The Almighty Dominance

Chapter 238

"Mom, what the hell's going on?”

Sophia asked, her voice shaky as she looked at Florence with wide incertain

eyes.

Florence edged closer and perched on the bed, fixing Sophia with awary gaze.

"Listen, Sophia. Bella Kane attacked you, remember? Then the Kares sent their goons to tear down our companies. Charles promised to help us out this mess, but only if I agreed to let him marry you."

"Mom-"Sophia began.

"Sophia, hush,” Florence said with a pointed smile.

"We're talking about Charles Kingston here, the top dog in Vancouver, practically royalty. You couldn't snag a better husband if you tried. You're divorced now, and sooner or later, you'll have to marry again. I want grandkids, and I want them from the best stock."

"Mom..." Sophia tried to speak, but Florence cut her off.

"I already gave Charles my word. Your uncles are all in on it. Every single one of them wants you to marry Charles to cement an alliance between the Lancaster and Kingston families."

"The Lancaster Group board approved it-Megan says the shareholders are salivating over a Lancaster-Kingston merger. The stock will explode the moment you put on his ring."

A sharp headache throbbed through Sophia's skull.

She couldn't recall the moment everything got this complicated.

"Sophia, you don't have to agree," Alex said flatly. "Charles didn't solve anything with the Kanes."

"Oh, Alex," Jay snapped, stepping in front of him.

"If Charles didn't do it, who else could? Don't forget, you owe him a damn apology on your knees. You started this chaos by beating people up, and Charles saved your skin. You'd be a corpse by now if not for him."

"That's right,” Florence chimed in. "You'd have been six feet under a hundred times over if Charles hadn't stepped in."

Charles way too much credit," Alex replied with an

kind of hero, propping him up without the slightest clue of what really happened—and Charles just stood there, lapping up the

to lay

never to let

you're more capable than

see the loser

You're a walking disaster, nothing but trouble," another

you be so vile?" another

saved your miserable hide, and this is how

convinced he was the worst kind of ingrate for biting the hand that

it kill you to just say thank you?" Sophia snapped, her voice sharp with disbelief. "If it weren't

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was the least someone could offer after

Still clinging to that brittle pride of his, as if dignity mattered more than

thank him if he'd actually done something,"

he fail to help, he's the one who triggered this inadness in

brow furrowed. "What are you talking

fooling around with Charles behind her back. That's what started it

up from

dare malign Charles! He's a decent man,

be seething with jealousy. Probably doctored all kinds of evidence to tear him down since

several Lancasters chorused

knew you'd

do you always have to stir up

Is it really that hard to just

wasn't the

would mean accepting Sophia had to

"Never," he whispered.

jealousy twisting into yet another act of reckless

me, ask Clara,” Alex

everything last night-and she's the reason Bella