by Poppy Matt

Created on: August 21, 2008   Last Updated: August 13, 2010

Emma put a bookmark in the page she had just been reading and sighed. She stared at her window blindly. She had just been reading a love story and had been genuinely touched by it. How she wished that she had that kind of relationship that Tamara and Josh had in the book she had just been reading or maybe the one between Romeo and Juliet she couldn't understand. She sniffed and came back to reality. She knew that her fiance Rob didn't love her but just wanted her because she had a $10 billion fortune and was going to get a large share of her father's $200 billion fortune. She looked down on her fingers and lightly touched her engagement ring. She was 33 now and she needed to get married now that her younger sister Ruby had just had a baby with her husband Gary and the pressure on her to start a family was so much. She knew that all the men that she had ever met just wanted her for her money and not because she was herself. She had started hating the fact that she was so rich. Day by day she read romantic novels, day dreamed and tried to picture herself as the lady who falls in love but her wealth always overshadowed every trace of love and her beauty.

There was a knock on her door and Emma quickly straightened up. She put the novel underneath her pillow; stood up and went to the window. She opened it to allow air in. "Come in." she said quite briskly. The door knob turned and a lady in her early 50s entered. "Hello mother" Emma said. Rosa stared at Emma before answering to her daughter's greeting. "Hello Emma. Rob sent a letter down. He is coming to see you today and maybe take you to the city." Emma bit her nails nervously "mother is it okay if I stay at home today? I don't feel like going to the city or seeing Rob today." Rosa stared at Emma who was going bright red at her mother's hard stare. "You haven't been reading those fictional books have you?" Emma bent her head. "Of course not mother." she said as Rosa walked closer to Emma's bed and lifted up the pillow. There she found the book. She picked it up and waved it in Emma's face. Emma turned away smirking.

"Mum I'm sorry but I just have to say this. I can't marry Rob" Rosa dropped the book and stared at Emma open mouthed. "I'm sorry mum but I can't marry Rob" she repeated again "he doesn't love me and I do not love him."

"Blast love." Rosa said coming closer to Emma. "You're going to get married to Rob do you hear that? I don't care what you say young lady or should I say old lady; you are not going to bring shame on this family. Is that clear?"
"mum I can't, I'm sorry" Emma said. Rosa slapped her hard on the face. "Listen to me girl; rob turner is from a respectable family and so are you. You are not going to destroy this bond do you hear me?" Emma stretched her arm and got her Chanel bag which was filled with her Debit and Credit cards, some money, check books, phones, jewelery and her organizer. "I'm sorry mum but I can't do it okay. I'm really sorry." Emma turned and leaped out of the open window to the shock of her mother who could only scream loudly "EMMA!

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