As she walked through the main entrance of the house, Ella did not feel the warmth of a home. Her father was in the office where she was headed. She received a simple "hello" before being dismissed. He was going to attend to business matters.
Ella began to question her belief that her father was good. The coldness after a year without seeing her... And yet he would force her to marry a man she barely knew, without knowing how he would treat her.
When she entered the room, her thoughts went to the bed, where she would soon share a space with a man she feared. She pushed those thoughts aside, locked the door, and took a bath, determined to sleep since she hadn't been able to sleep the night before.
When she got out of the bath, she heard knocks on the door and decided to ignore them. Some
