Not Even a Husband

Isabel has been secretly in love with her fiancé, who raised her since she was a child. It's been five years since she started eagerly waiting for him to return from the war. Finally, when Jerod returns, Isabel is overjoyed. Until she receives a notice of annulment instead of a proposal. No, I can't let us part like this! "Sleep with me." "You don't look like a woman to me." Her bold proposal was rejected, but one day, he changed. *** "This... we shouldn't do this." "Why not?" Isabel's eyes welled up with tears. He seemed completely unaware of why she was so adamantly refusing, or the emotional turmoil she had endured because of it. "You're not even my husband." "......" "You'r...