Put A Ring Where It Hurts

At the engagement banquet the younger man who had grown up beside her, and whom she had treated as a brother, was humiliated in front of the guests. He told her afterwards that the man she was marrying could not protect her and that he would do it himself. From that day he stayed near her. He broke up the arrangements, got in the way of the match, and would not be sent off. She asked him to stop, then avoided him, then ran, and each attempt came back to the same place. At the point where he moved to hold her somewhere she could not leave, he found out what the engagement was for. She had accepted it to take a threat off him, and the threat came from the fiance's own family, who had their own use for the match. He changed his approach after that. She got a clearer look at the fiance over the same stretch.