Chapter 1

My husband's sister, Chloe, went for a swim in the ocean and accidentally drowned.

My husband, Asher, a senior lifeguard who'd saved countless lives, instead sent his fragile female intern, Luna, to retrieve her.

Dressed in a revealing bikini, she pouted at him, batting her eyelashes. "Oh, Asher," she whined, her voice small. "I'm such a coward~ What if I'm too scared to go in?"

Asher wrapped an arm around her slender waist, completely ignoring Chloe, who was desperately fighting for her life in the churning waves. He then meticulously re-tied Luna's safety rope, *again*, before finally allowing her to enter the water.

But Luna didn't even swim five yards before she violently yanked the safety rope, screaming and crying for Asher to drag her back to shore.

To calm her down, Chloe lost her critical rescue window, drowning in the unforgiving ocean.

Asher pulled Luna behind him, shielding her, then glared at me, his eyes sharp with warning. "When the police arrive, you'll tell them your sister died in an accident. You'll sign the death certificate, no fuss."

"There were warnings issued, and she still went swimming. Wasn't she practically asking for it? Everyone has to pay the price for their mistakes, and Luna just graduated. She can't have a blemish on her record."

"Luna?" I echoed, my voice laced with disbelief.

Seeing the impatient scowl on Asher's face, a sudden, chilling realization hit me. He actually thought it was *my* sister, Clara, who had drowned.

A bitter laugh escaped my lips. "That's a document, I'm afraid, I simply cannot sign."