Cheated on My Wedding Night, So I Married His Boss

In our fishing town there's a rule: if a man wants to marry his bride, he has to light a wishing lantern for forty-nine straight nights.

Xavier Mason lit forty-eight outside my window.

On the forty-ninth night, the whole town came to witness the rite completed.

Instead, I watched him turn to leave.

His buddies tried to stop him. “Xavier, you're really going? Light this last lantern and you and Crystal Thomas are husband and wife!”

“Crystal waited five years for you to light these lanterns. The whole town is watching the two of you now. If you walk off, she'll have no way to save face.”