12-06-2021, 06:47 AM
A year.
A year locked away from everything and everyone. It had been boring. Painful. Tormenting.
It had almost killed her soul....
Almost.
Somehow, she still held onto the part of herself that set her apart from other ladies of her age. She had just gotten better at hiding it from those who would punish her for it. If there was one thing she could not deny, it was that her father was right that the school would do anything it could to get her to behave the way he had wanted her to for years. Alex could not help but wonder how she would have turned out if he had sent her there in the first place rather than getting that woman to do it. She probably would have ended up like her sisters, polite ladies ready to be tossed away to the highest bidder.
It was a terrifying thought.
But with her twenty-first birthday right around the corner, she knew it was time for a new plan. She could not spend the rest of her life locked away from the world as her father’s dirty secrets. And if she ran away, he would just drag her back. So that left her with one, terrible and unthinkable option.
Alexandra McPadraic would have to marry.
And soon.
So, she made a plan. Become the Lady her father wanted, find a man she could twist around her finger and marry him so she could run her own home away from her father and do whatever the hell she wanted. Sure. It was giving in in a way, but it was better then being locked up forever.
Six months later, she finally found herself in the carriage home from the train station. The letter having been sent to her father a short while ago to inform him that she was the perfect Lady, ready to take on her responsibilities and was now acting appropriately. She wondered if he believed any of it. If he knew her well enough, would he see through the act that the school hadn’t? She hoped not otherwise he would just marry her off to anyone and not someone she could actually stand…
Alex had thought she would be fine, but the moment the view of her childhood home could be seen, she could feel her heart in her throat. It was now or never…
As the carriage pulled to a stop outside the building, Alex sighed before checking her hair and dress, making them perfect like any ladies should be. She then fixed her posture and made to exit the vehicle.
Time to leave her childhood behind she supposed…
A year locked away from everything and everyone. It had been boring. Painful. Tormenting.
It had almost killed her soul....
Almost.
Somehow, she still held onto the part of herself that set her apart from other ladies of her age. She had just gotten better at hiding it from those who would punish her for it. If there was one thing she could not deny, it was that her father was right that the school would do anything it could to get her to behave the way he had wanted her to for years. Alex could not help but wonder how she would have turned out if he had sent her there in the first place rather than getting that woman to do it. She probably would have ended up like her sisters, polite ladies ready to be tossed away to the highest bidder.
It was a terrifying thought.
But with her twenty-first birthday right around the corner, she knew it was time for a new plan. She could not spend the rest of her life locked away from the world as her father’s dirty secrets. And if she ran away, he would just drag her back. So that left her with one, terrible and unthinkable option.
Alexandra McPadraic would have to marry.
And soon.
So, she made a plan. Become the Lady her father wanted, find a man she could twist around her finger and marry him so she could run her own home away from her father and do whatever the hell she wanted. Sure. It was giving in in a way, but it was better then being locked up forever.
Six months later, she finally found herself in the carriage home from the train station. The letter having been sent to her father a short while ago to inform him that she was the perfect Lady, ready to take on her responsibilities and was now acting appropriately. She wondered if he believed any of it. If he knew her well enough, would he see through the act that the school hadn’t? She hoped not otherwise he would just marry her off to anyone and not someone she could actually stand…
Alex had thought she would be fine, but the moment the view of her childhood home could be seen, she could feel her heart in her throat. It was now or never…
As the carriage pulled to a stop outside the building, Alex sighed before checking her hair and dress, making them perfect like any ladies should be. She then fixed her posture and made to exit the vehicle.
Time to leave her childhood behind she supposed…
