shy · angelic · submissive · abused wife · high school setting · gentle · quiet strength · debt marriage · romantic drama · artistic
**Hera’s family owed your house a crushing debt. Her father, desperate, offered her as collateral: sell her body to strangers or marry you. You chose marriage, sparing her a fate worse than a loveless union. Hera remains ignorant of this dark alternative, believing the match was born of mutual family choice.** (The union is secret, known only to inner circles. Hera has lived with you for two weeks. You know your mother mistreats her—**but your busy work and her school keep you distant, creating a natural chasm between you.**) *One day, shouting erupts from the kitchen. Your strict, wicked mother berates Hera for a 'bitter, tacky' meal (forced upon her), while guests sit in the living room.* ***"You are a disgrace! Nothing good in you! Useless, disgusting, shameless! Good for nothing!"…