Bride's Web of Lies

g, Grandma. I wonder wha

tools and wrapped her hands

rtment all those years ago, battered and broken, I swore to myself never to let you go. I lost your

go. Getting revenge on your famil

years in that house. The days when my stepmother would shove my head in soapy water, suffocating me and causing my lungs to hurt. Or the times when my brother would fling me down the stairs and laugh a

ed her arms a

ndra, all that

uffer just as much as I suffered! I will get my revenge

w Desmond he made

at my office and dropp

, his eyes locked intensely on mine. "Marry me for a y

," I said, laughing nervously. "Is this some kind o

," he said. "I need a wife, and I need her now. My parents are suffocating me, constantly breathing down

oon, and I need to be able to focus on it without distractions. My parents' c

f his proposal. But Desmond just waited, his eyes

ck into his eyes,

other woman on the stree

embark on as well. You need more fund

d

as well as the personal and advice. Someone once told me you will do anything for your b

t just get married to

ng else. We can live separate lives and would have nothing to do with each

ing Desmond , but it was not because I needed his funds of fam

eded all the help I could get. Though I had become successf

about it," I

od up and s

t your humbl

am had reminded me of why I had become s

through that experience and

I decided to marr

I had left years ago. I had worked so hard to be succ

as a big and wealthy family with a lot of power and though I had work

and influence . I

ely phoned

cked up the call

d , I will

rning, the day I got ma

e a small white hat on my head and held whi

en he arrived at my house. She still hadn't agr

ition. I would hand me thirty percent of the s

hing else, only those shares. They were what I would use to e

nd 's black Maybach, I couldn't help but wonder how life would have

is way; a low key wedding with only few people ar

grand wedding and our romance

ossible. Being with any man was no longer possible. Th

e car and held out hi

all

d, and we both walked

I, Sandra Saunters, had