Chapter 1

On our fifth wedding anniversary, Nate Thorne locked me in an industrial freezer, forcing me to chisel out my discarded wedding ring from a one-ton block of solid ice with my bare hands.

My hands were frozen purple, blood dripping down the chisel.

"Nate, I really can't chisel anymore…"

He stood a few feet away, his expensive coat untouched by the cold. "Can't chisel? When your parents drove drunk and killed my whole family, why didn't they say they couldn't hit the brakes?"

Just then, his new girlfriend, Sera Bloom, walked in in high heels and kicked over a bucket of ice water, drenching me.

"Nate, she won't die, will she?"

Nate Thorne didn't even glance at me. "Don't worry about her. She's not going anywhere."

Then he wrapped an arm around Sera and turned to leave, his voice as gentle as if he were soothing a child: "Are you cold, Sera?"

I lay in the biting ice water, watching him embrace her and walk away.

This was the man I had loved for ten years.

Five years ago, he knelt and put a ring on my finger, promising to treat me like a princess.

Now, he was doting on someone else, and he wanted me dead.