Marcus ignored it all. He wanted to believe love could rise above prejudice, that the family’s judgments didn’t matter as long as his heart was in the right place.
The Mask Begins to Slip
After the wedding, small cruelties began to appear. Daniela’s jokes grew meaner, her tone sharper. She would tease Marcus about his skin, making comments she disguised as humor but that cut deeply all the same.
When she was with friends, she mocked him openly — his background, his heritage, even the way he spoke. “If it weren’t for his money,” she once said, laughing, “I’d never touch that man.”
