Arranged marriage: Love through distance

all too well. He was perfectly content with his one-night stands and no-strings-attached relationships. He didn't care that the women who flocked to him w

r, Leon, had dropped a bombshell on him. Leon had arranged a marriage between Nicholas and another Greek American girl, a woman Nicholas had never even met. Ni

me went on, reality began to sink in. The wedding date was drawing nearer, and Nicholas realized he was powerless to stop it. Here he was, five da

canned the vast garden of the Markopoulos mansion below, but his mind was elsewhere. He ha

cholas even thought about leaving, he would have to leave the family as well, cutting ties wit

otsaris family expected him to fall in line, to be the perfect groom, the perfect husband. Well, he would be that-at least on the surface. In front of his family, he would play the du

e would make her life unbearable. He would do everything in his power to ensure that when the time

e liked it or not. He hadn't met her yet, but he already felt a sense of distaste. The idea of marrying someone he didn't know, someone who was just another pawn in his father's game, filled him with irritati

r, Fiona, her Yiayia, and Carmen. They had accompanied her to choose her wedding dress, a day that Theora had not looked forward to. She stood in front of the mirror, her

with crystals that caught the light in a way that felt too gaudy. And the back-she almost couldn't bear to look at it. The lacework was intri

for herself. In fact, if she had her way, she would have gone for something simple, something practical. A dress she could move in easily. But that was never g

ore like an obligation than a celebration. She had always imagined that she would choose her own path in life, that she would marry for love, not because her

d this life, but her father had insisted. There was no arguing with him, especially when t

ies of the old country, was talking about wedding traditions, while Carmen, her mother's best friend, offered her opinions on which s

n she had never met, and for the first time in her life, she felt like she had lost cont

d for what was to come. Theora may have been resigned to her fate, but Nicholas was already plotting. In his mind, he had figured out h

he was in control, but Theora had her own secrets, her own plans. The marriage that was supposed