Wait—Your Wife Is Pregnant

Samantha's stepsister swapped the marriage arrangements and Samantha spent half a lifetime badly off, then died. She woke again before the marriage. She married Raphael, heir to the Duke's household, who was said to be short-lived, intending to have a child by him before he died and then live quietly on that. She asked him to consummate the marriage. He refused, saying it should wait until the feeling was mutual. She used her dowry to open a clothing shop. Raphael backed the shop without telling her and kept watch over her. The stepsister came back into the world as well, and so did Ronan, Samantha's husband from the life before. They kept at her. Raphael stepped in front of his wife openly and told her what he had felt all along. She had married him for an heir and fell in love with him. They built up the business and went at the people who had wronged them, and the prediction that Raphael would die young did not hold.