Left Behind in more ways than One.

Samantha takes an unconscious step backwards. "You're joking?"

"I don't joke about serious things. You are not married, not engaged, not seeing anyone and still recovering from a failed wedding... One which you proposed to me in..."

Samantha gasps. Ever since she saw him, something had been tugging at the back of her mind but she didn't know what it is. Now that he mentioned it himself, he looks exactly like the stranger she had kissed at her sister's wedding for spite.

Claude smiles slyly. "Now you remember. You proposed to me and I said yes, now I'm proposing to you, I'm joking?" He stands up from his chair and wanders to her side, using his pointer to raise her chin up to his level, "You kissed me, remember?"

"Ah!"

"Yes. You remember very clearly..." He goes back to his seat and loses the smile "It's not a real marriage anyway, you just be my wife for a year."

"No." She replies abruptly, knowing in her that she has jumped into one trap already, jumping head first into another will