You Make Me Feel Alive

Since she was little, her life had been filled with cold hospital beds, white ceilings, the scent of antiseptic, and silence. While other children ran through playgrounds and laughed under the sun, she learned to swallow pain and smile through IV drips. She never received love for her parents. She never felt what it feels to have a family.

Her parents just visited her if they received the email that they needed to pay her medical bills. They were always off somewhere, smiling for the camera, posting pictures of vacations, parties, a life she were never invited to. For them,she weren't a daughter. She was a problem, a burden. An expense. A smudge on their perfect lives.

So they gave her away.

They sold her to a cold business tycoon so that they could somehow get back the money they spent on her.

The wedding was cold and joyless-no flowers, no vows, no smile from him. Afterward, his house never felt like home. He was distant, barely present, speaking to you only through his maid. Cared for but unseen, she was never treated like a wife-never like someone who mattered. But in just one night, he changed.