He raised a very confident brow at her, now dropping the file he'd been looking through to focus on her.
What she just said had certainly come as a shock so much so he'd thought he heard wrongly before.
"It wasn't a choice Annelise, you will marry me. Our first contract stipulated that I could add any terms I so wish at any point during the contract's duration, this is the term I wish to add. I already have your signature on the previous contract, you can't refuse to marry me."
She wouldn't marry him?
He thought back to the words in extreme disbelief.
It felt like hearing a joke, but one that didn't sound funny at all.
What woman in the world wouldn't want to marry him?
He wasn't a humble man so he wouldn't downplay his own merits, but he was beyond certain there would be a long line of eager women waiting to marry him.
If he were to go out on the streets and ask any random girl to marry him, without a doubt that girl would jump in glee.
