As his slender hands gently cupped her face, tilting her chin up to face him and his shining eyes she couldn't help but think that this, this strange series of coincidences was meant to happen. Like it was destiny. or When Mrs Carlyle's debt gets so deep she's forced to sell her youngest daughter, Lucy, to the rising boy band One Direction. or I will be the first "sold to one direction" fanfiction on ao3 for this fandom if it kills me.