The Runaway Bride's Forbidden Husband

Bringing a runaway bride back to her intended husband was never supposed to include falling for her.

She has been a beautiful, headstrong problem in my life since childhood, and I have never been able to resist her.

Now I must persuade her to marry another man, even as she insists the engagement is over and refuses a wedding her family still treats as mandatory.

Friendship turns to flirting, then into something neither of us can undo, and the longer we stay together the harder it is to pretend I am only here to deliver her to someone else.

She deserves fortune, security, and a respected name free of scandal—everything I used to have.

I swore I would see her walk down that aisle, but her fight for a future of her own makes me want to be the man waiting at the end of it.