Description
Aria and Rian grew up together because their parents were inseparable. They, however, were not. More reluctant companions than friends, they shared years without ever sharing closeness. Years later, they are tied again, this time in a marriage neither of them asked for. To their families, it is the natural next step. To Aria and Rian, it feels like a sentence. Their life together is tense and filled with resentment. Every conversation feels like a confrontation, every shared space like a battleground. His grief hides behind a cutting smile. Her silence shields more than it reveals. Both carry wounds from a past they've never dared to open. Both believe distance is safer than honesty. But walls don't hold forever. And in the cracks, something unexpected takes root, not quite love, but something that aches just the same. Why did they say yes to this marriage? Can two people who've forgotten how to love learn to feel again? Or are they simply too far gone to ever meet in the middle?
P R O L O G U E | Bride left at the altar?!
