression was again unreadable.

She tried to decipher his thoughts from the look in his eyes, but it was as if she didn’t understand at all.  Just when she thought, she would ask him, she heard him instead.  “Did his explanation make you forgive him?” he asked.

Although his voice sounded calm and composed like he was just asking out of curiosity, his gaze held a distinct fear -one that she couldn’t bring herself to comprehend.  And since she couldn’t comprehend the look in his eyes, she decided to focus on the question he asked.  Thinking for a minute, she nodded.

“Maybe, I did,” she said and then added with some more thought.

“Or you can say that I never thought of forgiving him because I never blamed him in the first place.”  Aiden frowned.

“You never blamed him?” Arwen hemmed and nodded.

“For what should I blame him?” she asked, continuing.

“He never promised me anything.

Not love, not any share of responsibility.

If anything he did all these years, it was to tell me how unfit I was for him.

That is how even if we get married, he would never love me the way a wife wants to be loved.”  “So, there seems to be no reason for which I should blame him.

And when there is no reason to blame, then there should nothing be forgiven.” she smiled and meaningfully added, “All I did was give him the freedom that he always sought.

After all, he never really accepted the arrangement that our family decided.”  The only thing that Arwen couldn’t understand now was his desperation.

Since he always had opposed this arrangement, this forced relationship, why did he suddenly choose to come and explain it all to her?

Shouldn’t he have been fine with all strings severed?