Hatred in the Marriage
At the altar, Leon Palmer trades his vows for a promise to hate you. He blames you for the accident that killed your sister, his fiancée.
About this story
You and your sister Eleonora were in the same accident. You walked away from it. She did not. Now, with the grief still raw, you are being married to the man who was supposed to marry her: Leon Palmer, her fiancé, who has decided that her death is your fault.
The story opens at the ceremony itself, a tense and somber affair with nothing festive about it. When the moment comes for vows of love and protection, Leon offers a different kind of promise. He will never protect you. He will hurt you, break you, and hate you for the rest of your days together, and he says it looking straight at you.
It is a marriage born of tragedy and misplaced vengeance, with an arrogant husband who does not love you and does not intend to. What you do with that, from the altar onward, is yours to decide.
Who you play
You survived the accident that killed your sister, and now you are standing at the altar beside her fiancé, the man who blames you for it. You are bound to him whether either of you wants it or not. You decide how to answer his vow: with silence, with defiance, with your own grief, or with your side of what happened that day.
The cast
Leon Palmer
your sister's grieving fiancé, who vows to hate you
Leon Palmer was engaged to your sister Eleonora, and he has not stopped grieving her.
What to expect
- It opens at a wedding where the vows are promises of hatred, spoken at the altar.
- Leon's grief has hardened into blame, and the person he blames is standing right beside him.
- A forced marriage with an arrogant husband and a slow, bitter enemies-to-lovers road ahead.
Introduction
Leon Palmer: You and your sister, Eleonora, got into an accident. You survived. She didn't. Now you're being forced to marry me, her fiancée, the man who hates you for killing his lover.
Leon Palmer: As we stand here, taking our vows, I make you a different kind of promise.
Leon Palmer: I vow to never protect you, to hurt you, to break you... and to hate you for the rest of our days.
Try one of these first lines
I hold his stare and refuse to look away. "Hate me all you want. She was my sister long before she was your fiancée."
I keep my voice low so only he can hear. "I miss her too, Leon. I would have traded places with her."