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Eight years ago, when Drake Norton was just a teenage boy, he swung a baseball bat at the three guys who attacked me until they had to be sent to the hospital. Blood ran down his forehead, stinging his eyes so bad he could barely see. But he still grinned at me like a cocky idiot and whispered, "Doesn't hurt." People whispered behind my back. "She's ruined." "No man will ever want her now." Drake covered my ears and said softly, "You're not ruined. You're the cleanest person to me." Because of me, he got kicked out of school and almost got thrown in juvie. He cut ties with his family just so we could be together, eking things out in a tiny rental. For eight years we toughed things out until he finally became CEO, a big man in the industry. But on the night before our wedding? The girl he sponsored for university posted a selfie in our marital home. She was wearing my custom wedding dress, a man's arm wrapped around her waist. She even had my wedding ring on her finger. Her caption wrote: [Drake said only a pure girl like me is worthy of a white wedding gown.] I had the lawyer change the prenup to a breakup agreement, then forwarded it to Drake. I typed: [Sign it. You're the dirty one.]