AFTER I FORGOT YOU
I spent years loving Roman Ashford, believing that one day he would finally love me the way I loved him.
I was wrong.
I gave up my dreams for our marriage, only to become a stranger in my own home. I waited for his attention, sacrificed everything for us, and slowly lost myself while Roman gave everything to the empire he was destined to inherit.
So I decided to leave him.
But before I could walk away, an accident changed everything.
When I woke up, I couldn’t remember my husband, my family, or the life I had once lived.
So I started over.
Nearly a year later, my memories returned, bringing me back to New York and straight into Roman Ashford’s path
The husband I once loved.
The man I once left.
Roman says he’s changed. He regrets the man he was and wants another chance with me. But wanting me back is easy. Proving that he deserves me is another matter.
Because I know what it feels like to be lonely beside the man I love. And I refuse to lose myself for Roman a second time.
But as Roman fights to earn his way back into my heart, fragments of my forgotten past begin resurfacing.
And what they reveal is far more terrifying than anything I could have imagined.
The accident that changed my life may never have been an accident at all.
Some memories are better left forgotten.
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Chapter: CHAPTER FOUR: Her returnVALERIEONE YEAR LATER“Table six needs a refill,” Erica called from behind the counter, not even looking up.“On it.”I grabbed the pot and made my way over, weaving around the same chairs I’d wiped down a hundred times by now. A year of mornings just like this one. Working a floor that wasn’t mine, in a city that wasn’t either, until somehow both of them just… were.I used to think Boston was temporary. Somewhere to get my head straight before I figured out where I actually belonged. Instead it just quietly became my life. A job I didn’t hate. A version of me with nothing weighing it down.Except that wasn’t true anymore. Not since three days ago.I topped off the coffee at the window table, half-nodded at some guy complaining about the wind off the water, and let my brain do the thing it kept doing every few minutes now.The memories had been leaking back for months. Small stuff. Like my name. A hallway I didn’t know. Someone’s voice saying my name. None of it went anywhere.Three
Last Updated: 2026-09-11
Chapter: CHAPTER THREE: JaneVALERIEA week had passed since the accident, and no one knew who I was.Not even me.I woke up to the same soft beeping and the same white ceiling. The nurses had stopped asking me for a name after the first couple of days. There had been nothing on me when they brought me in. My bag was destroyed in the crash. Phone, ID, everything…unreadable. They had no name, no address, no emergency contacts. Just a woman in her mid-twenties with two different colored eyes and no memory of how she got here.They called me Jane for a while. I hated it, but I didn’t have anything better to give them.Every morning I asked the same question.“Has anyone come looking for me?”And every morning the answer was the same.No.This morning the older nurse came in and checked the monitors like usual. She gave me a small smile that didn’t quite hide how worried she still looked.“Miles is here,” she said. “He’s been waiting downstairs for a bit. Would you like to see him?”I nodded.Miles had become the on
Last Updated: 2026-09-11
Chapter: CHAPTER TWO: Before I Could LeaveVALERIEOne second I was running through the lobby, past the receptionist who was pretending very hard not to stare, and the next I was behind the wheel with my hands shaking too badly to get the key into the ignition. The anniversary card was still crushed in my fist, corners digging into my palm. I didn’t remember grabbing it. I didn’t remember much of anything except the sound of that door opening and Zoey’s face on the other side of it.I finally got the car started and pulled out of the parking garage too fast, tires screeching against concrete in a way that would have terrified me on any other night. Tonight I barely heard it.The city blurred past the windows, streetlights smearing into long gold streaks. I didn’t have a destination. I just needed to be moving, needed the distance between me and that conference room to keep growing, because some part of me was convinced that if I stopped, if I sat still for even a second, the weight of it would finally catch up and crush me.W
Last Updated: 2026-09-11
Chapter: CHAPTER ONE: Happy AnniversaryVALERIEAll my life I had been good at making myself small enough to fit into other people’s lives.I learned it early. After my father died. After my mother stopped being able to get out of bed most days. I learned how to take up less space, ask for less, expect less. It became the only way I knew how to survive. So when Roman Ashford looked at me in college like I was worth something, I held on to that feeling with both hands and never asked for more than he was willing to give.Three years of marriage later, I was still doing the same thing.I stood in front of the mirror in our bedroom, robe tied loosely around my waist, when he came up behind me. His reflection appeared over my shoulder before I felt his hands. He didn’t say anything at first. Just reached around and settled the necklace against my collarbone. The chain was cool and light. His fingers brushed the back of my neck as he fastened the clasp, careful and precise, the way he handled everything that belonged to him.“Ha
Last Updated: 2026-09-11
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