I Gave Him to My Sister, and He Regretted It

Synopsis

The Shaw and Lane families arranged a marriage, and then my sister, Emily Shaw, left a suicide note and vanished. In the note she wrote that she knew I had been quietly in love with Charles Lane for ten years, and she was stepping aside so the two of us could be together. Charles hated me for driving her away. He never showed up on our wedding day, made me say my vows to an empty chair, and locked me in the basement that night to humiliate me. To him I was a murderer, and he took that hatred out on me with a barbed whip and a cage barely three feet across. Three years into the marriage, my feelings finally got through to him. He believed me, and we came together like any husband and wife, desperate for each other in bed. Our anniversary was coming up, and to make up for what we had lost, Charles agreed to hold the wedding all over again. Then, on the day of my dress fitting, Emily came back from the dead.