

That's why when McKenna finally does return twelve long years later, Aline has never married.

Not long after, she suffered a serious accident that nearly killed her and left her legs badly scarred. Knowing that she was the only one who could make McKenna stay away and thereby keep him safe, Aline cruelly broke off their relationship, making him think she didn't love him anymore and disdained his low birth, even though it nearly killed her to do so. Aline could scarce imagine living without him, but when their clandestine love was revealed, her father threatened to have McKenna ruined unless the young man left immediately and never returned. However, just as the time was approaching for her to become more serious about finding a husband, she found herself madly in love with McKenna, an orphaned stableboy on the family's estate, whom she had known since childhood.

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