Love's Toxic Echo

I woke in a hospital bed, my head throbbing, a void where seven years of my life should be.

Doctors explained it was retrograde amnesia, specifically targeting emotional connections.

My best friend, Liam, looked devastated when I asked, "Cassie? Who's Cassie?"

Apparently, she was everything to me for seven long years, a love so deep it was almost painful.

Yet, when I finally encountered this forgotten love, Cassie Vanderbilt, she was shockingly cold.

She showed no concern for my accident, only annoyance, casting me aside for her ex-fiancé, Damian Pierce.