Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Love of a Priestess ❯ Fighting Destiny ( Chapter 7 )

The days passed quickly. They spoke in hushed terms, sneaking around me. I assumed they discovered my displeasure at being set up for my meeting with Seto Kaiba. They said nothing to me over the next days, not even asking about my Channeled memories.

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Two days later I found myself back in Seto Kaiba's office, waiting to be admitted to his office. I couldn't imagine anyone truly wanting to be in my position.

I would find out later that there were many young women dying to be in my shoes.

As soon as I was called in, I sensed there was something different about this meeting. This was only partially a business meeting. He still wanted to acquire my non-existent company, but he seemed ready to take a different tack.

His new angle shocked me into silence.

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"Glad to see you could make it. I think that this agreement will work out much better."

I sat across from him again, eyes narrowed. I was highly suspicious of his newfound pleasantries.

"I was speaking to your-guardians, I suppose you would term them. They've informed me that while you are indeed old enough to make your own decisions and run your own company, they have made certain provisions for you. The agreements have all been worked out."

"What?" I asked coldly. "You're taking my company away from me?" It wasn't the company itself, it was the fact that it was the only connection I had to Seto Kaiba, my only form of leverage. But why would they have done that, effectively ruining all their careful planning?

"All the agreements have been worked out and most of the arrangements will be made shortly," he continued, ignoring me. "I'm sure you will have few objections to signing this. In fact," he added as he pushed a slip of paper across the table to me, "it doesn't matter if you do or not. You are not in a position to refuse."

I picked up the paper and read. I froze. I couldn't read past the first line.

"A marriage contract?" I managed to squeak.

He smirked at me. On any other man, it would be sexy. "Yes, my dear. Everything has been worked out. Now, I have other business to attend to."

"Marriage?" I managed to gasp out. "You would resort to marrying me in order to get my company?"

He looked up at me. There was no smart smirk on his face, no ambition in his eyes. There was something else, something that I could not place. "It is much more than simply attaining your company. I get what I want, make no mistake. And your company is not the only thing to be acquired in this deal." He turned away, back to the endless stacks of paper on his desk. He refused to look at me.

With a sharp intake of my breath, I turned and stormed out of the office.

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"I can't believe you!" I shrieked at her as I barreled into the house. "You planned this! And behind my back!"

"It was the best thing we could do. It will be the most beneficial."

"For whom? You? Me? This is not the way I wanted it!"

"Want is not an option."

"I know, I know! Destiny! I've spent five thousand years looking for my destiny! I refuse to believe this is it!"

"Believe what you'd like. You will marry Seto Kaiba."

"That, that is where you're wrong. I won't. I won't marry him. Five thousand years of bowing meekly to Fate and Destiny and the Gods. Let me seek them on my own! Let me find my Destiny on my own terms. And let me shape it myself!"

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I spent the night sobbing silently to myself. I thought several times of the ways to escape from my engagement, to run away and never worry about my fate. I would wait another five thousand years if necessary. Or I would stop waiting at all.

For surely I had been reserved to power to take my own life.

But I could not. Every plan, every plot, every escape was fruitless. My anger had faded, and I was left facing stark reality: I could not run away. Fate would catch up with me no matter where I went or what I did.

She was right. I would marry Seto Kaiba.

I was too afraid not to.