The Traps of Black Swan

Hearing Aeon who had seen Aarvi only a few times being so certain about his guess.

'How could Aeon be so accurate?' Dax thought witnessing the indifference Aeon always carried had little warmness towards... Aarvi?

Dax shook off his thought assuming he was reading too much into it just because he heard Aeon was willing to support his Dum Dum.

Dax smiled but it didn't have any emotions. It was hard to guess what he was thinking.

"Sometimes, intuitions are accurate." He obliquely accepted it because Aeon needs to trust Aarvi and her power so that he doesn't waiver due to blood bond with Leon Harmon.

Aeon had a weak smile but didn't respond to Dax's words. Since he was eased up after confirming Twyla is Aarvi, now he was hungry.

'When will they start serving food?' He thought while looking towards the doors.

….

Meanwhile, after settling on their seats and the program started, Aarvi turned to Aaron who didn't respond to her question yet.

A few minutes back,

Aarvi exited the elevator with Aaron and was amused. She just wanted a few people to cover them when she will walk inside with Aaron. But she felt the way Rivas security was escorting them inside was too extravagant, out of her style.

Anyway she shrugged the thought and turned to Aaron, "You better don't start being lovey dovey. Your girlfriend is Aarvi Evans, not Twyla." She didn't want new headlines in a business newspaper writing Twyla is Aaron's girlfriend.

A faint smile swept away on his face before he teased, "You can't stop me from taking care of my little wife."

Aarvi: "..."

She paused her footsteps and tried to drag him back to the elevator, "Let's go and get married. Then announce to the world."

Aaron was rooted, he wasn't sure if she was making fun knowing it's Saturday and already evening or forgot it. Still, he tried to be normal with no excitement shown, "Saturday." He meant marriage bureaus will be closed.

Aarvi was thinking to tease, 'Offer closes on Sunday.' But Aaron continued, "We will go on Monday. How about a wedding tomorrow? I don't mind a night wedding either." He meant a wedding in an hour or two.

Aarvi: "..."

She felt like an idiot for taking his teases seriously and for trying to tell him in that way that they aren't married yet.

She just wanted to enjoy her privilege as a spoiled girlfriend, before taking the responsibility as a wife.

Pouting her lips, she hooked her hand back to his arm, turned him around to walk towards the banquet hall. Even though she started it, she needed a way to divert him without continuing the wedding topic.

She wasn't ready for the wedding and her mind was betraying her from thinking what to respond to him.

She knows she never did anything as he likes, it was always him who catered to her requirement. She felt selfish.

Aaron's slender fingers brushed her jawline and lifted her chin to keep her head straight when they were close to stepping inside the banquet hall as he said, "Wedding cancel. We can't arrange your dream wedding in such a short time."

He knows she wasn't ready yet and he was just playing her game back. It wasn't the first time he called her 'Little wife', his little Cupcake used to blush bright red whenever he used to tease her as 'My Little wife.'

Composing quickly, she shamelessly hummed despite knowing he caught her working up with the wedding topic.

After a thought, she realized he mentioned 'her dream wedding' It wasn't 'our.' Their wedding won't be her alone wedding so she asked thinking he might have ignored his likes due to hers.

"What about you? Don't you have a vision of how you would like our wedding?" Her voice was laced with anticipation.

Aaron would love to respond but he didn't. She wasn't ready for the wedding thus he didn't want his response to put any kind of pressure on her. Hence he decided to ignore the question as they neared their family

Seeing him still ignoring her question, Aarvi poked his hand that was on his lap.

Aaron grabbed her hand to stop her from nudging but didn't avert his gaze from the screen that was behind Karsen and Master Morris. Instead of responding to her question, he asked her back, "Why do you want to know?"

He wasn't desperate to get married. He had waited three years, so waiting a few more years isn't difficult for him.

Aarvi: "..."

She deserved to know the response to her question than anybody else in the world. Grumpily shrugging his hand off, she hissed in a low tone, "Fine, I won't marry you."

Megan and Aaron both turned to Aarvi at the same time. Her red lips were pursed to a thin line and stared at the stage without focusing there. She had crossed her arms in protest clearly displaying she was annoyed.

Megan raised her brow at Aaron in question to what happened in just a few seconds that her Gigglemug who was in compose was so irritated.

Aaron assured Megan with a gentle nod indicating he will take care of it.

Why won't he take care when he was the one to annoy her ignoring her eagerness?

Aaron looked back at Aarvi and asked in a low deep voice, "Do you really want to know?"

Aarvi gave a curt hum in response when he was waiting for her response.

She wasn't like the people who date and live in for years just to confirm he/she is the one they wanted. She already knows that she loves him, she wanted to live her life with him so it was just a matter of a few days, she might start pestering him to marry her so of course, she wants to know.

"The only wedding imagination I have is You as My bride." The venue, decor, guests, nothing else matter to him unless he has her in front of him as his bride.

Aarvi felt a skip of her heartbeat hearing his entrancing deep voice next to her ear. Her lips subconsciously curled up, her black orbs dazzled brighter than the lights around.

She turned to Aaron whose eyes were still on her. He was worried she might think too much about the wedding and marriage and start distancing herself. But his pretty little girlfriend was fascinated, softly blinking at him.

"That's it?" Her whisper was barely audible as she tilted her head asking him to confirm.

When he had teased her taking different types of wedding venues, she had told him how she would like it. She had all the vision of the wedding but not the bride and groom whereas he only thought of her and him.

They perfectly completed each other.

She no longer felt she wasn't ready for the wedding.

Lost in thought, she felt a hand on her shoulder before Megan's voice, "Gigglemug, your mobile."

Shawn teased her, "Were you lost in the beauty of my brother's eyes?" Megan chuckled with Shawn.

Aarvi: "..."

'Oh my, what am I thinking?' She couldn't believe she was thinking of a wedding between her two plans with Surgeon general life at risk.

On the contrary, she was glad her primary importance is her love and life. But that doesn't mean she was going to be easy on Leon.

Before she could distress, "Breathe in... Breathe out..." Aaron's voice sounded low as he took her mobile out and connected the AirPods which were in his pockets.

Aarvi blindly followed his words to compose before listening to the updates in her ear.

Her eyes turned frosty a wicked smirk charmed her little face in no time.. It was hard to guess if she was winning or losing.