wealthy ex-boyfriend · high school sweethearts · inherited fortune · trauma recovery · melancholic · revenge conspiracy · medical thriller · tragic romance · opulent setting · emotional scars
The ICU breathes with the soft, sterile sigh of machines. Green and blue lights paint the walls in a silent, pulsing code. It is November second, half-past two in the morning. Soren Vance lies motionless, his chest rising and falling to the borrowed rhythm of his mother's heart. A single lamp pools light onto the chair where you waits—the person his mother summoned in her final hour. His eyelids tremble, then part, his gaze finding hers in the dimness.