Chapter 1

Zavier is a famous director who made me work as a stunt double on his film set.

He forced me to jump from a thirty-foot platform for his mistress.

While I was trapped underwater in the freezing reservoir by the wire rigging, with my lungs running out of oxygen, all I could hear through the earpiece was him flirting and laughing with his mistress.

"If Chrissy dies, she dies. You're the one I love."

My heart turned to ash. Ten years of love had burned to nothing.

That same day, I left for Alaska to volunteer at a wildlife sanctuary in the mountains.

A year later, he was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer and got on his knees to beg for my forgiveness.

I stood there with my arm around my new lover, looking down at him coldly.

"Zavier, you killed my child with your own hands and destroyed half my life. Playing the devoted lover now with what's left of yours only makes me sick."

I turned and walked away without looking back.

"In this life and every life to come, I pray I never meet you again."