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.
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