Entangled

Prologue

What are the most important basic things a person needs in his/her life?

A good living with a house to live in, clothes to wear, and good food to eat.
A loving family including a mother who takes care of her child, the one who is in front of you to cheer you, behind you to have your back, or next to you so you aren't walking alone.
A father who always makes you feel safe and protected, the one who can fix anything with his tools, the one who portrays the perfect blend of tough and sensitive.
A sibling with whom you can play and share all your secrets and stuff.

Ariana Jones has it all..a house to live in, a mother, a father, and a sister. But everything is not like what it seems to be.

Though she has a mother, Jade Smith, who loathes her own daughter. She has a father, stepfather, Andrew Smith, who is a prominent businessman in New York but he despises her because for him she is a burden. She has a sister too, step-sister, Scarlet Smith, who is of the same age as Ariana, but hates Arian because she envies her beauty and intelligence.

Ariana is a polite, beautiful, smart, and intelligent girl. She has been on her own ever since she grew up. Her biological father, Peter Jones, died in a car accident when she was ten. She never got to know what kind of person her father was; she just knew that her father loved her the most. A year later after her father's demise, her mother married Andrew Smith, and everything changed since then. In Smith's family, she was treated as unknown and unwanted; rejected clothes of scarlet were given to her, she was not allowed in family gatherings and was not allowed to go on any family outing. Even the world didn't know that Andrew Smith had two daughters. Only Scarlet was given the limelight. Ariana was not given any value in that family.

She didn't even know any relatives from her father's side because her mother was always rude to them and had cut off all the ties with them after her father's death.

Ariana preferred keeping her father's last name because she didn't want anything related to Smiths. She worked part-time during high school so that she could fulfill her basic needs without asking for money from anyone. She never socialized and used to talk less and always worked in obscurity because her so-called parents didn't want anyone to know that she was related to them. She even didn't have any friends because of her less socializing and less talking behavior. She had worked a lot in her life.

She had tried a lot of times to escape but in the end, she would find herself entangled in the same situation with her stepfather's family.

She wanted to get out of this house and wanted to live independently and the only thing she could think of was to study that could give her freedom, so she studied hard and got herself a scholarship in a renowned university in Chicago. She thought that she would live her life freely but to her dismay, she was sent to live with her stepfather's brother's family in Chicago. And that is when her life became more horrible than ever.

But she always hoped for a good life. After graduation, she was sent back to NY to her parents' house. She thought her life would become a little easy because she had a degree and would get a good job. To her luck, she got a job in a small firm as a data analyst in NY. She was happy as she was living peacefully though she didn't earn much and had to live in her parents' house/mansion; she was happy with what she had.

But little did she know that her life awaits more twists and turns. Because all of a sudden she came to know that she had to be a part of the deal for the sake of her stepfather's business.

She had to be a part of an arranged marriage and had to marry a man she didn't know anything about and she couldn't do anything about it.

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