We are only pulling you out of Dirt!

Mina opens her eyes to a mass of blinding white.

She is blinded for a moment by the brightness of the room where she currently is and for these few moments, has no recollection of where she is and how she got there.

By the time her eyes adjust, she is dressed in a corset and there is a woman touching brushes to her face.

"E… Excuse me." Mina starts, her voice breaking as she takes in her surroundings.

The lady stops and beams down at her. "I heard that you have been exhausted in your preparation for your wedding, and that I should not wake you up. I see you are awake now, how are you feeling?"

Then it all comes rushing back, giving her a momentary headache.

How she had tried to leave the Campbell's but they had used Malik to get her and bring her back home and now…

"Wedding? What wedding? What is today?"

"Today is Saturday ma'am. And your wedding is in a few hours, I think two hours from now, your dress is already being fitted as we speak and as soon as your makeup is done, you'll be set, so don't be nervous."

This lady has got it all wrong…

Saturday?

She's been unconscious for three days?! She gets an urge to puke but nothing comes out. Tears well up in her eyes. "Please leave me alone."

"But I have to finish…"

"Leave us alone." A new voice commands as she steps into the room, motioning the makeup artist out of the room, and as soon as she closes the door behind her, Susan bursts into mocking laughter.

"It's well then. I'll leave so your beautiful daughter can get married to Ethan." She mimics, still laughing. "I mean, you seemed so serious, even managed to escape mum's broth but then you had to fall for the tricks of a driver?" Susan laughs again. "Such a pity that my younger sister will be getting married before I do. It's almost embarrassing but do you even know who she is getting married to?"

Bile rises in Mina's throat, remembering clearly that the marriage is not to Eric Walters but to Ethan, his younger and apparently crazy younger brother. The man she would be getting married to is an insane man.

"If we try to look at the silver lining here, if you marry Ethan, you get to be a prized daughter of this family, and even better, you will be doted on by the Walters. That is a win win if you ask me."

"If you think of it as a win win situation, why don't you go and wear the wedding dress then? HM? Why don't you wear the dress and become the prized daughter?!" Mina half yells, her chest heaving up and down in the tight corset as she turns red in the face.

Susan only bursts into laughter. "Don't get worked up, hm? Lil sis? I don't think you get the concept just yet. If you marry Ethan, that leaves Eric in the market and I am free to claim him, and if by any chance, I don't get Eric, I am fit to snag any sane and rich billionaire out there, as long as my husband is not psychopathic, I am fine." She walks around Mina and stands behind her, running her fingers in a circular motion over her bare shoulders while locking eyes with her in the mirror.

With a strangled voice, "You will never get what you want. Eric Walters or any rich man will never be yours. You are as dirty on the inside as you are on the outside."

Furious, Susan spins her chair to face her, "How dare you curse me? Hm? How dare you insult me? My dad and mum took you in, for twenty years, I had to share my parents love with you, this ungrateful bitch. And here you are, we arrange your marriage peacefully and richly for you and you dare curse me?"

"Your twenty years is nonsense to me. I wish I could go back in time and never be your family, or worse, I wish I can pick those twenty years and fling them into a trash bag where they belong!"

"You bitch!" Susan yells and raises her hand to slap her.

Reflexively, Mina closes her eyes, expecting the sting to come but it never does.

She opens her eyes a crack and Susan busts into laughter. "You are just as cowardly as you are useless. Make yourself useful this time. I can't ruin your beautiful makeup look with a slap, that will make me a terrible bridesmaid. But what I can do is…" With a fast grab, her hands grab the expensive necklace around Mina's neck and she pulls is harshly and it breaks, coming into her hands.

Mina exclaims in pain as the necklace tear her skin and Susan's fingernails tear her neck skin as well.

"You are from dirt so you can use whatever befits your status, but I will save you from this piece of trash today, it's your wedding after all, you have to look breathtaking. Your makeup artist will return, cooperate with her and get dressed, if I stay here any loner, we'll be late for the wedding and that will not speak well of our family. So, ciao."

Susan flings the broken necklace into the trash bin on her way out.

Mina's eyes stay on the trash bin where the necklace, her only possession from birth now lies.