Chapter 1
I groan loudly as my alarm kept buzzing in my ears. I sometimes curse myself for even getting it in the first place. I rolled to my other side trying to find the awful_ears-bleeding thing to put a stop to it for once. I managed to get it to get it but slipped from me hitting the ground. It stopped though so I didn't care,I wanted to get rid of it actually. I got my phone from the same night stand safely blinding my eyes as I switched it on.
How come my brightness is this high?
I lowered the brightness anyway to scroll through social media cause why not? It was Saturday.
I got out of bed and shuffled my feet all the way to the bathroom my phone in my hands. I stared at myself for a good long minute examine all my features.
Don't ask me why it has become a habit now.
I did my morning routine and changed into something comfortable,I had nowhere to go today just staying in. I went downstairs to meet my mother fully dressed and sitting in the living room across someone I couldn't make out. I chose to ignore her thinking it might just be one of her business partners and wouldn't love my disturbances.
I made myself some cereal, I wasn't ready to prepare anything. I'm lazy I know,my mother never miss a chance to remind me that literally everyday. I love my mother,she has being a single mother since my father died. She had managed to raise their company to where they've dreamed for it to be. She is a hard-working woman and would do anything to put food on the table.
Above all these,she had her own flaws. My mother; Mrs Vasillios CEO of Merinda airlines and Merinda hotels is the epitome of strict. I don't know if it's because she owns a billion dollar companies or she is just trying to protect me. From what?
I'm 21 am grown!
She never left me out without someone following me around,I can't even drive my own car sometimes,she went as far to homeschooled me during my highschool period and she nearly homeschooled me during my college stage too but thank the heavens she went against it.
When my mother decides something it was final nobody had a say in it not even me and soon she was going to have part of the government on her side as she was campaigning for Mayor this year. I don't know her main motive but I had this feeling that she was going to win. The people loved her. I love my mother but her strictness was her greatest flaw.
The person was a business partner like I said. My mother introduced me to the man-don't ask for his name I barely remembers my own name. My mother escorted him out and after a few minutes she joined me in the kitchen standing not a few metres away from the kitchen counter.
She just stared at me as I gazed down on my phone,u wasn't going to mind her today I wasn't having the energy to argue with her today but I swear her eyes were burning holes on my other side. I groaned lowly before shutting my phone to turn to her, I know she had something on the tips of her tongue she wanted to spit out.
"Wanna talk?" Was all I was able to get out,my face showing nothing—blank.
She walked over to me her heels clicking to the tiled floor as usual. She wore a black tight pencil skirt just above her knee and a red long sleeve top with v-neck,her heels corresponded to her skirts and her lipstick today made her more intimidating
Red
She sat across from me from the small table in the center of the kitchen,a table I've grew to love more than the whole dinning table itself which was situated in a different room. The arrangement of this house was like a castle.
Beautiful but painful at the same time.
"Very well Bianca,I thought you would never ask" she poured herself some juice I got from the refrigerator earlier. I ignored her sarcasm,I wasn't feeling myself today today to argue with her.
"Well I did now so you can go on" I gazed in her eyes trying to sound confident. It was weird how my mother makes me all nervous when she was around,was it her strictness? I guess so. She looked at me for brief long moment before opening her mouth to speak.
"You turned 21 making you a grown-up adult,not a real matured one 21 doesn't make people matured. Also,you and I both know you're the sole inheritor of this family's companies" she paused to read my face,I wasn't sure where this was going but I didn't like the feeling, seeing me showing nothing she continued.
"I've decided to hey you married—" I choked on air, coughing so hard I nearly blacked out. My mother just pushed her juice across the table to me and I gulped down half of it down my throat,it did help me calm my coughing.I looked at my mother's stoic face her perfectly manicured nails on the table.
"I'm sorry WHAT!? Get me married?" I literally screamed,water running down my cheek from all those coughing.
Did I seriously hear my mother audibly well or am just hearing things? I knew for sure I wasn't,her stoic face and unaffected body by my movement was screaming it. She cleared her throat to continue anyways.
"Yes, and I wasn't done talking so hold in your dramatic act"
Dramatic act!? Is she serious!?
"I've decided to get you married to Mr Solonik's second son Mr Sebastian to be precise" she finally ended.
I think my ears are bleeding right now. Is she fucking serious—sorry for my language but seriously,I am her freaking only child! She can't just send me away. If she wanted to get rid of me so badly she could have shipped me to a different continent but not this not a forced marriage.
"Mother! How can you say such a thing!? I'm your only daughter!" I raised my voice at her not caring one bit on how I sounded in her face. She can't just get me married!
"That is the more reason why I've decided with this" her voice was smooth and calm, how was she behaving so mannerly in this situation?
"You decided!? Without my consent or anything? Do you know what this is? It's called forced marriage!" I was physically raging with anger.
She decided something big about my life without hearing what I had to say about it! Doesn't she care about my feelings? What can of mother does that to her own daughter? I knew I was the sole inheritor for the business but that didn't meant I should get married!
"This has nothing to do with forced marriage, it called investment!" She snapped, finally.
So I was just an investment to her all these years? My heart tighten at the thought of it. How can she say such a terrible thing to her own daughter?
"Do you know how much the company will rise when you get company to Mr Sebastian?" She has the gut to continue and I was physically shaking at her words.
Company!, Company!!, Company!!
"I'm just a deal isn't? I'm sorry to announce to you but no,am not getting married to anyone" I couldn't take it anymore but I made my voice appear as confident as it could be. I was expecting a slap maybe buy she just laughed,her malicious evil laughter, making chills ran down my spine.
"Of course you are Mrs Bianca Vasillios. Your life was planned the day you were conceived, don't think this decision was only made by me your father suggested it" an evil smirk twitched on her lips as she scanned my now tearful face.
I wasn't planning on crying in front of her but the sound of my father suggesting this horrible idea made everything worse. He was a principle man so why this? I loved my father so much and I knew did too.
So why?
"This is not a forced marriage dear, this is how your life is,a life you don't get a say in it. I will arrange a date for both if you to meet, don't worry I will be there with you as well as his parents" her voice was back to it smooth and calmness. She patted on my shoulder before leaving the kitchen.
I stood there numb. My brain was numb everything was not moving. It's was like the world had stopped rotating and I was the only thing around.
I got out from my numbness as I heard the front door shut loudly making the plates in their respective cabinet make a clinging sound.
Is this how my life is supposed to be?
I couldn't stop the tears and the pain in my heart was inevitable. This isn't how I planned my life. I wasn't ready for anything let alone a–forced–marriage. I wanted to enjoy life a little but here I was going to get married to a total stranger in a form of a deal.
How is my life going to turn out after this?
