Cursed Love [English Vision]

Chapter 1 • Meeting each other •

Here I am in a hotel room getting my makeup done for my wedding. Who would have thought that I would get married at 20 while still in the middle of my studies, not me. And who would have thought that some man I had never seen before in my life would marry, just to keep peace for my families.

How did I manage to end up here? My life was so peaceful, not peaceful but it doesn't matter, sometimes I wish I hadn't been born, my father wishes that too, but we just ignore that now.

I don't correspond to his ideas of what his child should be like, 1. I'm female, 2. I'm female and 3. I'm a woman. Every time I have to hear that I'm a disgrace to him because I was born a girl instead of a boy or that women are useless and so on.

"Ana Ana," one person shouted. "Athena is everything okay" my mother said with a worried expression on her face. What a stupid question Mum, nothing is good, I have to marry a man I don't even know, I'm angry because instead of protecting me from it like a good mother should, you did nothing, I wish I had answered like that but instead I just nodded.

As always, I could disagree. I could never do that, not then and not now.

I am and remain a chess piece. Even chess pieces have a will of their own in some way, they are not controlled by people called fathers.

"Athena dear, your future husband is already waiting for you," said my aunt, and in a strange way she seems happy about it, probably because it was me instead of her daughter.

However I have to get through it now, it'll be okay " Hena, my beautiful, lovely daughter, I'm so sorry that you have to go through all this and I'm sorry that you were born to a mother like me, I know "I'm a terrible mother, but please don't hold it against me, the last thing I want is for my only daughter to hate me."

 Just don't cry, just don't cry, just don't cry. Does she really think I think she's a bad mother? How could I after what she gave up her life just to raise me. Despite the fact that she didn't say anything against my father, I think she's a good mother. She was there when no one was. Despite that, I'm sitting here having to marry this man. Whose name I don't even know, no one has bothered to introduce him to me.

I slowly walk to the altar, there are so many unknown people here. I recognize a handful of people but that's all.

"Do you believe Athena Alstor, Mattheo Romano as your husband," said the priest. I look briefly at my mother, who just keeps her gaze down, then at my brothers, they just shake their heads, exactly what I expected from them, they are against this marriage. Finally I look at my father who just looks at me expectantly. "Yes, I want to," I said, actually I don't want to, but I want to make my father proud once in my life, even if it's the first and last time. I want him to be proud of having me.

"Why did you say damn yes?" shouted my eldest brother Adonis. "Yes, we had the perfect plan to smuggle you out, but no, you have to destroy everything," said Alexander, the youngest of my brothers. Ares, my favorite brother, says nothing, but I can imagine how angry he is with me.