Love Left Me Broken But I Came Back Stronger

To save Axel Moore, she gave up everything: her breasts, her body left a map of scars, and the doctor's verdict that she would never bear a child. For six relentless years she clung to his calm promise that all he wanted was for her to live. Then a miracle came—she was pregnant—and she hurried to share the news at his company, only to find him pinning his assistant against the meeting-room table, their lips locked, the woman urging him to divorce Belle because she was no longer a woman at all.

She fled into the rain, a one-way ticket to the Grasslands already forming in her mind. Seven years with Axel had been a cold, mechanical ritual; she had sacrificed her dreams, her chance to inherit the position of spiritual maiden, and her father's secret support of his company, only to become a washed-up old woman in his eyes. When he left her alone in the storm to go to his mistress, she photographed their embrace and let the tears fall.

Axel never came back that night, and she sat alone among the reminders of the man who had once been everything to her.