Chapter 1

I was bubbling with excitement, ready for our wedding, when Hugh got into a car crash.

He remembered everyone else. Everyone but me. He’d forgotten me completely.

I desperately tried to help him remember.

But all it did was make him despise me more. He even fell madly in love with his secretary.

He hurt me again and again.

My parents’ company was ruined.

I lost our baby.

He even abandoned me, alone, in the middle of nowhere.

It wasn't until I tumbled down the mountain that Hugh finally snapped awake.

He burst into my hospital room like a madman, yelling that he remembered who I was!

But I just stared blankly back at him and asked,

“Who are you?”

“I told you, I don’t know you!”

Hugh ripped his hand away from mine.

Seraphina, Hugh’s secretary, stood beside him, smirking at me with triumphant eyes.

“Chloe, Mr. Thorne has forgotten you. Are you really going to keep harassing him?”

I couldn’t understand why Hugh had forgotten only me.

Before the crash, I was clearly the one he loved most.

I stood there, frozen, feeling utterly pathetic, but I couldn't bring myself to leave.

Then, I watched Hugh clasp a necklace around Seraphina’s neck.

“Is this for me?!”

Seraphina asked, her voice dripping with delight.

“Yes. It suits you,” Hugh said, his eyes full of tenderness as he looked at her.

I squinted, a sudden realization hitting me like a punch to the gut. That sapphire necklace… Hugh had designed it himself as my wedding gift.

He’d been on his way to pick it up when the accident happened.

I couldn’t help but blurt out,

“No!”

At my outcry, both of them looked up.

Hugh’s gaze, when it met mine, held an icy disgust I’d never seen before.

Then, he leaned in and kissed Seraphina's neck, right beneath the necklace.

“Only you deserve such a beautiful sapphire!”

I stumbled back a few steps, watching Seraphina’s bashful expression.

Before the tears could fall, I fled, humiliated and heartbroken.