My Heart Has Always Known

Nina Judd married Sean Zane in her sister's place. The sister vanished before the ceremony and her father put Nina in the marriage instead, which was also how she got her mother away from him after years of him hurting her. Sean is the heir to the Zanes, one of the richest families in the capital, and he left on a business trip on the first day of the marriage. He worked constantly and had little to say to her. Nina decided the arrangement suited her. She was careful in the role of Mrs. Zane, treated her husband as a business partner, and kept to her side of the distance between them. One night he closed that distance himself. He told her he was not happy with how polite she was with him, or with how well she kept her manners in place.