Bound To Be His Wife

Synopsis

Malcolm Peterson, my fiancé, had heard that sacrificing a bride to the Mountain God would bring endless wealth. He, along with his mother, Olivia Peterson, and my sister, Isabella Johnston, stuffed me into a coffin and hauled me deep into the mountains, right to the front of the shrine. Inside the coffin, I clawed desperately at the lid, my blood smearing it red as I begged them not to give me to the Mountain God. "Please, don't send me away! I'll work myself to the bone for you, just let me stay," I cried out. The Mountain God everyone talked about was actually a giant python, its whole body covered in pitch-black scales. For the past three years, he slithered into my bed every night, wrapping himself around me. "Malcolm, I'm your fiancée. I'm begging you. Please don't offer me to the Mountain God!" I pleaded. "I'll be your slave and do whatever you ask. Please don't do this," I begged. Lying in the coffin, my desperate cries echoed, my voice growing raw and broken. The bride, whom they called a sacrifice to the Mountain God, wasn't a real bride at all. She was just a human sacrifice to the mountain, left out there at the shrine for seven days and seven nights. In the end, wild beasts would devour her until she was a heap of bones. "Jacqueline, since you're willing to do anything, why not just do Malcolm this little favor?" Isabella said. "Weren't you always worried I'd never find a good husband and end up having a tough life?" Isabella added.