Breaking Free, Loving Again -The Flash Marriage with Mr. CEO novel Chapter 558

Chapter 558: You did sign the papers.

Emily knew what could happen if Catrin found out about it.

But she couldn’t bring herself to imagine it happening. Shaking her head, she wanted to refuse, but she knew no matter how many times she shook her head now, nothing of this would turn out to be the nightmare she wished it to be.

"Emily, our family will disown us if they come to know about this. Please do something."

Her friends pleaded, but more than them, her own situation scared her.

What if Catrin changed her decision?

No, that couldn’t be happening.

Her head snapped towards Arwen as she stared at her desperately.

"Arwen!" she called with urgency, lunging forward toward her.

However, before she could reach her, Aiden stepped forward, gently pulling Arwen behind him.

"Please don’t do this," she implored, "This will ruin my reputation. We are cousins, and soon, we are going to share an even closer bond as sisters. Please help me today. I promise I will never try to insult you again. I —"

"Emily," Arwen interrupted her, cutting her pleading smoothly, "You know this better than me that a species of your kind doesn’t learn from their mistakes. If it did, then you wouldn’t have repeated the same stunt for the third time after getting humiliated twice already. You simply won’t learn."

"No, no, Arwen, I would," Emily cried desperately. "I am promising you. Just let me go this time." It pained her to beg like this, but at this moment, nothing stood more important than saving the situation.

Arwen watched her as if considering. She felt a slow caress on the back of her hand, and her attention shifted to Aiden. His eyes were fixed on her, waiting for something.

"What do you want to do?" he asked, and she blinked, for a moment, not understanding what he meant. And as if he read her confusion in her gaze, he continued further. "I will leave it for you to decide. Just know that kindness always comes at one’s own expense."

She knew.

Being selfless, caring, and compassionate —everything comes at one’s own expense. People might not see it, but they do realize it at some point in time. And that’s when regret seeps in.

And she already has a lot of regrets in her life. She doesn’t want to have even the tiniest one now.

Taking a deep breath, she gave one last fleeting glance to Emily. But before Emily could make another plea, she turned to look back at Aiden.

"I think it’s been a while since we entered this store." Her gaze darted to look around, glancing briefly at everything. "I already selected what we liked. There is nothing more we can get here."

"So?"

"Let’s leave," she said as if she had made it very obvious. "If you have forgotten, we even have other places to go. We can’t take forever at just one store."

Emily was befuddled. She didn’t understand what Arwen meant when she said that. But Aiden did.