He Bet I'd Never Leave

Synopsis

The day before Summer Mitchell was supposed to get her marriage license, she discovered that her fiancé, Ryan Cooper, and their friend Chloe Lane had canceled the appointment for a bet. It was only the latest in a long line of cruel "jokes"—and the moment Summer finally stopped laughing along. When Ryan and Chloe secretly withdrew her application for a three-year posting in Africa, ruined her documents, and locked her in a paint-filled storage room without her asthma inhaler, they expected her to forgive them as always. Instead, Summer saved the evidence, called the police, and fought to reclaim her career, her money, and her freedom. Ryan was certain she could never leave him. Summer proved him wrong. Three years later, she returns successful and unshaken—and he finally realizes that she was never the one who needed him.