Billionaire’s Ex-Wife & His Hidden Babies - Chapter 26: Chapter 26

Diana’s POV
“So, do you want this marriage?” he asked; I bit my inner cheeks, wondering whether I should tell him the truth? Of course, I should, it was either now or things would get worst along with time.
“Yes.”, Because I didn’t have any other option.
“Really?” he asked, looking straight into my eyes. “You are ready to marry some stranger just because your dad wants you to marry him. Are you being serious right now?” he chuckled.
“I… I have my own reasons for agreeing to the marriage. But you tell me, why did you agree to marry me? Aren’t you to marry some stranger here?
“I will hear your reason later, but before that, I want to clear the fact that I’m kind of getting married to you forcefully by my dad. And he is doing so because your dad will be doing some favor on him, so in short, as a token to repay the favor, your dad asked my dad to get us married.”
“Oh! So, all these are for some sort of deal between our fathers.”, I muttered, on which he nodded. “What is this deal about?”
“It’s some business-related thing. I don’t know much.”, he replied while I trusted him like an idiot and remained clueless about the things going around me.
“To be honest, I, too, don’t want to marry you.”, I finally told him. So that he wouldn’t feel like he was the only one who was getting trapped in all this thing.
“Finally, I heard something that I was expecting to hear. So, what is your reason to say YES to the marriage?” he asked, coming closer to me but still far enough not to touch me. “And I want an honest reason.”
Oh god! He was not just handsome and had a sexy voice, but also he was intimidating.
“I’m pregnant.” I finally told the truth, and not once did I remove my eyes from his face. And he took this news normally if I count his arching eyebrow as normal then.
“What’s the back story behind it? And I don’t get it; why are you marrying me when you’re pregnant with someone else?” he asked, on which I narrated my situation to him. “So, we kind of in the same boat; who doesn’t want to marry each other.”
“Yeah! Kind of.”, I muttered, and I couldn’t thank god more than sending at my toughest time; I meant, he was understanding too; he didn’t make awful remarks after knowing that I was pregnant without wedlock.
“Fine then! I will help you in this situation but along with that, let’s make this marriage also a deal that will be between us.”, he proposed. “We are marrying each other for some reasons, and there is no need to stay in this type of marriage. But you don’t need to worry about things after divorce; I will provide financial support to you and your baby as long as you get independent on your own.”
“No! No! You don’t have to do anything like that. I’m sure I will figure out things on my own at the time of divorce. You’re already doing a lot of things for me.”, I politely denied.
“We will see then. Our fathers are friends; who know, even we can be good friends too.”, he said with a small smile.
“Yeah! Maybe.”, I smiled back.
“By the way, do you really trust everyone that easily?”
“Sorry?”
“What if I would have told you about your pregnancy with your father?”
“I … I…”
“You shouldn’t trust anyone that easily, not even in your shadow because, in darkness, even your shadow leaves your side.”
“But not it’s not right to see everyone in the same way.”, I reasoned out, on which he didn’t argue.
“Let’s sit on the car’s bonnet; you will get tired by standing for long. Because I have talked with you about US before the marriage.”
Marriage! Yeah, that’s tomorrow.
“Okay.”, I agreed and sat on the bonnet with him and then laid down by resting my back on the windshield, staring at the sky. He sighed and followed me.
“We don’t have time to know each other, but we should clear the rules clear of this marriage.”
“Okay.”
“What should be the life of the contract? 1 Year or 1.5 years? Because as far as I can think, at the time of separating at one year, your baby will be just five months and things would be quiet for you. That’s why I’m thinking of keeping it for 1.5 years so that she will be around one year when we will separate.”, he explained, and I was surprised by his intelligence and the way he was processing everything with this speed.
“Fine with me.”
“There won’t be any restriction like your house at you. You can do whatever you want, but you will take me everywhere you will go.”
“But even that is a restriction.” I pointed out.
“But it is for your safety and betterment.”
“Safety?”, I scoffed. “I’m not that beautiful, nor do I any celebrity, so I don’t need anyone’s protection.”
He narrowed his eyes before speaking, “Either spend your life with restriction or take me with you everywhere outside the home. The choice is all yours.”
“Second one is better.”, I mumbled.
“We won’t be sharing a husband-wife relationship inside the room. I can be your friend and father figure to your baby, but not more than that.”
“Okay!”
“The feeling of LOVE should never ever, ever come between us. There can be some rare chance of you falling for me, but if that happens, then you will be the one whose heart will break because LOVE is not my thing.”
“That will never happen, so be assured.”, I said confidently, unaware of the future that had held a lot of surprises for me.
“Now, you can tell me your rules for this deal.”
“Respect.”
“Huh?”
“That’s all I need in our so-called relationship. That’s it.”
“Are you sure?”
“Pretty sure!” I said with determination.
“Don’t worry about that because a woman brought me into this world, so I have no right to disrespect any woman.”
I smiled at his words. Now I was confident that dad had indeed chosen the great guy for me, except for the part that we don’t want each other. “So, what are your likes and dislikes?”