Breaking Free, Loving Again -The Flash Marriage with Mr. CEO
Chapter 615: You aren’t … disheartened?

Chapter 615: You aren’t ... disheartened?

Arwen had never felt such a primal surge of emotion. Moments ago, she had sympathized with Selene. But now, all she could feel was a blinding urge to throw her out of the house.

Return Aiden to her? Under what right?

"Aiden is not yours, Arwen," Selene said, her voice no longer weak, but filled with unsettling confidence. "He is not yours. He could never be yours, Arwen. Because he is mine. Since the beginning. He could only ever be mine."

Arwen’s jaw tightened. Her fingers clenched into fists — a raw boiling anger simmering beneath her calm.

Selene watched her, and for the first time in days, she felt something close to satisfaction. She had been waiting for this moment — starving for it.

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In the meantime, outside the room —

Aiden has walked down the hallway to take the call. It was from Jason, and he knew what Jason could call him for this late.

"Did you find anything?" he asked, diving straight to the point.

On the other end of the call, Jason’s tone matched the seriousness of the hour. Unlike the other times, he ignored pleasantries and spoke the exact thing he had called him for.

"The result of our recent test is out. I just got the report in my hands," he said, taking a brief pause prior to continuing, "Although we didn’t find anything new in it, there is something we did get clear about."

"What is it?" Aiden asked, his tone calm but carrying an underlying edge beneath it.

Jason took a moment. It felt like he was re-reading the report just to be sure about something. "Apart from researching Oblivion–X, I have asked my lab to retest the chocolate you brought last time," he informed.

"And from the recent test we found out that —though those chocolates held the medicine that treated the effects of Oblivion–X in Arwen’s system, it hadn’t completely healed her," Jason added, his tone giving away the disappointment he was feeling.

Aiden’s expression darkened. His fingers tightened around the frame of the device in his hand. "What do you mean? Didn’t you say that it had eliminated the trace of that drug from her body?" He had eased up only after knowing that the drug was no longer a threat to Arwen.

"It has," Jason responded. "It has eliminated the lingering traces of the drug from her system, but it’s not the same I had assumed."

His tone got a decibel deeper as he continued. "I had thought that with the elimination of the drug from her body, she would start healing from its effects as well, but ..."

He drew a breath in. "But I doubt that would happen. She might not be able to recover from it at all. She might not be able to regain the memories she had lost. And she might never be able to recognize you from the past."

The last time Jason had visited, he had deliberately left hints for Arwen, in hopes that she would be able to retrace the past she had forgotten.

But the test reports today only made her feel disappointed.

"What else?"

Aiden’s voice was calm. Like he wasn’t very disappointed about it.

When Jason heard him, he couldn’t stop himself from asking. "You aren’t ... disheartened?"

More than anyone, it was Aiden who wanted Arwen to remember it all. It was a memory they both shared together.

Now with her forgetting it all, while him, remembering it all —it was a punishment that was definitely not easy to bear alone.

"If even after losing it all, she is by my side —I am fine. It’s her that matters —the changing time doesn’t. Past, present, future —doesn’t." Aiden said, his words sounding like a vow. Sincere and unwavering.

Jason heard him, and a small smile curled up his lips. "Indeed," he said. "It’s her that matters. As long as she is with you, everything else will fall into place. She might not remember the past, but the present that she is sharing with you now will always be there, and you both will cherish its memories tomorrow when you look back."

Aiden didn’t hum to his words; instead, he asked back what he wanted to know. "You haven’t answered what I asked you yet."

"Oh yes," Jason cleared his throat before finally saying, "There is nothing else to report. Apart from what I reported, there is nothing else major that we discovered."

He paused one time more before adding, "We still should rely on our previous assumptions and precautions. We should let her get exposed to anything that might trigger the memory she had lost. It might damage her hippocampus further —a part of the brain that’s responsible for forming memories and connecting them to emotions."

"Noted," Aiden hummed in understanding. "Anything else?"

"Nope, that was all," Jason replied before finally asking one thing that he hadn’t forgotten but kept for later. "How are you feeling now? Enjoying the time at home?"

"I am better," Aiden checked the time on his watch. "If there is nothing else, I will hang up. It’s already late, and I need to return and rest first."

"You —" Jason hadn’t expected him to use that on him. "Fine, go and rest. I won’t disturb you any further."

With that, both of them hung up the call. Aiden pushed the phone back into his pocket before turning around to walk back.

But just as he did, he heard a noise of something shattering on the floor coming from a distance. His brows furrowed, and his eyes turned cold.

Advancing his steps, he walked back in the direction of the guest room where he had left Arwen alone with Selene.

"Sir!" Mr. Jones also came back rushing. The sound was sharp, and it even alarmed him.

Aiden didn’t pause. Neither did he wait to ask. He simply walked past the old butler and headed straight inside the room.

Mr. Jones followed after him.

But their steps halted when a shard of glass came beneath Aiden’s feet.

"Be careful!"