Chapter 3

"I ran away from my forced marriage."

"Care to explain it in a little more detail, Mister Running-Away-from-your-forced-marriage." My eyes focused on him.

He winced slightly, then sighed. "Fine, just listen then. This might sound a little crazy." He looked at me. "You still want to know?" 

I nodded. 

"Well, my name's Daniel. I am a cool philter maker. I was assigned to make Livia, the daughter of the Nihan family, to fall in love with a certain person, but things went wrong and she's fallen for me instead and demands me to marry her, which I disagreed with. Being the only daughter left in the family, they are forcing me to marry her, or they will kill me," He explains with enthusiasm.

"You are a stupid cupid." I couldn't stop myself from rolling my eyes at him.

"Firstly, I am not cupid. Secondly, I don't want to marry that wicked girl whom I don't even love. Thirdly, don't you find all this really weird?"

"To be honest, I knew about the cheap philter maker who assisted the Nihan family. Though I never thought I would meet him." Now, it was his turn to be confused, "And to make things interesting, 'the wicked girl' you are talking about is actually my stubborn little sister and there's no way she will let you go," I said, seeing his eyes and mouth widen with shock.

"So, are you here to take me back. Do you really think it's that easy of a job?" He stood up and grabbed my neck with only a little force to avoid hurting me I guess.

"Bullshit, I kinda hate them." I mumbled. Seeing my anger and sadness, Daniel pulled his hands away and looked at me waiting for me to explain.

"I ran away too. It's frustrating and hard to fit in there. It felt like I was living in a jail." Rivers started flowing from my eyes. It reminded me of my forced life in that family.

Why did I cry? I-i can't...

"Can't you get everything you want? Even love with that much money?" He asked, but didn't even look at me.

So, he too thinks money is everything.

"Love isn't something you can’t just buy with money. Falling in love is your fate, but being in love is your choice," I muttered.

Here I was, being so damn nice to this person and he was laughing at me. I kicked his leg to make him stop laughing. A second ago I even thought that he felt sorry for me and now he acts like a jerk.

"Ouch! Sorry, I never thought a person like you existed in that house of devils." 

Another kick made its way to his leg.

"What was that for?!"

"Devils or not... They are still my family so don't you dare speak that way about them," I warned him, raising my index finger at him. He raised his eyebrow at me and sat back in the chair slowly.

"I heard that you were married to Zen, a businessman who works for your father." He continued. "Weren't you the happy couple, the couple all the people talk about?"

Seeing my gaze turn away from him, he said something, and I heard his voice raising, "Amy, I am so sorry!"

"You can say that a little quieter, no need to burst my eardrums." I placed both hands on my ears.

"Sorry," he muttered quietly.

"It's fine." I sighed and continued. "I wish we were, a year has passed since we married, yet he never loved me. I only wished that he would love me. That's my one and only wish." I whispered the end of the sentence, smiling at my silly wish which would never come true.

We both kept quiet for a while, but it wasn't uncomfortable. He just kept looking down.

Even though I didn't want to speak, I was the one who broke the silence... Almost accidentally because I said my thoughts out loud.

"I wish to make things right."

His facial expressions again soften at my words. Tears clouding his eyes. As if he remembered something painful.

Daniel's head shot up with determination. "Will you return if everything becomes right?"

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