Jerry_Grey

Brittany was such a lucky girl at 18 years old, she had loving parents, and a cute best friend she was harbouring feelings for when something happened, she got acquainted with Lucas the son of her mother’s employer. Naive, they became friends and had unprotected sex and Brittany had to have an abortion since Lucas's father and family members threatened to harm her if she proceeded with the pregnancy. This left Lucas, who is now 30, to join the Marines after obtaining a law degree as well as running away from a dominating father. In the military, he suffers a traumatic event which leaves him with PTSD, then has to go back to his father’s business where he is pressured to marry and produce an heir.
 
Later on, Brittany starts working on the Interior design of Lucas’s family mansion and they again meet each other. Lucas does not remember being with Brittany, but he later still feels the suffering caused by his family to her. Brittany and Lucas have a fake marriage to have control of the family business, but at the same time, Lucas fights with his PTSD and Brittany is devastated by the loss of her mother and betrayal by her family. They have to unmask Lucas’s cunning stepmother and demanding father to regain the title they both deserve and rediscover the bond they lost long ago.

A Fragile Reunion

…over the next few days, I sat beside him and we reminisced about old times. He spoke a lot about how young he was when he took over the company from my great-grandpa. Then, I thought the stories he was telling me were to pass the time but it was deliberate.

"Your mother was beautiful but she didn't belong to the kind of life Carlisle brought her into. I wanted to see her adapt but time took her away," he said. It was one of the few times he spoke about my mother.

She did not belong to that kind of life. It made me question the kind of life we are supposed to live and I wanted to elaborate about why my mother did not fit in. But he was already talking about another thing.

"Your father loves you. But bitterness has run deep into his mind. I hope he sees what I see one day." I hope he gets the fuck out of my life. But of course, I didn't say that, I just nodded for him to continue.

Silent Struggles: The Battle Within