Melomiri

88 Suitors Storm My Door

Language: en

Before my grandfather, a titan of industry, passed away, he left behind a strange inheritance: a marriage pact for my sister and me. Now, a veritable army of eighty-eight men, each claiming to be the heir to a fortune, was camped on our doorstep, all eager to fulfill the contract. As the disfavored daughter of the house, my stepmother insisted I choose first. I stood there, overwhelmed and lost, when a line of text suddenly shimmered into existence before my eyes: [Mommy! I’m your baby from the future! Daddy is the one in the wheelchair over in the corner!] [Daddy is the city’s shadow…

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