It has been decided that I will marry Bryce, the older heir to the O'Donnell earldom.

Bryce has a past where, a few years ago, a lover he was on the verge of getting engaged to went to study abroad and never returned. Consequently, it had been difficult for him to find a fiancée. This time, Cynthia is to become engaged to him as part of a certain business venture.

Although I had braced myself for various problems, Bryce himself turned out to be a very kind person, if a little easily swayed. Though it's an arranged marriage, Bryce is very gentle, and I feel as though I could find happiness with him.

Just as we were gradually closing the distance between us in the time leading up to the wedding.

In a garden we visited together, a woman approached my fiancé and spoke to him with striking familiarity. It was his ex-lover, the one who had abandoned Bryce to study abroad in another country.