HPDBC Chapter 248 Why are you so nice to me?
Chapter 248 Why are you so nice to me?
Arwen didn't say anything, but she could feel the knife he was carrying plunged into his heart. It was twisting painfully, carving wounds that had long scarred over but never truly healed. Yet he bore all the pain with a quiet resilience, as if he had mastered the art of enduring suffering over the years.
Reaching out, she held his hand in hers, her touch soft and deliberate. Slowly, she patted the back of his hand, her voice coming a gentle balm. "No matter how much power and pride the Winslow name carries, to me, it's meaningless without you. It's you who matters, Aiden —with or without the name. Just you."
Aiden froze, her words cutting through the bitterness that had clung to him like a second skin. His gaze which was shadowed with anger moments before, softened as he stared at her. "And it's you who matters to me. You are the only family I have in this world. After my mother, it's just you and no one else," he said, holding a serene moment with her.
Arwen wanted to feel warm from those words, but she could tell that his words today were not as simple as they seemed. It was not some promise he was giving to her, rather it was a wound he was unravelling for her to see —raw and unhealed.
All the while he spoke, her eyes not once left his face. She stared at him as if she were there, witnessing all his sufferings. It seemed more painful than she had imagined. To tell her everything, he looked like he was scraping the depths of himself, forcing himself to relive the agony he had long buried. She thought it would be fine, but now she no longer felt confident.@@@@
Not because she thought he would blame her, but because she knew that if he got hurt because of her, she wouldn't be able to carry the guilt.
Pressing her hand over his lips, she shook her head, stopping him from continuing any further. "I am sorry," she said, feeling her eyes sting from the unshed tears. "I shouldn't have asked you something that I knew would make you uncomfortable."
Aiden didn't say anything. He just sat still, watching her. At that moment, he didn't look like that powerful man she had come to understand he was, instead, he allowed her to see the vulnerable side of him that maybe no one has ever seen up until now.
She could no longer look at him like that. Before she realized it, her arms went to wrap around his neck, pulling him into a hug. "I don't want to know your past, not anymore," she said, making herself understand the same. "Just knowing you in the present is enough."
"Aiden, I —"
"I can never be upset with you moon." Interrupting Arwen, Aiden spoke, his fingers slowly caressing her face. His actions were as gentle as she ever remembered —not even carrying the smallest hint of blame. As if he didn't the pain she had knowingly brought him.
How can he be so forgiving? Shouldn't he at least blame her for being inconsiderate towards him?
Opening her eyes, she looked into his and asked, "Why?" she asked.
The remnants of the past sorrows remained in his gaze but he still smiled at her. "Because what you said is right. Being my wife you deserve to know it all. I cannot refuse to answer your questions just because it would hurt me. You —"
Before he could say more, Arwen pressed her lips softly over him, shushing him for saying more. "Enough! You don't have to be so upright with me every time. It makes me feel like I am bullying you and I don't feel good like that."
While she said that she avoided looking into his eyes. But Aiden hooked his finger down his chin and slowly lifted her face to make her look at him. "You don't have to feel bad about anything, Moon. You never did something that you shouldn't do. Even today your curiosity was in place, it's my incapability that I couldn't bring myself to answer you. You were right to ask about my past because you have the right to know it all —both my past and present."
Arwen didn't know what to say. In just one blink, he wiped away all her guilt.
"Why are you so nice to me? It makes me feel like we have known each other for far longer than I can remember," she said, her eyes searching his face for a hint that could prove her words to be the truth.