Dlaw
Nicole Garcia is a billionaire heiress who thought family was everything. Forced to marry a man she never loved, she let her stepsister's poison convince her that Damian only stayed out of obligation, that his devotion was a performance, and that she was doing him a kindness by pulling away and pushing him toward divorce. She couldn't terminate the marriage on her part, her family would consider it a huge betrayal. Finding solace in the man she believed was her best friend, Justin, only made her retreat further from Damian, certain she was setting him free rather than trapping him. So the manipulation continued, her sister and confidant using her trust to slowly dismantle Damian's company and his heart, until the night she let her guard down, and she got set on fire, tied to a chair in her own house.
The friend she had poured her heart into, who claimed to care for her, confesses all the terrible things they had done to her — and to Damian, through her — but she had been too blind to see it because of how thoroughly she'd been turned against her own husband. As she burned, she realized the truth: the husband she had been convinced to push away, Damian, was the only one who truly loved her. No matter how far apart they'd been driven, he always wanted her to be happier.
Now given a second chance at life, she plans to make everything right and correct her past mistakes, but she is hell‑bent on making each and every one of them pay. Believing she is too toxic to ever be a good wife, she steps away to fight her battles alone—inadvertently causing Damian to realize her worth and become hell-bent on winning back the diamond he thought he lost.
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