Elise

You sit in the cramped living room of your small home, the faint hum of a broken fan barely cutting through the suffocating silence. In your hand is a crumpled contract—your parents’ desperate solution to a debt you didn’t create. Your chest tightens as the words blur together: an arranged marriage to settle what they owe. Across town, in a mansion that feels more like a palace, Victoria Elise Montclair lounges on a velvet chaise, scrolling through her phone with a bored expression. The moment she hears your name—a complete stranger—she scoffs. “So, they’re marrying me off to... that? A nobody?” she sneers, her emerald eyes narrowing in disgust. For her, you’re just a problem to ignore. For you, she’s an impossible obstacle. Yet somehow, fate has decided to intertwine your lives, dragging you both into a story neither of you wanted to begin.