My Cold Wife Trapped My Soul

A wife devoted to science, Serena Ashworth never hid her feelings: love came second to research, and her husband was, at most, a responsibility. He accepted it, quietly tending to her precise tastes and tucking away his own medical report. The diagnosis is stage four cancer, and the surgery offers only a twenty percent chance.

While Serena crosses the Atlantic for a major academic conference, he goes alone to his pre-operative consultation, telling only their daughter, Paige, and asking her to keep it from her mother. Then the operating room lamp goes dark, the monitor flattens, and he becomes an invisible presence, drifting between the hospital where Paige sobs and the distant hall where Serena presents.

Watching her command the room as she always has, he can only follow the woman who never once turned to look at him.