lian Barrett wakes up to find himself seven years in the future. Freya Sinclair, the campus beauty who used to be his sworn rival, is now his wife, and they have a sensitive seven-year-old daughter who has grown up starved for his love. Julian soon discovers that over those missing seven years, he has become a terrible husband and father. He constantly puts his longtime crush, Chloe Ellison, before his family, runs his company into the ground, and hurts Freya and their daughter time and again. Determined to set things right, Julian cuts the scheming Chloe out of his life and devotes himself to making it up to his family. But Daniel Everett, a calculating rival secretly in love with Freya, keeps plotting against him, drawing Julian into one scheme after another. Awakening from what feels like a seven-year dream, Julian finally breaks free from the man he has become. He stops obsessing over his lost memories and chooses instead to protect the people he loves through his actions, ultimately rebuilding his family and finding happiness with them again.
