"The honeymoon period went up in flames the moment the amortentia wore off." He was so consumed with his misery that he completely missed the dip in his aunt's sincerity. "The idiot's gone and lost her envelope so we can't even annul the bloody thing."

He'd thought maybe she'd come around to making the best of it. They were married after all and the only thing that would free them is a divorce - which likely would cause even more of a scandal. So much of one that she'd lose her perilously held position at the Ministry and he could kiss his dream of one day becoming Minister goodbye. Now they were in purgatory. Did he just move out and continue with his life without the hope of marrying happily and having legitimate children? If she wasn't going to come around, he certainly wasn't going to waste his life sleeping in his own room at her parents' house.