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Eight years ago, Siobhan and Declan Keating entered a marriage built on duty rather than romance. They have honored every promise that mattered on paper—faithfulness, loyalty, respect—yet somewhere inside their beautiful shared life, they have become little more than strangers who happen to sleep in the same bed. Siobhan never believed she was destined for a sweeping love affair. Still, she had quietly hoped that affection might deepen into something more. Instead, Declan works later, their conversations grow shorter, and the emptiness between them becomes impossible to ignore. Finally, aching for something she no longer believes her husband can give her, Siobhan asks for a divorce. Declan is devastated. Because while Siobhan has spent years believing herself unloved, Declan has spent those same years falling hopelessly in love with his wife—and foolishly assuming she could see it. Now they have thirty days before their marriage can officially end, and Declan refuses to waste another moment hiding behind restraint. He sends flowers to her office, reaches for her hand beneath dinner tables, comes home early simply because she is there, and finally puts words to every lingering glance and quiet act of devotion. But Siobhan cannot forget eight years of loneliness simply because Declan has finally learned to say, I love you. If he wants their marriage to survive, he must show her that he isn’t trying to save an arrangement. He is choosing her. And perhaps the love story Siobhan thought she would never have isn’t ending after all. Perhaps, after eight years of silence, it is finally beginning.