The Marriage Meant for Another

Two people who could barely stand each other find themselves bound by a wedding neither of them planned. The narrator was pushed into the marriage as a stand-in, and her husband resents her for pulling him away from the person he truly wanted. Every day under the same roof sharpens the bitterness between them, and the wealthy husband makes no secret of his contempt. Their rocky union sets up a story of resentment slowly giving way to something neither of them expected.