HPDBC Chapter 290 Do you care that I might bully your ex-boyfriend?
Chapter 290 Do you care that I might bully your ex-boyfriend?
Arwen paused at his words, her eyes locking onto his, slightly confused and slightly anticipative. She searched for answers in his gaze, her mind swirling with thoughts she couldn't quite piece together.
Under her gaze like that, Aiden stepped closer, closing the already small distance between them. His hand moved slowly, reaching out to brush away the hair that was layering the side of her face before cupping her cheek.
Her breath hitched at his touch, warmth spreading from his palm to her skin. Her heart stuttered in her chest, betraying the calm she was trying to maintain. "What does that mean?" she asked, her voice soft but laced with curiosity.
"Why?" he asked, his voice low and deliberate. "Is it hard to believe?"
She didn't know what to say.
Aiden's gaze softened, but grief more intense, a quiet storm brewed in the depths of his eyes. He could see her struggling to understand. The way she was looking at him was enough to tell him that she was looking for the answers. The same ones that he was dying to tell as well.
But will she be able to take it? She couldn't and that's all that was making it so difficult.
However, no matter how much he was dying to remind her of their past, he was not ready to lose her.
"Moon," he began, his voice dipping into something raw and unguarded, "without my mother, I was alone. It was only when you appeared that I regained this world. You became the family; you became everything I desired."
She stiffened slightly, her lips parting as if to speak, but no words came.
"So when I said I have this longer than you can fathom," he continued, his thumb brushing tenderly across her cheekbone, "don't take it as a lie. It's the biggest truth of my life —one that I am most afraid to lose."
Just when he was about to be done, Arwen got reminded of something and she asked, "Oh yes, I almost forgot to ask you," she spoke interrupting before asking, "What did you do with the bottle of wine that was sent yesterday?"
Although he had said that he would be sending it back later, she knew that his words weren't as simple as they sounded there. He had plans that he didn't reveal in front of all.
And even though she didn't mind it, she was curious to know it.
Aiden's hands halted mid-air as he seemed to pause for a second. "Why?" he looked up. Although his expression looked the same as before, there was a darkness in his gaze that sent a shiver down Arwen's spine —something that she hadn't felt before. "Do you care that I might bully your ex-boyfriend?"
She almost choked on her breath at his words. Coughing hard, she patted her chest, trying to ease herself. "I —" She didn't know what to say. This felt like a big misunderstanding, one that she wanted to solve but didn't know how to.
As she struggled to answer him, she felt his expression shifting little by little. And she knew the more she delayed the more gruesome his face would become. The first thing she loved about her husband was his handsome looks, there was no way she could see his expression getting ugly.
Hence she cleared her throat and quickly said, "Ryan is not my ex-boyfriend."
Aiden raised his brow at that as he repeated. "He is not?"
Arwen felt it more hard to explain under his gaze.
Wait! Didn't he just say that he would believe whatever she would say? Then how come now he was questioning her?
And even if he was questioning her, why did he have to shift his demeanor like this, as if he was ready to explode and cause destruction?