It was no ordinary love story; one so beautiful that it made people cry; one so mysterious that it made people curious; one so deeply charming that it made hearts flutter and people drown in the injustice of cruel fate.

‘My dad won’t allow this to happen. He loves me too much to give me to some guy he didn’t know.’

‘But, sweetheart, just for how long he wants to keep you by his side? You’re no little girl anymore. You could as well be someone’s mommy by now.’

She sighed heavily, feeling as if the man in front of her just stabbed her with his words mercilessly. But that was just because his words were so true she’d wished that they weren’t uttered at all.

He took her right hand and intertwined his fingers around it.

‘I’ll go and meet him. I’ll beg him if I have to. I’ll do anything for you.’

She was worried by his determination. She loved him, yes. But her daddy wasn’t like any other daddies. Her daddy had so much love for her that it scared her sometimes.

Her daddy didn’t like to share her love with another person what else if it was some strange man. She was her daddy’s little girl and she knew that he had made the decision to keep it that way for as long as he was still breathing on this planet earth.

‘Just be careful. Don’t cross the line and don’t do anything stupid.’

‘Well, if not being stupid is what you ask of me, then I can’t give you my words. I’ve stopped using my head the moment our eyes met and I’ll gladly be a stupid man if that was what it takes to have you in my arms.’

It was as she had expected; the meeting that was. Her daddy was so furious with this guy named Benjamin who was trying to steal his daughter away from him that his whole face was red tomato. The young lover could almost see steam coming out from his pair of ears.

‘Sir, I am not trying to take her away from you. I was just asking your permission to marry her. I love her and she loves me.’

The old man snorted in Benjamin’s face.

‘Love! What is love? I won’t allow my daughter to be heartbroken over some man’s love! What kind of love can you give her? Can you guarantee that your love would stay as it is now, in… say, ten years’ time?! Answer me, boy!’

Benjamin could feel his feet shaking uncontrollably under the table. He breathed the free air deeply, gathering his thoughts together. He was not yet to give up his love for Juliet by this man’s endless provocation.

‘I can promise you to give her my whole heart and soul. I’d die for her if I have to. I love her very much, Sir.’

Hearing this, the man went out from the living room to somewhere. Benjamin waited nervously. His foolish thoughts were that that man was touched by his sincere confession of love for his daughter, but little did he know that his time was coming to an end.

‘BANG!’

Silence.

Juliet came out from her room and sighed. She could see her daddy smiling, no, smirking watching Benjamin’s limp body that was covered with red blood. The gun was still spouting smoke in his firm grip.

‘He was already the seventh, daddy.’

The man smiled to his little girl and nodded in agreement. No remorse mirrored on his face.