"Aria, what's wrong? Why are you crying? Did anything happen at work? Did anyone bully you?..."

He didn't get a response to any questions as he carried on asking.

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He took Aria out when she lowered her cry.

Levi passed her laptop as he cued her with his hand to Aria. The latter nodded her head in understanding.

Aria didn't speak until they went to bed.

Alan wanted to ask her to sleep because the wedding and wedding reception would be very tiring but seeing her mood he answered all her questions, spoke about the wedding, calmed her, coaxed her, and cuddled her to sleep.

He got up and went aside to make a call after some time, "Where did Aria go today?"

He heard a response and chided them in low tone clenching his teeth, "When the f**king hell were you thinking to inform me?"

He continued to talk and didn't notice Aria was awake whose tears were rolling down. She bit her finger hard to avoid making any sound as she wept.

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Alan controlled himself from chiding Aria whose eyes were all swollen in the morning. Asking her to rest he drove her to the exorbitantly decorated venue.

Amelia and Eva were flabbergasted looking at dark circles and swollen eyes of Aria.

Amelia admonished Alan, "Didn't you know about the wedding? Why didn't you let her sleep?"

Alan ignored them and turned to Aria, "Are you fine?"

Aria vaguely nodded and went towards her bride's room to get ready. Eva and Amelia ran behind her but Aria didn't speak even once.

Eva and makeup artists helped her get ready quickly.

Aria was looking like a lifeless emotionless porcelain doll. Exquisite to the eyes but she was mute.

Her classmates and relatives met her but she just forced a smile and nodded.

Eva tried to talk, "Arrie, what happened to you? Why are you like this? Don't be scared of the wedding. It's just a custom. Prince will..."

Aria reacted holding her hand, "Alan... I want to see Alan."

Eva thought Aria was scared of the wedding but she never knew Aria having Gamophobia.

Aria was somebody who commits herself.

She nodded and called Isaac quickly. Isaac brought Alan who was looking like a modern prince in his cold stance.

"What's wrong?" There was no gentleness in his tone. Eva furrowed her brows as she exited when Isaac pulled her aside.

Aria gave him a file and pleaded, "Alan, please say no to all these. Please."

All were shocked seeing Aria's reaction and Alan whose face was dark.

Aria shook Alan's hand as she again pleaded, "Alan, You can't do this to me. Please..."

Alan shrugged her hand and clutched her arm pulling her near.

His tone was frosty glaring her in the eye, "Forget about this. You are just coming in and doing as I said. Do you get that? Don't be over smart and do something stupid."

He pulled her veil on her face before going out ignoring Aria crying his name.

"Alan... Alan..."

Aria ran into the room inside and locked herself. She cried alone without opening the door.

She never thought Alan could be behind everything in the proof they found.

She wasn't ready to believe and didn't believe Alan could do it even after seeing all the proof but she had talked about every incident with him and found loopholes in everything.

One of his foreign friend accounts was used to transfer money to Lucas Cooper's account which was given as a cheque in the school. He reached on time to get Aria out showing her as he was there for her.

They found proof that Alan gave money to Lucas Cooper to file a case on them so that Aria gets close to him during the problem.

Alan knew about every piece of news about Lucas Cooper but he had always said he didn't know anything about him.

He was behind the fake proof creation of Lucas Cooper and he again sent Lucas to jail.

They never got proof of somebody bugging their place because it was Alan who bugged to keep track of Aria so that he could control her and revealed it to control her.

Except for Isla Turner, every his dates were clearly instructed by his subordinates on how to behave so that Aria could reject.

He knew Isla Turner behind many of her high dramas but he purposefully let it escalate so that he could save Aria every single time to get close. But when it went out of hand, he cleared the ground.

The person who pushed Aria down the snow was Alan's subordinate so that Aria could forget about their fight. She was easily convinced by him. But they hadn't expected Aria to fool them from getting kidnapped.

Alan was actually very panicked because he hadn't wanted others to kidnap her or even save her.

Pinto Lincon's father got a huge sum of money for planning on Aria so that she should be scared and be with the men he appointed for her.

Every time she faced a problem, he was present because it was created by him.

He didn't want Aria to study business either. He wanted to talk to her to study only fashion designing so that he could control the whole business field.

He wanted both the business under him to stand in pinnacle. The worst part of it was Isaac knew about it.

When Aria wasn't ready to compromise, he wanted her to study in the city so that she shouldn't fall in love with anybody.

Seeing her ignore him, he thought they couldn't maintain their relationship and she would really leave hence he had compromised.

Well, Finn and Levi might not know the reason behind everything but Aria understood, Alan eventually fell in love with her and also knew Skyline Industries couldn't be transferred to him without her marriage.

If anything happened to her before marriage, everything would belong to the orphanage. He couldn't get anything so marrying her and keeping her next to him was his plan.

He was reaching the Skyline Industries to pick her up, wasn't only because he wanted to look after her, it was to make sure she wasn't investigating him.

His only weakness throughout his plan was he was undoubtedly in love with her and he wasn't at the stage to hurt her.

Aria was ready to ignore each one of them because he loved her and she loved him wholeheartedly. But what she got to know about her father and Alan made her weaker.