The dress was not her choice, but why would it be? This was not the life she wanted. He was not the spouse she would have chosen. She wasn’t even the sex she wished to be. Life and Responsibility had a way of steamrolling your dreams.
Decades before she was born, her Father, Richard Callahan, owner of Callahan Organic Technologies, had made a pact with Leonard Nassau to join their companies. As part of that pact, the eldest Callahan daughter would be wed to the eldest Nassau son.
Time passed, Richard had four sons but no daughters. On the 18th Birthday of Leonard’s eldest son Liam, the Nassau family insisted the pact be kept or their economic union would be shattered.
The burden fell upon Richard’s youngest son William who, on his 18th birthday, was dragged into a Nassau Gender Realignment clinic, given the body of a woman and a 6 month crash course in feminine behavior before being sent to the altar and then her marriage bed.
Wilhelmina has been Liam’s wife for two months now, today she waits for his return to tell him that he is to be a father. Maybe in motherhood, she will find some comfort in this life she never chose.