Breaking Free, Loving Again -The Flash Marriage with Mr. CEO - Chapter 713

Chapter 713: Because I know the truth.

The room fell silent.

Arwen stared into Aiden’s eyes, pausing, letting the weight of his words settle in the room.

She wasn’t surprised because she had long realized it. But still, somewhere his words made her breath hitch.

Aiden nodded again and repeated. “It’s always been you. I have always loved you, and only you. Do you believe me?”

He asked because, deep down, he was scared that she wouldn’t find it believable enough. Even if he bares his heart out for her —not because she doesn’t trust him. But because he hasn’t given her enough reasons to believe him yet.

He had always told her that he had always loved someone in his heart. Although it was always her, she has no memory of it. And he couldn’t reveal the past to her —not when he knew what risk it could cause her.

He was selfish —too selfish. And he couldn’t bear to lose her —not even when he was on the verge of getting misunderstood.

“I believe you,” Arwen nodded slowly, answering him.

When he blinked at her, she nodded. “I trust you. Since you say, it’s me. Then it has to be me. I believe it.”

Aiden was slightly taken aback. However, before he could ask her, he saw her turn to look back at Selene.

“Did you hear that, Ms. Martin?” she asked, “I am sure that explains who got defeated, actually.”

Selene’s face darkened, her eyes burning with venom as she glared at Aiden, as though he had betrayed her.

“Really?” she hissed, then snapped her gaze back to Arwen. “Do you actually believe that? If you do, then no one is a bigger fool than you.”

Arwen only smiled, folding her arms across her chest. “Really? Am I?”

“Of course, you are,” Selene spat, her tone dripping with resentment. “Can’t you hear the twist of his words? He never said he loved you. He said he always loved the moon in his heart. And I told you —you are not that Moon. You are just a substitute he found. You —”

“Selene!” Aiden’s voice thundered, his jaw tight. But before his temper could flare further, Arwen’s hand gently pressed against his. When he looked at her, she shook her head slowly, a soft smile curving her lips.

Then she turned to Selene, her eyes sharp.

“So, what you are saying is —it’s not me, but you? That you are the so-called moon of his heart?”

Selene smirked, her lips curling with smugness. “Do you still doubt that? I thought I made it clear the last time when we discussed this. Selene means Moon. And Moon means Selene. Who else could it be, if not me?”

Arwen tilted her head, feigning a thoughtful agreement. “Yes, I know. Selene means Moon, and Moon means Selene. I have read that. But when I did, I thought it was just your random fascination with the galaxy and the stars that made you change your name to Selene.”

When Selene looked confused, Arwen smiled and leaned a little to ask, “Hasn’t that been the case, Ms. Belle Martin?”

Her words hit Selene like a whip. She was taken aback, her face drained of all colors, appearing paler at once.

Belle Martin … that was her name —the one that she had changed just to make herself more like the girl Aiden always had in his heart.

But how did Arwen come to know about that?

Did she …?

Before Selene couldn’t understand, Arwen’s voice made her realize. “You didn’t answer, Ms. Martin. Did I guess it wrong?”

Selene panicked. “You … how did you know?”

“What?” Arwen shrugged her shoulders casually. “The meaning of your name? Or … your original name? Neither of the two was difficult to learn. It was just my curiosity that prompted me to learn it better.”

“Arwen!” Selene hissed. “Have you been playing with me all this time?”

Arwen shook her head. “Sorry, but trust me — recently, I have been too occupied to play with anything or anyone. I wasn’t playing with you; I was playing along with you. But who knew that you wouldn’t stay satisfied with that?”

“You —” Selene pointed a finger out, but when met with Arwen’s even gaze, she stepped back, chuckling in hysteria. “You haven’t believed a word that I told you. Isn’t it?”

Arwen stared at her, her lips tugging up with a snigger. She didn’t —not even for a slight second. Not because Selene’s words were too flawed to be believed, but because Aiden’s intentions and actions have always been too firm around the details. He never gave her any reason to believe otherwise of his actions —not even when Selene tried her best.

With him, so clear, even a blind person would be able to see through Selene’s lies. She was still the one who was collecting the hints of the familiarity that was connecting her to the past that she had forgotten.

“Why?” Selene roared and asked. “Why didn’t you believe it at all? Did you trust Aiden that much?” She shook her head and then answered it herself. “No, you don’t. If you did, then you wouldn’t have let me stay here. Stay around you two.”

Arwen smiled. “You got that wrong, Ms. Martin,” she said, her voice low and steady. “I didn’t allow you to stay here because I wanted to test Aiden.” Her gaze flicked to Aiden briefly before it returned to Selene again. “I did that because we owed you that much for saving Mom, my mother-in-law.”

She was clear about it from day one. She might not have met Aiden’s mother at all, but she was his mother —the one he had always cared about. So, she had decided to bear with Selene for her.

“Then why did you not doubt Aiden at all?” Selene asked. She was sure that she could make Arwen misunderstand Aiden easily. After all, Arwen had no memory of the past that Aiden had always cherished.

Arwen’s eyes lingered on Selene for a moment, then turned to Aiden.

“I can’t doubt him,” she said firmly, “because I know the truth.” Her gaze returned to Selene as she added, “Because from the very first day I knew you weren’t the one.”

The truth!

Selene was taken aback. She turned to look at Aiden, only to find him staring at Arwen, frozen.