Goodbye to the Love I Lost Eight Years Ago

Eight years ago, Claire broke Liam Hayes's heart to drive him away, and he left the country hating her. Now Liam is home with his new fiancée, ready to marry, while Claire has just been sent home from the hospital with nothing left to try. When he sees her in a wheelchair, he greets her with cold disgust and invites her to be his fiancée's bridesmaid; she only hides the needle marks on her hand and says she is leaving for somewhere far away.

Then Liam's mother, Margaret Hayes, comes to beg another favor: stay away from Liam so the truth of that old betrayal never surfaces. Claire's mother is furious, but Claire promises only that she will not tell Liam what happened eight years ago — she cannot promise not to see him, because through all the surgeries and chemo, she never stopped missing him.

When Liam appears at her house with his fiancée, asking her to help plan his wedding, Claire forces herself upright and calls her mother to help her into the wheelchair. She will face him herself.