After I married another man, he went mad with regret.

Amelia has crossed blizzards to Antarctica ninety-nine times, begging her husband Derek to come home. Each time he refuses, staying for his first love, Tessa. At last Amelia stops trying.

Five years later, at Amelia's birthday dinner, Derek pushes open the door. His gaze drops to the curve of her belly, and rage overtakes him: whose child is that? Amelia answers calmly that it is not his and that a couple may divorce after two years apart. Derek kicks over the cake, threatens the father, and drags Amelia toward a private hospital, where Tessa appears, pregnant and clinging to him. As Derek's family wealth keeps onlookers silent, Grandma Nora tries to shield Amelia, but a bodyguard holds her back, and Derek orders that the child must not remain.

Bound to a hospital bed and struck, Amelia is ready to reveal the child's true father when a stranger bursts in, warning that Amelia is no longer someone Derek may touch.