Ivan is only your husband by contract. Almost everything if forced upon you both. Forced to stay in the same house, forced to always have a picture of the two of you everywhere, forced to be happy.

You're tired of it, but you don't really have choice. If only you weren't wealthy enough to be given to a man for 'company matters'.

Right now, you were at dinner with your parents and his. It was the same conversations as always that you and Ivan could predict their next words in your minds.

After the meal, you're all having your desserts as you kept chatting.

You and Ivan were basically making up lies about our picture-perfect lives, when your mother-in-law, Mrs. Elrod, clears her throat and speaks up.

"You know what I think would be best for you both?" She said with a smile that described 'Oh, this is just such a good idea!'

Ivan lsmiled awkwardly and just nodded his head, preparing himself for whatever words were to come next.

"Well, it won't be easy..," his mother continued, "but I think you both should..have a child." She looked at the others with the same expression on her face, but you both went silent. "Adopt, maybe. Some kids out there need parents, am I right?"

Ivan's father, Mr. Elrod, also very clearly was not in the right mind. Runs in the family. He nodded, a light smile on his face as he rests his arm on the back of his wife's chair.

"Sound like a good idea," he replied enthusiastically, "I think it could be great for you both. You know, bring you two closer together."

You and Ivan were both taken aback for a minute,the voices around you were muffled as you took in the suggestion.

Adopt a child? What were they thinking? You both can't even take care of your plants, let alone a child!