Mallory David has a long list of unrequited crushes, but, after each heartbreak, she bounces back with her best friend, Samuel Brooke. Samuel noticed that Mallory becomes extremely obsessive when she falls in love with someone and is always there to calm her mind and comfort her in the instance of inevitable heartbreak. One day, when Samuel Brooke dies in a car accident and her crush, Todd, rejects her, Mallory completely loses her grip on reality. Mallory's fantasies become even more surreal and she has nobody to reality-check her.
In comes Dale Hayes, who enters her life by storm. During a thunderous day, he walks into her office as the new intern. With bright blue eyes, soft brown hair, a motorcycle, and an explosive, irate personality, he instantly decides he hates her at first sight, but Mallory can't help but to feel her heart skip a beat every time she sees him. She can't help but to fall into his magnetic pull, but his hatred only grows deeper, thinking of her as depraved and unfunny, over time. Suddenly, she hears his voice inside her head beckoning her to come to him, along with Samuel Brooke's unending commentary.
Mallory gets confused. One side of Mallory knows that she should hate him, as he hates her, but she's drawn to him like a fly to a flame, with the voices inside her mind goading her towards him.
Two men: one real, one imaginary, must decide her fate. Is she only destined for mental hospitals and chains or something greater?
"Don't contact me if you're dying."
When Keith Ingram utters those cruel words to his new wife, he doesn't know how much he'll come to regret them.
For years, Ella Bryce has loved Keith from afar. When a contract marriage gives her one chance at happiness, she vows to make him see her-even though the scars of her past make her efforts fraught with pain. But just as her devotion begins breaking through his guarded heart, devastating lies shatter their fragile bond.
Broken and discarded, Ella rebuilds her life from the ashes, determined to live on her own terms. She is no longer the unseen girl he left behind.
Years later, Keith storms back into her life-colder, harder, and more ruthless than ever. He thinks he knows the truth about their past. He is wrong.
Now, Keith must face the reality of what he destroyed. Fate has given him a second chance to see the woman he was blind to, but the road to redemption is paved with secrets.
Will he make the same mistake twice... or can he win back the wife he so carelessly threw away?
Trigger warning: Trigger warning: This story contains emotional abuse, gaslighting, and family abuse.