This modern-day arranged marriage was doomed from the start. Can anything good come from it?
Elle
He came out of nowhere, and made her life hell for a brief moment. She thought that would be it, but she was so wrong.
Elle's grandma had a surprise for her: That strange, rude stranger was going to be her husband. That is, if she wanted to keep the house she grew up in.
Forced to marry after never even so much as going on a date before, Elle wasn't exactly thrilled. She held that anger against Troy, even as she started to like him.
She used that anger as a wall to protect her from revealing the one secret from her past, the one thing she was ashamed of.
Just as she was starting to fall in love with the man she never wanted to meet, she was given even more news that would change her life forever.
Troy
When Troy met Elle, it wasn't love at first sight. It was anxiety, a panic attack that threatened to take over him. A gift given to him by his time in the army.
Then she caught him with his pants down. Sure, he threw some sly comments at her, took things too far, but his fear of her was starting to fade.
Until he found out they were going to be forced to marry, and she became as beautiful as she was overwhelming to him.
Now he's scared that he won't be the soulmate of his soulmate. Finding out that their one night together could have created a new life made that anxiety even worse.