Arranged to the Alpha

Natalia:

“Mum, you do realize that I am marrying a man over a contract?” I asked looking at my mum who just handed me the paper which had arrived with the man’s lawyer. The idiot hadn’t even bothered showing up to sign it along my side. He had signed his and sent it for me to ‘read’ and ‘sign’ before coming.

“Natalia, it’s not like you wanted a wedding to begin with” Mum argued, trying to convince me that this was okay.

“I can’t even have one, mum” 

“Then I don’t see what the issue is, Natalia…”

“Mum, the man is a billionaire, don’t you find it a bit odd that he wouldn’t want an extravagant wedding where paparazzi would be swarming the place?” I raised my hand in confusion. Mum shrugged and I sighed, pinching the bridge of my nose. I looked at the paper which has been on my dresser for the past twenty minutes as I debated whether or not to sign it. There was no backing out now, I knew that for fact. 

“Natalia, the man is the best that you would be able to find. You saw his picture…”

“That is all I saw of him; I know nothing about him. Who he is, what he is like, how he’s like…” I said looking at mum who took a deep breath trying to calm herself down. The man’s mum had called mum and had organized this whole thing, and next thing I knew it. I was getting married whether or not I liked it.

“Natalia, there is no getting out of this now…”

“Mum, I never wanted to do this, you and I both know that I had my own ambitions…”

“But your father no longer wants to take your burden” mum said looking me in the eye “he has your younger siblings to care for too, he can’t keep handling you and your expenses, not to mention your power”

“Mum, me being an element manipulator has done nothing to harm any of you. You're the one who has been treating me like someone who you’ll need to hide…”

“Are you not?” Mum asked, stopping me “we cannot hold gatherings with you in the house in fear that any monster would detect your presence, not to mention the fact that we are getting tired of…”

“I will sign the bloody damn paper” I said stopping mum before she said any harsher words. The fact that they were blaming me for being born the way that I was hurt me a lot more than I could admit. Having reached the point where dad would hit me if I lost control over my power for holding it for too long, I still do believe that he sent a few monsters after me on purpose to get rid of me. 

I glared at the paper that was on the dresser before signing it without bothering to read it for the third time, not that I needed to anyway. I headed with the lawyer to whatever hellhole he was taking me to, as far as I was concerned it was where my ‘husband’ lived.

I looked at mum who smiled at me and nodded. 

“Well then, let’s get you ready, shall we?”

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Me getting ready didn’t take long as I was basically wearing a normal white knee long dress and flat shoes.