Chapter 2

‘I sat there wondering how my future husband is going to be like, kind maybe? A Narcissist? All these thoughts flooding into my head. I think I can feel a migraine brewing, I should stop now.’

Ella gazed at the road as the car moved along the highway, the silence unnerved her to her core but she decided to hold her tongue due to not wanting to get in trouble with her in laws.

After a while, the car stopped and the doors were opened by two guards from the outside. Ella’s eyes widened as she looked at the villa, it wasn’t a normal villa from the size of it, it could be a village.

To think that something this big is owned by this small family. She thought to herself getting out of the car, and onto the red carpet set near the exit of the car. The red carpet led to the main and biggest villa in the compound, where she presumed it was where the main family was living.

“ Stop gawking and wasting time, let’s get going” Silver said, his tone changed contradicting the one he used at the beginning, it was replaced by a one filled with resentment.

Ella flinched and nodded, moving her legs following behind Silver and the bodyguards, along the way she looked at her surroundings and saw the maids faces. Their faces were filled with pity, pitying Ella.

‘Back then, I couldn’t tell what they were pitying me for. Guess I’m not the only one who was in an arranged marriage with the heir of this family.’

The door opened by a maid revealing the inside of the villa, Ella looked around in shock. It was way out of her expectations, as if from a fairy tale.

Silver nodded at the maid and proceeded to walk into the house and into the living room. “ Listen, One of the maids will take you up to your room, you will wait there for your husband understood. ” Silver said, sitting down on the couch next to the female who was there.

Ella nodded, casting her gaze down to the floor. She couldn’t believe that Silver could be this cold but went with it, she diligently followed the maid till her supposed room.

“ Young Ma’am, these shall be your quarters for now, please hurry inside and if you feel like you need something tell me. ” The maid said, smiling at Ella giving her a sincere smile at that.

Ella nodded and walked inside the room, closing the door behind her. A sigh escaped her lips followed by a tear dropping down the side of her face, her hand reached out and touched her cheek. “ I’m crying? But why?.” She wondered to herself.

She sat down on the bed, enjoying how soft it was since she had to sleep in a bed that wasn’t comfortable for more than three years. Instantaneously sleep took over her bringing her into the dream land and she subconsciously curled into a ball.

Her sleep didn’t last long as she was rudely awakened by a stinging sensation. Her eyes opened wide and looked at the cause, only to find out a male with his shoe on the side of her pelvis bone pressing hard on it.

She yelped out in pain, tears threatening to spill from her eyes as she felt the pain becoming more excruciating. Why is this happening to me? Who is he? Why does he look so content in hurting me?. Ella thought looking at the man through half closed eyes.

“ Pathetic and this is the one I’m supposed to marry?.” Keenan said, sneering at her pained face. He arrived earlier and saw her sleeping there as if she’s a kitten and he decided to make her feel physical pain.

He removed his feet from her and stood before her, his face void of emotions. “ Trash” he said darkly, turning his attention from Ella to the door.

Ella looked at her assailant, gis words registering into her mind as she could now focus. She painfully got up and bowed to him. “ W-why did you do that?.” She asked still not looking at Keenan.

Keenan laughed and turned his head to look at her bowed self. “ The reason is simple, I hate you. I hate everything about you, you and your family robbed me of my chance to find the woman I’ll love on my own terms. You pathetic leeches leeched on our family fortune and my father accepted such bogus terms. ” He replied, storming out of the room leaving Ella alone.

‘ And just like that, Keenan showed that he didn’t like me and frankly I too didn’t like me but it didn’t end there, that was an instigator of events that scarred me. ’

Ella sat there clutching her hip. Tears were streaming down her face, she never thought that the person who she was supposed to marry could be this cruel.

It explains the pity filled looks the maids gave me earlier, they knew that the person I’m marrying is a piece of shit.

Ella thought to herself, picking herself up, she wiped her tears with her left hand and limped into the bathroom that was part of the bedroom.

She stripped down and stepped into the shower, turning the valve for the hot and cold water, tears mixing with the water making them nigh inexistent.

‘From that point on, I realized that no matter how hard I try my life would never get better. Maybe it’s Karma trying to make amends of the misdoings of my parents with me. ’