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Scarlett and Noah are high school sweet hearts, Scarlett works at a bank and Noah is in the military. Scarlett and Noah live in Arizona and want to have a ceremonial marriage; however, they sign a prenuptial agreements beforehand. In Arizona, covenant marriage is required in order for them to get married, so they go to their counselling. The next thing they take care of is the marriage license, which they know has its waiting period before the license is issued. The process continues and the couples go get a blood test and physical exam. Few days before the wedding, Noah gets called into duty. Scarlett tells Noah they can get married wherever they send him, Noah doesn’t want to do that, so he mentions having a proxy marriage. Scarlett thinks about it for a few days and agrees to Noah’s idea, so the wedding continues and Noah gets his cousin, Mason, to fill in for him. …show more content…

Few hours later, it’s time for the ceremony and Scarlett starts walking down aisle. Mason turns to her and loses his breath as she walks down the aisle. During the entire ceremony and party, he couldn’t keep his eyes off her and thought to himself, “Noah is a very lucky man.” Mason convinces Scarlett to continue seeing each other after the wedding. Eventually, Scarlett starts having special feeling for Mason the more they spent time together. One night, they decide to go have fun at a club, Scarlett takes a few drinks so Mason drives Scarlett to her house. He lays her on the bed and out of the blue Scarlett kisses him and he responds back to her. The next morning, Scarlett turns around and sees Mason in the bed next to her; her whole world stopped. She couldn’t believe she committed adultery with Noah’s cousin. That same day, Scarlett gets a letter form Noah, telling her he is coming home tomorrow. Scarlett drops the letter as her whole world is sinking

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