Breaking Free, Loving Again -The Flash Marriage with Mr. CEO - Chapter 785

Chapter 785: You lost her.

Old man Martin paused at that. He stared at his son. He didn’t ask anything right away; instead, he looked like he paused to rethink everything.

Caden knew he couldn’t hide things for long, so he slowly explained it all to his father. And as he had expected, with every passing second, he saw his expression darkening.

The old man loved and adored his granddaughter a lot. But what kept him rooted was his principles and righteousness.

“There is no need for you to go and get her”, the old man said, his voice laced with disappointment. “She doesn’t need us to save her. What she needs is to face the consequences of her audacity. How dare she eye the man who doesn’t belong to her? Since when did Martins start feeding on crazy, unprincipled obsessions, instead of rationality?”

“Dad, Belle is still young. She will learn things like this over time.” Caden knew his daughter was wrong, but he needed to defend her in front of his father so that he would allow him to bring her back.

However, the old man was very sure of his decision. He tapped his cane against the marble floor once again and spoke, “She isn’t that young anymore, Caden. Don’t try to baby her over things where she needs to learn.”

“For learning, she needs to live, Dad,” Caden could help but reveal his fear. “If I don’t get her, I dread that Aiden wouldn’t leave her alive to learn her lesson. He already warned the last time. When it comes to that one woman, he becomes crazy. He didn’t even think before starting a war with us. Our company has come to the brink of bankruptcy just because of him. He is behind it.”

“That’s how men should be for their woman,” the old man said without any hesitation. “Aiden isn’t wrong to wage a war for the woman he cherishes. He made it clear from the very beginning. It was you and your daughter who didn’t take the clue. Since you two haven’t, it’s time for you two to bear the consequences.”

“Dad, she is my daughter. One of our own. A Martin. Are you saying I should leave her to die when I could save her?” Caden looked at his father incredulously.

But the old man stared at him even as though he held no hesitation in his heart. “She might be the only granddaughter I have. But if she is wrong, she deserves to take the consequence.”

“But Dad —”

“Caden,” Old Martin interrupted him. “If you really want to do something, call Aiden and inform him about this. If you can’t, then I will have to do it.”

Caden wanted to stop him, but the old man had already taken out his phone to dial the number.

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Meanwhile, back in Cralens,

Catrin returned to her apartment feeling defeated. When she had left earlier, she had thought she would return with Arwen. But little did she expect that instead of things getting better, it would only turn worse.

She tore the bedsheet off the bed when she remembered how coldly Arwen said that she would never look or turn back to her.

“No, Arwen!” she screamed, “You can’t simply detach yourself from me. You are my daughter and will always remain. You would have to come back to my side. Call me mother, the way she used to.”

“Accept it already, Catrin!”

The voice made her turn and look. She was taken aback to see Brenda standing there with a slow, subtle smirk on her face. “What … what are you doing here?”

“I said, accept it already, Catrin. Accept it that you have successfully lost your daughter. All in your own stubbornness.”

Catrin shook her head. “No,” she refuted, her voice laced with clear desperation —desperation to reject the mere idea that she had lost. Desperation to not accept that she had really lost Arwen. “No, I haven’t lost her. She is still my daughter. The daughter I brought into this world. Nothing can change that ever. Nothing can change the fact that I am her mother. She would always remain my daughter.”

“Do you really still believe that?” Brenda asked with a scoff. “You no longer seem very confident of that. Arwen took that confidence of yours the moment she showed you the mirror of truth that you tried to ignore all this time. The mirror that clearly reflected your wrong actions —actions that could shame any mother.”

“That’s the story of the past,” Catrin said. “I accept that I might be wrong to do that to her, but my intentions were pure. I just wanted her to be a better person. To learn how she should behave and follow rules, and be disciplined. I agree, I shouldn’t have gone to that extreme. But just for that one thing, she can’t reject me —not when I am willing to accept my mistake. Can she?”

Brenda didn’t respond. And for once, Catrin wanted to hear her respond. To assure her that as long as she accepts her wrong, Arwen, her daughter, would return to her side.

“Tell me. Why aren’t you speaking now?”

Brenda’s lips curled in a slow smile. “I told you that you would regret it,” she said as though she knew this outcome would come. “I asked you to leave some decency to yourself. I —”

“I don’t need you to remind me of all that. Just tell me she will return to me and that’s all.” Catrin screamed.

And then, Brenda’s voice went silent at that. After a moment, she spoke with certainty in her tone. “You lost her, Catrin. Now nothing would bring her back to you.”

Before Catrin could refute that, Brenda’s image disappeared in the thin air as though she was never there at all.

When she stared, she just saw her reflection in the mirror. “No, Arwen is my daughter. I won’t lose her. I won’t,” she muttered to herself before grabbing her phone and dialling a number.