Losing Me Is Your Greatest Loss in Life

For three years, Paisley has stood by Ian Whitman, the man she loves. On his birthday, she arrives at his door with a cake she baked herself — and hears him tell Lisa Coleman that she is the only one in his heart, and that he will marry her once Paisley dies. The doctor has given Paisley only a year, and Ian has been waiting for that day. But her illness is no disease: she was struck by a truck while shielding him.

Paisley does not crumble. She pushes open the door and slaps the cake into Ian's face, while her best friend Maria Davis drags Lisa to the ground. Paisley ends the engagement on the spot, demands back the house, car and gifts she bought him, and orders him and his mistress out of her apartment. Only downstairs does she finally weep.

Five years ago Ian was a poor student who pursued her, carried her up a mountain and swore the gods would bless them. Now she must decide what to do with a man who counted down her last year.