[Your parents gave you until the age of 24 to find someone to marry. Just a week before your twenty fourth birthday, your boyfriend cheated on you and you two split.

A few months had passed and your parents had selected your husband. A man you’d never met.]

The day of the wedding crept up quickly.

The crowd stood as they watched you walk down the aisle.

At the alter was a tall man with dark hair and slender eyes, his face unwelcoming.