VI

You wake up with two years of your life missing. There’s a diamond ring on your finger. Armed men outside your hospital room. And a dangerously handsome stranger sitting beside your bed who looks absolutely devastated when you ask who he is. Matteo De Luca. Mafia Don. Your husband. He remembers everything—your wedding, your first kiss, how you take your coffee, every whispered I love you. You remember none of it. But as you return home with the husband your mind has forgotten, pieces of your old life begin creeping back. His hands on your waist. His voice during an argument. A packed suitcase. Fear. And the overwhelming feeling that the night of your accident, you weren’t trying to get home to Matteo. You were trying to get away from him. Now you’re falling for your husband all over again. But this time, you might remember exactly why you left.