"This is the best for you!" Her mother called out.

"How can anyone but me know what's best for ME?!" Elizabeth called out to her. Her mother simply sighed looking at the large clock on the wall. It had been 2 hours that they was yelling at each other. It wasn't that she didn't love her daughter. As mother just wanted she to have a comfortable life. Elizabeth continued to shout and cry that she didn't want this, she didn't ask for this. Her mother no longer answered, her heart had tightened, she put the iron to the side and passed the ironing board to reach her daughter.

"You may hate me now but in no time you will realize that life can be more... easier with some more money." She told her and rubbed her back. Elizabeth could not believe that her mother only thought about money! She knew that they had never had much in their lives, but they lacked nothing. But her mother saw it from a different perspective. How much more she would give her daughter if she had money.

Money, money! Money! Oh Elizabeth hates that word from now on. She had barely managed to put on her dress when her dog in the yard started barking incomparably loudly. The girl looked out the window and saw two black Mercedes cars in front of their garden. Men and women in black surrounded the block, she stopped for a while at the balcony door, scared. She was violently awakened from her thoughts by the bell, her mother waiting behind the door burst open. She wasn't ready for that yet. She hadn't had time to realize it yet, what she wouldn't give to bring time back...

A lady with a big hat combined with her extreme dress, weird mask in the face and a young pale man with long black hair burst into the living room with overconfidence. Elizabeth's mother told them to sit down. The woman in the big hat smiled and turned to her bride-to-be.

"Look at her my Illumi! Isn't she so adorable? We got lucky even with our first choice!" The woman said and turned to look at her son clearly excited.

"Indeed." He answered succinctly with a dispassionate look.

"Do you like it? Should we keep her? If you want we can look for something else in the appearance?" Should they keep me? Why does she think she's talking about a puppy? Elizabeth thought, seething with anger. I hope he prefers brunettes or black hair so I can save myself. He's cute though. Oh my god! God stop me! I think about the wrong things. She filled herself with scenarios and ideas but life is not always kind to us.

"Her exams? If she can't have children no matter how much I like her we should look for something else." The man said and let his eyes leave her green ones turn back to his mother.

"Right, do you have the tests we asked you to take?" Kikyo, Illumi's mother, ask.

"Of course, my daughter is fully capable of having children." As soon as this information reached the blonde girl's ears, she flared up with rage and sadness. Her mother just approved her as a flawless baby machine.

"That's great news. Since you liked her my Illumi then we can keep her. Could you stand up a little sweetie?" Kikyo addressed Elizabeth. Hesitantly she got up and looked at her mother nervously.

"Great, with these proportions you'll be able to satisfy a man to the fullest and hold healthy babies too." Kikyo said laughing to herself at her great discovery.

"Since my time is money we had better start for home." He replied coldly and got up from his seat.

The little girl still couldn't make sense of anything, she was lost. When she held her mother in her arms, when already spent two hours in a car with unknown people, she couldn't say. Kikyo was trying desperately all the way to pressure her son not to be indifferent to the girl and to pay attention to her. Her patience was exhausted until she ordered her son to approach Elizabeth and hug her. Illumi clueless as he was about romantic things made a situation even more uncomfortable for Elizabeth since he did everything so mechanically and haphazardly.

"So what's your name?" Illumi asked her after being ordered to speak with his bride.

"Don't you know my name?" The girl answered him shocked.

"No." He unconsciously answered these and leaned a little towards her. "You knew mine?" He asked her back.

"Yes! From the first moment." Elizabeth answered him, with a awkward smile in her face.

"Don't get him wrong, I told him, he just had a lot of demanding work this week." Kikyo answered to defending her son.

"I have many years to learn your name." He answered with that constant impassive look of his and with the hand that wasn't hugging Elizabeth he typed a message on the phone. He was so cold that no matter how handsome Elizabeth thought him, she could find nothing positive accept him as her husband.

The car was reaching its destination. Elizabeth was ecstatic at how huge it was from the plot to the doors. Kikyo from the opposite seat was crowing about the family fortune. The journey and mother-in-law's never-ending pearl stopped in front of the Zoldyck residence. With a heavy heart she got out of the car and timidly raised her eyes towards the mansion.

"Follow me." Illumi addressed her, stepping forward. There, after being greeted by the service staff, the bride had to meet the family. Which didn't last long, just a few minutes until Illumi intervened.
"You'll have all the time to talk to her while I'm gone. Now I have to show her some things because I'm working soon." He announced and motioned for her to follow into their huge room.