Dude was a complete butthead. His 18 year old newlywed bride is depressed at his going away for 3 years. He says "they fought," but it was more like him blowing up on her and yelling (pretty much unforgivable things) at her. Remember that he is the older and supposedly mature one in this relationship. She disappears and he doesn't look for her, just pouts until he leaves, hating her forever. He doesn't come back to England for five years. During all this time, he makes no effort to find her (a quick search online of news articles would find her name since she was in an accident and the doctor said that they had advertised trying to find out more about her). He is content to be butthurt and hold a grudge in typical Harlequin ML fashion. A normal person in love in this situation would be, like, worried perhaps when she disappeared. They might even think that possibly something happened to her. I guess he was just too manly to succumb to such wussy thoughts. Also, he might have to give up his grudge and think that perhaps he may have borne some responsibility in the matter. When he returns and finally meets her, he lashes out and stomps off. Ergo, he was a selfish, immature a**hole who was "all about meeee!" For me, a happy ending for this story would be that he returned to the Middle East, was kidnapped by ISIS, and turned into a "comfort person."
I liked it. He’s mature and understandably angry at the beginning before he knew about the accident. She had been immature in the beginning or when she initially left but a, she was only 18 and had lived her life on her own basically abandoned and b, just had a fight about the possibility of children with her husband who didn’t want them on top of him leaving for months for work. No one except these cars are the bad guy here. I actually like this happy ending.
The couple is simply car-sama magnet . ML is a rational character. I like him. He's really not a dick and looks like he was celibate the whole time. FL is immature for jumping into conclusion. But it's understandable if we based it on her state of mind and experiences. Purely MC focus story.
