Chapter 2: The Billionaire’s Proposal
628 Words
The room was completely silent.
Every guest stared at the man standing in the doorway.
Alexander Blackwood.
The billionaire whose name appeared on magazine covers, business headlines, and gossip columns almost every week.
A man known for destroying competitors without mercy.
A man who never smiled.
A man who never attended weddings.
Yet somehow, he was standing here.
And he had just proposed to Sophia.
Sophia blinked, convinced she had imagined it.
“What?” she whispered.
Alexander stepped forward.
His expensive black suit looked untouched by the chaos around him.
Unlike everyone else, he seemed perfectly calm.
“I said marry me.”
A nervous laugh escaped Sophia.
“You can’t be serious.”
“I’m completely serious.”
Gasps spread through the room.
Olivia’s face twisted with anger.
Ethan looked ready to explode.
“What kind of joke is this?” Ethan demanded.
Alexander slowly turned his gaze toward him.
The temperature in the room seemed to drop.
“It’s not a joke.”
Ethan swallowed.
Everyone knew Alexander Blackwood.
Everyone feared him.
Even Ethan.
Sophia stared at the billionaire.
“Why would you ask me to marry you? You don’t even know me.”
Alexander’s expression remained unreadable.
“I know enough.”
“Enough for what?”
“Enough to know you deserve better than him.”
Ethan clenched his fists.
“Stay out of this.”
Alexander ignored him completely.
His attention remained on Sophia.
“You’re hurt. Humiliated. Angry.”
Sophia’s eyes filled with tears.
He wasn’t wrong.
A few minutes ago, she had been a bride.
Now she was the woman everyone would gossip about.
The woman whose fiancé had cheated with her own sister.
Alexander reached into his jacket pocket and handed her a business card.
On the back, a phone number was written in black ink.
“If you change your mind, call me.”
Sophia stared at the card.
“Why me?”
For the first time, something flickered in Alexander’s eyes.
Interest.
“Because I need a wife.”
The room erupted with whispers.
Olivia stepped forward.
“This is ridiculous.”
Alexander finally looked at her.
His cold gaze swept over her from head to toe.
“You must be the sister.”
Olivia lifted her chin proudly.
“Yes.”
Alexander’s lips curved into the smallest smile.
It wasn’t a pleasant smile.
“If I were you, I’d stop talking.”
Olivia immediately fell silent.
Sophia almost couldn’t believe what she was seeing.
Nobody had ever put Olivia in her place before.
Alexander turned back to Sophia.
“You don’t need to answer today.”
Then he leaned closer.
Close enough that only she could hear him.
“But trust me, Sophia Carter.”
His voice was low.
“Drowning people don’t survive by holding onto the ones who pushed them into the water.”
Sophia felt her breath catch.
For a second, it seemed like he could see straight through her.
See every crack.
Every broken piece.
Then he stepped back.
Without another word, Alexander walked out of the room.
The crowd parted instantly.
Like a king leaving his throne room.
Sophia looked down at the business card in her hand.
Alexander Blackwood.
His private number.
Her father suddenly collapsed behind her.
“Sophia!”
Her mother’s scream echoed through the room.
Everything descended into chaos.
Doctors were called.
Guests panicked.
And as Sophia rushed toward her father, clutching Alexander’s card tightly in her hand…
She had no idea that before the week was over, she would be standing beside the billionaire again.
And saying yes.
End of Chapter 2
Next Chapter: Sophia learns her father’s condition is far worse than she thought, while Alexander waits for the phone call he knows is coming.
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