On our first wedding anniversary, I didn’t receive the surprise he promised—only the news that his car had plunged into the sea. The rescue team found nothing but a wreck, and everyone told me to accept that he was gone. But I refused. I sold my jewels, begged the gods, and searched every corner of the coast. They called me mad, but I clung to his vow: he would never leave me. Until the night I found him alive—kissing another woman as if I never existed.
Chapter 1
On their first wedding anniversary, Isabel Ackrea didn't wait for the surprise Benjamin Bagnall had promised. Instead, she got the heartbreaking news that he'd been in a car accident and had crashed into the sea. No one knew if he was dead or alive.
Rescue teams searched for a whole month but only found his black car, which was totally wrecked.
Experts shook their heads and said flat out that there was no chance of survival.
Benjamin's parents were devastated and fell ill one after another.
Everyone accepted that Benjamin was gone.
But Isabel just wouldn't believe it.
How could the man who once held her hand so tightly and promised to be with her forever just disappear like that?
She sold all the jewelry Benjamin had given her. With that money, she hired tons of search teams at crazy prices to comb through the sea day and night without stopping.
She printed tens of thousands of missing person flyers, plastering them everywhere along the coast, showing his photo to ev
