We had no choice—it was made for us by our parents. The outcome of many years of friendship and the rescue of my father’s business led to a promise that one day the friendship of the children would be sealed by marriage. Nobody cared whether we wanted to be together. One day, one of us got tangled in those treacherous games; the other picked it up, and finding the guilty one turned out to be harder than we thought. And what about love? Trust? That’s not for us.