One moment’s mistake cost them twelve years. Neither spoke, neither asked, and they buried their love for each other as their deepest secret.
A family-arranged marriage bound them together, and the two, each with their own secrets, signed a three-year agreement. He thought she didn’t love him, so he dared not get close; she thought he didn’t love her, so she dared not hope.
Though they were closer than anyone, they lived like the most distant of spouses. Though they loved each other deeply, they kept pushing each other farther away.
