The silence that followed Alec’s declaration hung heavy in the grand ballroom, pressing down on the guests like a weighted fog. The words he had just spoken didn’t just ripple through the room—they shattered it.
“My wife is my life.”
Gasps. Frozen expressions. Eyes wide in disbelief.
No one expected Alec Blackwood, the man who once tossed love aside like yesterday’s suit, to say something so profound—so… intimate.
People exchanged stunned glances. They all recalled his stormy marriage with Salena, how public and poisonous their downfall had been. Some had even seen the infamous video—the slap that echoed across Alec’s empire when Salena stormed out. No one forgot that humiliation, and certainly, no one expected him to ever speak of “love” again.
Yet here he stood, his arm wound tightl
