Cursed is the Crown

LadyMara Romance

My footsteps echoed in the halls, the laughter and applause from the ballroom fading in the distance. I could hear men congratulating my father, and his business partner Roman. This couldn’t be happening to me.. I knew that I was only raised to be a tool for my father’s business.. but I thought that meant that he’d force me to run the company, no matter how much I despised it, and him. That he wanted me to be well versed, strong, and capable. Instead, he waited until today, on my 28th birthday, to announce that I would be the wife of his business partner. “A perfect match.” He called it, even though Roman is 20 years older than me, a twisted, devilish smirk spread across his lips when my father made the announcement. I knew what it meant, it wasn’t a threat, no matter how afraid it made me feel. Not a threat, but a promise, one that I knew he’d keep. He planned to torment me, as was his pleasure in life. He’d been a cynical bas**** ever since I came of age. 10 years of dealing with his monstrous abuse, and now my father had publicly tied me to him. I shook my head, backing out of the ballroom. I needed to hide, no, I needed to escape! This couldn’t be happening, not after everything I’d endured. I refused this engagement.. I refuse this marriage, I refuse to be a participant in this sick game that they were playing.

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