JENNIFER'S POV
I turned and found father giving me a satisfying look. "Atleast feeding you and keeping you in my house made you useful in some way!" He taunted.
The governor's son? But how? You might have got influence in the judiciary system, but still... we are commoners!
"What? The governor's son!? Engaged as in... you want me to marry him?" I asked absolutely bewildered. All my pain on the cheek, tiredness gone in a moment.
"He is a rapist, a pedophile! And a drug addict too! I am not going to-" but he cut me in the middle.
"Yes you are! You are going to marry the governor's son. I wanted them to right away fix the marraige but the governor wanted a grand ceremony so that's why you shall get married to him within 2 weeks!" He said in despair as if, if he would have been capable, he would have married me off to him that very day.
The governor's son, Mayank Prakash was a rapist, who was even caught red handed during his disgusting act of assaulting minors in one of his farmhouses. The court had sentenced him to 20 year jail punishment but his father being a politician, dragged his good-for-nothing-son out of the legal mess by bending the law with his money. Mayank was also reported to have been under constant doses of illegal drugs but eventually, all the media houses soon drifted away from that issue and the police suddenly became at loss of evidence. Hence miraculously claiming the pedophile to be innocent. And father was ordering me to marry that animal? How could he stoop so low?
"As for your soon to be husband, you need to groom yourself. So buy some new clothes for yourself with this money. I want you to seduce him with your body. I don't care even if it means getting pregnant with his child!" He snarled throwing a bunch of notes on my face.
How can he be this crude? This unaffected of the situation he is putting me into? I screamed in my mind as my eyes welled up again with angry tears. I was completely helpless in front of father. I had never got the strength of going against him, or question him back. But.... what he was asking me to do was completely unacceptable!
started begging in front of him, but he stood there absolutely unfazed of my plight. I was fretting now, I was feeling as if I was loosing the battle.
Keep those crocodile tears locked up in yours tear bags you bitch." He strode to me and kicked me hard
a fresh deep cut for trying to defend myself.
I thought bitterly.
golden opportunity of playing on heaps of money, jewellery and God knows what more goodies, simply by banging yourself against Mayank Prakash but look at you! Trying out ways to distort this pretty face of yours!"
started flowing profusely,"Papa please... please dont sell me off! Please father... I shall do whatever you wish for but please break
chapped lips were all dry, with scraps of skin peeled off. They were in such a bad condition that if I would even bite them gently for once, they would start
I winced.
hell. Let Mayank discover it on the bed! And, fix this broken state of yours... use whatever you feel like to cover these bruises and scars but know one thing. I won't like people saying that the
licked the cut by his tongue to clean the blood from there. I flinched with disgust,
ants were crawling
papa, darling...."
but that didn't stop me from doing so. I wanted to remove that sickening feeling of his lips from my face. His saliva on my wonds was making me feel tainted, and beyond repair. What could I possibly expect from a man like him who did not feel disgust even by the thought of kissing a girl who had been living with him like his daughter
me fallen on the ground. Just then his words started resonating in my
people saying that the bride was forced to submit