An Intentional Man

Of every sentence that made it out of Richard’s lips to Bella, only one reached her ears. “Will you marry me?”

For two good minutes, she couldn’t even find the right words to express her current emotions and thoughts, and Richard didn’t even want that.

He shook her left arm gently and asked, “You need to answer the question, Bella. Do you agree to marry me, make me your husband first and Isla’s father next?”

The next second, Bella burst into tears with a hand over her mouth. She was overwhelmed with emotions.

She had been thinking that her relationship with Richard had already come to an end, a judgment she made from the phone conversation they had before she came to meet him in his car.

Never did she think he was going to propose to her, and that too, in his car.

She has never been so shocked by any of his moves before, except now. He completely took her unawares.

“W-Why are you crying?” Richard asked, looking surprised. It was never his intention to make her cry.

In fact,