Ataraxia

He was driven to destroy me.

Ophelia Thorne could never have seen how everything would turn out in the death of her father. she never could have seen him giving everything away to a man she does not know, nor could she have seen his plans for that same man to take Ophelia in marriage, only a year he had said. one year for him to gain all of her fathers worth, but Artimus Calloway has much bigger plans for Ophelia, he wants to ruin everything she has because it is what he is good at, it is what he has always done to protect his family and he doesnt wish for that to change.
thrust into their world, Ophelia attempts to swallow all Artimus dishes out, first moving into her home he pushes her into wishing she were gone, one night a mysterious man appears in the house, Artimus's younger brother Orpheus. he may not be Atimus, but he is no less poison to her.

as Ophelia learns her options are short, she leaves to attend the academy, desperate for escape from Artimus's hands. only to find herself in the nest of their work, with a professor whose desire is to torment, and a headmaster whose only plans are to tear her apart, Ophelia quickly adapts. it may not be home, but its all she has and as Ophelia learns to accept their ways, the Calloway brothers find themselves in a far worse situation. because not only has Ophelia melted down their hatred, they find her hard to avoid. they have let her in to the most hidden parts of who they are and now that she is in, they cannot let her go, with everything she knows, Ophelia has everything at her disposal to ruin them for good.