All Chapters of The Billionaire's regret: a second chance at love: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

|Aria’s POV|My father and my stepmother.My father doesn’t even know anything about acting or producing, so I wonder what he was up to. His eyes flickered at mine for a second and I held his gaze. He looked pained, but that was for a millisecond, before looking at the producer.“Oh, I see you’ve made the announcement,”“I am Zane Winchester and here is my lovely wife.”Pushing her chest out, my step-mom smiled sweetly, “I am Mrs Winchester.”“Does that mean that Aria is your daughter?” Brandon asked curiously.My spine stiffened, and my heart raced, swallowing the lump in my throat, I gave a firm nod. “No, we just happened to have a coincidental name”. I sighed.My father’s head whipped in my direction while Allison looked at me with disbelief. Like she couldn’t believe I would deny my family in front of them. They didn’t matter anymore to me, so what was the point?I could feel Zion’s piercing gaze on me, but I dared not meet his eyes. As I looked at them again, my heart throbbed wi

|Aria’s POV|My legs were stuck to the ground and the only thing I could do was stare at him. Penelope’s screeching was getting to my head, but there was nothing I could do but stare at the signboard.‘Will you marry me?’‘Will you marry me?’I felt jittery and wanted to scream ‘yes’ but I couldn’t find my voice. The excitement pulsing in my veins could rival someone who just took a drag of weed in her lungs.The bands singing and the trumpet blowing made me feel like the happiest girl in the world. For a moment, I felt like Anastasia Steele.I never knew what it was like to be proposed to because Ace and I barely had a proper wedding. I was just given a ring and escorted to his house, which was the reason few people knew about our marriage.Memories of the day Ace gave me the ring assaulted me:"Don't think because you are wearing my ring, that automatically means you are my wife. You just happened to get pregnant, and I have to be responsible for the baby or your father will ruin my

|Ace’s POV|I’ve never raised my voice at a woman, but I’m so tempted to pay a baddass female gangster to rough Gabriella up.“Babe, listen to me. You need to unfreeze my card,” She whined.My eyes narrowed into murderous slits as I looked at her now. I wondered what I saw in her before that made me dump Aria for her.But she was simply what you’d call Beauty without brains, and a Bimbo without sense.All she wanted to do was spend my money. One of her attractive qualities used to be the fact that she was really hardworking, but over the years, she became more dependent on my money.Don’t get me wrong; if Aria forgives all my atrocities today, I’d spend billions on her because she’s worth it.Over the years, the only thing that Gabriella was worth was her face card and high libido.“Gabriella, shut up for once. I have been wanting to do this since you started misbehaving,” I snapped.All she did was pout her lips and blink her eyelids like a malfunctioning robot, but she didn’t know t

I looked like a deer caught in the headlight and my mind raced with different questions. ‘How did he know where I was shooting?’‘What do I tell Zion.’‘Who do I tell him it's from?’“Aria? What are those?” He questioned again.My heart raced and I didn't know what to say “Ummm…it’s a package.” I mumbled.“I am not dumb. From who?”“Just a crazy fan that wanted to express her love for me,” I chuckled nervously, hoping he wouldn't see through my lie.“Do I have to be worried about some crazy fans snatching my fiance or do I need to step up the game?” He mused, tapping his chin.I laughed heartily and strode in his direction to embrace him while squeezing the card lightly and chucking it in the bin. We walked together hand-in-hand back to the set.Johnny walked in our direction and stood in front of us, staring at our joined hands. It wasn't exactly a secret that we were in a relationship but his stare still made my cheek ting with a red shade.“Wow, I didn't peg y’all for the public d

|Aria's POV| It's been two days since I got the text from Ace Kings. How he got my number is still a puzzle, but I don't doubt his connection. However, I immediately blocked the number.Ticking my fingers nervously, I looked outside the tinted windows as the scenery passed in a blur, but I was nervous. It's Saturday morning, and I'm heading to Zion’s place to officially get introduced to his family as his fiancé.The thought of not being accepted by his aunt scared me, but I was determined to make her like me. After all, it was not as if her opinion really mattered. But I heard how rude and unintentional she can be with her words, so I'm just hoping we get along. For Zion’s sake.After clarifying things with Brianna the other day, I felt safer with her and treated her like a friend of mine. Penelope was also glad when I reported the situation to her and Brianna confessed that the car was a gift from Ace for her twenty-first birthday.Before long, I was driving into Greggor's mansion.