He Realized My Worth, But I Chose Saving Lives

At her son Noah's piano recital, Eliza watches Michael Lawrence and Sabrina Brooks take the stage beside him, and the three of them look more like a real family than she ever did. That night she finally signs the divorce papers she had prepared long ago, packs a bag, and applies to the WHO medical team bound for Africa's epidemic zones.

The official warns her the post demands five years, brutal heat and rampant disease, with little contact with the outside world. Eliza, a pediatric expert at the Tropical Diseases Research Institute, is undeterred; her mentor died fighting the same disease, and she intends to carry on that work. She donates her aid stipend to the African Medical Aid Foundation and leaves her savings to Noah, along with the African drum he had long admired.

At home, she finds Sabrina cooking beside Michael, the two of them lost in a shared world of fashion and art. Sabrina asks how long she must remain only Noah's music teacher, then holds Michael and reminds him of the love they once had. Eliza says nothing, and her heart still aches.