Breaking Free, Loving Again -The Flash Marriage with Mr. CEO novel Chapter 271

When the door of the private room was pushed open, everyone expected Ryan to walk in. But instead, a waitress walked in with a tray.

"Ms. Arwen, this is for you," she said and Arwen turned with a frown.

Turning to Aiden, she asked, "Did you order it?"

Aiden shook his head. At which Emyr turned to ask the waitress. "Who sent it?"

"It was Mr. Foster. He had to leave somewhere urgently so he requested us to bring this here as compensation for his absence," the waitress replied.

Arwen frowned. "We don’t need it. Please take it back," she said, and at her words like that, the waitress seemed troubled.

"Ma’am, this wine has already been billed and —"

Before she could say it more, Aiden interrupted her. "Keep it here and leave," he said, confusing Arwen. She turned to glance at him and he reassured her, "Don’t worry. I will ask Emyr to send it back later."

She nodded and the waitress left keeping the wine at the table.

When the door was closed again, Carl spoke, exhaling a deep breath. "Oh, I almost thought it was Mr. Foster."

Amelia chuckled. "Oh, I can’t even say I am happy about your disappointment. Because I actually wanted to see him to come here." She clicked her tongue in disappointment. And just when Carl would have used her statement to his benefit, she added, "I didn’t like his tone of disdain earlier. So, I would have loved to witness his defeat."

"Defeat?" Aiden hadn’t let Arwen explain it to him earlier. But now hearing the conversion between the two, he was a little intrigued to know.

Amelia hummed but before she could say any further, Carl took the opportunity from her, speaking, "Oh Mr. Foster earlier had made it sound like Senior Sister has made a very wrong choice of choosing you over him. We don’t know the details but he seemed to be sure that he is better than you. And that’s why Senior Sister invited him here so that he can see it better with his own eyes but sigh, he didn’t come."

Aiden turned to Arwen, his eyes calculative, "You wanted to show me off?"

"I just wanted him to stop bothering me saying that I married some old man, once and for all," Arwen said, her voice carrying a tinge of annoyance.

"Does it bother you that much?" Aiden asked again.

Arwen paused for a moment. Thinking back, she doesn’t think it bothers her much. After all, neither Ryan’s nor her mother’s perspective concerns her anymore. It was just that she wanted Ryan to understand in every way that there was no chance of going back to where they never were actually. And showing off Aiden to him was an easy way for that.

But now that she thinks about it, she felt it wasn’t worth it. Shaking her head, she replied, "It doesn’t bother me much. Let him wait for the party to witness the reality. It’s good he missed the chance today, or else we would have missed the big fun of the other day."

Not hearing him say anything, she asked again, "Arwen was at the Civil Affairs Bureau to get her certificates with Ryan, but nothing clarifies your presence there at the same time. And neither did I hear the old man forcing you to get married, then why were you doing there?"

"Coincidence," Aiden replied in a word as he resumed his steps to walk past her.

"Coincidence?" she repeated, her voice carrying the disagreement clear. "Do you really want me to believe that, Uncle?"

"Do you think I would care whether you believe it or not?" Aiden responded back and Gianna turned to him shaking her head.

"You won’t," she said, a bitter smile tugging at her lips. "You would never care what any of us think or believe. But Uncle, Arwen shouldn’t come on the same list. She should be different."

Aiden paused again, slowly turning back to look at Gianna. His expression was still as before —indifferent.

"I don’t know why you married her, Uncle," Gianna continued, her voice softening slightly. "But honestly, seeing you two together ...it makes me happy. I don’t know whether you will believe me or not, but I always wanted to introduce her to you, so that my two favourite people end up together. That’s what I hoped for—always."

She paused, drawing in a deep breath. "But I never wanted her to get caught into any traps of lies. But seeing her with you today, I can’t help but feel like she has. And if that’s true, I won’t stand for it," she said firmly. "So, I wanted to know why you marry her?"