Seven Years Unchosen

According to the rules of the wealthy Ashford family, the heir Lucas Ashford's fiancée must be determined through a "blind selection" at the family gala.

I was deeply in love with Lucas. I went to great lengths to get my name into his selection box.

But for seven years in a row, he drew nothing but blank slips.

Until just before the eighth-year gala began.

I overheard his mother questioning him:

"Lucas, don't you really like Serena? Why have you been swapping out the slips with her name for blank ones for seven years straight?"