The first thing I did after waking from the coma was delete every photo of Maddox Hayes and me. Then I threw out all the letters Sterling Sinclair had ever written. The last time I lived this life, I was little more than a prop caught between those two men. Maddox told me he loved me. But after I gave up my spot in the Oxford exchange program for him, he took Elara Bennett to Europe. All he left me was a note: “She needs me more than you do right now.” Those next three months were a blur of misery. During that time, Sterling brought me my favorite food every day. “I’ve waited eight years for you,” he told me. I married him. He came home every night and was never unfaithful. I thought I had finally chosen the right man. Then came the winter I got into a car accident. I spent seven days unconscious in the ICU. He never visited me once. I heard the nurses talking. “Her husband comes to the hospital every day, but he spends all his time with a pati......
