Chapter 5

Eunice

Mom went inside my room the next morning. No one bothered me the whole night and I liked it. I actually wished daytime would never come because I don’t want to be reminded of the nightmare that dinner caused me.

“Eunice, let’s talk,” she said as I was still wrapped around my blankets.

I don’t want to talk. I can’t do what they want me to do. I can’t do it. Why do they want me to do it?

I wasn’t a rebel child.

I was an obedient daughter, as a matter of fact.

So why are they doing this to me?

“Eunice…” Mom’s voice was soft. I know she’s trying to comfort me right now. She stroke my shoulder and I sighed, defeated.

“Mom…” I said in a raspy voice. “I don’t want to get married.”

I would definitely reconsider if the man’s not that arrogant. But he’s not. He’s the most arr