left the house, Lena went

the drugs to him, crouching next to him on the couc

t his attention. Glancing at her father, she placed

hole nonsense he was spewing? I didn't understand anything. Could you please expl

ing his head. His eyes held so much

his decisions, he speaks once. He's dreadful, Lena. And no one dares

with him, dad?" She cont

rms together; he rested his back on t

ight and gamble, and that was where I met Darian for the first time," he told his daughter. Pausing for a brief moment, he continued. "He was young and vibrant, and I envied him so much. Days after meeting him, my friends approached me and told me about a business I could

ost her mother while in the uni, she had proposed the idea of coming back home to stay with him in Genev

t?" She asked impatience

to a pool game. I won, and he said he wo

he money?" She asked him ag

and dollars." He said, and Lena

ney? What ha

e to invest, I didn't find my friends anymore. T

so gullible to let anyone do tha

n. "I need to pay back his money. He would make sure he throws me in jail if I don't." H

o do, dad?" Lena in

e, and the only way is..." He stared at her, and

worsen things. He's a vicious man. He would render you homeless, throw me in jail and take e

hat he meant but

want me to do here. Do you want

gave us conditions, you either be

es, he felt a sharp pain hit his chest; he breathed hard

get married to

risi

from this, Lena," Gavin stared

her father; she shook her head in dis

to go marry a man I barely know?" Her eyes burned with d

g them gently; her heart soft

Please, Lena, save me, and the family, and you won't even have to be wit

t on the couch and glared at h

dred thousand dollars?" She was interested in the

f things, and within a short period, we will get the mone

. She wondered when he started to build up those ideas

get such an amount?" She scoffed. "Father, I

strong connections, and he's even involved with the..." He paused and didn't talk further. "Maybe it's time

dored him since she was little. He

er all that she needed, and ever since her mo

p him but getting married to a stranger was never part of the

shed she could turn back the hands of the clock and do some things right, her f

ot to a stranger, but then, she h

fully, and he was close to tears. She knew she couldn'

him." She ag

ness on his face. It wasn't his joy to give his daughter away, b

She sobbed, and he pulled her i

ologized and hoped that she woul

e thought of everything and wasn't sure she wanted to d

o marry when she was twenty-four,

e teddy bear she got as a birthday

as she reminisced about every

loved a man, and now, she wasn't just going to

; she was thankful he had never been married, but that didn't

o pick up her phone, and

aced the call on her ear, patie

er eardrums. She sighed, wishing Lisa coul

arried." She broke t

laughed again. "What the hell! Are you daydreaming?" She asked, "An

ad wants me to get marr

that stage; she was her best friend and more like a sister to her. She k

ble!" Lisa screeched. "Wh

of Darian's Holdings," sh

sh! Are you kidding m

ot man? Oh my gosh, you need to see his body. He's so ho

d reader of celebrity news and was sure sh

him too? What are his

get married this way. The plan was to work hard and get married at twenty-four, and now, I'm even jobless, I have no savings, I'm just twenty-three,

Just be positive abou

e with a stranger for the rest of my life? I can't ha

on now. You have to save your father from going to jail,

to do, so difficult, and

our back anytime and any day. Don't worry too much about it,

was it, she was going to marry Darian Dawson, she