Chapter 1

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• Kendra POV
• "Quickly! Hurry up! The groom is waiting and your sister is fainted!" My mother said from the other side of the phone.
• "I'm almost there already. Just some minutes more please." I begged.
• "Minutes more? I called you just twenty minutes ago and you want more minutes?! Better get here this instant!" Mom yells and ends the call.
• I signed and tried breathing in and out slowly but this damned gown won't let me.
• Why does my life have to be this way? Why?
• The driver stopped at a huge church and standing right in front of it is my dad and mom.
• "What took you so long?!" Mom yells.
• "We don't have time for this. Come. Follow me in." Dad says.
• I cross my arm with his and he starts walking me towards the bridegroom.
• The bridegroom looks at me with a happy smile but he doesn't know that he is getting married to the wrong bride or so I thought.
• After some other things, of which my mind totally blanked out, it finally got to the part where I am asked,
• "Do you, Miss Rose, take Richard as your lawfully wedded husband?"
• "I do."
• "You may kiss the bride."
• Richard leaned in for a kiss but I hesitate.
• I turn my face away but then my eyes clashes with the death glares of my parents.
• I turn back to Richard and he kisses me. What? Didn't he see or notice anything? Why are they all like this? Every single one of them keep behaving this way.
• Are he kisses new all the guests get up from their seats and claps.
• I even threw my bouquet when it got to that part but went back to my sad self when everything was finally over.
• Hi, my name Kendra. Miss Kendra is what I take myself as.
• For me, I don't have a husband. A definite husband to be precise.
• You might all be wondering what's going on.
• Well, let me tell you. That wedding was fixed for me at that very moment and so was others before it.
• Yes, you heard me right, others before it.
• Every time my step sister says yes to a man and changes her mind at the last minute I get put in her place.
• This has been happing since I got to the age of eighteen. My step sister was twenty at that time and that was also the time she started this whole act of hers.
• My entire life has been controlled by my parents and my step sister. The weird thing is that I am their own daughter.
• My step sister, Kira, is the adopted one among us. I don't even know what she has done or is doing to my parents but they agree to her every command.
• She also had some dirt on me that forced me to do whatever she wants. It's all the fault of my maid and ex tutor.
• Mr and Mrs Donaldson are my parents and also big business tycoons.
• There is nothing in this world that matters to them than S.M.K
• That is, Status, Money, and finally, Kira.
• I'm just nothing but a puppet in their hands.
• All this was the fault of my stupid maid and that damned tutor of mine and it happened when I was eighteen years old.
• I never knew that Kira would go this far.
• But this story seems to move too fast. I need to start from the very beginning so you will understand my situation and why I have to follow every single command of theirs.
• It all started long ago when I was just a kid. I'll start with when I was ten so you will understand what my relationship used to be with my parents, even after Kira was adopted. I used to be the loved princess of my parents...
• "Mommy! Mommy! Look what I made for you." I said to my mom.
• Dad was seated beside her and watching television.
• "Aww. What is it?" She asked.
• "It's a card mommy. Happy birthday." I said.
• "It's pretty dear. I love it! But... It's not my birthday." She replied to me.
• "Oh... But I thought I calculated it well this time..." I said in a sad tone of voice.
• "Oh dear." Mom said and carried me, placing me on her laps.
• "It's the thought that matters." She said to me.
• "Don't worry. We will still throw a party to celebrate it. We will celebrate that our little Kendra made a beautiful card for mommy." Dad said.
• "Thank you dad!" I said, jumping in excitement.
• I got down from mommy's lap and hugged dad.
• "Okay now run along." Dad said.
• I left them in the living room and went up to my room.
• That night we had the the best party in our lives, just the three of us. Until I slept off in the middle of it that is.
• The next morning after waking up, I walked down the stairs and met dad and mommy in dinning room.
• "Good morning mommy. Good morning dad." I greeted.
• "Good morning princess. How was your night?" Mommy asked.
• "Wonderful!" I cheered.
• I had always been so energetic and fun living since the start.
• "Okay. Better hurry up in preparing for your lesson. The tutor will be here soon." Dad said.
• "Okay." I said.
• After I was finally ready for the first lesson and the tutor had arrived, my parents picked up their suitcases.
• "We'll be back with a surprise for you." Mommy said.
• "Surprise? What is the surprise?" I asked.
• "Haha. Just wait till we return." Dad said.
• They both left and my tutor started his lesson. I was never allowed to go out of the house or even go to school.
• I was such a fragile and precious diamond, at least that's what my parents told me.
• I haven't told anyone about this but rich have this super crush on my tutor.
• Yes he is older than me but what do you expect? I haven't seen any males apart from my dad and uncle.
• My uncle is the only one apart from my parents that I know. You don't expect me to crush on a relative.
• The age difference between I and my tutor isn't really that much. I'm ten and he's just... Twenty five... Okay there's much difference but that doesn't mean I can't crush on him.
• He is so cute and looked so young and is well built as well.
• After the lesson it was time for my tutor to go.
• "Okay Kendra I'm leaving now. I'm so impressed with your improvement in studies everyday." My tutor said to me.
• "Really?" I said with a bright smile.
• "Yes. You're such a smart little girl." He said, giving me a pat on the head.
• He was about to leave but I held his hand with both my hands.
• "Please stay. My parents are always leaving me all alone in the house. And they always come back late. By then I'm already asleep on the couch." I explained.
• I made puppy eyes at him so he wouldn't say no.
• "Well... Okay fine but just this once okay?" My tutor said.
• "Yes!" I said, excitedly.
• "Okay now come with me." I said, dragging him to a chair.
• I sat him down there and went up to pick a movie.
• I picked Tom and Jerry of course. My parents had but all for me cause I'm such a fan. I was so sure that adults enjoyed it too.
• I went down the stairs and inserted it and turned on the television.
• A maid even got us some pop corn. We watched the Tom and Jerry movie and laughed together till night time when I finally fell asleep with my head on his lap.