Where the Tide Brought Me Home
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In my last life, I needed five million dollars to pay for my mother’s treatment. So I signed a three-year marriage contract with Everett and became the Mrs. Thorne everyone envied.
But throughout those three years, his heart belonged to Celeste, the woman he had never gotten over after she left for Europe.
She came back the day we buried my mother.
The day I was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Everett snapped at me over the phone for bothering him during surgery.
And when I took my last breath in a hospital bed, he was in France attending a conference with Celeste.
Until the moment I died, he never came to see me. Not even once.
Then I opened my eyes and found myself back on the day of my mother’s funeral.
Her body had barely been laid to rest, yet that evening, Everett raised his glass at a charity gala and announced that Celeste would become the new chief of neurosurgery at Thorne Medical Group. He looked at her with a tenderness he had never shown me, and the sight of it hurt.
The entire room applauded them.
No one remembered that I had buried my mother that very day.
I picked up a glass of red wine, walked straight over, and threw it in Everett’s face.
“A bitch and a bastard. What a perfect match. Hope it lasts forever.”
I pulled off my wedding ring and tossed it into the champagne tower. As glass shattered and cameras flashed around me, I turned and walked away.
Behind me, Everett said through clenched teeth, “Without the Thorne family, you’re nothing.”
He had no idea that I would never go back to him again.
But throughout those three years, his heart belonged to Celeste, the woman he had never gotten over after she left for Europe.
She came back the day we buried my mother.
The day I was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Everett snapped at me over the phone for bothering him during surgery.
And when I took my last breath in a hospital bed, he was in France attending a conference with Celeste.
Until the moment I died, he never came to see me. Not even once.
Then I opened my eyes and found myself back on the day of my mother’s funeral.
Her body had barely been laid to rest, yet that evening, Everett raised his glass at a charity gala and announced that Celeste would become the new chief of neurosurgery at Thorne Medical Group. He looked at her with a tenderness he had never shown me, and the sight of it hurt.
The entire room applauded them.
No one remembered that I had buried my mother that very day.
I picked up a glass of red wine, walked straight over, and threw it in Everett’s face.
“A bitch and a bastard. What a perfect match. Hope it lasts forever.”
I pulled off my wedding ring and tossed it into the champagne tower. As glass shattered and cameras flashed around me, I turned and walked away.
Behind me, Everett said through clenched teeth, “Without the Thorne family, you’re nothing.”
He had no idea that I would never go back to him again.


















































