The Fiancé Who Left Me to Burn
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"We can only take one more person! Any heavier and we ALL go down!"
In the middle of a raging forest fire, my fiancé Carter Hayes was piloting a fuel-leaking helicopter, forced to choose between me and my cousin Lily Sterling.
He chose me.
Lily was left behind in the inferno. She burned.
I thought surviving made me lucky — until my parents slapped me across the face at my wedding. "Why wasn't it YOU who died?"
Turns out, I was never the one they wanted to save.
Carter married me, then spent five years making me wish I'd died in that fire instead. He and my parents worked together, systematically stripping away my dignity, my career, and every reason I had to keep living.
Three years into my depression, I jumped from the top floor of the Hayes estate.
When I opened my eyes, I found myself back before the fire — before the helicopter took off, before Carter made his choice.
This time, I spoke first. "Take Lily."
If they all wanted me dead, then I'd give them exactly what they wanted.
In the middle of a raging forest fire, my fiancé Carter Hayes was piloting a fuel-leaking helicopter, forced to choose between me and my cousin Lily Sterling.
He chose me.
Lily was left behind in the inferno. She burned.
I thought surviving made me lucky — until my parents slapped me across the face at my wedding. "Why wasn't it YOU who died?"
Turns out, I was never the one they wanted to save.
Carter married me, then spent five years making me wish I'd died in that fire instead. He and my parents worked together, systematically stripping away my dignity, my career, and every reason I had to keep living.
Three years into my depression, I jumped from the top floor of the Hayes estate.
When I opened my eyes, I found myself back before the fire — before the helicopter took off, before Carter made his choice.
This time, I spoke first. "Take Lily."
If they all wanted me dead, then I'd give them exactly what they wanted.














































