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

The reason they were all hesitating was because they knew how much Arwen loved her mother.

They all have witnessed her sacrificing it all for the lady's happiness and her satisfaction. They dared not say a wrong thing about her and hurt Arwen's sentiments.

"Alice, we all must have misunderstood. What's the use of mentioning it now?" Aled spoke, trying to refrain the girl from saying it further.

But Arwen didn't let them stop her anymore.

"My mother?" she asked, turning Alice to face her. "What did she do or say to you?"

She knew Catrin had always been hostile towards the people who didn't come from a good family background. And because of that, she had always abstained from having friendships with the people who couldn't come to any aid.

But Arwen never cared. If Catrin asked her to not make such friends, she would just be careful to not let her find out.

But now that she heard Alice mentioning her mother, she could already guess that Catrin must have come to know about them and might have behaved rudely.

However, then she also knows these seven kids. They won't distance themselves from her just on someone's words. Especially Catrin's words.

"Alice, I asked you something. Won't you tell me?" she probed when saw Alice still hesitating.

The girl looked up at her. "Queen Sister, we didn't want to be rude to you Mrs. Quinn, but weren't able to hold ourselves back that night. All of us were very anxious. We wanted to reach you … to stop you. But she didn't let us see you. And then Aled lost his patience and he snapped at her."

Aled lost his patience!

Arwen was slightly taken aback. If it had been Nic and Harris or even Charles, she would have believed it, but Aled and Sam were the most disciplined ones. They wouldn't lose their calm until it's very extreme.

So, what had happened to make him lose like that?

Her gaze darted to glance at Aled, but the guy simply looked away to avoid her gaze.

When Alice noticed the shift in Arwen's expression, she thought Arwen was disappointed in them.

She was about to defend Aled but before she could, Arwen asked her straight.

"Which night was it, Alice? And what actually had happened?"

Although these young kids looked reckless. Arwen knew them better. They weren't as they were perceived by the masses. All their actions had a reason.

So, if Aled has lost his patience, then she didn't even have to ask to know that Catrin Quinn must have done something extreme that they weren't able to bear.

"Did my mother insult you guys?" she asked, already frowning at the thought.

"If she had insulted us, Queen Sister, it would have been still fine. But she insulted you and your life. How could we take that?" Sam said, his tone still carrying an underlying fury that he seemed to be restraining inside.

Arwen gaze flickered to him. However just before she could ask him anything, she heard Alice speaking.

"Queen Sister, we have gone to meet you on the night when the date for your marriage was getting decided between the two families."

Arwen looked at Alice, her brows furrowing at the thought.

If they had come to meet her, how did she not know?

But that question wasn't important in the situation. So, she didn't care to ask.

"You know we didn't like your decision to marry Ryan Foster. So, without telling you, we were keeping an eye on him. We thought as long as we show your mother that he doesn't deserve you. She would agree and cancel your engagement with him. But we would not just refuse to believe us but would even burn the evidence we brought for you to see."

Arwen was taken aback slightly. But the reassessing it, she wasn't surprised at all. In the past, she would have but today, she was all causal to it.

After all, she has come to realize that Catrin simply never cared about her. So, no doubt she didn't care to believe that evidence.

Arwen exhaled a deep breath as patted the back of Alice's hand. "It's fine, it's over," she said and Alice blinked her eyes, a little confused.

Then she flicked her gaze towards the rest before coming back to Arwen. "Queen Sister, you aren't upset at us? I mean we not just stalked Ryan Foster, but we even insulted your mom that night. Sam has almost hurled a pot right in front of her feet. He just missed the shot by an inch. Otherwise, it would have definitely hurt her."

Arwen's gaze turned to Sam and she smiled. It wasn't like he missed the shot. He must have deliberately held himself back. And thinking of his consideration, Arwen undoubtedly felt warm inside.

How can she be upset with that when all they did was for her?

"I am not mad at you guys," she said, softly, looking at everyone. "I know you all were just worried for me. But I am upset because you people abandoned me after throwing a fit of anger in front of her. If I hadn't come today, after a few months, you all would have even forgotten me."

They all shook their head, and voicing out their thoughts Alice spoke, "How can that be, Queen Sister? We just didn't know how to face you. All the evidence was burnt and you were already there to marry her. Later, when we tried to retrieve those records and videos, we got to know that your mother had acted and removed all the traces. We couldn't retrieve it."

Even though Arwen knew her mother's obsession, she never though she would go to such lengths to stop her from deterring from the arrangement.

How could she? And why would she?

Was she not her daughter?

She couldn't refuse the blood relationship she shared with that woman, but apart from that, she has long accepted that Catrin Quinn didn't see her as her daughter, rather she saw her as a puppet that she wanted to control badly.