Entering a one-sided love is never simple, particularly when your relationship exists purely as a business arrangement. "Why must you be alive?" His voice dripped with bitterness, each word a knife. It seemed he despised her very existence so thoroughly that he wished her gone from this world entirely. "Why do you even exist in this fucking world if all you do is destroy my life!" Ciara Hilvano endures as a devoted yet victimized wife, constantly degraded by her husband who makes her feel utterly unwanted. Tyron remains oblivious to the fact that the woman he torments and nearly kills daily harbors a devastating secret—a heart condition consuming her from within. When Ciara's survival hangs by a thread after a near-fatal threat to her life, everything shifts. What happens when Ciara loses the strength to fight her endless struggles? What if she surrenders to death's pull? Will Tyron finally comprehend the magnitude of his cruelty? What if Ciara dies? Will he shed tears?