{ White Lilac }

~ The Hand In Marriage ~

Prim skipped through the halls humming and singing until she reached the dining room.

She walked in and saw her father sitting there with a bunch of letters on the table.

"Aren't we going to have lunch? She said confused,
"Ah yes servants bring in the lunch I must've forgotten to call it in." He said still busy opening letters.

She sat down next to Mary and waited patiently until her lunch came, she thanked the servant who brang it in and began eating.

"Prim, you've gotten many proposals." Her father interrupted out of nowhere.

"Mhm.." she said uninterested and busy eating her food.

"I've decided, you are to marry Alexander Laurier." This made everyone turn their heads in shock.

"What you can't do that! I need to choose who I marry not you!" Prim said angry and worried, she didn't know who this man was and kept imagining a gross old man.

"Enough Prim I've decided it already you're to go to his manor estate tomorrow." He shouted.

She looked at her father in disbelief and anger and stormed out running to her room.

Once she got there she locked the door and lay crying in her bed, she didn't want this.
She fell asleep after a few minutes of crying and slept through the whole afternoon waking up the next day with swollen eyes and a headache.

She looked down at the end of her bed and saw a dress there with a note saying "get dressed"

The dress was beautiful but tight and showed more cleavage than what she would've preferred.

She sighed and realised she had no choice so she got dressed and got ready.

When she came down she saw it was only her father, her mother and sister weren't here to which she looked at her father confused.

"They've gone to the estate, rest day." She said as if he had read her mind.

"Now come here one second." He took out a lipstick in the shade of a pinkish red and put it on her lips.

"Alright now go quickly the carriage is outside!" He said and shooed her away.

The carriage ride was lonely and silent the way to the estate was a weird one too.

We went through mountains and the whole area looked grey and dark which made her loose hope in ever having a good time there.

After a few hours they finally arrived, she stepped outside and looked at the estate.

It was gloomy and miserable everything she hoped it would not be.

She sighed and made her way to the gate where a few servants immediately opened it for her.

Once she was inside she saw that the interior was like the outside gloomy miserable and plain.

"Follow me miss." A old woman who seemed to be a servant said and took her to a dining table.

"Sit down, master should be here soon." She said and walked out leaving her alone.

"Unlike you to wear such an outfit are you trying to seduce me?" A sudden voice said from infront of her making her jump.

She squint her eyes trying to look at him but she couldn't his face was too dark and she couldn't make out what he looked like at all.

"I-I'm sorry have we met??" She said confused as to why he'd make such an assumption about her.

"Oh believe me we've met." He chuckled darkly.

"Can I see you?" She said wanting to know what he looked like.

He got up and walked slowly towards her and that's when it hit her..

It was him!

The guy who threatened her at the ball!

She backed away in her chair and furrowed her eyebrows afraid of him, this lighting and what he had previously done scared her.

"Come on now is that any way to behave with your future husband?" He mockingly frowned.

"Primrose Laurier, hmm it has a nice ring don't you think?" He asked her mockingly.

She shook her head like a child not wanting to believe this is the man her father chose,
"Please leave me alone I don't know what you want from me!" She said still shaking her head.

"Oh but you know that very well.." he said as he grabbed her chair and tilted it back making her grab onto him so she doesn't fall.

"Stop it!" She yelled holding onto him when he suddenly picked her up from the chair in bridal style.

He took her to the master bedroom and threw her on the bed and without wasting another second he was on top of her.

"No please let me go I want to go home!" She yelled trying to push him away.

He lowered his head down to the crook of her neck and began giving soft kisses on her neck making goosebumps form on her skin and she trembled from the strange sensation.

"N-no please!" She wept struggling under him

He began laying rough kisses on her, now sucking on her skin.

He stopped and picked her up so she was sitting up and made her look at the mirror.

"You see that? I've tainted you." He looked at her through the mirror as she stared there petrified.

A dark purple spot was on her neck making her gasp,
She had always gotten bruises from playing in the garden but she never knew a human could bruise her like that simply using their mouth.

"No no! Enough please let go I need to get going!" She pushed at him trying to get out of his arms, she desperately wanted to go home.

"Look outside it's already evening, you can't go in the carriage during the night in a mountain like this." He smirked knowing he was right, if she decided to go now she possibly wouldn't make it back alive.

She looked at herself in the mirror with tears in her eyes, she didn't look anything like herself and now that she had to spend the night here she was beyond frightened.

"Get dressed for the night." He let her go and went towards the wardrobe pulling out a nightgown and throwing it to her.

She caught it and slightly nodded waiting for him to get out which he did.

While taking out her earnings and hair accessories she became aware of her situation again and started sobbing.

She would do anything to get out of this situation she just wanted to be back home or in the estate in her art room painting without a care in the world, if this is what it meant to be an adult she wanted to be a child forever!