He Didn't Want Me Until Someone Else Did

Synopsis

I have been nursing a secret crush on Matthew Cooper for three years. The little ways he treats me differently, such as a kinder word and a lingering glance, makes me think maybe, just maybe, he feels something too. So when I finally build up the courage to confess, the words I overhear him saying to his friends shatter everything. "Honestly, Olivia's pretty," he sneers. "But if I actually ended up with her? I'd feel like I was settling. She's my family's maid's daughter. Can you imagine me taking her out in public? It would be humiliating." He added, "Look, I know she's into me, but reality is cruel. I can give her money, sure. But marriage? Never." Years later, on the night before my wedding, he pins me against the wall, his eyes burning with a frantic kind of grief. "Olivia," he rasps, his voice breaking, "don't do this. Just give me a chance. That's all I'm asking."