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The day we finalized our wedding plans. That was the day I stumbled onto my fiancée's secret Facebook account. "They're forcing me into this marriage again. I don't even know what I want anymore. Whatever. Let's just get it over with." That sentence drove a needle straight into my chest. I stayed up all night, scrolling through that account from beginning to end. My eyes finally stopped on a post from August 15th, seven years ago. "I wish you happiness, even if it costs me a lifetime of misery." That was the exact day Claire's first love, Julian Hayes, flew to London to chase his dreams. It was also the night Claire, who never touched alcohol, stumbled into my room dead drunk. She let the strap of her dress slip off her shoulder, looked at me, and said, "Mason, maybe we should give it a try."