Chapter 2 Zane

ZANE'S P O V

I'm finally ready to propose to Chloe, the love of my life. We have been dating for two years and three months now and I absolutely can not wait any longer to start a family with her, plus my parents have been making a huge fuss over it, asking when I would settle down and get them their grandchildren, being their only child, the pressure they put on me to get married is much worse than it would have been if i had other siblings for them to disturb the same way they have been disturbing me every day of my life since I turned twenty. It's not like I don't want a family, I do, but running a multibillion-making company is time and energy-consuming and I want to have time for my family. My parents are threatening me with their health now so I have to finally tie the knot and make things work.

I watch as she stirs in her sleep and notice she's about to wake up, so I quickly move to her side of the bed and kneel in front of her with the engagement ring in it's box, ring ready to be slipped into her precious finger.

"Babe, why are you kneeling beside me?", Chloe asks while rubbing the sleep out of her beautiful almond coloured eyes.

"Chloe, the love of my life, the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with and raise children with, will you make the happiest man today and forever by marring me?"

"What?! you can't be serious right now Zane"

"What do you mean by that? I'm asking you to marry me and you're telling me I can't be serious"

"How can you ask me to marry you in such a boring and unromantic way?! Where are the flowers? the real ones and the money bouquet? the cake? the camera crew? my friends standing around asking me to say yes? the fireworks display? What is this? A joke?"

I should've known this was what she'd say, she always wants everything to be done in a grand way, I just thought she'd let me do this my way, but I was wrong, I stood up and sat beside her asked,"So is that a no or a yes?"

"I'll marry you Zane", she moves closer to me and pecks my cheek,"but you have to propose the right way, it has to be on camera for my followers to see, maybe at a fancy and really expensive restaurant. You're a billionaire, so you can easily rent the whole place. I want white roses everywhere and a ten layer red velvet cake, oh and big red balloons that spell out marry me"

"Right, anything you want baby, here's the ring, try it on at least, I really want to see how well it fits your finger",I bring out the diamond ring and hope this is up to her standard at least.

"Why is the diamond so small? You could have gotten a bigger one."

Of course, the ring didn't meet her big expectations either.

"Well, it's nice even if it's smaller than I expected, I'll just have to manage it like this, thanks Babe", she kisses me quickly on the lips," I'm going to shower. Care to join me?"

"No, I mean, I have to meet up with Alex soon so I can't join you now, you know what's going to happen there and afterwards." I smile but she rolls her eyes at me and sighs before going to enter the shower.

I leave shortly after she starts showering and drive myself to one of my restaurants where Alex and I always meet up. He was seated at our usual spot in the VIP section of the restaurant, having a drink while flirting with one of the waitresses as usual.

"You finally made it, was starting to think you weren't going to make it so I was already making other plans", he winks at the waitress then whispers something to her which makes her blush so hard she turns red. She turns to leave but then he spanks her which makes her blush even harder. He's never going to stop treating women like toys, I honestly don't know how we're still best friends.

"Still up to your nasty tricks? Won't you ever get tired of messing around Alex",I laughed while pouring myself a glass of wine.

"I'm not a lover boy like you, there are too many women of different shapes and sizes, I need to have a taste of all kinds of them. I just can't tie myself to one. I'd get bored seeing the same body every time, so there's no way I can stop messing around as you call it and no way I'm going to get married too"

"Speaking of weddings, I proposed to Chloe today"

"You proposed to that....that...gold digger?"

"I've told you to stop calling her names Alex. You know I love her."

"You love her, fine, but does she really love you? You and I know very well that she's been with you for your money."

"She loves me, she said yes to marry me so she can't be with me just because of money but I have to propose again because she wants me to propose in a more expensive way, with flowers and cameras and fireworks."

"Of course she wants it big, she's a gold digger. You can keep telling yourself that she isn't, but don't you dare come crying to me when everything blows up in your face"

"Alex my dear friend, you're totally wrong", I laugh. we have been together for so long, she could've left me for richer men if she was truly with me for money." Chloe loves me for who I am, not how much I have so it will work out" but deep down I start having a little doubt, what if Alex is right? What if I'm making a mistake getting married to Chloe?