hapter 1
To celebrate my husband making it safely through another one–week memory–reset cycle, I slipped our anniversary ring
onto his finger myself.
He wrapped his arms around me, but the next words out of his mouth froze me where I stood.
“Babe, the ring is beautiful, but I can’t keep it.”
I let go of him in shock. “Why?”
He took the ring off and placed it back in my palm, his expression calm, almost relieved.
“I fell for the grad student I supervise. We spent the whole night in the lab last night. We slept together, and now I have
to do right by her.”
“She’s all I can think about. If I celebrate our anniversary with you and keep wearing this ring, she’ll cry.”
My throat tightened so hard I couldn’t make a sound.
That girl was the underprivileged student I’d sponsored through college for four years. She was also the woman who had
knowingly become the other woman and destroyed my first marriage.
His voice was apologetic, yet somehow innocent. “Tessa, I know this is unfair to you, but she’s really pitiful.”
‘She’s been the only thing on my mind these past seven days. Now I finally understand why your ex–husband chose her
back then.”
You helped her once already, so why not see it through? Be generous and accept her, okay?”
The ring hit the floor, and something in my heart broke with it.
But he had forgotten one thing. I had only ever given him ten chances. If he still wasn’t better by the tenth
with him.
Good for him
This was the tenth
Evan Holt bent down picked up the ring and tossed it into the tigersh
Then he pulled out a wet wipe and carefully cleaned his fingers as if the ring had spent this manife crossing wire
something bithy
His collar hung open, and I could clearly see faint marks wattered accuss las culiar ponies
Chapter 1
L
Lera
INSTALL
En el accidente elusivo a su amant: & dejo atrapada elul aussi bormas
They were glaring proof of just how wild they’d been last night.
Just last month, when he found out one of his own grad students was Sloane Shaw, he pulled me into his arms and ground out through clenched teeth. That womanwho ruined your marriage? Tessa, don’t worry Now that she’s in my
hands. I won’t let her off easy.”
And now he had just spent the whole night with that same woman.
Evan sounded perfectly matter–of–fact. “Sloane’s health is fragile. She can’t handle emotional stress.”
To make her feel secure, we’re going to go through a paper divorce. I’ll even sign marriage papers with her, but it’ll only
be on paper.”
I stared at the man in front of me.
It was the same face and the same voice.
And yet all I could see in his eyes now was concern and tenderness for Sloane.
He had some kind of strange illness.
Every so often, his memory would reset for seven days.
During those seven days, he would forget that he loved me.
He would only return to normal on the eighth day.
In the past three years, this was the tenth time.
I closed my eyes, but the memories came rushing back anyway.
Back then, I had thought Sloane was pitiful. I paid for her education and even brought her home for meals
At first, Julian Pierce couldn’t stand her.
He thought she was clumsy. He was furious when she shattered an antique vase worth a fortune in our house
He had even pointed at the front door and thrown her out right in front of me
But in the end, Julian still ended up in bed with her
The day I found them lying na//ked together in the master bedroom I didn’t cry and I didn’t make a scene
I drafted divorce papers on the spot
I never regretted it
Chapter 1
Lera
INSTALL
han did
I waited outside my office building eve every day, kneeling in the pouring rain and begging for forgiveness.
ever went to see him. not once.
cause back then. Evan stood in miront of me with an umbrella, shielding me.
an was insanely jealous.
henever he saw the rememorseful texts Julian sent me, he would curse him out on the spot.
held me so tightly in his his arms that it almost hurt, his eyes red.
ssa, you only ger zooo look at me. tr@sh like Julian doesn’t deserve a single glance from you.”
wear I’ll never her betray you for as long as I live. If I ever do anything to hurt you, I’ll die.”
er, he reallyally was good to me.
good thathati, an orphan who had woken up inside a novel and had never known what family felt like. started believir
love caradand marriage again.
at lasted ud until his first episode.
ity in love with a singer at a bar and picked fight after fight with me over her.
eighth day, when he came back to himself and saw the wrecked house and the divorce papers in my hand he
apped.
He grabbed a small blade and hurt himself in extreme grief without a second thought
blood spilled everywhere. He dropped to his knees in the pool of it, clinging to my legs and sobbing like his pa
been ripped out.
Tesza I don’t know what happened!”
Please don’t leave Please don’t throw me away
“From now on, whenever it happens again I’ll lock myself up chain myself down i wont we avose
1 softened
he me one wine was still like this, then we were over for good
she to he locked himself in the basement before an episode hit.
be cat se he was running an experiment with Sloane, he didn’t lock himself up
te?‘ I looked at Evan, my voice calm.
ed
I have parents. She only has me. She struggles with severe mental health issu?!
her the title of Mrs. Holt to reassure her. The marriage will only be on pa on paper. Everything ! own will still
to my palm, and the sharp sting forced me to stay clear–headed
agree.”
Chapter 1
Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
