Collateral Love, Cruel Betrayal

I was a foster kid with a talent for art. My benefactor, Declan, gave me everything: an education, a home, and a future. I loved him, and I agreed to be his wife.

Then his adopted sister, Faye, decided she wanted my brother. When my brother rejected her, Declan had his hands broken, destroying his future as a musician.

Faye framed me for kidnapping her, and Declan believed every word. He had me thrown into an abandoned mine pit filled with snakes as punishment.

Then, to teach me a "permanent lesson," he had his men drag me to a clinic.

They took one of my kidneys.

The man who promised to protect me, who I thought was my savior, carved a piece of me out for a crime I didn't commit. The love I felt for him died on that operating table.

When I woke up, he sat by my bed and told me our wedding was still on.

He thought he had broken me. He was wrong.

He doesn't know I have a plan. He doesn't know I'm leaving.

And he'll never see me again.