"You ungrateful little brat!" Mother said, striking me across the face with the back if her heavily-ringed hand. "I have made your life perfect! You have everything you could ever want or need!" Except Thomas. I thought. A tear slipped from my eye, partly from the pain of the slap and partly because I had lost my one true love. "Are you even listening to me Ella Ivory; princess of Rosehaven!" she continued, roughly wiping the tear from my face. I stayed silent. She huffed. "I don't care if you don't want to get married, Ella. It's not your choice." She said with narrowed eyes. Then she called in the maids.