The Crash That Set Me Free

Synopsis

"Whitney Lane, what on earth are you dragging your feet for?" my fiancé urged me. Outside the city hall, my fiancé, Yael Shaw, impatiently stubbed out his third cigarette. I leisurely finished the last sip of my coffee, my eyes following the slow sweep of the second hand. "Why the rush?" I looked up and gave him a sweet smile. "Getting married is a once-in-a-lifetime event. Of course, we need to choose an auspicious moment." He didn't know that in my previous life, it was precisely because I hadn't dawdled and got the marriage certificate with him exactly at nine in the morning, that everything went downhill. An hour later, he had a rear-end collision on the highway while rushing to see my dear younger sister, Sophia Lane. He lost both his legs and spent the rest of his life bedridden. And as his legal wife, I was drained emotionally and financially by him, his controlling mother, and my own parasitic family. They sucked every last bit of life out of me. This time, I let nine o'clock pass. I would gift him this extra hour and let him walk alone toward his destiny.