Chapter Twenty

I closed the huge oak door of my room with a soft click, close my eyes before releasing a long sigh of everything I'm feeling while leaning half of my weight against the warm wood.

The smell and the usual warmth of my room came to me in a melodic wave of nostalgia. Suddenly, I felt faint as the feeling of suffocating restraints boarded up since I was a child started to flood with the memories. The warmth I felt a moment ago was suddenly replaced with the kind of coldness that seeps through the bone.

This is not home. It's prison.

When I was a child I marveled and cherish every little time and attention they gave me while trying to contend myself in the small world I was confined to. But as I grew older the world I had made for myself became suffocating to the brink of insanity. Still, I tried to live and build a life in any way could until my father announced that I am to marry Roman Hernandez.

That had been the breaking point.

I slump on the floor