>>6055399The riskiest being their affiliation with the Groom’s family in the untapped market known as Prancijan, Anastasia’s mother being the spearhead from her family’s side of the operation. They could’ve thrived together, but the Oexles took over all their joint ventures through shady (but legal) measures. The Groom’s family responded by serving them the head of Anastasia’s mother on a silver platter, literally.
Then, through the same type of deals, the Groom’s family started to take over ALL of Oexle’s enterprises. Anastasia’s family begged them to stop before they lost control of all their companies (mind you, they’d still have a shit load of money), The Groom’s family had one simple request: to force one of their daughters to date the groom. Because, holy fuck, the groom is ugly as hell, has no game, and is destined to die alone.
The Oexles accepted the deal. It’s not marriage! But there is one caveat: the Oexles don’t have any access to the groom’s money until marriage. So, her family is forcing Anastasia to marry this ugly guy. Now, the groom’s family has been very clear that what happened to her mother will happen to the others if Anastasia stands up the groom at the altar. <span class="mu-s">This is the one thing she can’t do.</span>
Anastasia was pissed with the whole arrangement and built her own plan: she’ll manage to swindle the groom for a big sum of money and disappear from the face of the earth, leaving her family to rot. Surprisingly, it was all too easy, the groom is a nice guy! Ugly as sin, but nice and (mainly) naïve. He tried to find his own lover, but failed so miserably for so long, that he decided to take on his mother’s offer to bring him along to one of her business parties, and he couldn’t be happier to have hit it off together! This all feels so natural for him, he cannot wait to marry her! So he bent the knee and asked after the third date. He promised he’d do anything to make her smile.
So Anastasia asked for a ridiculous sum of money, and he handed it over. She’s hiding it at the moment under her dress.
She was conflicted by this point, but once she met by surprise with her younger sister on her way here, Anastasia realized she couldn’t pull the trigger…
“That’s a history and a half.” You don’t know how to feel. Anastasia is certainly the protagonist of this story, everything else is a little dubious, but she isn’t the worst by a long mile. “Before we decide what’s next. Do you know a patron who goes by Fiora?”
“Yes! Yes, I do! I invited her to the wedding after she listened to this same story yesterday (I didn’t have the money with me back then)!” Anastasia wipes her tears with a napkin. Fiora knows...? Why didn’t she do anything…? She’s cold!
