Years ago I met my third cousin who my parents wanted me to marry. That is because a lot of our family's properties are locked in a very old entail that excludes female heirs entirely - only males can inherit. Once my father dies, our properties go to that third cousin who is very distant and whom we didn't even know existed until after the former heirs (first cousins) died prematurely in a crash.
My parents wanted me to marry my third cousin so that we can keep the properties within our immediate family. I wanted to challenge the entail but my dad grew to be fond of my third cousin. Still, I detested him, but eventually his nice personality and dashing good looks got the better of me and I fell in love with him. However, after he proposed to me, my mother got pregnant the first time in eighteen years, and if the baby was a boy then the boy would inherit and there would have been no need for me to marry my third cousin.
I was conflicted about whether or not to marry him and troubled by something shameful I had done so I stayed with my aunt for the summer. Then my mother had a miscarriage. When I got back, he was angry and said I was only using him, and left before I could say "yes".
I didn't see him for two years. By then, he was engaged to a new girl. I was angry and bitter so I got engaged to an older man. But then he started falling back in love with me, and we just kissed, but he says to me he has to marry that girl out of honor - for a while he had become lame in an injury and she cared for him all the way through. I am engaged to an older man, a media magnate, and he has evidence of an embarrassing story of a sex scandal I was involved in and threatens to publish the story to the world if I try jilting him.
Advice? I know he loves me and I him but he is tied down by responsibility and I by blackmail. What would my papa think if he heard that story about me?!