Thrown from her husband's yacht into freezing water, she screams his name while he swims the other way with his childhood friend in his arms.
Her billionaire husband later insists that woman told him his wife had already been rescued, and that he did not knowingly leave her to die.
Even so, the accident is only the latest time he has put someone else first, after months of anniversary dinners eaten alone while he gave his attention to his foundation and the beautiful friend from his past.
She had set aside her marine science career for their marriage, but bruised and no longer willing to rank last, she leaves him and returns to the work she sacrificed.
Apologies and expensive gifts will not win another chance unless he faces the woman who lied, honors her boundaries, and proves he can choose her when no one is looking.
She still loves him, yet love was never what failed them, and he will have to earn the trust he lost in the water.
