After Claire was kidnapped, Ethan, her childhood‑sweetheart fiancé, watched the sunrise by the sea with his new lover. When he received the ransom call, he only said, “Keep her captive; no rush to rescue her.” Adrian, the godfather of the Blackwood family, arrived at the warehouse and saved her. To survive, Claire latched onto him of her own accord. Three days later, Ethan called in remorse. Adrian extorted fifty million dollars from him and had the sum transferred to Claire’s bank account.
From holding back her feelings, Claire went on to publicly break off her engagement, announce her new relationship, and toss her old engagement ring into the swimming pool. Ethan spent hours in the frigid winter pool trying to retrieve the ring and ended up hospitalized with a high fever, yet she calmly refused to visit him. At sunrise by the ocean, Adrian slipped a diamond ring onto her finger and took her to meet his parents. Having survived the coldest dawn of her life, Claire stepped toward som
