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

That did take Brenda with little surprise, but she wasn't stunned. Although she had asked Margaret to investigate, she wasn't merely speculating. She was somewhere sure about it.

It wasn't obvious, but it wasn't kept hidden too well either.

She had seen Aiden wearing his heart on his face. Anyone who sees him watching Arwen could tell his feelings for her weren't born from some trial marriage they had signed on a whim. Rather, he looked like he had long promised his heart and soul to her and was now just living that promise … blissfully.

"What did you find out?" Brenda asked after a moment, her aged eyes crinkling slightly at the corners.

Margaret paused for a second. She had a mixed feeling about it —not because she doubted what she found out, but because she felt the information came too easily.

The Winslow upheld a kind of privacy that kept them both attached and detached from the public eye. That was the reason their information wasn't easily accessible.

When Brenda had asked Margaret to investigate Aiden, she hadn't expected it to be easy. Yet nothing had stopped her at any point. Whatever she tried to find was readily available.

"Margaret?" Brenda called when she noticed the woman lost in thought.

The call made Margaret flick her gaze back to the lady, confusion written over her face.

"You haven't given me the details yet," Brenda prompted, reminding her of what she had asked.

Margaret realized her mistake and quickly answered. "Sorry, Madam, making you wait wasn't my intention. I was just thinking of something else," she quickly explained before getting to the main point.

She turned to the side and retrieved a file from the nearby drawer. The file contained all the details she had gathered during the investigation.

Handing it to the lady, she slowly began to explain the major details.

"Aiden is announced to be the only grandkid recognized by Morgan Winslow, the current patriarch of the Winslow family. He was born to Dafydd Winlsow and late Merely Winslow through a family-arranged marriage, which ended not long after when she secret marriage outside."

"Lady Melery left the family, heartbroken. She was pregnant when she left, and at that time, none in the Winslow family knew she was carrying a future heir. She came to Cralens and settled her, gave birth to her son and then continued raising him alone."

"Given that she was a single mother without the best source of income, she could only afford to send her son to an ordinary school —Cralens High School —which was also Arwen's previous school. Their years together match, so they probably met during their high school days."

"This was likely before Arwen lost her memory. She might have forgotten him due to the effect of the drug in her system. Although no concrete details of their relationship could be gathered, given that they are married now, the possibility of them sharing a deep bond in the past seems high."

After all, the heir of the Winslow family, a man like Aiden Winslow, who shouldn't be lacking women ready to marry him wouldn't come all the way to Cralens to marry a stranger.

Margaret had felt so amazed when she discovered this.

But at the same time, she couldn't help but feel sympathy. Both of them were quite young, and both had suffered the insufferable.

Neither of their childhoods had been easy. While one had watched his mother struggle, the other became a pawn in the hands of her mother.

Maybe that was the reason why fate might have brought them together —to find solace in each other.

"Later the old man of the Winslow family discovered Aiden's existence," Margaret continued. "He personally came to take them back to the family, but Lady Melery refused. It was only when she found out she was in the last stage of cancer and did not have much time left that she agreed to return. Given that she made her decision, young Aiden must have followed her back, and since then, he never returned to Cralens … until a month before Arwen's scheduled registration at Civil Affairs Bureau."

No matter how they looked at it, the whole plot seemed like a fated coincidence —until the matter of Aiden and Arwen's flash marriage is introduced.

Brenda tapped aa finger lightly against the file, her mind sorting through the pieces of information. "He reappeared in Cralens right before Arwen's engagement fell apart," she mused aloud. "Seems like even without my interference, the lad had his plans."

The evening before Arwen and Ryan had to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau, Ryan had taken Delyth out for dinner.

Brenda had always kept tabs on him. So, the moment she got the chance, she asked someone to tip the waiter off, instructing him to put the drug in their drink, only to realize that Delyth already had such plans set.

It was just that the difference lay between their drugs. While Delyth had plans of using an aphrodisiac, Brenda simply wanted to use a sleeping drug. Brenda knew as long as she gave the woman a chance, she would definitely use it to her benefit.

And as she had expected, that's exactly what happened.

She only helped Ryan by replacing drugs; otherwise, he would have ended up being a pawn in the hands of the woman he had sworn to protect.

Margaret didn't understand what Brenda meant. Her brows furrowed as she gazed at the lady before asking, "Madam, you mean …?"

Brenda smiled. Looking at the woman beside her, she perked up as she explained, "What I mean is that —I was worrying in vain. Even if I hadn't conspired and made Ryan and his white moonlight end up in the same bed together … even if Catrin had moved Heaven and Earth together, Arwen wouldn't have ended up with Ryan at any cost —because someone else already had her in his plans."

Realization dawned upon Margaret. Her eyes widened. "You mean —"

Already knowing what she was about to say, Brenda nodded. "Yes. This whole story isn't about a flash marriage that Arwen initiated on a whim. It's a well-thought-out plan —a trap set her to willingly fall into his arms."