After a disorienting time jump, Dylan Scott wakes at an altar and finds himself marrying Wanda Gordon, heiress of the Gordon family. Wanda belittles him—calling him a loser, tossing his roses—and her family admits they'd only accept him because his birth chart matched the grandmother's and he helped her recovery. At the ceremony Wanda lists cold terms: $888,000 betrothal, separate beds, and daily emotional upkeep. Humiliated, Dylan snaps, publicly demands the betrothal money and warns, "this wedding is not happening" if she doesn't pay, leaving the ceremony frozen and the couple's fate uncertain.