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She barked at me like I was one of the servants instead of her daughter. Even in front of royalty she couldn’t hide her disdain. Marla shot her a glare, luckily for Sharon she missed it, Calvin however did not. He immediately became nervous, smiling a little too brightly.
As I walked towards Marla and Theo, Sharon began to speak her voice flat. A far cry from the enthusiasm they had introducing their other children.
“This is our daughter Graceland. We hope that you show patience with her. We only got her back seven years ago, so she hasn’t had the adequate amount of training as our other children have had.”
Marla looked at Sharon with a look of disgust causing her to shudder slightly. Calvin then
spoke up.
“Uh, what my wife means is Graceland may not be as poised and graceful as our Livie, but she will most certainly serve well as servant and caretaker.
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Theo and Marla shot death glares at Calvin. In all honesty, they were doing an immaculate job at ruining themselves all on their own.
Marla spoke first.
“Such prideful introductions for your sons and other daughter. Yet this is how you introduce the daughter you’re allowing to marry my son?”
The color began to drain from Calvin’s face. Sharon began to explain,
“T–That’s not it! Madam, I’m not sure if you were aware, but Graceland was taken from us
when she was a-”
“Oh, we are aware. Did you think we wouldn’t investigate the family of the woman we chose to
marry our son?”
“O–Of course.”
Theo spoke next.
“Did the two of you truly think we requested your daughter’s hand for our son just to make
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Calvin and Sharon’s eyes shot up in fear, this hadn’t gone the way they thought it would.
Noah then tried to intervene.
“Lord and Lady Christiansen, please forgive my parents if you felt they misspoke. What they
meant to say-”
“You’re the brother correct? Not the father or head of household?”
Theo glared at Noah causing him to back away while everyone else stood in silence. Finally, Marla smiled brightly at me, walking past Sharon and Calvin with her arms extended she embraced me tightly.
“Hello daughter.”
As I embraced her back, I caught a glance of Sharon, her face was ashen, and her eyes were red with fury!
Speaking loud enough for only me to hear, Marla smiled.
“We’ll be out of here soon; we just want to verify something first.”
I squinted my eyes slightly as I was a little confused, but I nodded in agreement. I didn’t know what their overall plan was, but I trusted them completely. Marla walked back over
to Theo.
“Well, we’ll be leaving soon, so, if you could show us where you had ‘our daughter‘ sleeping. We’d like to get a general idea of what her tastes are.”
It was something about the way Marla said, ‘our daughter‘. I found my eyes betraying me as they began to water. Calvin and Sharon eyes widen as the final drops of color that remained in their faces began to disappear.
Calvin scrambled to figure out how to answer. Marla then spoke,
“You didn’t have her living in a closet did you?”
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Everyone’s face began to fall. Suddenly, Marla began to laugh hysterically, an eeriness to her laughter making it that much more frightening.
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“We’re only kidding. Surly a family as prominent as yours wouldn’t have treated your own daughter in such a manner.”
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Guild began to spread across Calvin and Noah’s face while Sharon’s expression was blank.
Marla then looked at her watch.
“We’ll be taking our leave now. We’ll inform you all when the wedding takes place.”
Turning to face me, Marla extended her hand to me.
“Come daughter, let’s go home.”
I smiled passionately as I grabbed her hand. Theo then ordered the guards to grab my violin and suitcase. We didn’t even say goodbye as we existed the estate. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ fινdnοvel.net
Thus came an end to my life in that hellish house.
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