Two years? A deadline? Eliana shook her head, but something clicked.

She remembered being pregnant before, happily wanting to tell him, only to overhear his conversation with Chloe in the study. Samuel just wanted her to have a baby, and then he'd divorce her afterward. That was why he was so desperate to get her pregnant this year.

Though the recovered memories were fragmentary, this alone proved that the man hugging her didn't love her. All he wanted was a child. ...