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."

giving Charles way too much credit," Alex replied with an icy stare. "He's not half as powerful as you people

him how they twisted the facts to paint Charles as some kind of hero, propping him up without the slightest clue of what really

he wanted to lay claim to

never to let

capable than Charles?" someone

see the

You're a walking disaster, nothing but

you be so

your miserable hide, and this is how you repay him-talking crap

Alex, convinced he was the worst kind of ingrate for

thank you?" Sophia snapped, her voice

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least someone could offer after

that brittle pride of his, as if dignity mattered more than survival.

done something," Alex said,

did he fail to help, he's the one

brow furrowed. "What

was jealous-thought you were fooling around with Charles behind her back. That's what started it all. Charles is the real cause, from the

up from the bed in

a decent man, nothing

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

Alex," several Lancasters chorused with

you'd stoop

to stir

Is it really that

wasn't the problem-but admitting

Sophia

"Never," he whispered.

Sophia, it looked like classic Alex-his jealousy twisting into

don't believe me, ask Clara,” Alex

saw everything last night-and she's the reason Bella came