Untouchable

Have you ever felt cornered? Claustrophobic. An inescapable feeling. No freedom.
That describes my life. I was born into a family that appears flawless. The ideal family who's smiles in pictures represent happiness, perfection, a blissful life.
No one sees my alcoholic mother, my detached and callous father. No one sees my brothers drug abuse and failed relationship. No one sees my sisters weekly therapy sessions. No one sees my inescapable marriage. To the outside world, we appear as untouched, undamaged, untarnished.
My father owns Dyzeck corporation, a multi million dollar company that my brother is supposed to take over eventually. Whereas my duty as the oldest daughter is to marry the son of the head of our competitor to create a legally bound alliance.
Liam Sparks is the son of Matthew Sparks, head of Sparks Corporation which was Dyzeck corporations most threatening competitor. At least this is the reason I was given as to why I was being forced to marry the 2nd most powerful man in the world. He was rumored as being a copy of his father; ruthless, insensitive, unemotional and with the blatant intention of gaining more power and prestige. His employees had obvious and unconditional respect for him, but only out of fear of what he would do if they didn't. He expects people to bow down to him, obey him without reason and never go against his word. His family doesn't seem much better than mine and there is obvious pressure from his father for him to succeed.
For some reason, I don't believe the reason I was given as to why I had to marry him. There were too many closed door conversations, talking abruptly stopping when I entered a room, secretive and hushed exchanges between the families. There were locked drawers in my fathers office, files on his computer that even my mother doesn't know the password to.
Either way, I had no control over my fate as I was handed over to a stranger. But I wasn't going to let this stop me from figuring out the real reason why.