After Three Years in Hell, I Became the Heiress He Lost

For three years, Gloria Pruitt was locked inside a psychiatric facility, her medical license revoked and her name destroyed, until Leon Vance finally comes to collect her. He does not want her back as a wife; Pamela Henson, his late brother's widow, is sick, and Gloria's blood type matches. Her own son, Hayden Abbott, spits in her face and calls Pamela his mother, while Leon promises a normal family once Pamela recovers. Gloria agrees without a fight, because in one month the ten-year promise she made with her father comes due.

At home, Pamela's tears and Hayden's cruelty greet her, and Leon's tenderness belongs only to them. When Pamela collapses, Gloria is dragged to a hospital and her blood is drained. Memories surface: the fire that killed her daughter, Pamela's lies, the beating that broke the hands once called golden. Even her old mentor, Dr. Edwin Hartwell, turns away in disgust.

With her body hollowed out and her son lost to another woman, Gloria endures it all in silence, waiting for the pact to reach its end.