Chapter 1

My Wife Forced Me to Die for Her First Love

Scarlett Sterling’s first love, Julian Thorne, was in kidney failure and desperately needed a transplant.

She went absolutely frantic searching for a match, and in a twisted turn of fate, she found me.

That day, Scarlett, always so haughty and untouchable, dropped to her knees for the first time, her eyes red-rimmed with desperation as she pleaded with me.

“Asher, please, I beg you, save Julian. Just say you’ll donate, and I’ll give you anything you want.”

Back then, I loved her. I loved her so much I would have died for her.

So, without a moment’s hesitation, I nodded and agreed.

But later, she threw a divorce agreement and a kidney donation consent form coldly onto the table in front of me.

“Sign it. Everything you have now, I gave you. Donating a kidney? Just think of it as paying your dues.”

I looked at her cold, determined face and suddenly, a bitter laugh escaped me.

I calmly asked her, “Scarlett, if I died, would you be sad?”

She scoffed, as if I’d told the biggest joke she’d ever heard.

“Asher Hayes, cut your pity games. They don’t work on me.”

She had no idea. This time, I wasn’t playing a game.

I was genuinely, truly dying.