Arwen was stunned for a moment, but she didn''t make him wait long. Coughing a little to clear her stuck voice, she asked, "How did you know?" Her tone carried the hint of guilt she was definitely feeling inside.

    While leaving he has asked her to remain careful. And she did as well. But who knew that even after being careful, they would end up going to the hospital just the next day he left? And he would come to know about it so soon.

    "Didn''t I ask you to stay careful?" Aiden asked, instead of answering her question. "How did you hurt yourself just the day after I left?"

    "I didn''t get hurt?" Arwen immediately protested. "What gave you such a false information."

    "False information?" he asked back. "Is it?"

    "Of course, it is," she said firmly before elucidating. "I went to the hospital, but it wasn''t me who had gotten hurt. It''s Anna. She sprained her ankle earlier in the afternoon. I just took her to the hospital. And then —"

    "And then?" Aiden asked when she suddenly stopped in between her words.

    Arwen''s brows furrowed as she remembered what happened after. But then she found it unnecessary. Aiden was out on a business trip; she didn''t want him to stay worried there. And anyway, nothing happened between her and Ryan. It was just a chance encounter where they even barely shared any words.

    "And then nothing," she said, getting back to her usual tone. "After taking the instructions and medicines from the doctor, we came back home. We had dinner and just now we were about to sleep. That''s all."

    She didn''t know why she was giving him all those explanations, but it felt good speaking to him about all these small, insignificant things.

    And she liked how attentively he listened to her. It was as if he was listening to some great big deals.

    Aiden didn''t speak for a moment, but soon he hummed and said, "I invited her to keep you accompanied. But if her presence makes you end up at the hospital the very first day, I think I somewhere missed some calculation which would further ask for me to reconsider the things and her presence around you."

    Arwen pressed her lips in a thin line. Of course, she knew he wasn''t being serious saying that, but still since he said that, she didn''t hesitate in making it clear to him. "I hope you have misunderstood anything, husband. Anna is my best friend —an important person, to me —not a pawn that you can move as per your considerations."

    "Are you sure?" Aiden asked, and narrowing her eyes, she replied.

    "I am sure that you wouldn''t want to test?"

    Aiden liked the way her demeanor shifted instantly. That was her proposition of uniqueness. She would be calm, kind and delicate for a moment, but the very next second, she would turn fierce to stir up destruction. She might have forgotten her true self, but the hint of it still surfaces often in her forgotten state.

    He believed that soon or later, she would regain her real self once again. She might not recall her past, but he will surely help her regain her natural self.

    "Indeed, I can dare test," Aiden replied. "But I can surely request you to be careful. Seeing you getting hurt is the last thing I could bear."

    Arwen''s heart melted again. Letting s small smile curl her lips, she hummed in understanding, before asking, "Did you have your dinner?"

    "Not yet," he replied.

    "I will stay careful here, but can you promise not to skip meals there?" she proposed, adding, "I want you to have three proper meals a day, without skipping even a single time. Can you do it? If you can, I will reward you when you come back."

    "How are you going to reward me?" Aiden asked instantly, his voice showing his grown deep interest.