Chapter 2 — The Unexpected News

Six weeks later…

I stared at the small white stick in my trembling hands.

Two pink lines.

My heart pounded loudly as I read the result again.

Positive.

“No… this can’t be happening,” I whispered to myself.

My legs felt weak as I slowly sat down on the edge of the bed. My mind raced through everything that had happened during the past weeks.

The cheating.

The heartbreak.

The bar.

And him.

The mysterious man whose name I had only learned from the card he left behind.

Alexander King.

I had tried to forget that night completely. I convinced myself it was just a mistake, something that happened when I was drunk and heartbroken.

But now…

Now there was no forgetting.

A baby.

His baby.

My hands instinctively moved to my stomach.

I didn’t even know this man. I didn’t know where he lived or what he did. For all I knew, the name on that card could have been fake.

My phone suddenly rang on the table.

The screen lit up with a familiar name.

Daniel.

My jaw tightened as anger rose inside me.

After everything he did, he still had the nerve to call me.

I rejected the call immediately.

A second later, another message popped up.

Emily, please talk to me.

Then another.

Lisa told me everything. It was a mistake.

A mistake.

That word again.

Fury burned through my chest.

I grabbed my phone and typed quickly.

You didn’t make a mistake, Daniel. You made a choice.

Then I blocked his number.

For the first time since that night, I felt a strange sense of relief.

But the relief quickly faded as my eyes fell back on the pregnancy test.

My future suddenly felt uncertain.

How was I going to raise a child alone?

Should I try to find Alexander?

I reached for my bag and pulled out the card he had left that night.

The black card looked expensive and elegant.

The name Alexander King was printed in bold silver letters.

Underneath it was the name of a company.

King Enterprises.

Curious, I quickly grabbed my laptop and searched for it online.

Within seconds, hundreds of results appeared.

News articles.

Business interviews.

Magazine covers.

And then I saw his picture.

My breath caught in my throat.

It was him.

The man from that night.

But the headline underneath his photo made my heart nearly stop.

“Alexander King: The Young Billionaire CEO Taking Over The Global Business World.”

Billionaire?

My stomach twisted.

The man I had spent the night with wasn’t just some stranger.

He was one of the most powerful men in the country.

Suddenly, everything felt ten times more complicated.

I leaned back in my chair, overwhelmed.

There was no way someone like him would want anything to do with me… or a baby.

But fate had other plans.

Because at that exact moment, my phone buzzed with a new email notification.

I opened it slowly.

The message was short.

Miss Emily Carter,

You are invited for an interview tomorrow at King Enterprises.

My heart skipped.

I had never applied for any job there.

So why were they calling me?

And why did I have a terrible feeling that Alexander King was somehow behind it?