If You Don't Want Me, I Won't Stay

She died in her world. She woke up inside a story. And this time, she's rewriting the ending.

Valeria was a quiet, sharp-minded stock analyst who kept the world at arm's length. She wrote stories in secret, loved coffee more than people, and had just kicked out a cheating boyfriend without shedding a single tear. Life was orderly. Predictable. Safe.

Then a freak electrical accident killed her.

She wakes up as Valery Johnson — the tragic heroine of an audiobook she'd been listening to the moment she died. An orphan taken in by the wealthy Field family. A girl who spent her entire life hopelessly in love with her adoptive brother Eric — a man who never saw her as anything more than a duty to protect.

But Valeria isn't Valery.

She has no intention of pining for a man who doesn't love her. No interest in competing with his cruel fiancee. No desire to play the role of the quiet, suffering girl the story demands.

So she does what the original Valery never could.

She leaves.

With nothing but a small inheritance and a sharp mind, she starts over in a distant port town — where she finds work, independence, a boat of her own, and a man named Christian Casaux whose gentle patience and quiet strength make her believe that love doesn't have to hurt.

But Eric Field isn't the kind of man who lets go.

And when he discovers where she's gone, he'll cross the entire kingdom to drag her back — whether she wants to come or not.

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