Twenty-year-old Ivy made a deal with Death. Seven years, twenty-eight times—she took every fatal blow meant for her husband Kane. She was sick, broken, dying. He never saw it.
He saw only his first love Luna. He believed Luna's lies. He let others humiliate Ivy. He pushed her into a pool when she was already dying. And he never looked back.
She had one breath left. Death gave her three more years.
She left the woman who begged for love behind. She became Ms. Ghost—a top investor who conquered the West Coast. Adrian, her partner, stayed by her side. Gentle. Real. The only light she had left.
Kane learned the truth. From Death itself. He understood everything—her sacrifice, his blindness, the depth of what he destroyed. He gave up his wealth, his status, his future. He spent every day atoning. Watching from a distance. Punishing himself.
But Ivy no longer loved. She no longer hated. She had let go of all of it.
Kane faded into nothing. Ivy chose Adrian—not as a replacement, but as a partner. She lived for herself. No regrets. No looking back.
No happy ending. Just the truth: some love dies, and what rises from it is free.
