Beyond The Basement Walls

After three months in a basement cell, Harry finally escapes his kidnappers. He does not go to the police or home; he goes to a hospital, where doctors find his body covered in fading bruises, his arms cut to the bone, his ribs fractured. When the ER staff ask for a family signature, he says his parents are dead and he has no one.

That night Victoria Crawford arrives—the ice-queen CEO he married three years ago, a woman worth billions. She demands to know what game he is playing, why no one called her office. Harry, once desperate for her attention, greets her as a stranger and asks the nurse to call security. He tells her he wants a divorce.

Victoria is stunned. Harry has learned that during his captivity his three hundred and seventy-four calls went unanswered while she was in Paris with her first love. He no longer cares what she discovers.