Arwen let her finger intertwine with Aiden before tugging him to take his step forward with her.
"Haven't you all been guessing about him?" she asked, letting her eyes match with everyone there. "Here, you go. et him."
Ryan's gaze settled on him, his eyes flashing with a kind of recognition that left him frozen.
Him.
Could he be the one he was thinking of?
Just the possibility of it was enough to make his stagger …
He kept his gaze fixed on him, trying to confirm. But he simply couldn't.
Catrin, on the other hand, was also taken off guard. All the while she had been thinking that Arwen married so old, greasy man, but this … the man who stood next to her now was surely young and handso. And his aura … it was not simple.
Idris also stared at Aiden and then at the way Arwen held his hands. Although she looked defiant at the mont, he still didn't miss how her shoulders looked much more relaxed when she stood with him. She looked safe and comfortable.
And what else does a father want more than to see his daughter safe and comfortable in her life?
He didn't need to check the man who stood there … Just looking at how he made Arwen comfortable with his re presence was enough to vouch for how he might have been treating her back at ho.
The worry that had earlier contorted Idris's face eased away, making him look much more relaxed.
But Catrin didn't share the sa feeling. Her face only contorted with fury as she stared at Arwen holding hands intimately.
"Arwen, what's the aning of all this?" She pointed at their joined hands. "Leave his hands. People are watching. And Ryan is here. How can you hold soone's hands like that?"
Arwen chuckled, but it didn't carry any humor. She stared at Catrin before looking down at her conjoined hands with Aiden's.
"Are you asking about this?" she asked, raising their hands in the air. "Oh, I think I didn't quite introduce him right. See, here," she gestured to them to look at the ring on Aiden's finger. "He is wearing my ring, and that makes him mine. So if I am holding on to soone who is mine, what does that have to do with Mr. Foster or soone else who is here?"
"Arwen, I will say this for the last ti —"
"Don't!"
Before Catrin could say it, Arwen interrupted her sharply.
"Instead, listen to say this the last ti." Her voice rose, making everything around pause for the mont. "My engagent to Ryan has long been over. And it was I who ended it … very decisively and rightfully. Now, no matter how obsessed you are, I am not liable to feed your obsession with my sacrifices."
"I have severed my ties with you, and that makes free from your control. I don't belong to the Quinn family … I don't belong to you. If in this world I truly belong to soone, then that's and," she paused before giving a brief glance to Aiden on her side, "my legally wedded husband. The rest others doesn't matter."
Aiden didn't say anything, but his reassuring gaze was enough to assure Arwen.
Her lips curled in a smile, and with confidence, she turned back to look at Catrin, who was still staring at them.
"Since I have made that clear now, I hope people will rember it. Stirring any rumours hereafter will not be ignored. Cralens still has several laws and punishnts against defamation," she said one last ti.
Her gaze t with Brenda's, who was looking at her with a proud expression. She gave her a no, and Arwen smiled in reciprocation, though that smile didn't reach her eyes. It looked forced.
And that pained Brenda.
Arwen might be looking calm on the surface, but she was just trying her best to pull it off like that. On the inside, she was once again bruised, hurt.
Knowing that she would be able to carry it for long, she turned to look at Aiden, only to find him staring at her.
Since when had he been staring at her?
It was like he had been looking at her, trying to read her, without even caring to blink.
His attention like that ward her heart.
"Can you take ho?" she asked, trying her best not to seem like pleading.
Aiden looked at her and nodded. "Sure, let's go."
With that, he turned to give a aningful gaze to Brenda, before escorting Arwen out of there.
People were still in a daze. No one dared to make a noise.
They were only snapped out of their daze when Brenda's voice rang through a microphone.
"May I have everyone's attention here?" Brenda's voice ca perfectly calm as if she hadn't at all gotten bothered by what had happened just now. "Due to so clear reasons, tonight didn't end the way it was planned to. But since the show must go on, I wouldn't let sothing be the reason we gathered tonight."
Everyone was confused by her words. They didn't understand what the old lady was trying to say until they heard her ntion it again.
"As I have said before that this event was not just for celebrating the success of the Davies Empire, but also about announcing the new leader, who would be leading my legacy after . So, hereby I announce Arwen Winslow to be the next heir of my empire."
Silence settled at once. Although Arwen had stunned everyone tonight after her identity as the Vice President was announced, no one had expected her for this.
Brenda smiled and added, "Arwen had proved her capability not just to but to all our shareholders, employees and our staff mbers. With her in the chair of authority, Davies International will be flourishing as it has been flourishing in the last five years."
She paused briefly before continuing, "She will be officially taking up the position of CEO day after tomorrow, though all the formalities and procedures of her appointnt have already been approved and completed. Hope you all will be supporting her and the company as you have been doing all this while. Thank you!"
Once she announced, she handed the microphone to soone there, and Brenda descended the stage, leaving everyone to discuss the news.
She was about to leave when Catrin stopped her.
"Mom, why did you do this?"
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