Contracted to the unknown billionaire

My marriage was a huge failure. Well, what did I expect? It was an arranged marriage after all. Usually, nothing good ever comes out of an arranged marriage. Just pain, frustration, despicable stares from people around, and miserable life.

This miserable life was assigned to me by my parents.We were well-off. Riches were underestimation. We were loaded; we had virtually everything in the world.

Regardless of that, it appeared that mum and dad were not satisfied with that. They craved the whole world for themselves. My parents were what I could call insatiable individuals if those words even sounded good enough to assess them.

My name is Jasmine Nova Hill and I’m 28 years old. When I was little, I never really enjoyed quality time with my parents. They were either busy with work or I don’t know. I spent most of my time with babysitters who took good care of me; more than my parents ever would.

It was not long before they chose to drop me off with dad’s parents. Mum’s parents were dead long before I was born so I don’t know them.I was only 6 when they dropped me off at Nana’s and Papa’s place and they seldom came to visit. I lived with my grandparents and spent time with them more than I ever did with my parents.

Nana and Papa cared for me better than my parents ever did. My parents were never there for my birthdays. Rather, they would bring a gift two months after my birthday. Multiple times, they’d simply deliver it through the driver or a secretary.

Papa and Nana never made me feel the rejection of my so called ‘dear parents’. They made me feel loved and accepted. They treated like I was their own kid and I must say at some point, I saw them as my birth parents.

They told me every single day that my parents loved me so much and were busy working so they could give me all the good things I desired but I knew they were just saying all that so I would not grow up to despise my parents.

An awful incident happened when I was 16. Papa left us. He died in his sleep. Nana and I wept so much our eyes almost jumped out of its sockets, especially on the day of his cremation.

Few months later, Nana left me too. I was miserable and wept so much I felt my eyeballs would fall out. It was not until after Nana’s funeral that mum and dad chose to take me back in.

Now after forsaking me all these years, they come back now thinking they could do as they liked with me by making me walk down the aisle with the most arrogant, cruel, man I’ve ever heard of. Sebastian James Kings.

They want me to tie the knot with Sebastian just because they want to be in coalition with his parents, who were business moguls.

Like I said before, mum and dad wanted more fortune for themselves so they are ready to do everything and anything they could to have the whole world, if that was even possible. That included marrying me off to a total stranger.

“Mum, Dad, do you realize that we don’t even know these people except for what we read about them on the tabloids.

They could be drug lords or something way dangerous than that for all we know. Besides I don’t know or love this man in question and yet you just want to marry me off to him”, I ranted when they told me.

“Well, it’s not like you are in a relationship in someone else at the moment and even if you are in a relationship, you have no choice because this could be a tremendous breakthrough for our family.

This could be our chance of becoming multibillionaires, child”, her father replied.

“So you prefer to swap your child with money so you could be a multimillionaire, Dad. I used to think you were frugal but now I know you’re not only frugal but callous as well.

I shouldn’t be amazed. You and mum have never liked me; you’ve always chased wealth and prestige and you never even remembered that you have a child. I’m not going to sit back and watch myself get married to that man. I might just escape”, I said.

“You wouldn’t dare. If you do just that then you do not wish to continue being my daughter”, my father replied.