Agbenya
"Forever isn't a promise. It's a burden."
Olivia Beck was supposed to be a bride.
Instead, she became a woman frozen in time.
Three years ago, her world shattered the night Sebastian Carlin, the love of her life, was pulled from her in a brutal accident that left him trapped in a coma just days before their wedding. While the world moved forward, Olivia stayed behind, visiting hospital rooms, wearing an engagement ring that symbolized a future that never came, and carrying a love that had nowhere to go.
She learns how to survive without living.
How to breathe without hope.
How to exist without healing.
Then she meets Lucien Kensington.
A stranger with kind eyes, quiet strength, and a presence that doesn't demand, only offers. What begins as coincidence becomes connection. What becomes connection becomes comfort. And slowly, impossibly, Olivia begins to feel again.
She laughs.
She lives.
She loves.
For the first time in years, her heart chooses the present instead of the past.
But forever has a cruel sense of timing.
Just as Olivia builds a new life with Lucien...
Just as love feels safe again...
Just as she believes she's finally allowed to move on...
Sebastian wakes up.
Now the man she never stopped loving is alive.
The man she learned to love is real.
And the future she buried stands in front of her again.
Torn between memory and reality, loyalty and healing, past and present, Olivia must face the impossible question:
Can you love two people honestly... when one owns your past and the other holds your future?