2. She's Marrying Me

Elisha’s POV

"I want you to come with me." He didn't ask for my approval, but he told me firmly that I had to go with him. 

"Excuse me, Are you drunk, Mister?" I asked in a confused way and took a few steps back. 

I gave him a frown and walked away, leaving him puzzled. Well, if he doesn't know what's really going on, neither do I. 

That man thinks I'm easy to get; he may believe I would love to sleep with him tonight. But I'm not that kind of girl. 

When I got to my parents' house, Harry was already there, and it seemed like he was having a conversation with both of my parents the entire time. I'm only thirty minutes late, but they're already staring at me as if I have committed a heinous crime. When my mother approached me, there seemed to be a little pause in the conversation, and the sound of her heels caused my heart to skip. 

"Elisha, where the hell have you been?!" My mum asked me angrily, "Tell me the truth?!," and she walked towards me, grabbed my arm, and asked again. "Where the fuck have you been? You've been with a man in his VIP room?! Tell me!" 

Dad saved me, and he took my mum away from me. "Alice, Don't hurt your daughter! Can you please calm down?!" 

"And why not? That's why she turned out to be so stubborn because you put up with her bad behavior!" 

"Well, she deserved this. After all the sacrifices we made for her, this is what she did to us! How ungrateful!" I got a slap in front of everyone. I really wanted to cry, but I didn't. I didn't answer her; I just lowered my head and heard Harry say, "If you choose me, you won't be in such a bad place right now." 

I looked at him with deep frustration in my eyes and smiled in front of them like a psychopath. They all looked at me with wide and puzzled eyes, and I keep on laughing until I cried in front of them and said, “It’s better to be miserable than to marry a horrible man like you—” 

I didn’t finish my sentence because Harry slapped me and dragged me outside of my house while my parents just watched me being maltreated by the man they wanted me to marry. 

My Dad tried to push Harry away, he locked me in his arms but it was too late, because I don’t want to be with them anymore. This made me decide to leave this kind of family. For all these years, I did everything to please them and now—I’m done. 

Cristella arrived, she saw me with blood on my lips, she smirked and put all her shopping bags on the table and sighed. “Well, this woman again? Nothing new! She always puts the family in disgrace!” 

“Don’t talk like that to your sister!” Dad yelled at her. 

Harry stood up, and raised his voice angrily. “Make your daughter  learn from her mistake, if she insults me again, that’s not the only thing I can do to her, it will be worse than that!” 

I took a deep breath and wiped the blood off the edge of my lips, and stormed towards him without blinking and directly slapped him on the face, and took the metal chair to hit him with it. Luckily, I was stopped by my dad, and Cristella put herself in the middle and put her hand on Harry who got so angry right now. It looked like he wanted to kill me just by the look of his eyes. 

Cristella said to me, “Are you fucking insane?!” 

My mom grabbed my hand and begged, “Don’t leave!” 

"Oh my god! I don't know what to tell this family. I'm done, Cristella you marry him. You like him right? Then get married to that jerk to save this toxic family!" I took my small purse and walked away as the tears in my eyes slowly rolled down my face. 

I was walking when I saw a pair of red eyes looking at me in the dark. I gasped in fear and tried to run away but ran into someone I didn't expect to see tonight: the stranger man.

“Y-YOU?!” 

He didn't say anything, and when my family went outside to look for me,  he put me behind him like he was protecting me from them.

Harry put his gun out of his pocket and pointed it at the man in front of me, my hand nervously trembled and I raised both of my hands and asked him, “Harry! What the hell are you doing?! Do you want me to call the police for you?” 

“Harry! Put the gun down!” Dad ordered him, then he put his gun down. 

He said, "I'm only trying to keep your daughter safe from this man because we don't know what evil plan he has for Elisha." 

I raised an eyebrow and laughed, "Well, look who's talking about the evil plan..." I mumbled under my breath.

My mother crossed her arms and stared at me with a fierce look. Then she asked me while she was gazing at me and the man next to me. "Who is this man, Elisha?" 

Harry interrupted. "This is the man that I'm trying to tell you, I saw them together inside the bar." 

Cristella laughed and said, "Oh my! Elisha, you are so cheap. How can you sleep with a man you met on the street and then went to a bar with?" 

“That’s not what you think, I don’t know this man at all—” 

Cristella snorted, “And now she’s trying to deny this poor handsome man in front of us.” 

The man took a deep breath, and he looked me in the eyes. My lips quiver in nervousness, and he said. “I’m Arman Ashford, and your daughter is marrying me.” 

Wait….what? I wanted to yell at this man in front of everyone, but maybe I should go with the flow again. My heart starts to race as I tell them the most shocking words. "Yes, I'm going to marry him." 

Everyone was so surprised that they didn't know what to say. All they do is look at me and the guy named Arman with wide, judging eyes. They can't believe what I said tonight, and my mom was so shocked that she just passed out. 

“Mom!”