After walking around the town for a while, the shops began to close, the night fell darker so I tugged onto Ace’s sleeves.
“I think we should go back now. Mother must be worried.” I told Ace, but he smirked emptily.
“Worried or angry?” He taunted me, which made me silent.
“And besides, I don’t care about your Mother, she can worry all she wants. Maybe that would knock some sense in her that no means no. You cannot force someone to marry someone they don’t want.” He growled, holding a special resentment in his heart for my Mother to which I cannot argue about because I felt the same.
She discarded all my refusal and cared for herself- In fact, she was the one who proposed this ridiculous idea.
“Don’t say this…” I whispered, yet I didn’t want him to speak ill of my family. They were a
