BillyOktavio
Best friends forced to marry #WITWContest
Childhood best friends Stella and Atlas thought their forced marriage was the ultimate betrayal. A bizarre ancestral covenant demanded they wed before their 25th birthdays to inherit their family's fortune. They planned their escape: survive the wedding, secure the inheritance, and then a swift annulment. Their friendship, their true north, would endure.
But Moonlight Manor holds secrets deeper and far more sinister than an archaic will. Behind a locked door lies not dust and decay, but a sterile laboratory. The truth shatters their carefully constructed reality: they aren't heirs, but subjects. Their "friendship," their shared history, their very genetics have been manipulated for a terrifying purpose. The marriage isn't the end of their freedom - it's the beginning of the experiment.
Locked in a sterile archive, with their "family" waiting outside, Stella and Atlas face a horrifying revelation. Their bond, the one thing they thought was their own, is the key to their imprisonment. Will their lifetime of unwavering friendship be their salvation, or the catalyst for a genetic awakening that could cost them everything?
A tale of twisted legacies, engineered destinies, and a friendship pushed beyond its breaking point.