SOFIA
Sylvie is gone, those boring classes are over, and I’m in the library. I still cannot believe there’s a thing called the Matrimonial Ball where I’m forced to act like I want to be here, and I said yes to Victor’s proposal; he didn’t even propose. I was forced by his evil father to get married to him.
Ever since I was a little girl, I had imagined what being married to the love of my life would be like. I wanted to have the love my parents had. Dad went on one knee, and he proposed to Mom when they were younger. They were ready to spend their whole life together because they were so in love with each other.
They’re soulmates.
I wanted that, I wanted that so badly. I wanted that with Simon. I had imagined him going down on one knee and saying yes up to a hundred times.
But that dr
