h my boss's son, » Dad repeated, like it

, standing up so fast the chair

f my life and to be rich. I was drunk and vulnerable. I didn't know what I was doing or signing. The next day, I found out what I had done and I was asham

» Mom yelled, horror crawling over h

arranged marriage agreement. I didn't even know she had come by until a few years into my new job, » Dad paused, running a han

ice strangely small, only taking that one

pained him to admit it. « There's no way to get out of

us to come back and live with you as though nothing happened? And in reality, something did! You disappeared! You let some woman trick you into selling your daughte

all there. « You will do it because you have no choice. If you want us all to be united again, to li

rol them anymore. « You don't deserve a family! You don'

t? Fine! It doesn't matter because either way, you have to do this. Or you and you

ranger, but you can't make me like you! In fact, I hate you! I wish you would just disappear! » I screamed, the emotion strangling my voice. I couldn't spe

Dad say softly, bu

d over. The front door slammed shut so hard it ma

melled faintly of antiseptic. My head throbbed like someone had banged a drum insi

my hea

ry unless it was right up close to my face. My hand inst

my glasses?

and unfamiliar. The walls were blank, almost sterile. A small table besid

in a h

ace pale and drawn. Her eyes were red like she

it beside me. « After he left. You were hypervent

finally clearing. « I don't remember anything a

y. You're

nto some twisted marriage with a stranger. He

g out. I promise. I'm so sorry, Cassandra. I didn't kno

lift. The idea that my life was no longer mine-that some stran

t was? » I asked a

hat it's his boss's son

ged marriage, it's probably to some

ger and fear swirl like a storm inside me. I

I don't want any of

ime in a long time, she looked like