**Zara Todd’s POV**
My eyes opens with the noises of people all around me. There are lots of people chattering all around me. I don’t even realize what the hell is going on all around me.I open my eyes and sit straight and look around for a while.I am sleeping in the huge queen sized round bed which I have seen only in the homes of royals in the movies. Am I in the dream of some sort or what?Did I just die and get into he heaven?It’s really hard for me to decipher what’s exactly going on over here.“She’s woken up,” a lady in her mid fourties shouts to all of the ladies working with her and makes all of them stand right in front of me.“Who are you guys? Why are you bowing in front of me?” I ask them.“I am really sorry for your convenience young miss. We must have disturbed you on your good sleep. I apologize for that. You can get back to sleep but before that we need to ask you something?” she says as she lets all the other maids get back to their respective work.I wait for her and hear what she is about to tell me. I stand awestricken in there as my eyes spy the beautiful and luxurious designs and interiors all over the place.“Miss! This. We need to check your uniform according to your size,” she says as she hands me the uniform. The uniform which is supposed to be my dream uniform.So, studying in Hilltown wasn’t just a dream. It is a real deal after all.“This is for me?” I ask.“Yes, mam this is for you. These are all of yours. This whole room and everything in here are yours,” she says and my eyes flutters as she says that.“No, you must be mistaken. I don’t belong here. I belong to somewhere else and I am supposed to be in dorm right now not over here. Can you please show me the way to the dorm of Hilltown High,” I say and she smiles widely.“Mam! Hilltown doesn’t offer dorms. Only the elites get to study over there and no one else,” she answers and I don’t know what to say.If I am not in the Hilltown’s dorm then where in the hell I am?“Can I take a round of the house or dorm I don’t know,” I say being brazen all of a sudden. She nods. I make a slow step towards the long and beautiful golden painted alley of the house.What the hell is this place? Why does it seem like the house of royals? Does the house like this even exist in the real life?I am filled with wonders and only wonders as I keep on walking ahead. There are so much delicate and beautifully carved designs of art in here. I wonder who own the house like this. As I walk in the alley I find the people greeting me.Why the hell are they greeting me by the way? It makes me feel more and more of the awkward as I walk through it.There is a huge garden in the middle of the houses. With houses I mean there are three houses and in between them are small beautiful ponds where some fishes are swimming in it.I stand there to see the views of the fish trying to get the food in there. They must be hungry. I think of walking to the pond and feeding them their food which is just at the side of the pond.Sometimes I think we could really have a language between animals and us. So, that we could understand them better and exchange our pains together.My steps are just trying to walk towards when and they stop immediately after two steps. I step back as I see someone walking towards the pond.It is a guy.He has covered his whole body with black attire. I mean I am only able to see his back and his black hood and his black pants and his shoes are the only things that I can observe from afar.He walks gently towards the pond and takes out the fish’s food and start feeding them. He seems to be kind. The smile automatically creeps on my lips as I see him. His kind nature makes me try to gaze at his face too. I really want to see his face.As he is kind, he really must have beautiful face which every people would love to see and adore. He is tall and has quite build up body.“Young miss! We have been searching for you,” the lady calls me from behind and I turn back to her.“Called by whom? I don’t know anyone over here,” I say.“You will soon know miss. You have to meet her right now,” she says and I nod her. I feel quite insecure looking all the things happening to me. The place, the luxury, school everything is just so much for me to take care of right now.She leads me away from there but as I walk back I have that serious urge to look back at the guy who is standing there and feeding the fish but when I turn back I don’t see him. He is completely out of there like I had seen ghost some moments ago.“Excuse me! Can you tell me if someone was there in that part? Who is he?” I ask to the lady.“Was there someone? I didn’t see anyone over there. You must be mistaken. No one leaves over thete except…,” she doesn’t speak.“Except whom?” I ask.“Oh! I must be chattering a lot that I have forgotten about all of my work. Miss can you please take this way and walk upstairs and the tenth room from the right part of the alley,” she says and runs away.Even she is behaving kind of weird right now? What the hell is wrong with everyone over here?I take the slow steps as I walk towards the upper story of the house. I don’t know who called me but this is really shocking me like hell.Even a good dream like this is scary when it comes suddenly to people like me. I haven’t even dreamt about a place like this. I keep on walking to the tenth room from the alley and after walking for couple of minutes, I find it.I knock at the door and a voice calls in. It is the voice of the lady.“Get in,” she says and I enter in an unknown place oblivious of so many things happening around me.“Get a seat Miss Todd,” she says. She is standing in front of the window showing her back to me. I have never seen such a beautiful back from behind. I can easily guess that she is more than just a beauty from front.She has a glass of red wine in her hands and she is observing the space outside the window.“Congratulations on your birthday,” she wishes me as she lifts her glass of wine as she turns to me. It is true. It is completely true that she is beautiful and nothing in the earth could beat the beauty of her.“Can I know why I am called here?” I ask gently trying to be as polite as I can.“I paid your fees for the school,” she says and I don’t understand why she did that.“Can I ask why?”She grins as she makes her way to the couch and sits elegantly on it with her glass of wine still in her hands.“You don’t know, do you?” she asks.“About what?”“Oh! You’re so innocent and I like that thing about you. I have paid your fees because you are my relatives from now on,” she says.I just don’t understand her. What kind of relatives? How am I even related to a rich lady like her? Don’t tell me she adopted me?“You adopted me?” I ask.“You can say that but not actually. From today onwards you are my daughter-in-law,” she says and my eyes widens as if they would come out of my socket.What did she say just now? Daughter in law? Me? What?~~Zara Todd's POV~~"What do you mean by daughter in law? I didn't know about it. I am not even informed about it. Isn't this the fraud?" my voice stiffens and there is so much fear and anger in it.What the hell did just happen in some hours?I was happy. I was so much happy when I knew that I am getting a full paid scholarship all of a sudden and without doubt I had thought that this all happened because of talent I hold.But what the hell is wrong now?When did I even agreed to get married? Who asked me for this?"You don't know about it?" she asks as she raises her brows and stands up from her seat.I shake my head."It doesn't matter. I have already paid your parents the money they wanted to have and there is no return now." Her voice is calm but my heart is beating out louder and louder with fear.I am just eighteen years old girl who have dreamt her life in so many magical ways. I had thought once I wi
~Zara Todd's POV~"No! Holy! What is this?" I mumble.My eyes enlarge as I see the beautiful and magnificent decoration in front of me. The room is painted in golden color like it is made up of pure gold.And the pieces are exactly like of some royal movies."You like your room, miss," Mrs. Jones asks me."I love it. But what do I even deserve to get something huge like this?" I ask."You're our lady after our Madam and you are going to be the wife of our young master. Why wouldn't you deserve to have something like this?" she says with a smile on her face.I can see that her face has that smile plastered every time I talk with her. I don't know it's made up or just some genuine one cause I can see the same smile again and again when she is around.I fake a smile as I look around the room. This fancy room surely amazes me. It makes me think that this could even be a dream and not a reality but this isn't what I have ever
~Zara Todd's POV~"You seem troubled dear," Mrs. Jones asks me as she helps me with my stuffs in my room.Why wouldn't I be troubled?I am a eighteen year old girl who is going to get married in four days and sold to her madam from her own relatives.Who would be troubled if it is not me?"I'm fine. I'm just anxious with new environment. Everything here is black for me," I reply."Black?" her brows arch."I mean it was white and now it's black. Contrasting," I amend my words. Isn't it the truth? It was completely different the day before yesterday.I would be doing some chores if I was in the my uncle's house but I am here sitting in a well furnished lavishing room with my heart beating faster and faster with fear."So, I heard it's your birthday today," she says."Yes, it is."My birthday isn't special every year. It's just a day that comes like other usual days. Chores and hard works are the o
~Zara Todd's POV~ I fall asleep after hearing the noises of breaking of stuffs in the house. I don't know what stuffs are those but he continued to do that for almost an hour. For an hour, my body keeps on trembling behind the door while seated on the floor. I bend my legs against my chest and clutch them as tightly as I could.My grips on my legs would increase when I hear the sounds of the crashing of stuff downward as my body flinches with every move. What the hell is he? Why would he do that? Is he a monster? Why is he behaving like a unsocial animal? Just like a monster. Nothing like a human. After almost an hour, the sound stops. I obey Mrs.Jones on this. I don't open the door till she knocks on my door. I wait for her to knock the door so that I can be safe enough to open the door. And I get asleep on the floor while waiting for her. I don't know for how many hours, I have been sleeping on the floor. A
~Zara Todd's POV~Getting married to to-be-Minister is more than just something and going to be the daughter-in-law of the woman he is going to get married is just... I don't know what should I say?Should I feel elated? The man whom the world is trying to reach out now is in front of me.Or should I feel sad for all that happened to me since the morning."Happy Birthday. I heard it's your Birthday," he says. He smiles with his beautiful pink lips as he stretches out his hands to me for shaking them.I don't know what should I do? Should I shake hands with him or not? Should I just try to stand still like I am completely shocked and don't know what to do or should I just shake hands with him."Miss Todd!" he calls me and I get out from my own dream world."What happen? I'm glad I get to attend your party," he says as he shakes our hands and massages the back of my hands some extraordinarily which I feel quite off about.I pull
~Zara Todd's POV~"Oh my God! You look absolutely stunning," Adrian's mouth stays open when I stand in front of them."You're right! She looks absolutely gorgeous, just like a princess," Camilo adds and I smile slightly. She turns me to look at the mirror and even when I look at the mirror, even I couldn't speak for a second."This is me?" I say and all of them laugh for a while."Yes, dear. So we're done here. We will be leaving now and please have a quite good time with yourself first," they say and start packing up their stuffs and walk out of the room.I can't help but stare at my own self. I have never seen myself as like this. Not with the attire and make over like this.The crimson colored velvet gown extends from my wide neck to the floor like I am the real princess if some movies.It's cut off shoulder showing off beauty bones. The golden border around my neck design, below my chest and on the bottom of my flair makes it so s
~Zara Todd’s POV~“NO! No! Don’t do this to me. Please uncle, it hurts. Aunt! Aunt please help me,” I cry for help but there is no one to help me. Jane isn’t in the home and even aunt isn’t in the home. He is my own uncle. Own fucking uncle yet he tried to do something bad to me.I am just fifteen years old, the same age like that of his daughter and I am his daughter too but he did that to me. He tried to sexually abuse me and not only him his friends tried to do the same with me but every time he would try to do that Diva always saved me.I haven’t told this to anyone, not even to aunt just because it might ruin their relationship and somewhere I knew that she would never believe me. So, I always kept quiet. It all stopped when I was at my late fifteen when Jane saw that and even after that she kept quiet and started to bully me even more. I was such a easy target for everyone, for their lust desire, for their em
~Zara Todd’s POV~ “Hey dad!” a cheerful and also the bold voice comes inside the house and this is the first time I have ever heard this voice in the house. I lift my eyes to look at him and I am almost blinded by the beauty of the guy that is walking towards the dining table. He wears the similar uniform as that mine. We go to school together? So, does that mean he is a Xavier? I can’t actually tell but he is completely different from what people have told me about him. He hugs Mr. Andreas and to the mother. “Good morning dear,” she says with a smile and he smiles too and gets seated on the chair next to his dad and catches the fork. I feel like I am non-existent and invisible in front of me. He just can’t see me, maybe. And then suddenly his eyes meet mine and then he smiles suddenly. “Oh! We have a new person in the house?” and then he looks at his dad and mom for the response. “She is going to get married with Xavier. She i