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Three years ago, my husband ruined my career to protect the woman he was sleeping with.

I just didn't know that part yet.

I'm Nina Kovach. Nineteen years a nurse. I run the heart ICU my husband is chief of.

One bad night, one lie from the best-liked surgeon in the building, and I'm the one who lost six weeks of pay and got a letter in my file.

I didn't fight it. He asked me not to. He said it would ruin me, and I believed him, because I believed everything he said.

Then in June I came home early and caught him cheating.

Now there's a deal on the table that will make my husband's whole career — and the man holding it is Cal Sheridan.

Heart surgeon. Billionaire. Ridiculously handsome. Built the revolutionary valve that's beating in four hundred thousand chests. Important enough that my husband has spent two years trying to charm him.

Except Cal isn't buying it. He's been sitting on my unit at four in the morning in a plain shirt with no badge, and the only thing he seems interested in...is me.