Nine Coaches Waiting - Mary Stewart

Ugh, I don´t get Linda. She is in love with a bully, who practically has manhandled her in a car and forced a kiss upon her. And instead of being sorry, he is incredibly smug about it:

 

"For the kiss I can ´t honestly say I´m sorry [...]"

 

And now after having been on one (!) date and several kissing sprees, she is going to marry him. She tells him that she loves him and he tells her:

 

"This love thing. I don´t know. This is honest. I don´t know."

[...]

"[...] I wan´t you. I need you, by God I do. If you´d call that love  - "

 

This reads more like he wants to possess a toy.