The Bridegroom Short Story

Natasha went missing for three days and returned home winded and unable to answer the questions her parents pelted her with. Her parents eventually got flustered and gave up trying to push Natasha about where she was. She soon joined her friends but a troika man walked by and Natasha instantly recognized him from somewhere and freaked out. She ran to her parents, who told her to tell them everything, but she remained quiet about the whole problem and carried on. The next day a woman came to her parents and told them the boy was wealthy and generous and Natasha should marry him. Natasha’s parents agreed vigorously about the wedding and had the ceremony soon. Natasha agreed to the wedding after thinking it over for a little bit. At the wedding

When she came home her parents had set up a wedding for her with the man she had saw murder someone. I would not believe Natasha about the story and here is why. If Natasha would have witnessed that then she should have gone straight to the cops, not wait for a big crowd to get more attention. I could see that she was obviously in shock from witnessing the whole incident, but wouldn’t that make you want to get the man caught even more? She knew he had killed another girl then she would have been scared for her own life to be on the same farm as him, let alone going to marry him. The story does add up that the man was rich and the cottage in the woods was made of silver and gold. But they never said if they found the cottage again in the end and that would have been evidence to Natasha’s story. Natasha did go missing for three days, but she could have easily staged that somewhere else with the lack of evidence she had. The biggest problem is that the only real evidence Natasha had of the whole incident was the ring and nobody knows where it actually came from. Natasha could have made the whole thing up just to get money out of the man. It would have been very easy to say Natasha lied. They left her story with many unanswered questions like, what happened to the other men who were with the man when he killed the girl in the cottage? They would also