Chapter 1

The day Ethan Shaw took home the Annual Medical Pioneer Award, I canceled a livestream that could have earned me over a million dollars. I put on my most ordinary clothes and sat in the most inconspicuous corner of the audience.

I wanted to surprise him.

Seven years of marriage, and I was the invisible ATM behind his success. To fund the ALS treatment he called "a drug that will change the world," I worked nonstop for seven years, pushed myself until I coughed up blood, and wired him a total of thirty million dollars.

But when the spotlight came on, and the host invited his family to the stage --

A woman in a custom couture gown walked up holding the hand of a five-year-old boy.

Ethan's eyes glistened with tears as he kissed her forehead. "Thank you to my wife. Without her, there would be no Ethan Shaw standing here today."

I stared at that boy, and felt the blood drain from my entire body.

The boy's name was Noah Shaw.

That was the name we had chosen for the child I miscarried.