Lara Rose
For three years, Celine Carter stayed beside her comatose husband, Adam Hayes, refusing to give up on the man she loved.
She sacrificed her career, her youth, and everything she had just to see him open his eyes again.
Then, one morning, Adam finally woke up.
But the first thing Celine discovered wasn’t gratitude.
It was a message from the woman Adam had once loved.
And when Adam’s friends laughed at Celine and told her that the “ugly duckling” should leave now that Adam’s beautiful first love had returned, something inside her finally broke.
Celine left.
Quietly.
She signed the divorce papers, walked away from her marriage, and disappeared from Adam’s life.
But Adam soon discovered that the wife he had taken for granted was nothing like the woman everyone had described.
Celine had a secret of her own.
She wasn’t just an ordinary woman who had spent three years caring for a sick husband.
She was a brilliant medical specialist who had sacrificed her career for him.
And then Celine discovered something even more disturbing…
Adam’s original diagnosis was wrong.
Someone had deliberately hidden the truth about his condition—and the person responsible may be closer to them than either of them realizes.
Now Adam wants his wife back.
But Celine has already learned the hardest lesson of all:
Sometimes loving someone means knowing when to walk away.
And this time, if Adam wants her back, he’ll have to prove that his love is real—and uncover the truth before it destroys them both.
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