The Unwanted Marriage: Dion and Faye's Story (The Windsors)

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Good,” she breathes. I stare at her for a second and take in her flawless makeup and that beautiful blonde hair that sets the girls and her apart from me. I wonder if there are bruises hidden underneath all the foundation she wears. Faye’s hyper-vigilant blankness throughout the novel makes sense. It's an abuse victim thing. But wtf was Dion's excuse for not having a personality?I found myself getting very annoyed at his early sexual overtures toward her. The man was completely incurious. He never once pondered why his fiancé was a pod person, nor did he try to elicit any details about her life. He just got handsy. Her meekness made his attentions feel rapey. I kept pleading “C’mon dude. Buy her dinner. Ask her a goddamn question. Please,I beg.” But nope, only grope. FOR 47 CHAPTERS. In fact, Dion used Faye's constant anxiety and fear posture to make her his sexual submissive. That’s a yikes from me. Loving this series. Can’t wait for the next one with Zane and Celeste but ultimately I want Sierra and Xavier’s story. She currently makes her home in Hong Kong, even though she has lived in Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. Thankfully, she was married to a man that did not believe in such a defeatist mindset. He challenged her to publish just one novel and she took up the challenge and published her debut in 2020.

Father looks startled for a moment, but then he smiles politely and walks toward me, throwing me a warning look as he brushes past. I’ve never seen him cower like that, not even for a single moment, and it brings me a perverse sense of gratification. I can’t read him, no matter how hard I try. Yet somehow, I have no doubt that whatever I’d find behind those deep green eyes would only unsettle me further. She is forever grateful for the privilege of living in the Netherlands as she had many more opportunities she does not think she would have had living in Suriname. She is at best an Indian but over the years, she has come to be related to people of Indo Surinaesse, Afro Surinmese, and Javanese. I’m on edge throughout the rest of the show, my disappointment in myself only perturbing me further. The audience deserves my very best, and I’m withholding that from them because I’m failing to put my emotions aside.I tense when she clears her throat, my stomach sinking the moment those cold green eyes settle on me. I knew what she’d ; say before she even parted her lips, but that doesn’t lessen the weight of her words. My gaze roams over the woman seated at the edge of my bed, her previously perfect makeup smudged, and her golden skin a few shades paler than usual. Faye has the most beautiful blue eyes I’ve ever seen, but today they’re filled with nothing but sorrow and guilt. Chloe shifts in her seat, and I glance up at her through my lashes. Two more years, and she too will escape this place we’re forced to call home. I, on the other hand, will merely be exchanging it for a different gilded cage. Arranged marriages are a Windsor tradition, and I’ve known for years that this day would come. Out of all my siblings, I’m the only one who’s been engaged for years, the only one who’s known who I’d marry for over a decade now. That never made it easier. No — if anything, it’s felt like a slow walk toward the gallows, until, at last, my fate is sealed. The hotel’s expansiveness makes me nervous, and I suddenly realize how crazy this is. I’m not the kind of person that gets to chase moments of happiness, and I’m terrified. I’m scared of hurting Eric, of having to face the consequences of my actions, of the future I’ll have to embrace after today. I’m scared, and I’m tired of feeling that way.

For years, he made his unwillingness known, but his attempts to keep Faye at a distance fade to dust at the sight of her with another man—mere months before their wedding. Maura has said that writing is something she was doing ever since she was ten, when she use to tell everyone that she would grow up to become an author.The male voice in this story was fantastic and made me really fall for Dion. The female voice, not so much…there was no strength to her all of her emotion and inflection were the same no matter which female character she portrayed.