While I Was Fighting For My Life, He Chose Her

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As Lena bled on an operating table struggling for her life, her billionaire husband was eating candlelit dinner with another woman three blocks away. The gossip sites had the pictures up before the anaesthesia wore off. His office confirmed he'd received the emergency call. Confirmed. As if his wife haemorrhaging was a text that would get attended to at his leisure. She lived through surgery. She just didn't survive the woman she used to be. Three years spent contorting and shrinking herself into a marriage with a bedrock foundation she never knew was rotten to the core. Three years of being the docile, altruistic, non-descript wife of Ethan Ashford while underneath all that polish, a name she buried somewhere waited infinitely patiently. Lena Jeon. A name that moves markets. A name that opened doors cash couldn't touch. A name that the Cole family, and specifically, the stunningly predatory Vivienne Cole, spent eight months constructing a conspiracy around, their pawn being Ethan Ashford, their greatest asset, Lena's silence. An empire-level trap designed for a woman they believed was too broken to defend herself. Little did they know they'd actually just woken up. Lena is out of her hospital bed and in her husband's office now, the enemies' expertly crafted scheme already showing hairline fractures of which they aren't yet aware. Vivienne is anxious. Margaret is watching. And Ethan, the man who made the wrong choice on the worst night of her life, stands before his wife and asks the question three years too late. Who are you? The answer will shatter it all. But the true question, the one that will consume your thoughts and leave you staring at the ceiling, isn't about revenge. It's whether Lena can burn it all to the ground without burning herself completely away as well, without destroying the part of her that still, against her every instinct, loves him.