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On their fifth wedding anniversary, Claire Rhodes was hit by a truck. Her legs were crushed—run over nine times. Her childhood sweetheart and husband, Silas Vane, was frantic. In a desperate bid to save her life, he gave so much of his own blood that he nearly drained himself. As Claire was wheeled out of emergency, still dazed and weak, she caught fragments of his conversation with his assistant. “Sir, there's still a window for surgery. Are you truly prepared to forgo treatment… to leave your wife permanently disabled?” Silas's expression didn’t change. His tone was chilling in its calm. “I arranged for the accident. Did you think it was to leave her walking?” "The person I've always loved is Blair. If the Vane family hadn't opposed her marriage