My Toxic Ex Broke His First Love’s Legs to Beg My Forgiveness

Elena Sterling has spent eight years chasing one dream: to become a professional prima ballerina. At the Bernice International Ballet Competition, her final routine ends in horror when armed thugs storm the stage and send the overhead chandelier crashing onto her legs. As she bleeds on the stage, she begs her boyfriend, Carter Vance, for help — but he shields his first love, Chloe Jenkins, and tells the attackers to take Elena instead.

While Carter's bodyguards hold back Elena's parents and her coach, Margaret, the thugs beat her, tear her costume and shatter her bones. Carter calls her pain an act and refuses to let anyone take her to a hospital. Only then does Elena understand that eight years of love, and a wedding just days away, meant nothing beside his first love.

When he finally regrets it, he breaks Chloe's legs with his own hands and begs on his knees for forgiveness.