A Heart No Longer Waiting

Yara Medici has spent years watching everyone she loves choose her younger sister, Helen. Her arranged fiancé Steven Varga never saw her; her parents Benjamin and Milada adore only Helen. So when Mateo Lopez, the man who seemed to wait for her through every heartbreak, finally proposes, she believes she has found real love at last.

Then she overhears the truth: Mateo has loved Helen all along, and pursued Yara only to clear the way for Helen's happiness. His seven years of devotion were a lie. Quietly, Yara buys an off-the-grid island and arranges a paid, custom-made family to replace everyone who never wanted her.

As she erases her identity and cuts every tie, Mateo carries an injured Helen into her parents' home, still performing his role. Yara feels nothing at all.