At the Pieszecki home, LA

"No way!" Alice said angrily.

"This is already 21st century dad, I do have the rights to choose the person I love. You can’t simply decide that for me! And I can’t believe that you engaged me to that fucking Fairbanks without my consent! I mean I don’t even know her!"

"I am sorry honey, but this is the promised made by your grandfather. We just cannot do anything about it. It’s a promise that should be kept." Alice’s father, William knew that he might be pushing his daughter too hard, but it’s for her own good too. The Fairbanks business empire was growing everyday, therefore marrying Alice to the heiress of the empire was the most promising path to a luxurious life in future. Alice was his only daughter and he wanted her to be happy in future. And it’s good for their family business too. Although their business was also a multinational one, but there was no way it could compare to the Fairbanks.

But this was not the main issue here. Why he had to engaged Alice to the Fairbanks was because of the promised made by his father to the Fairbanks 50 years ago. Both of the Pieszecki and Fairbanks were best friends for more than 4 decades, more like blood brothers, where they fought together during the war and when they both made it home they thought it was a blessing and decided that they wanted more. Then it struck them that they could be a family by marriage. But unfortunately at that time both families had only one son on each family. Therefore, the ancestors agreed to pass this on to their grandchildren or great grandchildren. This was the only thing that they told their sons before their last breathe. That all they want was Pieszecki and Fairbanks to be a family. To William, the picture of his late father reminding him about the promise in his dying bed was still fresh in his mind.

When his wife gave birth to Alice, all William wished was that the Fairbanks would have a boy so that they could fulfill their fathers last wish. But when the Fairbanks also had a girl a year later, then they thought maybe either family might have worked it out and have a baby boy later. But his wife passed away when Alice was 3 years old, and the Fairbanks had a boy, but that was 8 years later. Due to the large differences in age, both families were not sure how things would turn out to be. They thought they might as well forget about the whole thing.