Part 1The Sterling Debt: Stolen by the Billionaire Who Forgot Me

Silas Sterling had a car accident and lost his memory.

He forgot everything—including the fact that he had once systematically hunted me down and forced me to be his.

When his family found out, they didn't waste a heartbeat. They helped him divorce me before he could even form a sentence.

Less than twelve hours later, I stood in a strange city, a divorce decree in one hand and a massive settlement check in the other, feeling utterly lost.

After being the object of Silas’s "forced affection" for so long, this sudden freedom felt like a phantom limb.

I settled down in this new city, starting a quiet, ordinary life.

Then, one day while grocery shopping, someone covered my mouth and nose from behind.

When I opened my eyes, I was in a dark, terrifyingly familiar basement.

A cold, crisp male voice whispered in my ear:

"Be my woman, and I can give you everything you’ve ever wanted."

...Great.

Exactly like the first time.

* * *

By the time I learned about Silas Sterling’s amnesia, it had been a full week since the crash.

The surgeons had spent hours in the OR just to keep his heart beating.

His mother told me about it with tears of grief in one eye and sparks of fury in the other.

"If it weren't for his obsession with finding you, Silas would never have ended up like this!" she spat.

She said Silas was supposedly in a therapy session that day. When he discovered I had escaped, he jumped into his car and sped off to hunt me down. In a moment of distraction, he slammed head-on into a speeding semi-truck.

Luckily, his car was expensive enough that the safety features saved his life, and the truck driver swerved just enough to avoid a total kill.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have just lost his memory; he would have been signing up for reincarnation.

I had a sudden realization.

Oh... so that was it.

No wonder he hadn't come for me all those days. I actually thought my GPS tracker had finally malfunctioned.

Meanwhile, I’d been shivering in the wind on a remote island for a week for no reason.