The Billionaire's Unexpected Proposal by Samantha

Chapter 3

Derek stared at her, taken aback. "Why would I want to do that? Why would you want to do that?" He asked, beginning to wonder if the whole accident and tears thing had been a ploy to get to him. Evelyn's cheeks burned with a mixture of shame and a strange sense of defiance. The words had tumbled out before she could think.

"I mean," she stammered, her voice barely a whisper,

"do you... find me attractive?"

He stared at her, his blue eyes narrowed in confusion.

The silence stretched between them, thick and heavy.

Evelyn wanted to crawl under the seat and disappear.

This impulsive act, born out of heartbreak, was already spiraling out of control.

Finally, he spoke, his voice carefully neutral. "Yes," he conceded, "but I don't understand. Why would you want to have sex with me?"

Evelyn took a deep, shaky breath. Every fiber of her being screamed at her to run, to get away from this man, this stranger who had witnessed her breakdown.

But the raw, exposed vulnerability within her battled that instinct.

was a strange calmness in the face of the unknown, a temporary escape from the wreckage of her

began, her voice hollow. "I just realized I've made a terrible mistake all my life. The worst mistake," she hesitated, tears welling up again, "And I need to make one more mistake before I

sense. Why will you want to make any more mistakes if the one you made already left you in this state?" He

be able to forgive myself for that terrible mistake. Don't try to understand me. The only thing I

not asking for your money. And I don't want to know who you are or your name either. I don't need any of that from you. All I

a long moment, his expression unreadable. She could almost see the wheels turning in his head, the questions forming behind

spread across his face. It wasn't a

the mistake you made? Perhaps I can help you better by

didn't respond and to his utter shock, she began to take off her dress, stripping naked in front of

over to him, her eyes pleading. "Please, just have

looked away from her naked body,

really don't think this is the

said as she raised herself on her toes,

him, he let go of any hesitation and returned the kiss

he carried her over to the bed and

he held her

sure about this?"

"Yes," she said, her

gaze her consent, he pinned her against the bed

sex with a stranger would help her get over the fact that she had been sleeping with a stranger and planning to marry him for the past four years, but something about the way this stranger touched her aroused her far more than