Mute

Prologue

I'd always felt like I had been born in the wrong family.

My father, the president of a big pharmaceutical company, cared for none, and only sought people who can provide him with profit and gain.

To him I was only a nuisance that was born into this world. He had preferred his children to be all boys so that way he can have them inherit and run different branches

has always been indifferent to me. He cared more about his business than his actual family.

My brother showed no interest in me, It was like I wasn't even there when I was with him. He was the oldest so he adapted to the cold environment and this empty house quickly.

And my mother, the wench in my life, the wicked stepmother, to the Cinderella in me.

Since the moment of my birth, all I have ever known was the touch of cold that drifted around my skin. I've never known the touch of warmth or love.

My mother despises me more than all else. Even as a child she's never shown me any motherly affection. I would think her maternal instinct would kick in for the love of her own, but that never happened.

More than all else she had given my brother more affection and attention than she had ever given to me.

Well of course he was the heir to the company, her prized possession.

I lived sheltered, alone. I was just another tool for her.

My father is indifferent, my brother uncaring, and my mother is hateful. I am unwanted by all and loved by none.

So I'm left fighting for myself to keep from drowning.

And what worst is the verdict is out. I'm to marry someone in exchange for a business deal.

And what more tragic is that me attempting to escape my fate has only lead to more trouble. Now in endanger of losing what I so desperately fought for.

Maybe my efforts was futile, maybe some people just aren't meant to escape their fate.