Rose was stunned!
‘Is he serious?’
“W-H-A-T?? you want to marry me?” Rose asked her eyes wide. She could not even for a moment imagine Joseph asking her to marry him. What about Isabela?’ Or could it be that she misheard him? She burst into laughter, when he failed to respond to her but kept his eyes on the road. “Aren’t you afraid of ruining the Stone’s family reputation by marrying a nobody like me?”
Slowly he turned to her and told her, “I don’t see anything wrong with you so, why not?”
“No, I will not marry you,” she stated as a matter of fact.
A sharp pain pierced his heart, she had rejected him, again. Leo howled loudly momentarily disrupting his line of thought but he blocked him and concentrated on how to convince her to accept his proposal.
“I thought you said you needed mon
