Victoria POVWhat was the main reason I agreed to marry Dominik?Well, besides the fact that I obviously have no money and my family has no money to pay the millionaire sum that meant breaking the contract that obligated me to marry him, there was also another reason.To get my grandfather's company back.Leafing through a gossip magazine during the break, Jenny looks very excited from one minute to the next and says to me: "Did you hear the new rumor about the city's high society?""New rumor?" I asked Jenny blankly."Everyone is talking about it, how the heir to one of the richest families in town had a wedding on the sly a week ago" Jenny explained very excited, putting the magazine in the center of the coffee shop table we were sitting at: "Can you believe that? Dominik Meyer just got married..."At recess, as usual, we find ourselves eating while studying a bit for the exam we would have after lunch. Jenny is eating the food her

Dominik POVHow could I define my childhood? I think it's a complicated question, something I don't like to talk about too much since I consider it a somewhat obscure time. It should be clarified that there was never a good relationship with my parents at home since my father was a too careless man who gave him all the likes my mother wanted, and my mother... She was always an extremely cold person with everyone, even with her own children.In my childhood I remember all the problems at home, my mother always fighting and obsessed with money, my father always avoiding problems and not wanting to solve anything to do with me or my sister, and my grandfather silently watching everything from a distance. From a young age, I could only rely on my older sister, who played more of a mother role than my own mother.And yet, knowing that my mother was a woman absent from her family who only cared about the company, trying to make us richer than we already were, somethin

Victoria POVYawning, I walk out of the classroom next to Jenny to Roy, feeling the stress leave my body after coming off a really difficult exam, which I had studied hard for the night before after returning from Dominik's office.Looking at me yawning, Jenny says, "Are you okay? You've been yawning a lot, didn't you sleep well yesterday?"Jenny was my best friend, and I really would give the whole world to talk to her and tell her the truth of what is going on, wanting to tell her all my sorrows and vent with her about all the things I am going through with Dominik. But I know that neither she nor Roy can know anything, so I have no choice but to lie about what is really going on with me."It's because of the math test today, I stayed up late studying" I lie to Jenny.Sympathetically, she replies, "I understand, I stayed up until three in the morning yesterday memorizing all the formulas, it was horrible. I regret not studying on vacation like Ro

Victoria POVFrowning, I shuffle my feet to Dominik's office, which is now empty, something that makes it look a bit scary, as Dominik's style of furniture and room decor is usually very dark, so his office looks very... Sad and ugly."Would you like me to get you something to drink or eat, Miss Miller?" Dominik's secretary, who is walking behind me, asks me.Going to my usual place in the armchair near one of the walls, I reply, "Not necessary, thank you very much.""Mr. Meyer will finish his meeting soon and come to attend to you" The secretary assures me, smiling kindly at me before leaving the place and closing the door behind her.Setting my things down on the couch, feeling exhausted, I sit down on the couch with a sigh, feeling frustrated. I'm not going to give up on the company thing, but my time is consumed in a silly, miserable way by staying here, waiting for Dominik to talk to me to resolve something that is technically mine by right. A

Victoria POVUnable to stop crying, I held my phone in my hand tightly, so tightly that I thought I was going to break it. It was in my phone book, and I already had my parents' and Jenny's number in hand, seriously thinking about calling them to tell them what had happened and seek their support.After rushing out of Dominik's office, feeling very embarrassed, as I couldn't stop crying and had to come back here like this, I forced myself to think as best I could. I had planned to go home, as I left Dominik's office I just wanted to give up and go back home to my parents and what my life was like before all of this. But when I was in the elevator, thinking about everything that happened, I realized I couldn't do that.Where was I going to get a thousand dollars even if I could? I have no money, I'm broke, my family is broke from my wedding that happened only three weeks ago. If I left Dominik's house and gave up, the contract would be broken because of me and I