arranged marriage | bruno madrigal x reader

part 1/2

Her mother was fed up. Her daughter was already 25 years old and there was no way she could convince her to marry anyone. She had rejected all the single men in town - or rather, most of their mothers, who were the ones who wanted to find a woman for them.

"I'm not giving anyone a second chances mom, it would be wasting time" she said lying on her bed, waiting to resume reading the book she was holding because she was interrupted by her mother, who was sitting on the edge of her bed.

"There will be someone that seem decent to you."

"No, anyone. They're all immature."

"And what do you want?" She asked angrily. "An old-" and an idea came to her mind, or rather - a face, and that made her expression and tone change completely, from anger to maximum joy "-man! I've got it!"

"What- in WHO have you thought of!?"

"Bruno Madrigal! He has returned to the family and he never got married! He's single. He's older than I would like for you, but surely he seems less immature to you than the rest of the men in the town. His mother tried to find him a wife when he was your age and there was no way. I'm sure she will listen to me and like my idea!"

She knew she couldn't stop her mother from talking to the matriarch Madrigal about it, and she knew she was going to have to go to his house to meet him to "bond." She had already been through that many times.

Her mother wanted her to marry for love, or at least with tolerance, but for that she had to meet men, which was what she forced her to do. She never liked the idea but knew she couldn't help it. At first, in the first dates with the first men, she pretended her best face, but they were idiots, and although the following weren't idiots at all, she always carried her bad mood accumulated by the first experiences in this regard, and thus ended up discarding all the single men in town.

The next morning, her mother went to speak with Alma Madrigal, who was delighted to accept the proposal, and that became news that spread fast as wildfire through the Madrigal house. At lunchtime, which is when Alma had planned to announce it, the youngests of the family already knew.

Bruno was in shock. It wasn't the first time that his mother sought a woman for him, but he was surprised that even with him being 50 years old, she still had the idea in mind.

"You're not obligated," Alma said, "at the end of the day, you're the one who has to decide to kneel and ask her to marry you, but I think it would be good for you to have a wife, and you don't lose anything by meeting her."

"Well..." he sighed, "okay, but how come I don't already know her? Where was she when you were day and night looking for me a wife?" He asked his mother.

"She wasn't born yet, was she?" Said Camilo laughing.

"What?" He asked confused. "How old is she?"

"25 about to turn 26, from what her mother told me" Alma answered.

"Do you know her?" Bruno asked his oldest nephew. "How is she?" He asked for his gift to respond to him.

"Yes, but I don't want to ruin the surprise" he said with his typical tone and playful face, which his uncle was annoyed at, but not enough to complain and argue.

"She's pretty" Isabel said.

"Yeah" Camilo said.

"She and her family are coming to dinner tomorrow" Alma announced.

And everything was said. Bruno was nervous, shy and pessimistic about finding a wife, he had already done badly in the past. The Madrigal family was treated like a royal family in the town, and many people wanted to be part of it to have a better life in many ways, especially women, but unfortunately, there was only one man, and that was Bruno, badly associated with misfortunes that would happen in the future. He didn't fit in with any woman and he knew that someones faked being interested on him because who would not want to be part of the Madrigal family? And especially women.