"Drive you to death?" Aaron Lulu's eyes reddened with anger, "Is it you who is pressuring Dad, or Dad who is pressuring you?! If you keep calling off and then setting engagements, you're completely throwing away the Lulu family's dignity! Do you even understand how many people in our circle laughed at you when you first canceled your engagement with Trenton Smith? Do you know how much pressure Dad was under to agree to your relationship with Rufus? Do you think families like ours can marry freely? You blame Dad for pressuring you, but do you understand how much Dad has sacrificed for the freedom you're enjoying now? Aria, how long are you going to continue being willful?"
Aria Lulu's eyes teared up; her fingers clenched, lips tightly pressed, yet she couldn't utter a word.
She knew all too well that her way out had been severed by her own hand a long ago.
